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Kamala’s First Gentleman

A candid conversation with Doug Emhoff about how he’s preparing for the final sprint of the campaign, Trump’s unfitness for office, how he’s handling Laura Loomer’s meshuga attacks, and where he was when Kurt Cobain died.

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Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff with his wife, Vice President Kamala Harris, at the D.N.C. in August. Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
John Heilemann
September 18, 2024

Long before Doug Emhoff became our nation’s first-ever second gentleman, and even before he married a woman who now has even odds of becoming the first female president of the United States (and, yes, also the first Black and South Asian female president…), he was a superstar entertainment litigator whose nickname at his Los Angeles firm was “the Smiling Assassin.” Indeed, if the nation is still trying to figure out who, exactly, Kamala Harris is, the same is exponentially more true of Emhoff.