Childless cat ladies, the Free Press wants to hear from you

Calling all childless cat ladies!

Following former President Donald Trump's selection of U.S. Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, as his vice presidential nominee, the internet has been in a frenzy, with old clips resurfacing of Vance speaking. Like a viral clip from 2021 of an interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson in which Vance took aim at a broad swath of the Biden Administration ... and their cats.

"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," Vance said, going on to name Vice President Kamala Harris, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, as the "childless," feline-owning controllers of the future of the Democrats. (Harris has two stepchildren. Buttigieg has twins. Cat status unclear.)

We want to hear about your thoughts. Tell us how you feel about the current political landscape. Do you feel represented by the politicians whom vice presidential nominee JD Vance has dubbed "weird" and "childless" cat ladies?

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Send us a letter to the editor at freep.com/letters with "cats" in the subject line, and we may publish your letter online and in print. If you’d like to share pictures of yourself and your furry feline companion − or furless! we love a Sphynx − email your letter and photo to ibakeman@freepress.com with "cats" in the subject line. Make sure to include your cat's name, your name and your home address. We ask for letter writers' email addresses, home addresses and daytime phone numbers for verification purposes; that information won't be published.

Correction: A previously published version of this piece misnamed the Sphynx breed of hairless cats. The Manx breed is tailless, not hairless.