US Vice-President Kamala Harris opened a media blitz by the Democratic ticket on Sunday, local time, by appearing on the Call Her Daddy podcast hosted by Alex Cooper.
During the podcast, Harris responded to Donald Trump's running mate, JD Vance, having previously complained he didn't want the country run by "childless cat ladies".
"I just think it's mean and mean-spirited," Ms Harris said.
She also rejected Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders's suggestion the Democratic presidential candidate is not humble because she does not have biological children.
Ms Harris said the Arkansas governor's views on family were outdated and discussed her own "modern family" — which includes her husband, Doug Emhoff, and his two children from his first marriage, Cole and Ella.
During a town hall she moderated for Donald Trump in Michigan in September, Ms Sanders said that her kids keep her "humble" while Harris "doesn't have anything keeping her humble".
Ms Harris responded on the podcast, "I don't think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who, one, are not aspiring to be humble.
"Two, a whole lot of women out there who have a lot of love in their life, family in their life, and children in their life.
"And I think it's really important for women to lift each other up," she said.
Ms Harris also said family comes in many forms.
"We have our family by blood, and then we have our family by love, and I have both, and I consider it to be a real blessing," she said.
"And I have two beautiful children, Cole and Ella, who call me Momala. We have a very modern family. My husband's ex-wife is a friend of mine."
Ms Harris and Cooper discussed abortion rights during the podcast, with the Democratic nominee saying in her travels she's seen people who were historically opposed to abortion "now seeing what's happening and saying, 'Hmm, I didn't intend for all this to happen,'" after health problems arose in the wake of Roe v Wade's repeal.
Ms Harris dinged Trump, as she has in recent speeches, saying "this guy is full of lies" when he talks about abortion and other issues.
The governor's office and the Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
Although Ms Harris has previously not been known to give interviews, the Call Her Daddy appearance will become a lot less rare over the next month.
The Democratic nominee is set to appear on CBS's 60 Minutes, the US ABC's The View, CBS's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and The Howard Stern Show this week as part of a broader media outreach effort to boost her support in the final 30 days of the campaign against Trump.
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