We’ve got an update on a story we first brought you back in January, and, fair warning, it’s not going to improve your opinion of former Vice President Kamala Harris. The update is brought to you courtesy of the new vice president, JD Vance, who candidly revealed this week on the Katie Miller Podcast that Ms. Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, refused to let the Vance family tour the vice president’s residence ahead of the Inauguration. Instead, the family relied on a photograph-heavy book about the house to prepare the young children for their new home.
The residence in question, which is located on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory, has housed all vice presidents since the 1970s. As Vice President Vance noted in his comments to Katie Miller, it has long been the custom for the outgoing vice president to give a tour of the home to the incoming vice president, a tradition that an apparently-bitter Kamala Harris decided to end. Talk about petty.
From our original reporting:
Multiple Democrat and Republican sources confirmed to CBS News that Harris has refused to extend an invitation to the Vances for a formal sit-down or even an informal tour of their new home. This comes after Usha Vance made a specific request back in November for information on the house so she could ensure that it is child-proofed for their three children, all of whom are under the age of eight.
And, now, some context from the current vice president.
.@VP says after the election, since it’s usually “customary for the outgoing VP to show the incoming VP’s family the house,” he proposed bringing their kids over so they could see their home for the next four years — but Kamala “rebuffed” that request. pic.twitter.com/YC58At8Iqf
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 11, 2025
VANCE: I think it’s normal, customarily, for the outgoing vice president to show the incoming vice president’s family the house. And we had three little kids—I guess, at the time our kids were 7, 5, and 2.
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They had never seen this house, and Usha really wanted to show them. So what we actually proposed [was]—recognizing the weirdness of the politics—can Usha take the kids over and just show them where they’re going to be living for the next four years? And they were rebuffed.
It bears emphasizing that the Vances tried to make the experience less awkward by having only Usha and the three children visit the house, but apparently that wasn’t good enough for Kamala and Doug, who couldn’t seem to find time in their post-election schedules to accommodate the request. As a reminder, the couple did manage to find time pre-election to let Vogue into the residence for a day-long photo shoot intended to give her campaign a boost. Priorities.
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Luckily, the family found a workaround in order to prepare the young children for the transition. Per the vice president:
We took some old diagrams and some old photos, and tried to show the kids. Actually, a friend of ours in Cincinnati had a book about the vice president’s residence, so we showed the kids what it would look like. But, that’s as close as they got to it.
Hilariously, Harris claimed at the time that she was too busy with the California wildfires to show the Vance family around their new home, which prompted RedState’s Bonchie to write, “It’s scary to think that she was almost President of the United States. Every single time I hear her speak in public, I’m reminded of just how much of a vapid empty suit she is.” It was, indeed, a close call.
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