Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff has “reshaped the notion of masculinity” together with his assist for Vice President Kamala Harris, MSNBC host Jen Psaki instructed Sunday.
“There’s additionally an vital, fascinating half about how individuals have talked about your position is how your position has reshaped the notion of masculinity,” Psaki remarked with a slight chortle. “I’m undecided you deliberate on that, however you might be an extremely supportive partner. Has that been an evolution for you? Do you assume that’s a part of the position you may play as First Gentleman?”
“It’s humorous. I’ve began to assume quite a bit about this. I’ve all the time been like this. My dad’s all the time been like this. To me, it’s the best factor to do, assist ladies. It’s mutual with Kamala and I. We assist one another, now we have one another’s again,” Emhoff stated.Â
US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff wave as they board Air Power Two at Joint Base Andrew in Maryland on August 6, 2024. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool/AFP through Getty Pictures)
He added, “I’ve stated many instances once we raise up ladies, we assist ladies whether or not it’s pay fairness, childcare, household go away, and all of those points on this post-Dobbs hellscape. Girls shouldn’t be lower than. Girls mustn’t have much less rights and be handled in a different way. That’s not the American approach.”
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Psaki continued, “There’s a pop-culture phrase, ‘spouse man,’ which you’ve form of been referred to as. Are you aware of this?”
“I’ve heard about it,” Emhoff stated.
“A ‘spouse man,’ a ‘proud spouse man.’ How do you are feeling about it?” she requested.
Emhoff joked, “If I do one thing annoying to Kamala, and he or she will get upset, I’ll simply present her that article.”
Emhoff possible appeals to the much less ‘testosterone-laden’ and ‘gun-toting’ form of man, CNN’s Dana Bash stated. (MSNBC screenshot)
Varied media retailers and commentators have painted Emhoff and Harris’ operating mate Gov. Tim Walz to be totally different examples of masculinity to fight former President Trump’s maintain on the male vote. A Washington Publish columnist went so far as to seek advice from Emhoff as a “progressive intercourse image.”
“Transfer over, Ryan Gosling. The trendy feminine fantasy is embodied by the person who may quickly develop into our first First Gentleman,” Catherine Rampell wrote.
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CNN’s Dana Bash instructed in the course of the DNC that Emhoff and Walz appealed to voters who weren’t as masculine as Republican candidates.
“However they’re doing so in attempting to place ahead male figures, Tim Walz being one in every of them, Doug Emhoff final evening, who can communicate to males on the market who may not be the kind of testosterone-laden, y’know, gun-toting form of man who desires to hearken to Hulk Hogan and the form of gamers that got here out on the RNC or may need to hearken to that,” she stated.
Emhoff commented on him being thought of a ‘spouse man.’Â (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Occasions through Getty Pictures)
“But additionally, as well as, perceive that it’s okay in 2024 to be a person comfy in his personal pores and skin who helps a lady, and that’s one thing they’re actually attempting to work on with male voters past the bottom,” she added.
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