Harris’s Profound Vapidity on Display at Livestream Event With Oprah Winfrey
Vice President Kamala Harris received a rock star’s reception upon her arrival at Thursday night’s “Unite for America” livestream campaign event in Michigan. Oprah Winfrey hosted the evening, and attendees included actress Meryl Streep and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
How did it go? Well, not even Oprah appeared enthused. In fact, at times, it looked as if she had zoned out. Author Juanita Broaddrick summed it up best in a post on X: “Oprah is looking at this moron thinking, “What the sh*t is she saying? Unbelievable CRINGE.”
Although we’re all tired of the phrase “word salad,” that is precisely what Harris delivered. Over and over and over again. She rambled, she dodged, and she offered nothing new to voters.
Here are a few of the highlights:
In the following clip, a young couple asks Harris what she would do to lower prices. She tells them one way to do that is to “bring down the cost of everyday necessities including groceries.”
In terms of both rightly having the right to have aspirations and dreams and ambitions for your family and working hard and finding that the American Dream is, for this generation and so many recently, far more elusive than it’s been, and we need to deal with that.And there are a number of ways. One is bringing down the cost of everyday necessities including groceries.
The couple remained polite, but appeared disappointed by her failure – or perhaps her inability – to answer their question.
Asked by a voter what specific steps she would take to secure the southern border, Harris delivered a three-minute answer. She replied, “So it’s a wonderful and important question. I, you know, my background was as a prosecutor, and I was also the elected attorney general for two terms of the border state. So this is not a theoretical issue for me. This is something I’ve actually worked on. … ”
After droning on about her qualifications and experience in dealing with this issue, she attacked Republicans for preventing passage of the border bill in February. The legislation she referred to would have allowed 4,999 migrants to enter the U.S. every day before triggering a temporary border shutdown — that Biden would have been free to override. It would have allowed more than 1.8 million illegal aliens into the U.S. each year before reaching the thresholds stipulated in the bill.
The bill wasn’t designed to end the crisis. It was introduced so that Democrats could use it at times like this. They could tell voters they offered a solution, but the evil Republicans blocked it.
So, she hammered away at the bill and fentanyl killing Americans before launching an attack on Trump, eliciting applause from the audience.
At the 2:55 minute mark, Oprah interrupted, “So, to answer Justin’s question, now that that bill has gone, it hasn’t passed, will you reintroduce that?
“Absolutely,” Harris replied. “When I am elected president of the United States, I will make sure that bill gets to my desk and I will sign it into law.”
Before concluding, Winfrey asked Harris, “What’s on your heart? To say particularly to those people who are still undecided or maybe indifferent or on the fence still.”
Harris responded:
We love our country. I love our country. I know we all do, that’s why everybody’s here right now. We love our country. We– we take pride in the privilege of being American and this is a moment where [pause] we can and must come together as Americans, understanding we have so much more in common than what separates us. Let’s come together with [pause] the character that we are so proud of about who we are, which is we are an optimistic people. We are an optimistic people. Americans by character are people who have dreams and ambitions and aspirations. We believe in what is possible, we believe in what can be, and we believe in fighting for that.That’s how– that’s how we came into being, because the people before us understood that one of the greatest expressions [pause] for the love of our country, one of the greatest expressions of patriotism is to fight for the ideals of who we are, which includes freedom to make decisions about your own body, freedom to be safe from gun violence, freedom to have access to the ballot box, freedom to be who you are and just be the love, who you love, openly and with pride. Freedom to just be.
Winfrey appeared completely unmoved by Harris’s remarks, responding only quietly, “Hmm.”
But Harris wasn’t finished. She continued, “And that’s who we are; we believe in all that, and so this is a moment where we stand knowing what we are fighting for. We’re not fighting against, it’s what we’re fighting for.”
The full livestream can be viewed below.
Elizabeth writes commentary for The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a member of the Editorial Board at The Sixteenth Council, a London think tank. Please follow Elizabeth on X or LinkedIn.
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