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Martin Pengelly in Washington

JD Vance’s wife says his ‘childless cat ladies’ comment was a ‘quip’

a man and a woman walk through a parted curtain
JD Vance takes the stage with his wife Usha at a campaign event in Henderson, Nevada, last month. Photograph: Ellen Schmidt/AP

Women offended by JD Vance’s contention that the US is run by “childless cat ladies” should realise it was merely a “quip”, the Republican vice-presidential nominee’s wife, Usha Vance, claimed in an interview broadcast on Monday.

“I took a moment to look and actually see what he had said and tried to understand what the context was and all that, which is something that I really wish people would do a little bit more often,” Vance told Fox News in remarks that doubled down on a controversy that has emerged as one of her husband’s most persistent.

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