By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2024-10-31 01:21:49 | Updated at 2024-10-31 19:36:09
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fawned over second gentleman Doug Emhoff's 'masculinity' and 'values' at a campaign stop Wednesday in Las Vegas.
DailyMail.com reported that Emhoff impregnated the family's nanny while married to his first wife, allegedly slapped an ex-girlfriend at the Cannes Film Festival and was 'inappropriate' and 'misogynistic' at work.
But the New York Democrat glossed those allegations over - despite Emhoff's people confirming his affair with the nanny - to gush to a crowd of students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas that he was the ideal modern male.
'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,' she said. 'And he embodies that really well. We should all be really, really proud of him.'
She told students gathered at the on-campus Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art that the example Emhoff has set 'has been so important this presidential cycle.'
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (left) fawned over Doug Emhoff's (right) masculinity at a shared campaign stop Wednesday on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to mark the first day of early voting on campus
AOC noted that there were plenty of 'poor examples' of 'masculinity and men' and 'a lot of misogyny.'
'A lot of ideas of what being a man means putting a woman down or putting queer people down,' she continued. 'And this idea that, like, in order to elevate one's value, we need to diminish the people around you.'
She argued that's not masculinity but 'weakness' and 'insecurity' instead.
'But Doug really is the contrast - the second gentleman - is a real contrast to that,' Ocasio-Cortez said.
'He's able to stand beside the vice president's side and lift her up instead of put her down,' she said. '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.'
That son, Cole Emhoff, was among those traveling with the first gentleman Wednesday to get out the vote in Nevada, one of the seven key swing states.
Wednesday marked the first day of on-campus early voting at UNLV.
Actor Josh Gad was also on hand. He unleashed a torrent of four-letter words at the prospect of second Trump term
The Emhoffs and AOC were also joined at the event - which numbered a hundred or two - by actor Josh Gad, who unleashed a torrent of four-letter words at the prospect of second Trump term.
'I'm Olaf and I like sane candidates,' said the Frozen star.
After reminding the audience he's likely most famous for a role in a children's movie, he let the swear words rip.
'Just so you know, I prepared a whole speech, I was going to do a whole thing, and then I'm like ehh it's bulls***. I want to talk to you from the heart. Not as a surrogate, as somebody who was in your shoes once,' he said.
He also noted that he was a father of two kids.
'I'm scared. Right? I wake up in the middle of the night and I think of what we stand to lose and it freaks me out. And I'm a pretty optimistic guy,' the actor admitted.
He said that he doesn't like that 'one candidate leads with such hate, leads with such venom.'
'Because my kids look at that person and go, "Oh that's the leader of the free world,'" Gad said.
Cole Emhoff introduced his father, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, at an appearance Wednesday on UNLV's campus
'Because when you lead like that, you teach our kids that they can be, sorry to the cameras, real pieces of s***. And that's a problem. And I'm done with that problem. I did four years of that. And I'm not going back,' he said - reciting the Harris-Walz campaign slogan.
Gad argued that people should be scared of the polls and they should be realistic about the consequences.
'It's not just calling Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage and and not apologizing for it,' he said. 'It's not just carelessly telling people you work with, "Hey, I really like some of Hitler's close confidants. Can my generals be like that guy's?"'
'It's not just the vitriol, it's not just the othering, it's all of it,' he said.
'And it is the fact that he does not care about a single one of you,' he continued. 'And I've got a secret, he doesn't care about a single one of his followers. He cares about himself. He is running for president because he is running for prison.'
'And if that motherf***er gets anywhere near the White House, we are all in grave danger,' the actor warned.
When it was Emhoff's turn to speak, he gave a slightly sunnier speech, expressing confidence that Harris would win.
'She's the president starting in six days,' Emhoff proclaimed.
