Vice President Kamala Harris had a clear response to Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' comment that Harris wasn't modest because she doesn't have biological children.
Politico reported Harris' appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast:
“This isn’t the 1950s anymore,” Harris said. “Families come in all different shapes.”
Harris' comments came in response to a question from podcast host Alex Cooper about comments Huckabee Sanders made during a town hall in Flint, Michigan, last month. The Arkansas governor said her three children keep her “humble,” while “Kamala Harris has nothing that keeps her humble.”
“I don’t think she understands that there are a lot of women out here who don’t strive to be modest,” Harris said. “Secondly, there are a lot of women out here who have a lot of love in their life, a family in their life and children in their life.”
And in an apparent dig at Huckabee Sanders, Harris added: “I think it's really important for women to encourage each other.”
Vice President Harris made the difference between the two campaigns clear. Trump
and the Republican Party want to take America back to the 1950s, a time when white men ruled everything, before the civil rights movement, before women's liberation, there were no LGBTQ+ rights, and the nation was not as diverse and strong as it is today.
The country has changed a lot in almost 75 years. The idea that a woman must be humiliated by bearing children is barbaric.
Kamala Harris is running for president to represent what America and its families will look like in 2024. Sanders should continue to keep her podium spending secret from the taxpayers of Arkansas.
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