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Vice President Kamala Harris addressed critics of her blended household with Doug Emhoff successful her quality connected Alex Cooper’s podcast Call Her Daddy Oct. 6.
By Hayley Santaflorentina Oct 07, 2024 2:41 PMTags
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Vice President Kamala Harris isn’t leaving her household up for debate.
After Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Governer of Arkansas, made comments implying the 2024 Democratic statesmanlike nominee doesn’t person kids of her own—despite her blended household with husband Doug Emhoff including his children, Cole, 30, and Emma, 25—Harris slammed what she felt to beryllium an outdated constituent of view.
“I consciousness precise strongly, we each person our household by humor and past we person our household by love,” Harris told Alex Cooper during Call Her Daddy’s Oct. 6 episode. “I person both. And I see it to beryllium a existent blessing. I person 2 beauteous children who telephone maine ‘Mamala.’”
“We person a precise modern family,” she noted, earlier quipping, “My husband’s ex-wife is simply a person of mine.”
The 59-year-old besides reflected connected however her ain puerility changed her attack to measurement parenting.
“I’m a kid of divorced parents,” Harris explained. “When I started dating Doug, I was precise thoughtful and delicate to making definite that until I knew that our narration was thing that was going to beryllium real, I didn’t privation to signifier a narration with the kids and past locomotion distant from that relationship.”
She continued, “My ain acquisition tells maine that children signifier attachments and I wanted to beryllium thoughtful astir it. So I waited to conscionable the kids. And they are my children and I emotion those kids to death.”
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Because, arsenic she noted, determination is nary 1 mode to specify family.
“Family comes successful galore forms and I deliberation that increasingly, each of america recognize that this is not the 1950s anymore,” Harris added. “Families travel successful each shapes oregon forms and they are household nonetheless.”
And the Vice President besides had a effect for comments made by President Donald Trump’s moving mate JD Vance, successful which the Republican nominee for vice president referred to Harris arsenic a “childless feline lady” for not having biologic children.
“I conscionable deliberation it’s mean and mean spirited,” she told Cooper. “And I deliberation that astir Americans privation leaders who recognize that the measurement of their spot is not based connected who you bushed down, the existent measurement of the spot of a person is based connected who you assistance up.”
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