Meet Kamala Harris' family: Lawyer husband Douglas Emhoff, her knitting-obsessed stepdaughter Ella and her stepson who's in Hollywood

Vice President Kamala Harris is now halfway shape pinch nan awesome shingle up successful nan 2024 title aft President Biden connected Sunday dropped retired and endorsed her to switch him atop nan Democratic ticket. 

The bombshell displacement successful nan statesmanlike title besides puts Harris' blended family backmost successful nan spotlight arsenic they could soon go nan first family if she receives nan information and thumps erstwhile President Donald Trump successful November. 

Harris would beryllium nan first female to service arsenic President of nan United States, if elected, but she and her family are already breaking barriers arsenic she is nan first female and first female of colour to service arsenic vice president.

Rather than being known arsenic 'madam vice president,' to immoderate of her closest family members, Harris is alternatively a woman and large sister. To her 2 stepkids, nan vice president is simply known is 'Momala.' 

Harris is joined to lawyer Doug Emhoff, who complete nan past 3 and a half years has enthusiastically taken connected nan domiciled arsenic first 2nd man walking to much than 30 states and 14 countries arsenic a typical to nan U.S. and Biden administration.

Not only is he nan first 2nd gentleman, he is besides nan first Jewish spouse of an American vice president aliases president. He has been a starring sound successful nan management connected combatting antisemitism and has convened Jewish leaders and others astatine nan White House and crossed nan country. 

Emhoff has besides been a salient sound erstwhile it comes to addressing gender equality and justice. 

A lawyer for much than 30 years, Emhoff has advocated for ineligible assistance and has taught astatine nan Georgetown University Law Center. 

Emhoff and Harris joined successful August 2014. At nan clip he was a lawyer successful Los Angeles and she was serving arsenic California Attorney General.

Before joining Harris successful Washington arsenic nan first 2nd gentleman, Emhoff was a partner astatine nan rule patient DLA Piper. 

He first took a impermanent time off of absents from nan patient up of nan 2020 predetermination arsenic nan run play kicked into precocious gear. He officially near nan business erstwhile Biden and Harris won nan predetermination and started nan modulation to nan White House. 

Before joining DLA, Emhoff worked for nan firm patient Venable wherever immoderate of his customer roster raised questions.

The 2nd man once represented nan arms trader Dolarian Capital successful a lawsuit related to nan waste of AK-47s to beryllium utilized successful Afghanistan arsenic good arsenic nan pharmaceutical elephantine Merck successful lawsuits related to its supplier Fosamax, nan New York Times reported.

Harris is now stepmom to Emhoff's 2 big children Ella and Cole. 

In 2019, she wrote an effort wherever she described her stepkids arsenic her 'endless root of emotion and axenic joy' and explained how the sanction 'Momala' came to be.

'A fewer years later erstwhile Doug and I sewage married, Cole, Ella, and I agreed that we didn’t for illustration nan word “stepmom.” Instead they came up pinch nan sanction “Momala,"' she penned successful Elle Magazine.    

The vice president has besides praised Emhoff's ex-wife Kerstin arsenic personification who has go a 'dear friend.' 

Ella Emhoff, now 25-years-old, was an creation student erstwhile Harris was picked arsenic Biden's moving mate. She has since exploded onto nan manner and creation segment arsenic her stepmom became nan first female Vice President of nan United States. 

In January 2021, Emhoff signed pinch nan world modeling agency IMG Models. She has since appeared successful a bid of salient manner campaigns, walked immoderate of nan biggest runway shows successful nan world and graced galore reddish carpets including attending nan Met Gala.

Based successful Brooklyn, Ella Emhoff has besides been trading her ain knitwear and creation including portraits, jackets, hats, coats and moreover shorts which person been featured connected her website and she often posts connected her societal media accounts. 

While Emhoff has mostly stuck to fashion, her pro-Palestinian leanings person precocious made waves pinch nan warfare successful Gaza.

As pro-Palestinian protests were taking spot crossed nan state successful nan aftermath of Israel's warfare successful Gaza pursuing nan Hamas attack, nan 2nd stepdaughter urged her much than 300,000 societal media followers to donate to nan U.N. agency accused of aiding Hamas.  

After posting a nexus for nan United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), nan largest employer successful Gaza, she faced backlash from immoderate critics and Jewish organizations which pointed retired its alleged ties to nan violent group.

There nary longer look to beryllium fundraising links connected her Instagram page. 

Lesser nationalist is Harris' stepson Cole Emhoff who lives successful Los Angeles and useful successful intermezo for illustration his mother.

Born successful 1994, Cole Emhoff astatine 30-years-old is nan elder of vice president's stepchildren. 

He was a elder successful precocious schoolhouse erstwhile Harris and his dada sewage together. He went disconnected to Colorado College aft graduating.

According to his IMDB page, he has worked connected respective movies including arsenic an adjunct connected nan 2020 award-winning movie 'Minari' arsenic good arsenic nan 2022 remake of 'Father of nan Bride.'

The vice president officiated his wedding successful October 2023 erstwhile he joined Greenley Littlejohn.

Cole Emhoff was asked astir his dada and stepmother arsenic mates successful a New York Times question and reply conscionable earlier she was sworn successful arsenic vice president.

'It depends connected nan setting,' he said. 'Because Doug and Kamala together are for illustration almost vomit-inducingly tiny and coupley. I’m like, When is this going to deterioration off?'

He said they person ever called Emhoff 'Doug' astatine location alternatively than 'dad' and explained it arsenic a word of endearment.

Doug, Cole and Ella Emhoff person yet to remark connected President Biden's endorsement of Harris to win him aft bowing retired of nan 2024 statesmanlike race. 

Doug Emhoff did nevertheless return to X to praise nan outgoing president and Biden family who he has worked intimately pinch complete nan past 3 and a half years.

He wrote he is 'deeply grateful' to nan president and First Lady Jill Biden 'for their years of relationship and support.'

'President Biden is simply a existent patriot who leads our federation pinch honesty, decency, and integrity,' he said.