Harris's family is opening doors

Kamala Harris’s family won’t be standing beside her on the debate stage Tuesday night. Nor will they be grilled on policy or cross-examined on their legislative record.

- JAIME WATT

And yet, they are very much in the spotlight, their lives open to scrutiny, dissection and debate.

For the longest time, seemingly all political families aspiring to call 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue home needed to look one way: nuclear.

Harris’s family is not. Hers is nontraditional, multiracial and complicated. In a word, normal.

And that’s why each of them is proving to be a major asset.

It’s not that her husband, Doug Emhoff, stole the show with a noteperfect speech at the Democratic National Convention last month.

Nor is it because her stepchildren, Cole and Ella, are proving to be a powerful force on social media, unlocking young voters for the HarrisWalz ticket.

Rather, it’s simply the fact that they exist as a genuine, relatable family unit that has laid the perfect strategic trap. And Republicans have walked straight into it.