Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez touted First Gentleman Doug Emhoff as an ideal expression of masculinity at a Las Vegas campaign event for wife Kamala Harris on Wednesday.
“He’s afraid to embody and communicate these security values and this idea that you can do this and make your woman shine,” Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told a room full of students at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. “I don’t do it,” he said. , according to the Daily Mail.
“And he embodies that really well. We should all be really proud of him.”
The ‘Squad’ member praised Emhoff’s manhood less than a week after his ex-girlfriend, known only as Jane, came forward and said he hit her at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival after believing she was cheating on him with a servant.
Emhoff strongly denied the charges.
A spokesperson for the second gentleman told Semafor: “Any suggestion he would hit the woman is false.”
Ocasio-Cortez did not comment on the allegations, but instead praised Emhoff for lifting Harris up.
According to the media, “He can stand next to the Vice President and lift the Vice President up without putting him down.” “And he knows that by uplifting women, he also uplifts the men around him. He is not afraid to be a dad to a strong daughter and a great son.”
The congressman, who represents Queens and the Bronx, also pointed out that this election cycle has shown all kinds of “poor examples” of masculinity and “a lot of misogyny,” the Mail reported.
“I have a lot of ideas about what it means to be a man, to ignore women or to ignore queer people,” she said.
“And there’s this idea that in order to increase your self-worth, you have to diminish the people around you.”
“But Doug is a real contrast to that. The second gentleman is a real contrast to that,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
