Oprah takes a shot at JD Vance with ‘childless cat lady’ remark during surprise Dem convention speech

Oprah Winfrey made a surprise appearance on the third night of the Democratic National Convention, causing the crowd to erupt into the loudest cheers of the night.

The television icon gave a shout-out to “childless cat ladies” Wednesday in her convention speech. 

“We are not so different from our neighbors,” Winfrey said. “When a house is on fire, we don’t ask about the homeowner’s race or religion. We don’t wonder who their partner is or how they voted.”  

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“And if the place happens to belong to a childless cat lady  — well, we try and get that cat out too,” she quipped. 

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance argued in a 2021 interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the Democratic Party was run 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.”

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Follow along with The Post’s live reporting on the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

She commended several of her predecessors onstage this week you gave powerful speeches on abortion.

“Now, over the last couple of nights, we have all seen great people walk onto the stage and share their most private pain,” she said.

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“They told us their stories of … near-death experiences from having the state deny them the abortion that their doctor explained was medically necessary,” she added.

Earlier, Oprah argued that freedom can mean “standing up to life’s bullies.”