Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez decried Second Gen. Doug Emhoff’s “masculinity” and “values” during a campaign stop in Las Vegas on Wednesday.
DailyMail.com reported that Emhoff got the family nanny pregnant while married to his first wife, allegedly hit an ex-girlfriend at the Cannes Film Festival and was “inappropriate” and “misogynistic” at work.
But the New York Democrat glossed over those allegations — despite Emhoff’s people confirming his affair with the nanny — to tell a crowd of students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas that he was the ideal modern man.
‘He is not afraid to embody and pass on these values of safety and the idea that you can make your girl shine,” she said. ‘And he embodies that very well. We should all be very proud of him.’
She told the students gathered on the campus of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art that the example Emhoff has set “has been so important this presidential cycle.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (left) frowned on the masculinity of Doug Emhoff (right) during a shared campaign stop Wednesday on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, marking the first day of early voting on campus
AOC noted that there were many “bad examples” of “masculinity and men” and “a lot of misogyny.”
“There are a lot of ideas about what being a man means: putting down a woman or putting down gay people,” she continued. “And this idea that in order to increase someone’s value, we have to decrease the people around you.”
She argued that this is not masculinity, but ‘weakness’ and ‘insecurity’.
“But Doug is really the contrast — the second gentleman — is a real contrast to that,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
‘He can stand next to the vice president and lift her up instead of putting her down,” she said. “And he knows that by lifting women up, he also lifts up his fellow men around him. He is not afraid to be the father of a powerful daughter and an amazing son.”
That son, Cole Emhoff, was among those who traveled with the first gentleman on Wednesday to vote in Nevada, one of the seven key swing states.
Wednesday was the first day of early on-campus voting at UNLV.
Actor Josh Gad was also in attendance. He unleashed a barrage of four-letter words at the prospect of a 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 flurry of four-letter words at the prospect of a second Trump term.
“I’m Olaf and I like sensible candidates,” the Frozen star said.
After reminding the audience that he’s probably best known for his role in a children’s movie, he let the swear words rip.
‘To be clear, I prepared a whole speech, I was going to do a whole thing, and then I thought, ehh, it’s bulls***. I want to talk to you from my heart. Not as a surrogate, as someone who was once in your shoes,” he said.
He also noted that he was a father of two children.
‘I’m scared. Right? I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about what we’re going to lose, and it scares me. And I’m a pretty optimistic guy,” the actor admitted.
He said he doesn’t like that “one candidate is leading with so much hate, with so much venom.”
“Because my kids look at that person and think, ‘Oh, that’s the leader of the free world,'” Gad said.
Cole Emhoff introduced his father, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, during an appearance Wednesday on UNLV’s campus
‘Because when you take charge like that, you teach our kids that, sorry for the cameras, they can be real pieces of shit. And that’s a problem. And I’m done with that problem. I did that for four years. And I’m not going back,” he said, reciting Harris-Walz’s campaign slogan.
Gad argued that people should fear the polls and be realistic about the consequences.
“It’s not just calling Puerto Rico a floating island of trash and not apologizing for it,” he said. “It’s not just casually saying to the people you work with, ‘Hey, I really like some of Hitler’s closest confidantes. Can my generals be like that guy?’
“It’s not just the vitriol, it’s not just the other thing, it’s everything,” he said.
‘And it’s the fact that he doesn’t care about any of you,” he continued. “And I have a secret: he doesn’t care about any of his followers. He cares about himself. He’s running for president because he’s running for prison.”
“And if that son of a bitch gets anywhere near the White House, we’re 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 who starts in six days,” Emhoff announced.