Social media went wild with accusations that Kamala Harris was drunk in her first video message to supporters after her stunning presidential election loss to Donald Trump.
The vice president released a video in which she slurred her words and her eyes were half closed and sometimes appeared glassy. There is no evidence that Harris was under the influence.
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Harris has not made much public appearance since her Nov. 5 defeat, and when she delivered a nearly 10-minute message to her supporters on Tuesday, critics blasted her for “bragging” about wasting her donors’ money.
Several social media users called the vice president a “drunk aunt on Thanksgiving.”
“When you’re just minding your own business on Thanksgiving and your drunk aunt finds you…” wrote one user on X.
Another said: ‘I’m channeling the drunk aunt who is a total mess but follows you around after every Christmas dinner to give you unwanted life advice on the way out the door.’
The video was released two days before Thanksgiving as Harris holed up in California during the holiday.
Several social media users edited or used AI to put a bottle of alcohol into Vice President Kamala Harris in a video message to supporters, in which critics speculated that she appeared drunk
“Thanksgiving dinner with ‘Drunk Aunty Kamala’ will be a downer,” a social media account said.
Meghan McCain called on Democrats to remove the short clip of the video they posted on their X account.
“Take this away,” McCain wrote. “She’s still the sitting vice president, for God’s sake, this is terrible. Really, really terrible.’
Others were more critical of the message she delivered, claiming she was rubbing in the faces of her supporters the massive $20 million debt she ended her campaign with, despite record-breaking fundraising numbers.
‘As Kamala delivers a message to her dejected supporters, bragging about how they raised nearly $1.5 billion for her failed campaign… David Plouffe finally admits that ‘the campaign’s internal polling never had Harris ahead of Trump’ , conservative figure Charlie Kirk wrote on X in reference to Harris’ senior adviser.
He added: ‘It was all a huge scam.’
As Trump filled out his Cabinet with a flurry of announcements in the weeks after the election, Harris headed to Hawaii for an election-free vacation before arriving in the California Bay Area on Monday to spend Thanksgiving with his family.
In Tuesday’s video, the vice president was dressed in a suit jacket as she said, “I must remind you that no one should ever take your power away from you. You have the same power as you did before November 5.”
“And you have the same goal as you. And you have the same ability to engage and inspire,” she continued. “So never let anyone or any circumstance take your power from you.”
One user placed a cigar in the failed 2024 candidate’s hand and a bottle of Hennessy on the table next to her
It’s unclear what prompted Harris to give the pep talk, although online commentators immediately speculated that she wasn’t sober.
“Kamala drunk and high in her hotel room,” one pro-MAGA user wrote.
Another wrote: ‘HOLY MOLY! Trump broke Kamala Harris.”
“She’s loaded and struggling! OMG,” they continued. “I lost the election, spent a billion dollars pretending to be black, the celebrities sucked her dry and now she’s $20 million in debt.”