Would you crack a chilly one with Kamala Harris? The vice chairman and Democratic presidential nominee dropped by The Late Present With Stephen Colbert on Tuesday evening, the place she shared a beer with the late-night host.
Harris has been making the media rounds forward of the election, showing on Alex Cooper’s Name Her Daddy podcast, ABC’s The View, and The Howard Stern Present in fast succession. Her newest cease was on the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York Metropolis, the place she sat for an interview with Stephen Colbert. She was greeted by a refrain of cheers from the viewers. “They know the way to pronounce my title,” she quipped to Colbert earlier than diving into the interview.
Colbert started on a somber notice by asking the vice chairman about reduction efforts within the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and the forthcoming Hurricane Milton. “To all of these people in North Carolina and Georgia, please know that FEMA and the individuals on the bottom are there that will help you. You might be entitled to assist,” Harris mentioned. She continued by relaying an anecdote a few lady in Georgia who misplaced her husband after a tree fell on their home in the course of the storm, urging individuals within the path of the subsequent hurricane to evacuate.
“What simply upsets me so is the concept that any politician would play political video games with these people—with people who find themselves within the midst of such struggling, lack of life, lack of their houses, lack of normalcy—after which for the sake of political achieve, inform these lies in a method that’s meant to make individuals mistrust the assistance that’s there for them to obtain,” she mentioned, alluding to misinformation about hurricane reduction.
Colbert ultimately moved on to Harris’s presidential run, remarking that her marketing campaign is likely one of the shortest in trendy American historical past. “My opponent, the previous president, has been operating since 2020,” Harris mentioned, getting an enormous snicker from the viewers. She used the relative newness of her marketing campaign to underscore the distinction between her recent perspective and Donald Trump’s “previous, drained playbook.” Harris scored extra factors with the viewers when Colbert requested her what was going by her head in the course of the presidential debate. “It’s household TV, proper?” she mentioned. “It begins with a w, there’s a letter in between, after which the final letter’s f.”
