Is Kamala Harris Blaming Her Husband For Election Loss? Report Points To His Affairs, Scandals

Last Updated:January 23, 2025, 12:45 IST

A report, citing alleged scandals and affairs, has claimed that Kamala Harris is blaming her husband, Doug Emhoff, for her 2024 presidential election loss.

Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff (Photo: Reuters)

Kamala Harris may have been all smiles and welcoming after her crushing presidential election defeat to Donald Trump, but, a report has claimed that she has placed the blame on her husband, Doug Emhoff, for her electoral loss.

On January 17, while preparations were underway for Donald Trump’s return to the White House, Kamala Harris’s staff packed into her ceremonial office to watch her sign the desk, a tradition performed by her predecessors for decades. All this while, her husband was seen standing behind her for a photo, as she wielded her Sharpie marker.

“It is not my nature to go quietly into the night," Harris told reporters, adding, “So don’t worry about that."

“I’ll keep you posted," she said, upon being asked what was next for her.

Many blamed Joe Biden for running in the first place and putting Harris in an impossible position. Harris faced her own criticism, too.

Some said she should have sent a more populist message instead of focusing on Trump’s antidemocratic threats by campaigning with Liz Cheney, a former Republican congresswoman. She also failed to separate herself from Biden, who remains deeply unpopular with voters.

Now, that Donald Trump has taken the President’s charge, Harris is apparently playing the blame game, and her target is her husband Doug Emhoff, whom she reportedly considers “dead weight".

Quoting a source, the Daily Mail reported that Doug has his share as far as Kamala’s blame game is concerned.

“Doug did Kamala no favours during the election," the report quoted the source as saying.

“Frankly, he looked like a hypocritical a** after the bombshells that he had got his child’s nanny pregnant while married to his first wife and assaulted his ex-girlfriend on the heels of his ‘I am woman’ crusade," the source added.

The report also claimed that many people close to the couple believe that all is not well between the two, and this was reportedly observed while the couple appeared at former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral on January 9.

Even as Donald Trump took charge as the President of the United States, Kamala Harris and her husband reflected a tense look, the report referred to some social media videos.

It is also believed that Doug has already signed up for a job with a Big Apple law firm which would require them to split their time between New York and Los Angeles.

There’s also talk that Harris will write a book and speculation that she could run for governor or maybe president again. At 60 years old, Harris is still young in a political world where the last two presidents have set records as the oldest ever elected.

Many close to her believe she will skip the race for California governor and instead try for president again in 2028.

“I was with her last week when she was signing her desk, she told me ‘You know me well enough to know that I’m not going to go away quietly’," the report quoted her former communications chief Ashley Etienne as saying.

SCANDALS SURROUNDING HARRIS’s HUSBAND EMHOFF

Earlier, the Daily Mail reported a series of allegations surrounding Emhoff. A source had told the publication that even Harris has had an affair with former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown.

In August, a report claimed that Emhoff had an affair with Najen Naylor, his daughter’s nanny, while still being married to his first wife, film producer Kerstin Mackin. Quoting a source, the report claimed Emhoff paid Naylor $80,000 in exchange for her signing a non-disclosure agreement and that the affair played a part in his 2009 divorce.

The controversy, however, 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 another report.

She claimed Emhoff slapped her so hard in the face after he thought she was flirting with another man that the blow ‘spun her around,’ leaving her shocked and disoriented.

Later, Emhoff reportedly admitted to having an extramarital affair, saying, “During my first marriage, Kerstin and I went through some tough times on account of my actions. I took responsibility, and in the years since, we worked through things as a family and have come out stronger on the other side."

Emhoff also faced reports from his former colleagues at the Los Angeles law firm Venable, where he worked from 2006 to 2017.

They described a work culture marked by misogyny, claiming that Emhoff allegedly yelled expletives, held a man-only cocktail hour in the office, revoked work perks from women who didn’t flirt with him and preferred only young, attractive associates to accompany him in limousines to professional events, the report claimed.

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