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Kicking off Wednesday morning "Morning Joe," fill-in hosts Jonathan Lemire and Katty Kay quickly noted that Republican Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance's comments about "childless cat ladies" are not going away and are still fodder for late-night comedians.

And that is a big problem for Donald Trump's third bid for the Oval Office.

As MSNBC's Lemire put it, "We have children, we love our children and wouldn't do anything different in our lives, and to suggest that childless Americans don't have high-quality lives too, is not only inaccurate, but continues to be on a more serious note deeply offensive to people."

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"In a news cycle that's so fast, in a news cycle that's relentless and things — we see them move on to the next story within a few hours at times, this one is really staying, and particularly for someone like J. D. Vance, really trying to introduce himself nationally, this is not a good first impression."

"Yeah," Kay replied. "People with kids don't like it. People, of course, without kids don't like it, and then there's this weird policy proposal that people who have kids should get more votes in the United States."

"I don't know about you, but when I had kids and they were small, I think I should have had my votes taken away from me because my brain was so addled from lack of sleep, so I think I was the last person who should have had extra votes," she joked before adding, "Yeah, it's weird and it's sticking like you say and, of course, the Democrats are making hay out of it."

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J.D. Vance has drawn widespread condemnation for arguing that parents should have more electoral power than childless voters, and a former Alabama senator compared the proposal to a poison pill embedded in the original Constitution.

The Republican vice presidential nominee has made a number of statements denigrating non-parents as "childless cat ladies" who have no real stake in the nation, and former senator Doug Jones rebuked Vance's suggestion that parents be allowed to vote on behalf of each of their minor children.

Sen. J.D. Vance's (R-OH) law school roommate, Georgia State Sen. Josh McLaurin (D), on Tuesday shared with CNN's Kaitlan Collins conversations he had with the 2024 GOP vice presidential nominee prior to his entry to politics and rise in the Republican Party.

Noting that he attended Vice President Kamala Harris' Atlanta rally Tuesday evening, where "the vibes were excellent," McLaurin told Collins, "this is kind of a plunge into a different reality when you start talking about where the top of the Republican ticket is — the vibes are very different."