Kamala Harris continued her media blitz by letting her hair down and having a beer with Stephen Colbert on CBS’ “The Late Show” Tuesday night.
Progressive darling Colbert, who briefly ended a week of vacation to do an all-new episode with Harris amid a week of reruns, pitched the idea to Harris by stating that 2024 was a “vibes election.”
“Elections, I think, are won by feeling,” he said. ‘Because one of the old laws is that they just want someone to have a beer with. So…would you like to have a beer with me so I can tell people what that’s like?’
Colbert then pulled out a few cans of Miller High Life, which the vice president had apparently requested.
Harris, apparently elated, confessed that the last time she had a beer was at a baseball game with her husband Doug Emhoff.
Kamala Harris continued her media blitz by letting her hair down and having a beer with Stephen Colbert on CBS’ “The Late Show” Tuesday night
After taking a sip and toasting with Colbert, she proudly announced Miller High Life’s decades-old slogan: “The champagne of beers!”
Harris once again called Donald Trump a “loser” who said earlier Tuesday on Howard Stern that he would “be a dictator on day one.”
“Understand what dictators do,” she added. “They’re jailing journalists, they’re putting people in jail who are protesting in the streets.”
Earlier in the chat, she blasted Republicans for spreading “misinformation” about the state of FEMA in response to Hurricane Helene.
“First of all, I want to tell all those people in North Carolina and Georgia that the people on the ground at FEMA are here to help you, you have a right to it. There is a lot of information and I beg you, I beg you not to listen to it.”
Harris continues her media tour Tuesday with three more interviews before a national audience, with Election Day now just four weeks away.
The Democratic presidential candidate appeared in New York with the women of “The View,” spoke with radio host Howard Stern and taped a show with late-night comedian Colbert.
The trio of appearances comes after Harris granted interviews to CBS’ “60 Minutes,” which aired Monday night, and to Anderson Cooper’s podcast, which released Sunday.
Harris emerged to loud applause and chants of her first name, with the vice president pleased that everyone had pronounced it correctly
Progressive darling Colbert, who briefly ended a week of vacation to do an all-new episode with Harris amid a week of reruns, pitched the idea to Harris by stating that 2024 was a “vibes election.”
The blitz comes after Harris has largely avoided interviews since replacing President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket.
Long after the midpoint of her unexpected presidential campaign and with voting already underway, Harris is still introducing herself to Americans who will decide her fate in this year’s presidential election.
Harris emerged to loud applause and chants of her first name, with the vice president pleased that everyone had pronounced it correctly.
She claimed that the “whirlwind campaign” she has been running in recent months has not felt particularly short.
“All I can report from the ground is that people are exhausted by that old, tired Donald Trump playbook and even if they voted for him in the past, they’re fed up with the rhetoric. It’s like, let’s chart a new path forward,” she said.
“Many Americans are ready for a new generation of leadership that is about solutions and common sense and that is what I offer.”
She also joked that her amused response to Trump’s performance during their debate weeks ago was essentially “WTF?”
“It starts with a W, there’s a letter in between and the last letter is F,” she said, letting out her signature cackle.
Harris called the former president a “sore loser” saying “he would be a dictator on day one”
Earlier in the chat, she blasted Republicans for spreading “misinformation” about the state of FEMA in response to Hurricane Helene
Harris returned to many of her talking points about an “opportunity economy” when pressed by Colbert on how she would be a change from the administration she is currently a part of.
“I’m clearly not Joe Biden. That would be one change. “I think it’s important to say, with 28 days to go, that I’m not Donald Trump,” Harris said.
“It’s honestly about me loving the American people and believing in our country. I love that it is in our character and nature to be an ambitious people. We have ambitions, we have dreams, we have incredible work ethics. “I just believe we can create and build on the success we have achieved,” she added.
She also spoke about her shared similarities with Tim Walz, calling him “like the people I grew up with” and saying he would make a “great vice president.”
Harris also said the war in the Middle East “must end” and that there should be an agreement where Israel ceases fire while Hamas surrenders the remaining hostages.
She ignored a question about the swing state of Pennsylvania when asked whether she preferred the Philadelphia Eagles or the Pittsburgh Steelers and chose her hometown San Francisco 49ers.
