Ella Emhoff, the 21-year-old stepdaughter of Vice President Kamala Harris, is taking the fashion world by storm.

And that has some critics wondering: Is it because of her looks, skills, and talent… or is it because of her close proximity to the Oval Office?

Just a few months ago, Emhoff was the little-known stepdaughter of a freshman senator who was the primary sponsor of exactly zero major pieces of successful legislation.

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That changed during the Jan. 21 inauguration, when her dancing eyebrows in the background of the ceremony caused her to “go viral” on social media.

And today, she’s the hottest thing in the fashion world. She sold a handmade $300 “flower boob sweater vest” and scored a big-time contract with IMG Models, one of the world’s premier agencies that is home to boldfaced names such as Gisele Bündchen, Kate Moss, and Karlie Kloss.

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— IMG Models (@IMGmodels) January 28, 2021

She’s winning praise… but not all of it’s the type the White House might be proud of.

The South China Morning Post – a Hong Kong newspaper owned by a company with close ties to the Communist government – asked in a glowing headline “Is Kamala Harris’ stepdaughter Ella Emhoff 2021’s hottest model?”

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She has big ambitions. In many ways, it sounds as if she wants to follow in the footsteps of Ivanka Trump.

“The dream is my own brand,” she said at a recent panel discussion, according to Town & Country. “I want to see guys, girls, people – I want to see everyone wearing colorful striped pants or my dresses.”

But if it happens, expect questions over how and why… and more importantly, who’s funding it, as charges of nepotism and relatives using and abusing their proximity to power have followed both Harris and Biden.

In the vice president’s case, niece Meena Harris was reportedly warned to stop using Kamala Harris’s name or likeness on clothing and other items she was selling.’

And the president has even bigger problems.

During the campaign, Biden ducked questions about son Hunter Biden’s exploits in China and Ukraine, where he made plenty of money in vague roles for industries where he had no experience or expertise.

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The president’s son is currently under federal investigation.

“We were told to look at Joe Biden as the model of integrity,” former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said during the Republican National Convention. “But when you look at his 47-year career in politics, the people who benefited are his family members, not the American people.”

And that tendency may be following him right into the Oval Office.

First brother Frank Biden recently came under heat for trading on the family name in an ad for the Berman Law Group, where he’s a “non-attorney senior advisor.”

“My brother is a model for how to go about doing this work,” the ad in Florida’s Daily Business Review stated, according to CNBC, which notes the ad also praises the “Biden reputation.”

Richard Painter, chief White House ethics lawyer during the George W. Bush administration and a frequent critic of the Trump administration, urged Biden to rein in his relatives.

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“The Biden White House has to have a very strict protocol on the using of the Biden name,” Painter told the network. “Brothers, law firm associates and anyone else who is using the Biden name should not be contacting the president or anyone else working with the president.”

The president was reportedly ticked off at the ad.

“For Christ’s sake, watch yourself,” Biden told him, according to Politico. “Don’t get sucked into something that would, first of all, hurt you.”

But now the real question isn’t what would hurt these relatives.

In many ways, it’s just the opposite as they cash in.

It’s whether or not these moves today will come back to haunt the president and vice president down the road.

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— Walter W. Murray is a reporter for The Horn News. He is an outspoken conservative and a survival expert.