The few spouses of 2020 presidential contenders taking a prominent speaking role now appear to be the exception among the more than a dozen Democratic candidates to officially announce a campaign
Elizabeth Warren’s husband, Bruce Mann, appears for a total of five seconds in his wife’s 2020 campaign rollout video. Jonathan Gillibrand also gets five seconds in Kirsten Gillibrand’s video — through appearances in old family photos. Trudi Inslee gets an even briefer moment in the background of a shot for Jay Inslee’s unveiling.
The early flap over Amy O’Rourke’s placement in her husband’s launch video is serving as a cautionary example of the perils. In the roughly three-and-a-half minute video released last week, Beto O’Rourke speaks directly to the camera as his wife Amy sits close on the couch next to him. O’Rourke begins the video with the words “Amy and I,” and for 210 long seconds, he speaks as Amy holds his hand and silently focuses her attention on her husband, occasionally glancing at the camera.
After that traditional deployment of a silent, supportive wife drew criticism, O’Rourke later that day again found himself getting called out for a comment he made about how Amy raises their three children “sometimes with my help.” O’Rourke later apologized for what he said was an attempt at a joke and vowed to be more thoughtful in the future.
April McClain-Delaney receives a featured spot in her husband John’s rollout video, delivering a 26-second testimonial in his nearly six-minute video. McClain-Delaney does not discuss their personal life, instead highlighting her husband’s upbringing as a son of a union electrician and how that experience has informed his policies today, and closes saying he is “motivated by a set of progressive and ethical values.
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