Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez touted First Gentleman Doug Emhoff as the best illustration of masculinity at a Las Vegas marketing campaign occasion for his spouse Kamala Harris on Wednesday.
“He’s not afraid to embody and pass on these values of security and this idea that you can, you can let your girl shine,” Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) advised a room full of scholars on the College of Nevada, Las Vegas, in keeping with the Every day Mail.
“And he embodies that really well. We should all be really, really proud of him.”
The “squad” member praised Emhoff’s instance of masculinity lower than every week after a purported ex-girlfriend recognized solely as Jane got here ahead and stated he slapped her on the 2012 Cannes Movie Pageant after believing she was flirty with the valet.
Emhoff has vehemently denied the accusations.
“Any suggestion that he would or has ever hit a woman is false,” a spokesperson for the second gentleman advised Semafor.
Ocasio-Cortez didn’t deal with the allegation, however as an alternative, she praised Emhoff for lifting up Harris.
“He’s able to stand beside the vice president’s side and lift her up instead of put her down,” she stated, in keeping with the outlet. “And he knows that by lifting of women, he’s also lifting up his fellow men around him. He’s not afraid to be a dad of a powerful daughter and a great son.”
The congresswoman, who represents components of Queens and the Bronx, additionally famous that this election cycle has proven every kind of “poor examples” of masculinity and “a lot of misogyny,” the Mail reported.
“A lot of ideas of what being a man means putting a woman down or putting queer people down,” she reportedly stated.
“And this idea that, like, in order to elevate one’s value, we need to diminish the people around you.”
“But Doug really is the contrast — the second gentleman is a real contrast to that,” Ocasio-Cortez stated.
