As Kamala Harris conceded her humiliating defeat on Wednesday in a speech at Howard University in Washington, D.C., her husband Doug Emhoff was first on her list of people to thank.
‘To my beloved Doug and our family, I love you so very much. To President Biden and Dr. Biden, thank you for your faith and support,’ she declared to the weeping crowd of Democrats.
At 60, few could blame Harris if she is looking forward to stepping out of the limelight following such a grueling Presidential race. After all, since becoming beleaguered Joe Biden‘s Vice President in 2021 and then Presidential hopeful in July, life has been a whirlwind of crises and campaigning, with surely little time to think about anything else.
For as the curtain falls on her time in the White House, the Democrats’ golden girl might find herself with more thinking time to confront a few lingering – and undoubtedly uncomfortable questions – surrounding her personal life with ‘beloved’ husband Doug.
Emhoff, whose noble career as a prominent attorney in California involved representing an arms dealer selling to Afghanistan, Big Pharma, and a nightclub owner accused of 𝓈ℯ𝓍ual harassment and 𝓈ℯ𝓍ual battery, quit his job to fully support Harris’s political ambitions in 2020.
Since then, he’s been hell-bent on perfecting his image as a ‘wife-guy’. Emhoff became a prominent presence on the campaign trail — always at his wife’s side, sharing their private moments on social media, from cooking Thanksgiving dinner together to hand delivering a rose to Harris at work on Valentine’s Day.
But the controversy didn’t end there. In October, a former girlfriend of Emhoff’s came forward, alleging a disturbing incident during an A-list event in Cannes, France in May 2012. According to her, Emhoff slapped her so hard in the face that the blow ‘spun [her] around,’ leaving her shocked and disoriented.
If those allegations weren’t troubling enough, Emhoff also faced reports from his former colleagues at the Los Angeles law firm Venable, where he worked from 2006 to 2017.
