Harris receives marriage proposal from supporter at Michigan rally

With recent controversies surrounding her husband's past conduct with women, Vice President Kamala Harris may be relieved to know that she has options.

That fact was evident in a recent campaign encounter caught on video in which a Harris supporter in Michigan stopped to ask the VP -- perhaps jocularly -- for her hand in marriage, as Newsweek reports, showing a level of interest that may give second gentleman Doug Emhoff reason for pause.

Popping the question

The surpriseoffer made its way to Harris in the midst of a packed day of campaigning in the Great Lakes State.

Concluding her day at the Oakland County Expo Center, Harris soon found herself on the receiving end of a very flattering question.

“Will you marry me?” a rally attended can be heard saying on video footage uploaded to TikTok.

Harris responded by saying, “I'm married happily!”

Attempting to offer some degree of consolation for the disappointing response, however, Harris added, “But there's tons of single women here or men, whatever you prefer!”

Marriage under scrutiny

Though Harris' husband has been widely portrayed in the mainstream media has a devoted spouse who has selflessly given up his own professional career to support that of his powerful wife, recent weeks have brought to light a number of past scandals involving the second gentleman, as the New York Post reports.

First, it emerged that during his first marriage to Kerstin Emhoff, Doug Emhoff engaged in an affair with the family nanny, one which reportedly resulted in a pregnancy.

Later, allegations emerged of Emhoff having engaged in abusive conduct with a former girlfriend, whom he was accused of slapping at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012 after he suspected her of flirting with a valet.

Most recently, claims have surfaced about Emhoff's actions while at the helm of law firm Venable's Los Angeles office during the years of 2006 to 2017.

A number of former law firm staffers have labeled him an “a-hole” and a “misogynist” who regularly used rough and abusive language toward female employees and was known as being “very flirty” with certain colleagues.

Swept under the rug

Despite the recent, less-than-glowing accusations about Emhoff, mainstream media outlets have gone out of their way to sidestep the awkward questions and allow Harris' husband to continue to portray himself as a new paradigm for masculinity within marriage.

With commentators such as HBO's Bill Maher recently suggesting that the distinct lack of curiosity into the claims against Emhoff does not speak well for journalists and positing that he may yet need to answer some tough questions, his wife's recent claim of being “happily” married could well be poised for a shift.