Brian Kilmeade Dings JD Vance’s Cat Lady Clean-Up Effort: ‘When You Are Explaining You’re Probably Losing’

Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) appeared on Fox News to try to explain his “childless cat lady” comments, which he made in a 2021 interview while referring to Democrats including Vice President Kamala Harris. And while Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade also jumped to Vance’s defense, he pointed out that “when you’re explaining, you’re probably losing.”

Fox anchor Sandra Smith, filling in for Ainsley Earhardt, introduced the clip of Vance, who is former President Donald Trump’s running mate, from a Sunday interview during which he tried to put his past comments into context. Smith referred to “the left’s lies” about his statement: “We’re effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made. And so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too,” adding, “How does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”

Those were Vance’s exact words, and he doubled down on them with former Fox host Megyn Kelly on her podcast.

But while speaking with Fox host Trey Gowdy, Vance attempted to reframe his own statements. This, however, indicated to Kilmeade that Vance was losing the argument:

I think that he was on a podcast where he was asked, about [Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY)] statement that she said in the past that, you know, “I don’t know about having kids with climate change in the world in turbulence,” and that was his response to it, but it was brought up by Trey Gowdy that he, about this story where they met two nuns, greatest Americans who love America. What about George Washington? Never had any kids. Does that make him a bad American? And he went ahead and said, no, there’s people that try to have kids or don’t want to have kids and are great American. So he want to explain himself. The question is, when you’re explaining, you’re usually losing, and that’s all they want is him to sit there the whole time and explain the comments. He does a lot of interviews, a lot of podcasts, did a lot of publicity for Hillbilly Elegy, for the movie and for the book. So they’re going to be pulling up all of this.

Watch the video above via Fox News.