Former Vice President Kamala Harris shares a laugh with second gentleman Doug Emhoff aboard Air Force Two just before taking off for her final campaign rally on Nov. 4, 2024. (Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via Reuters)
"Sadly," Harris said, families are not off limits when running for president.
Later in the book, Harris described "one of those fights that every married couple had," just weeks before Election Day, after Emhoff repurposed an anniversary present for her birthday and then didn't hear her shouting for a towel from the bath.
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"I called Doug to ask him to bring me one. No answer. He was in the other room, watching the Dodgers eliminate the Mets in the playoffs. He couldn't hear me over the television. I called his phone," Harris wrote in the book.
When Emhoff answered casually, asking, "What's up?" she described it as a "bridge too far," prompting a fight fueled by the stress that "had finally gotten to both of us."
The former vice president said she was "looking forward to a special evening with Doug" on her birthday and was hoping he had planned something.
"Doug had been keeping his own grueling schedule and had flown in from a campaign event in Michigan. He was tired and pre-occupied," Harris said, while complaining that he hadn't put any thought into the hotel they were staying at that night or what they would have for dinner.
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff spoke during Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 20, 2024. (Mike Segar/Reuters)
The day after Harris' birthday, her social secretary, Storm Horncastle, told Emhoff, "Mr. Second Gentleman, you have to fix this," Harris wrote.
"She handed him a set of note cards. She'd numbered them one through five, for the nights we'd be apart through the end of the campaign. She instructed him to write a note on each one," Harris wrote.
Emhoff has two children from his first marriage, Cole and Ella, who famously refer to the former vice president as "Momala."
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Harris said her best friend introduced them, admitting she "had kissed a lot of frogs before fate" brought her Emhoff.
She described in the book how "politics isn't built for male spouses."
"In D.C., there are long-standing social structures and well-understood roles for wives. Not for the very few husbands," she said in the book.
Harris' office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment on the divorce rumors.
Deirdre Heavey is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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