Trump downplays JD Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’ comments

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sought to limit the impact that vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance‘s comments about Democratic women without children would have on his campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris.

In a largely chaotic panel at the National Association of Black Journalists’s conference Wednesday in Chicago, Trump claimed that he did not know of Vance’s comments about “childless cat ladies” before he selected him as his running mate.

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