Democratic women don aprons and return to the kitchen to woo 2020 voters
by Naomi Lim
| May 17, 2019 12:05 AM
Democratic women vying for the presidency may have their sights set on 2020 and beyond, but at times they present themselves to voters in a way that harks back to a bygone era.
Kamala Harris caught heat online this week for posing in her kitchen wearing a crisp white apron as she prepared her own Mother's Day feast for husband Doug Emhoff and her two adult stepchildren.
Social media pundits were quick to speculate how often the senator from California and former state attorney general, 54, who developed a reputation as a tough prosecutor, cooked and whether the picture, compared to a scene from 1950s sitcom "Leave It To Beaver," was staged. Some drew attention to her freshly-creased apron.
Harris, who last week penned a first-person piece for Elle magazine on how her stepchildren call her "Momala," was also featured in a March 2018 Vogue profile in which her sister and campaign adviser Maya Harris revealed she was a "mad crocheter.â€
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