Doug Emhoff Calls the Allegations that He Struck His Ex-Girlfriend in the Face ‘a Distraction’

SCARBOROUGH: “And spreading it about you, saying that tabloid stories about your personal life, saying it should be front and center. He is saying it about your wife and making incredibly crude and lude suggestions about her past life. I’m just curious, I know I seem like a very zen, mindful person, but I think I’d be pissed off. And I’m just wondering how do you — how do you all stay centered? How do you stay disciplined and not really go off and not really push back hard at these things?”
EMHOFF: “We don’t have time to be pissed off. We don’t have time to focus on it. It’s all a distraction. It’s designed to try to get us off our game.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Does it get you off your game?”
EMHOFF: “No. All we are doing, all we talk about is this election. We understand the stakes. We understand the responsibility.”
SCARBOROUGH: “What are the stakes?”
EMHOFF: “Our very country, our future. What kind of future are we going to have?”