Vice President Kamala Harris caused a stir online during a political forum in Michigan with legendary host Oprah Winfrey and other celebrities, but some of her responses descended into long, circular arguments.
When a young couple from Pennsylvania told them that their daily expenses were still too high, Harris tried to empathize with them.
“Your story is one I hear all over the country when I travel. In terms of the right to have aspirations and dreams and ambitions for your family and work hard and find that the American dream for this generation and recently is much more elusive than it has been. And we have to deal with that,” she began.
Harris reiterated her pledge to investigate food price abuses and provide tax breaks for first-home buyers.
“Look, I grew up with a mother who worked very hard. She raised me and my sister,” Harris continued.
Kamala Harris and Oprah Winfrey speak at a political forum in Michigan
Harris’ response prompted a number of MAGA social media accounts to share the video with salad emojis.
“Word salad level 5000,” wrote political campaign advisor Link Lauren on X.
“Warning of a word salad,” Republican communicator Matt Whitlock wrote on X.
Speechless. I am speechless. She can’t learn an answer to the question of how to lower the cost, at least she can lie. Something other than this word salad. This is so painful to watch,’ wrote X user ‘Insurrection Barbie.’
Harris concluded her performance with Winfrey with a circular monologue, in which she spoke about freedom and patriotism.
US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (left) joins US television producer Oprah Winfrey at a livestreamed ‘Unite for America’ rally in Farmington Hills, Michigan
Oprah Winfrey and Vice President Kamala Harris talk to voters and celebrities about political issues
“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’re proud of the privilege of being American, and this is a moment when we can and we must come together as Americans, realizing that we have so much more in common than what divides us,” Harris said emphatically. “Let’s come together with the spirit that we pride ourselves on, which is that we are an optimistic people.”
“Kamala’s Excellent Adventure continues,” wrote Republican Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri. “An epic word salad. … She runs for President of the United States of America and all we get are scripted remarks or non sequiturs with Oprah.”
“This may be the most spectacular two minutes of Kamala’s nonsensical wisdom I’ve ever heard,” wrote X user Kate Hyde, who shared a video of the moment.
X user Terri Green agreed, calling it an “awkward, two-minute monologue full of words.”