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How My Husband, Doug Emhoff, Disclosed ‘Rumoured Romance’ To Me While Dating—Former Vice President Kamala Harris

<h4>How My Husband<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h4><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that former Vice President Kamala Harris has exposed details of a fight with her husband&comma; Doug Emhoff&comma; on her birthday in a new book&comma; &&num;8216&semi;107 Days&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8216&semi;The Five&&num;8217&semi; discusses former Vice President Kamala Harris&&num;8217&semi; finger-pointing in her new book&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The new book&comma; &&num;8220&semi;107 Days&comma;&&num;8221&semi; pulls back the curtain on her relationship with the first second gentleman&comma; Doug Emhoff&comma; recounting a scandal that rocked the early days of her short-lived presidential campaign and the fight that united them ahead of Election Day&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Soon after former President Joe Biden suspended his re-election campaign&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">The Daily Mail<&sol;a> reported that Emhoff&&num;8217&semi;s first marriage ended following an affair with his children&&num;8217&semi;s nanny&period; Emhoff confirmed the affair soon after the news broke last year&comma; and&comma; in the book&comma; Harris lamented that &&num;8220&semi;hurtful and degrading comments are&comma; sadly&comma; part and parcel of running for office these days&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;30510" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-30510" style&equals;"width&colon; 251px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-30510" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;Untitled-2&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"How My Husband&comma; Doug Emhoff&comma; Disclosed &OpenCurlyQuote;Rumoured Romance’ To Me While Dating---Former Vice President Kamala Harris" width&equals;"251" height&equals;"201" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-30510" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>Former Vice President Kamala Harris<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Where it crosses the line is when opponents go after family members&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Harris wrote&period; &&num;8220&semi;Of course&comma; I knew about this&period; Doug had told me about it when we were dating&period; We disclosed it during my vetting for VP&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Harris applauded her husband&comma; whom she introduced in her book as &&num;8220&semi;My Dougie&comma;&&num;8221&semi; for handling it &&num;8220&semi;like the mensch that he is&comma; issuing a statement taking responsibility and expressing regret&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Sadly&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Harris said&comma; families are not off limits when running for president&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Later in the book&comma; Harris described &&num;8220&semi;one of those fights that every married couple had&comma;&&num;8221&semi; just weeks before Election Day&comma; after Emhoff repurposed an anniversary present for her birthday and then didn&&num;8217&semi;t hear her shouting for a towel from the bath&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I called Doug to ask him to bring me one&period; No answer&period; He was in the other room&comma; watching the Dodgers eliminate the Mets in the playoffs&period; He couldn&&num;8217&semi;t hear me over the television&period; I called his phone&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Harris wrote in the book&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When Emhoff answered casually&comma; asking&comma; &&num;8220&semi;What&&num;8217&semi;s up&quest;&&num;8221&semi; she described it as a &&num;8220&semi;bridge too far&comma;&&num;8221&semi; prompting a fight fueled by the stress that &&num;8220&semi;had finally gotten to both of us&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The former vice president said she was &&num;8220&semi;looking forward to a special evening with Doug&&num;8221&semi; on her birthday and was hoping he had planned something&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Doug had been keeping his own grueling schedule and had flown in from a campaign event in Michigan&period; He was tired and pre-occupied&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Harris said&comma; while complaining that he hadn&&num;8217&semi;t put any thought into the hotel they were staying at that night or what they would have for dinner&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;It turned out to be a bland establishment whose red-and-black decor looked like it hadn&&num;8217&semi;t been redone since the &&num;8217&semi;70s&period; The only distinguished feature of the room was its larger size&comma; but the curtains were broken&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Harris complained in her book&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Harris said her husband &&num;8220&semi;stopped the argument cold&comma;&&num;8221&semi; reminding the presidential candidate&comma; &&num;8220&semi;We can&&num;8217&semi;t turn on each other&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;With the hits coming from every direction&comma; we have to stay united&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Harris wrote&period; &&num;8220&semi;Back-to-back&comma; swords raised against all outside attacks&period; We had to protect each other&comma; be each other&&num;8217&semi;s pillars of strength&comma; givers and receivers of patience and unconditional love&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Like many political couples&comma; unconfirmed rumors have swirled since she lost the election that Harris and Emhoff could get divorced&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But after their fight&comma; Harris described how she started to find notes on her pillow &&num;8220&semi;in Doug&&num;8217&semi;s chicken scratch&comma; telling me how much he loved me&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The day after Harris&&num;8217&semi; birthday&comma; her social secretary&comma; Storm Horncastle&comma; told Emhoff&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Mr&period; Second Gentleman&comma; you have to fix this&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Harris wrote&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;She handed him a set of note cards&period; She&&num;8217&semi;d numbered them one through five&comma; for the nights we&&num;8217&semi;d be apart through the end of the campaign&period; She instructed him to write a note on each one&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Harris wrote&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Emhoff has two children from his first marriage&comma; Cole and Ella&comma; who famously refer to the former vice president as &&num;8220&semi;Momala&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Harris said her best friend introduced them&comma; admitting she &&num;8220&semi;had kissed a lot of frogs before fate&&num;8221&semi; brought her Emhoff&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She described in the book how &&num;8220&semi;politics isn&&num;8217&semi;t built for male spouses&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;In D&period;C&period;&comma; there are long-standing social structures and well-understood roles for wives&period; Not for the very few husbands&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she said in the book&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Harris&&num;8217&semi; office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital&&num;8217&semi;s request for comment on the divorce rumors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Profile<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Born in Oakland&comma; California on October 20&comma; 1964&comma; Kamala Devi Harris served as the 49th vice president of the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">United States of America<&sol;a> from 2021 to 2025 under President Joe Biden&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She is the first female&comma; first African American&comma; and first Asian American U&period;S&period; vice president&comma; and the highest-ranking female and Asian American official in U&period;S&period; history&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Harris represented California in the U&period;S&period; Senate from 2017 to 2021 and was the attorney general of California from 2011 to 2017&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A member of the Democratic Party&comma; she was the party&&num;8217&semi;s nominee in the 2024 presidential election&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Harris graduated from Howard University and the University of California&comma; Hastings College of the Law&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She began her law career in the office of the district attorney of Alameda County&period; Harris was recruited to the San Francisco <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;vanguardngr&period;com&sol;">District Attorney&&num;8217&semi;s Office and later to the office of the city attorney of San Francisco<&sol;a>&period; She was elected district attorney of San Francisco in 2003 and attorney general of California in 2010&comma; and reelected as attorney general in 2014&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Harris was the junior U&period;S&period; senator from California from 2017 to 2021 after winning the 2016 Senate election&period; She was the second Black woman and first South Asian American U&period;S&period; senator&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;30508" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-30508" style&equals;"width&colon; 182px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-30508" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;10&sol;Untitled-e1759379869532&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"How My Husband&comma; Doug Emhoff&comma; Disclosed &OpenCurlyQuote;Rumoured Romance’ To Me While Dating---Former Vice President Kamala Harris" width&equals;"182" height&equals;"161" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-30508" class&equals;"wp-caption-text"><em><strong>Former Vice President Kamala Harris and husband<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>As a senator&comma; Harris advocated for stricter gun control laws&comma; the DREAM Act&comma; federal legalization of cannabis&comma; and reforms to healthcare and taxation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She gained a national profile while asking pointed questions of officials from the first Trump administration during Senate hearings&comma; including President Donald Trump&&num;8217&semi;s second U&period;S&period; Supreme Court nominee&comma; Brett Kavanaugh&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Harris sought the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination in 2019&comma; but withdrew from the race before the primaries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Biden selected her as his running mate&semi; their ticket defeated the incumbent president and vice president&comma; Trump and Mike Pence&comma; in the 2020 presidential election&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When her vice presidency began&comma; Harris presided over an evenly split U&period;S&period; Senate&period; She cast 33 tie-breaking votes&comma; more than any other vice president&comma; including votes to pass the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In July 2024&comma; after Biden withdrew his candidacy from the 2024 presidential election&comma; Harris launched her own presidential campaign with his endorsement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She later became the nominee and selected Minnesota governor Tim Walz as her running mate&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She ultimately lost the election to the Republican nominees&comma; former president Trump and Ohio senator JD Vance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Parental Background<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kamala Devi Harris’s mother&comma; Shyamala Gopalan &lpar;1938–2009&rpar;&comma; was a Tamil biologist who arrived in the United States from India in 1958 to enroll in graduate school in endocrinology at the University of California&comma; Berkeley&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A research career of over 40 years followed&comma; during which her work on the progesterone receptor gene led to advances in breast cancer research&period; Kamala&&num;8217&semi;s father&comma; Donald J&period; Harris &lpar;born 1938&rpar;&comma; is an Afro-Jamaican who immigrated to the United States in 1961 and also enrolled in UC Berkeley&comma; specializing in development economics&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The first Black scholar to be granted tenure at Stanford University&&num;8217&semi;s economics department&comma; he has emeritus status there&period; Kamala&&num;8217&semi;s parents met in 1962 and married in 1963&period;The Harris family lived in Berkeley until they moved in 1966&comma; around Kamala&&num;8217&semi;s second birthday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Harrises lived for a few years in college towns in the Midwest where her parents held teaching or research positions&colon; Urbana&comma; Illinois &lpar;where her sister Maya was born in 1966&rpar;&semi; Evanston&comma; Illinois&semi; and Madison&comma; Wisconsin&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>By 1970&comma; the marriage had faltered&comma; and Shyamala moved back to Berkeley with her two daughters&semi; the couple divorced when Kamala was seven&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During the early 1970s&comma; Harris often went with her mother to Chennai&comma; India&comma; where they stayed with her maternal grandfather&period; She learned to wear traditional Indian dress and speak a few phrases of the Tamil language&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In 1972&comma; Donald Harris accepted a position at Stanford University&semi; Kamala and Maya spent weekends at his house in Palo Alto and lived at their mother&&num;8217&semi;s house in Berkeley during the week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Shyamala was friends with African-American intellectuals and activists in Oakland and Berkeley&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In 1976&comma; she accepted a research position at the McGill University School of Medicine&comma; and moved with her daughters to Montreal&comma; Quebec in <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">Canada<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Education<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kamala graduated from Westmount High School on Montreal Island in 1981&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Kamala Harris attended Vanier College in Montreal in 1981–1982&semi; she then attended Howard University&comma; a historically black university in Washington&comma; D&period;C&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>At Howard&comma; she became a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha&comma; one of the &&num;8220&semi;Divine Nine&&num;8221&semi; historically black sororities&period; She graduated in 1986 with a degree in political science and economics&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Harris then attended the University of California&comma; Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco&comma; where she served as president of its chapter of the Black Law Students Association&period; She graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1989&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em><strong>Source&colon; Fox News<&sol;strong><&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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