The husband of Democrat presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, Doug Emhoff, did not deny allegations that he struck an ex-girlfriend.

He brushed off the question during an interview on MSNBC as a “distraction” but did not say he was not guilty.

“[Trump’s] spreading it about you, saying that tabloid stories about your personal life. He’s saying it should be front and center. He’s saying it about your wife and making incredibly crude and lewd 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 all stay centered, how do you stay disciplined and not really go off and not really push back hard at these things?” MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough said.

“We don’t have time to be p***ed off,” the vice president’s husband said. “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.”

“Does it get you off your game?” the host responded.

“No. All we are doing – all we talk about – is this election,” Emhoff said.