Vice President Harris made her debut on “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) less than three days before Election Day.
Harris made her appearance during the cold open alongside her impressionist, comedian Maya Rudolph, who was dressed in an identical outfit.
“I wish I could talk to someone who’s been in my shoes, you know, a black South Asian woman running for president, preferably from the Bay Area,” Rudolph said as the camera panned towards a mirror. On the other side was the vice president herself.
“I’m just here to remind you, you got this, because you can do something your opponent can’t do — you can open doors,” Harris told Rudolph, poking fun at her opponent, former President Trump, after a video this week showed the GOP nominee briefly struggling to grab the handle of a garbage truck during his campaign stop in Wisconsin.
After cracking a laugh, Harris made fun of her own laugh and said, “I don’t really laugh like that, do I?”
“A little bit,” Rudolph responded.
Harris and Rudolph then had an exchange where they rhymed words with Harris’s first name, which Trump often mispronounces, saying phrases like “keep calm-ala and carry-on-ala.”
“The American people want to stop the chaos, and end the drama-la, with a cool new step mom-ala, get back in our pajama-laas and watch a rom-com-ala, like ‘Legally Blonde-ala’ and start decorating for Christmas, fa-la-la-lala. Because what do we always say? Keep calm-ala and carry-on-ala.”
“We know each other so well, we even finish each other’s,” Rudolph told Harris before they said in tandem “belief in the promise of America.”
The Democratic nominee then came out from behind the mirror and stood next to Rudolph after which they said together, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!”
Harris made the surprise ‘SNL’ appearance after campaigning in Charlotte, N.C., earlier on Saturday. She was slated to go to Michigan, but the plane took off and instead landed in New York City.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) also briefly appeared during a segment during which the show’s comedians joked about his similar appearance to that of Harris’s running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D).
This was the final “SNL” episode before Election Day.
Trump and his former general election rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, were on “SNL” in 2017 while former President Obama made his debut appearance in 2007.
“Kamala Harris has nothing substantive to offer the American people, so that’s why she’s living out her warped fantasy cosplaying with her elitist friends on Saturday Night Leftists as her campaign spirals down the drain into obscurity,” Steven Cheung, Trump campaign’s communications director, said in a statement to NewsNation about Harris’s appearance on the show. “For the last four years, Kamala’s destructive policies have led to untold misery and hurt for all Americans. She broke it, and President Trump will fix it.”
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