“I love my three parents,” Ella wrote on her Instagram story.
Kerstin earlier denounced the attacks on Kamala and said Kamala has been a co-patent with Doug and herself as they all three raised Cole and Ella. “These are baseless attacks. For over 10 years, since Cole and Ella were teenagers, Kamala has been a co-parent with Doug and I. She is loving, nurturing, fiercely protective, and always present,” Kerstin said. She also shared Cole’s Instagram story and wrote: The actual baby agrees.
What is the ‘childless cat ladies’ row?
After Joe Biden opted out of the race and supported vice president Kamala Harris, her past affairs, family life all came on the radar of the Republicans. An old interview of Ohio GoP senator JD Vance emerged where he referred to Kamala Harris and some other Democratic leaders like AOC, Pete Buttigieg as “childless cat ladies”. “If you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children,” Vance said.
Kamala Harris is the step mother of Emhoff’s two children from his first marriage — Ella and Cole.
Pete Buttigieg is also the father of two adopted children with his gay partner. “The really sad thing is, he said that after Chasten and I had been through a fairly heartbreaking setback in our adoption journey. He couldn’t have known that, but maybe that’s why you shouldn’t be talking about other people’s children,” Buttigieg said.
“It’s about … people’s families whose well-being will depend on whether we go into a future led by somebody like Kamala Harris who is focused on expanding the prosperity and the freedom, the well-being of our families,” Buttigieg added.