Doug Emhoff’s ex-wife fiercely defends Kamala Harris over JD Vance’s sexist ‘childless cat ladies’ attack

Doug Emhoff’s ex-wife has fiercely defended Kamala Harris over JD Vance’s sexist comments, after a video of him branding her and other women “childless cat ladies” resurfaced in recent days.

Kerstin Emhoff was married to the second gentleman for 16 years and they had two children – Ella and Cole – together.

The vice president turned presidential candidate embraced the role of stepmother when she wed Emhoff in 2014 and is famously close to the children, co-parenting them alongside Kerstin. Harris has even previously revealed that Ella and Cole gave her the affectionate moniker “Momala” because neither of them liked the name “stepmom”.

Now, Kerstin – who attended Harris’ inauguration as vice president in January 2021 – has leaped to Harris’ defense branding Vance’s attack as “baseless” and calling the vice president a “loving, nurturing, fiercely protective, and always present” co-parent.

“These are baseless attacks,” she said in a statement to CNN.

“For over 10 years, since Cole and Ella were teenagers, Kamala has been a co-parent with Doug and I. She is loving, nurturing, fiercely protective, and always present.”

Kerstin added: “I love our blended family and am grateful to have her in it.”

Republican vice presidential candidateVance is facing backlash for his misogynistic comments which resurfaced this week after Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race and Harris rose to become the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

In the clip from a 2021 interview, Vance told then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the US is run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too.”

“Look at Kamala Harris, Pete