Jill Biden and Douglas Emhoff are building a beautiful virtual friendship

Doug's new BFF, Jill.
By Nicole Gallucci  on 
Jill Biden and Douglas Emhoff are building a beautiful virtual friendship
Douglas Emhoff and Jill Biden, the new power friendship. Credit: OLIVIER DOULIERY / AFP via Getty Images

Former Vice President Joe Biden and California Sen. Kamala Harris are officially Democratic running mates in the 2020 presidential election. And their two biggest supporters, Dr. Jill Biden and Douglas Emhoff, have already started bonding on social media.

On Tuesday, after Biden announced that Harris was his choice for VP, Biden's wife, Jill, and Harris' husband, Douglas, made their friendship social media official.

Jill tweeted "Hey @DouglasEmhoff. Are you ready?" to which Emhoff replied, "Ready to work! Let's go @DrBiden!"

As spouses of high-profile Democratic candidates — and the potential future first lady and second man of the United States — Jill and Douglas have a lot in common. However, they could have easily remained socially distanced strangers who occasionally interact at campaign events. Think about it. How often do you see Melania Trump and Karen Pence bonding online?

The fact that Jill and Douglas decided to become friends and team up to help win the election is somewhat refreshing to see. And on Wednesday, Biden tweeted a clip of his big VP video chat with Harris that reinforced the new Jill/Doug support team.

"When I called @KamalaHarris yesterday to ask her to be my running mate, I wanted to make sure Jill and Doug got to say hello," Biden wrote. The four of them then chatted for a bit, and "Jilly" and "Dougey" got a chance to bond over the news.

On Thursday, Jill also tweeted a photo of her and Douglas on the sidelines of the first joint campaign address. (Both were wearing masks, of course!)

And on Friday she tweeted a short clip of the two of them walking out to greet Biden and Harris after the address. Emhoff quote tweeted the clip and wrote, "I’m just so happy and honored to be taking this journey with you @DrBiden, now let’s go and help Joe and Kamala win this thing (and ps, we need all your help out there too!)."

Even their pal Chasten Buttigieg, husband of former 2020 candidate, Pete Buttigieg, is a huge fan of the new virtual friendship.

Biden and Harris better watch out. As this rate, it looks like Jill and Douglas will be the first to exchange friendship bracelets like Biden and Obama did in 2016.

UPDATE: Aug. 13, 2020, 12:54 p.m. EDT Updated to include an additional tweet from Douglas Emhoff.

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Nicole Gallucci

Nicole is a Senior Editor at Mashable. She primarily covers entertainment and digital culture trends, and in her free time she can be found watching TV, sending voice notes, or going viral on Twitter for admiring knitwear. You can follow her on Twitter @nicolemichele5.


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