On 'Call Her Daddy' podcast, Kamala Harris rejects criticism over not having biological kids, says 'Not 1950s anymore'

US Vice President Kamala Harris, who appeared in the latest episode of 'Call Her Daddy' podcast, rejected Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders' suggestion that the Democratic presidential candidate is not humble because she does not have biological children. Calling Arkansas governor's views on family "outdated", Kamala Harris discussed her own "modern family," which includes her husband, Doug Emhoff, and his two children from his first marriage, Cole and Ella.

"I feel sorry for her, and I’m going to tell you why. Because I don’t think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who, one, are not aspiring to be humble. Two, a whole lot of women out here who have a lot of love in their life, family in their life and children in their life, and I think it’s very important for women to lift each other up," Harris said.

During a town hall Sanders moderated for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Michigan in September, she said her kids keep her "humble," while Harris "doesn't have anything keeping her humble."


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Harris joined the podcast, hosted by Alex Cooper, for a discussion on reproductive rights.


The appearance was part of a broader media outreach effort by Harris as she seeks to boost her support in the final 30 days of the campaign against Trump.

'Not the 1950s anymore'

During the podcast, Kamala Harris discussed about her “very modern family” and her relationship with her “two beautiful children,” who she noted refer to her as “Momala.”

“I feel very strongly, we each have our family by blood and then we have our family by love. And I have both. And I consider it to be a real blessing," Kamala Harris told the podcast host Alex Cooper. She was responding to Republicans who have criticized her for not having biological children. The Democratic presidential nominee has two stepchildren – Cole and Ella Emhoff – through her 10-year marriage to second gentleman Doug Emhoff.

“I love those kids to death. Family comes in many forms, and I think that increasingly, all of us understand that this is not the 1950s anymore,” Harris said.

Harris also responded to Trump's running mate, JD Vance, having previously complained he didn't want the country run by "childless cat ladies." She dismissed Vance’s comments about “childless cat ladies” as “mean, and mean-spirited.”

"I just think it's mean and mean-spirited," Harris said.

The governor's office and the Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

Kamala Harris on abortion rights

On the podcast, the Democratic nominee largely stuck to her usual messaging on abortion. She hit out at Trump for casting himself as a “protector” during a rally last month where he claimed American women won’t be “thinking about abortion” if he’s elected.


“So he, who, when he was president, hand-selected three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention that they would undo the protections of Roe v. Wade, and they did just as he intended,” Harris told Alex Cooper.

Harris added: “This is the same guy that said women should be punished for having abortions. This is the same guy who uses the same kind of language he does to describe women?”

Trump has continued to stress that abortion policy should be left to the states and that doctors have a duty to provide emergency care to women whose lives are in danger.