Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, asserted in an MSNBC interview that aired partially on Friday that recent allegations against him are merely a “distraction.” He made these comments during an interview with Joe Scarborough on “Morning Joe,” where he addressed what he described as “misinformation and disinformation” being spread by former President Donald Trump about his wife.
“He’s spreading it about you, saying that tabloid stories about your personal life, saying it should be front and center,” Scarborough said.
Scarborough’s comments seem to refer to a series of reports from the Daily Mail concerning Emhoff, including an allegation that he struck his ex-girlfriend in the face.
“He’s saying it about your wife and making incredibly crude and lewd suggestions about her past life,” Scarborough continued. “I’m just wondering, how do you all stay centered? How do you stay disciplined and not really go off and not really push back hard at these things?”
Emhoff responded: “We don’t have time to be pissed off. We don’t have time to focus on it. It’s all a distraction. It’s designed to try to get us off our game.”
When asked if the allegations affected him, he stated they did not, emphasizing that he and Harris are currently highly focused on the election.
“All that other stuff you’re talking about bounces off. It’s just a distraction,” he later claimed. “We’re not going to let it distract us.”
