With Kamala Harris poised to become the country’s first female vice president, she brings with her another historic first: America’s first second gentleman, her husband, Douglas Emhoff.
Emhoff, 56, is already shaking up gender stereotypes, a point highlighted by Joe Biden when he appeared for the first time with Harris as his running mate in August. Addressing Emhoff with a grin, Biden said, “Doug, you’re gonna have to learn what it means to be a barrier breaker yourself in this job you’re about to take on.”
Before the election, when Emhoff took questions from kids online in the “Ask a Grownup” video series, a 9-year-old named Atticus posed this hypothetical: What would you do if your wife became vice president?
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