Kamala Harris Stumbles Through Word Salad After Voter Points Out She Wasn’t Officially Elected as Dem Nominee
Vice President Kamala Harris faced an awkward moment on Thursday when an undecided voter addressed that she was not elected as the Democratic presidential nominee and shared concern over President Joe Biden being “pushed aside.”
The incident took place at Univision’s town hall Thursday. Called “Noticias Univision Presents: Latinos Ask, Kamala Harris Responds,” the event was an “unscripted” question and answer session at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, campus.
“You earned your candidacy without going through the normal process, that is primary elections or through a caucus,” stated Mario Sigbaum, a property manager originally from Uruguay who became a U.S. citizen 28 years ago, per the New York Post.
“That really caught my attention. I’m also concerned about the way I feel President Biden was pushed aside. How can you clarify this?”
While she acknowledged that she gained the nomination in an unconventional way, she delivered a response without answering the question.
“President Biden made a decision that I think history will show is probably one of the most courageous that a president could make, which is he decided to put country above his personal interest. And he made that decision he very within that same period of time, supported my candidacy and urged me to run,” said Harris.
She stated that she was “honored to have earned” the nomination and then turned her focus on former President Donald Trump, whom she claimed would abolish the U.S. Constitution and was a threat to democracy.
“Donald Trump said he would, and I’m using a quotation, ‘terminate the Constitution of the United States,’” she continued.
“Imagine the Constitution of the United States would guarantee the Fourth Amendment against unreasonable search and seizure by a government on you, the Fifth Amendment, the Sixth Amendment.”
She failed to mention the First Amendment, which protects free speech, or the Second Amendment, which ensures Americans’ right to bear arms.
Additionally, she did not acknowledge that Trump, unlike herself, secured his party’s nomination twice through the democratic process by winning enough votes.
Sigbaum’s question is one that many of Americans have wanted an answer to. When Biden was forced out in July, Harris automatically had the nomination handed to her, without Democratic voters being able to voice who they wanted to represent them, which received a lot of backlash.
While the event was supposed to be Harris unscripted, viewers at home could see that she was reading from a teleprompter when the camera changed angles, which caused a lot of mockery on social media.
The town hall was a last-ditch effort by Harris to secure the Hispanic vote, where Trump has been gaining momentum, as previously reported by TTOA.
A NBC News/Telemundo poll from September revealed that Hispanic support for the Democratic Party has dropped to its lowest levels since 2012, The Post reports.
In 2016, seven in 10 Hispanic voters supported former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Harris’ support is only at 54 percent, while Trump has 40 percent.
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