Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who famously has no sense of humor, tried to be cute when introducing former President Donald Trump at a town hall campaign event the other day, and instead loudly reminded everyone that she has little respect for those who make different choices.

After telling a story about her daughter putting on makeup for a father-daughter dance, Sanders said, “So my kids keep me humble…unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble,” per the New York Times. They also noted that the former press secretary mispronounced the vice president’s name, which has all of five phonetic syllables.

I’ve read the constitution. You don’t have to have kids to be president. See for yourself.

Harris’s team has already thoroughly addressed the bizarro hand-wringing over her lack of biological children, pointing out that she is a co-parent to her two stepkids, and most people understand that having kids is not the only thing that makes a person invested in their country’s future, so let’s break down the rest of Sanders’ point.

Humility. Do we want or expect someone running for leader of the free world to be humble? Would this be a conversation if Harris were a man? Isn’t it possible that Sanders, a political nepo baby whose current job, governor of Arkansas, was once held by her dad, can stand to be a bit more humble than Harris, daughter of immigrants? Food for thought.

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Then there’s the question of what being a biological parent does to one’s values and politics. Let’s take a look at how it’s impacted Sanders. As White House press secretary, she defended then-President Trump’s administration’s policy of breaking up families at the Mexican border. In 2018, a reporter called on her, as a mother, to show a little compassion. “Come on Sarah, you’re a parent,” he said during a briefing. “Don’t you have any empathy for what these people are going through?” She ignored the question and accused him of seeking the spotlight.

The same year, a teen reporter told Sarah Huckabee Sanders about the toll that lockdown drills took on his and his friends’ mental health, and asked what the Trump administration planned to do about school shootings. Sanders got choked up and said, “I think that as a kid, and certainly as a parent, there is nothing that could be more terrifying for a kid [than] to go to school and not feel safe, so I’m sorry that you feel that way. This administration takes it seriously, and the school safety commission that the president convened is meeting this week again, an official meeting, to discuss the best ways forward and how we can do every single thing within our power to protect kids within our schools and to make them feel safe and their parents feel good about dropping them off.” Every single thing within your power? The NRA endorses the Trump–Vance ticket.

After her first one hundred days as governor, Sanders touted her administration’s accomplishments, pointing out that she is the first woman and first mother in the role, giving her unique insight into the needs of Arkansas families. One of her “top priorities” is protecting young people from harmful social media content. Harris, meanwhile, has gone on record that social media companies need to do more to protect our democracy. Hmm, it’s almost like there’s a lot of work to do, and it’ll take all types of people with all types of lived experience, and maybe we should work together instead of making snarky little comments that don’t have anything to do with politics.

Elizabeth Logan is Glamour.com’s pop culture writer. Previously she has written for Vulture, The Awl, Reductress, Above Average, Indiewire and NoBudge. She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School Of The Arts and the owner of one black cat. You can (and should!) follow her on twitter at @lizzzzzielogan. … Read more