Kamala’s portrayal of the situation behind the scenes while watching Donald Trump get sworn in was not accurate. The former vice president, who sat next to her husband and put on a happy face, is now attracting criticism, according to a recent report.
Emhoff was the subject of several scandals in the Harris campaign. He was accused of adultery, getting the nanny for his family pregnant, and slapping an ex-girlfriend while drunk. Emhoff never denied the allegations, but Harris did not address them.
According to The Daily Mail which broke the two stories above, Harris, and those around her, blame Emhoff for throwing their plan into disarray:
Now that Donald Trump is in office, Harris has turned her attention to her husband, who she calls a ‘deadweight’.
As she considers her future political career – perhaps a run for governor of California in 2026 or another attempt for the top job for two years – she must decide whether Emhoff will be an asset or a liability.
DailyMail.com was told by an exclusive source: “There’s plenty of blame to go around as far as Kamala is concerned and Doug has his share.”
Doug did Kamala no favors during the election. He looked like a hypocritical a** following the bombshells of him getting his child’s babysitter pregnant while married to the first wife he was with and then assaulting his ex-girlfriend after his “I am woman” crusade.
To be clear, Emhoff didn’t “look” hypocritical when the stories above came to light. He is and will remain a hypocrite. He was a man who went on a media tour portraying himself as an advocate for women. Yet, his past was full of predatory behaviors that he and his campaign refused to acknowledge. Harris is right to blame him for ruining her “brat-summer” and being a drag in the race.
Also mentioned in the report is that Emhoff has taken a job with a major law firm in New York City, leading to further speculation. Following her ouster from Washington, Harris has returned to live in Los Angeles. Still, she’s pledging to soldier on, telling her now-former communications director that she’s “not going to go away quietly”:
At her desk signing on January 16, she told her communications chief ‘You know me well enough to know that I’m not going to go away quietly’
Emhoff famously stepped away from his prominent career as an attorney in California to fully support Harris’ political ambitions in 2020 – becoming hell-bent on perfecting his image as a ‘wife guy’.
Even the most solid relationships can face difficulties behind carefully curated campaign images and social media posts.
Source: “I see signs that things are not going well in the Harris home.”
The problem with that is that Emhoff isn’t going away either. The scandals that hampered her political ambitions in 2024 will exist in 2028 (the article claims she is not leaning toward running for California governor in 2026). At this point, it borders on delusion for Harris to believe she has a path to victory if she runs for president again. We aren’t talking about someone like Trump, who had previously won the presidency. We are talking about someone who crashed and burned in the only primary she ever ran in, and then face-planted even after being given a coronation and a billion dollars to spend.
This brings me to the issue of whether or not Emhoff’s scandals had any impact, because I am not convinced that they were. They harmed Harris’ theme “I am a woman. Hear me roar,” no doubt. But if she had offered something substantive to American voters it would not have been as important. The blame-shifting was just another sign of Harris’ poor performance as a candidate.
But the former vice president has a stubborn ambition. She is incredibly lax in her pursuit of ambitions but she is ambitious. I expect her to throw a lot of people out the window in a bid to reinvent herself. I’m also not against it. It would be entertaining to see her lose in a new primary.
