Kamala Harris slammed over insanely mean-spirited way she treated JD Vance's children
'They had never seen this house and Usha really wanted to show them,' Vance revealed.
He said that he and his staff knew the politics of the situation could be uncomfortable, but proposed the idea of Usha and the kids visiting the home to Harris and her staff.
'They were rebuffed,' Vance said.
The vice president's residence is a 9,000 square foot Queen Anne style home with 33-rooms, a wraparound porch, grand staircases and elegant turrets.
Modern vice presidents typically host the incoming vice president and their families to introduce them to the residence that is about two miles from the White House.
Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynn welcomed incoming Vice President Joe Biden in 2009 and the Bidens extended the same courtesy to the Pence family in 2016.
The Pence family didn't host Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff to the residence in the aftermath of the 2020 election. The coronavirus pandemic and the politically tumultuous environment surrounding Trump's challenge to the results complicated a meet-up.
Sources close to Harris at the time explained that she and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff were preoccupied with pressing matters—namely a canceled overseas trip and the wildfires in California, according to CBS News.
But some people view Harris' response to Vance as a snub, which the vice president addressed in an interview with the Katie Miller podcast.
'Wow, Kamala's already dodging basic courtesy?' wrote one user on social media, 'Refusing to let the kids see their future home is just petty.'
'Very telling. Thank goodness we literally dodged that bullet,' wrote another person.
'It's probably just as well that his sweet young children weren't exposed to that woman & her dysfunctional family members,' another Vance supporter unloaded.
Vance said that Harris left a 'nice note' in his office that was 'boilerplate' and 'not particularly profound' but very 'polite.'
Not since Vice President Al Gore and his family moved into the home in 1993 have young children lived in the vice president's residence.
The Bidens frequently hosted his grandchildren in the building and Harris welcomed her young nieces for visits.
But the Vance family have now made the home their own, complete with desks for the kids to do school work and a golf simulator for the vice president.
'It actually feels like a real home now,' he said.
Vance said that Usha Vance still liked to go grocery shopping, but that they still had a staff to keep the house stocked with food and prepare meals.
'It's kind of a crazy new world we live in, but there are definitely perks to it,' he admitted.
He conceded he still liked to make breakfast for the kids to keep some normalcy around the house.
'I try to have as many of these rituals as possible that just remind the kids, I'm still your dad, we still have a mostly normal family life, even though there are cameras constantly around,' he said.
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