While attacked for the personal life choices she has by the likes of Daily Wire host Matt Walsh, VP Kamala Harris has written about being the stepparent to her husband Doug Emhoff’s children, Cole and Ella.
Daily Wire host Matt Walsh attacks VP Kamala Harris for having a career
Walsh: “She's a woman who has chosen to dedicate her life to her own personal ambition and career advancement. She has lived a very self-serving life. The lack of children is a symptom of that.”
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From the July 24, 2024, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): Nobody is saying that Harris being childless is the main reason, much less the only reason to oppose her candidacy. If everything else about her was great, I think most of us bringing up this weakness would be willing to overlook it, but it would still be a weakness. That's because having children gives you a stake in the future of the country that those without children simply don't have. OK? That's not a moral judgment, it's just a fact. You have more invested in the future of the country when you have children who will be living in it. Those without children can and hopefully do still care about the future. But for them, the future, especially the future beyond their own death, is a much more abstract concern. Now, it's possible to care about a place where you don't live and have never been, yet your concern for that place is going to be more abstract than the concern of someone who actually lives there and calls it home. So when you have kids, your bloodline, a piece of you, the children that you love and would die to protect are going to live in the future. The country you're creating is the one that your children and grandchildren will call home. This fact won't necessarily give you a seriousness of purpose and a feeling of skin in the game. There are plenty of politicians who are parents and yet still pretty awful, but it can give you that and it should.
But this is not really the point or at least it's not — it's only part of the point. The larger point, as I alluded to earlier, is not that Harris has no children of her own — it's why she has no children of her own. She's a woman who has chosen to dedicate her life to her own personal ambition and career advancement. She has lived a very self-serving life. The lack of children is a symptom of that. Certainly not the only symptom. It's all part of a picture. And that picture is of a woman who cares for nothing but her own ambition. That's the real reason why this matters, and why she shouldn't be president.