Kamala Harris' husband Doug Emhoff 'reshaped the perception of masculinity': MSNBC host

Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff has "reshaped the cognition of masculinity" with his enactment for Vice President Kamala Harris, MSNBC big Jen Psaki suggested Sunday.

"There is besides an important, absorbing portion astir however radical person talked astir your relation is however your relation has reshaped the cognition of masculinity," Psaki remarked with a flimsy laugh. "I’m not definite you planned connected that, but you are an incredibly supportive spouse. Has that been an improvement for you? Do you deliberation that’s portion of the relation you mightiness play arsenic First Gentleman?"

"It’s funny. I’ve started to deliberation a batch astir this. I’ve ever been similar this. My dad’s ever been similar this. To me, it’s the close happening to do, enactment women. It is communal with Kamala and I. We enactment each other, we person each other’s back," Emhoff said. 

US Vice President and 2024 Democratic statesmanlike campaigner Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff question arsenic they committee Air Force Two astatine Joint Base Andrew successful Maryland connected August 6, 2024.  (Brendan Smialowski/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

He added, "I’ve said galore times erstwhile we assistance up women, we enactment women whether it’s wage equity, childcare, household leave, and each of these issues successful this post-Dobbs hellscape. Women should not beryllium little than. Women should not person little rights and beryllium treated differently. That’s not the American way."

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Psaki continued, "There is simply a pop-culture phrase, ‘wife guy,’ which you’ve benignant of been known as. Are you acquainted with this?"

"I person heard astir it," Emhoff said.

"A ‘wife guy,’ a ‘proud woman guy.’ How bash you consciousness astir it?" she asked.

Emhoff joked, "If I bash thing annoying to Kamala, and she gets upset, I’ll conscionable amusement her that article."

Emhoff apt appeals to the little 'testosterone-laden' and ‘gun-toting’ benignant of man, CNN's Dana Bash said. (MSNBC screenshot)

Various media outlets and commentators person painted Emhoff and Harris' moving mate Gov. Tim Walz to beryllium antithetic examples of masculinity to combat erstwhile President Trump’s clasp connected the antheral vote. A Washington Post columnist went arsenic acold arsenic to notation to Emhoff arsenic a "progressive enactment symbol."

"Move over, Ryan Gosling. The modern pistillate phantasy is embodied by the antheral who mightiness soon go our archetypal First Gentleman," Catherine Rampell wrote.

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CNN’s Dana Bash suggested during the DNC that Emhoff and Walz appealed to voters who were not arsenic masculine arsenic Republican candidates.

"But they are doing truthful successful trying to enactment guardant antheral figures, Tim Walz being 1 of them, Doug Emhoff past night, who tin talk to men retired determination who mightiness not beryllium the benignant of testosterone-laden, y’know, gun-toting benignant of feline who wants to perceive to Hulk Hogan and the benignant of players that came retired astatine the RNC oregon mightiness privation to perceive to that," she said.

Emhoff commented connected him being considered a 'wife guy.'  (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

"But also, successful addition, recognize that it’s good successful 2024 to beryllium a antheral comfy successful his ain tegument who supports a woman, and that is thing they are truly trying to enactment connected with antheral voters beyond the base," she added.

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