Election 2024 updates: Harris interviewing top VP contenders Sunday, source says

Appearing on Fox News "The Ingraham Angle" on Monday night, Trump attempted to clean up his vice presidential pick's previous comments about "childless cat ladies," but didn't really address the comments.

Instead, he rambled about how Vance is pro-family.

"He made a statement having to do with families. That doesn't mean that people that aren't a member of a big and beautiful family with 400 children around and everything else, it doesn't mean that a person doesn't have, he's not against anything, but he loves family. It's very important to him. He grew up in a very interesting family situation, and he feels family is good, and I don't think there's anything wrong in saying that," Trump said downplaying Vance's comments.

Trump also attacked Democrats, saying they spun Vance's words out of context. He then quipped that "in many cases" people without a family are better off than those with one.

"You don't meet the right person, or you don't meet any person, but you're just as good, in many cases, a lot better than a person that's in a family situation," Trump said.

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The Democratic National Committee held a "Women for Harris" call on Monday night.

Over the course of two and a half hours, viewers heard from Chelsea Clinton, California Sen. Laphonza Butler, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Gloria Steinem, Ana Navarro and leaders of organizations like Emily’s List and Mom's Demand Action.

Clinton lamented her mother’s loss in 2016 but told viewers that defeating the former president is even more important than it was in 2016 because Americans now have a "record" of things to hold him accountable for.

"My mom put a few more cracks in that glass ceiling. And Vice President Harris is going to obliterate that glass ceiling," Clinton said.

The call included a host of organizations who support Harris, including Black women who held the first iteration of these pop up fundraising calls with the group Win with Black Women. Glynda Carr, founder of Higher Heights PAC, which supports Black women leadership, told attendees what made this call uniquely important was the realization that women from all walks of life are “stronger together.”

Another "Women for Harris" call is planned for Tuesday night.

-ABC News' Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, Fritz Farrow and Will McDuffie

Vice President Kamala Harris rolled out an aggressive $50 million, three-week advertising blitz for the first ad of her presidential campaign on Tuesday, in which she introduces herself to voters, highlights her career and takes hits at former President Donald Trump.

"The one thing Kamala Harris has always been: fearless," a narrator says at the start of the minute-long ad, as pictures of Harris over the years -- from a toddler to college graduate to vice president -- flash on screen.

"As a prosecutor, she put murderers and abusers behind bars," the narrator continued. "As California's attorney general, she went after the big banks and won $20 billion for homeowners. And as vice president, she took on the big drug companies to cap the cost of insulin for seniors. Because Kamala Harris has always known who she represents."

The spot then leads into laying out Harris' vision and attacking Trump, using footage from her first rally of the campaign last week in a high school gym just outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

"We believe in a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by, but to get ahead. Where every senior can retire with dignity," Harris said in the footage from the rally. "But Donald Trump wants to take our country backward, to give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations and end the Affordable Care Act."

"But we are not going back," she added.

Harris campaign chair, Jen O'Malley Dillon, said in a statement that because of Harris' prosecutorial, congressional and vice-presidential experience, the vice president is "uniquely suited to take on Donald Trump, a convicted felon who has spent his entire life ripping off working people, tearing away our rights, and fighting for himself."

-ABC News' Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, Fritz Farrow, Isabella Murray and Will McDuffie

The "White Dudes for Harris" livestream held on Monday night raised over $4 million over three hours in support of Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential bid, organizers said.

The event featured participants from politics and a parade of celebrities -- including "The Dude" himself, "The Big Lebowski's" Jeff Bridges -- all making their own call to action for other white men to step up in their support for Harris.

Over 190,000 people tuned into the Zoom call, organizers of the unofficial event said at the conclusion of the stream.

Among the recognizable faces that cropped up during the livestream were "Star Wars" icon Mark Hamill, "Supernatural" alum Misha Collins, "The West Wing" alum Bradley Whitford, "Frozen's" Josh Gad and singer Josh Groban. Several potential running mates for Harris also joined the event, including North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, who withdrew from contention for vice president on the Democratic ticket around the time he spoke at the meeting. He did not mention his withdrawal on the call.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, all still in the running for Harris' vice-presidential pick, were also part of the "White Dudes for Harris" meeting.

-ABC News' Oren Oppenheim, Isabella Murray and Brittany Shepherd