Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ attempt to inspire voters at a Democratic rally in Mississippi fell flat Thursday after she was forced to repeat a confusing quote in a far-from-full high school gym.
“You know, I mentor a lot of young people, and I talk to them sometimes and part of the advice I give them is, you know, never let someone else with limited ability to see your capacity be a limitation on your ambition,” Harris said at the Columbus, Miss., rally for Democratic Senate hopeful Scott Colom.
The applause line received barely any reaction from the crowd, prompting the stunned former vice president to painfully deliver it again.
“Let me repeat that: Never let anybody else’s, somebody else’s limited ability to see your capacity to be a limitation on your ambition,” she said, eliciting more of a reaction from rally-goers
“That’s their limitation. That’s not our limitation. That’s their limitation,” Harris continued, before delivering more of her trademark “word salad.”
“We are not limited in our ambition and desire and ability to see what is possible and what can be,” she told the crowd.
Colom, a state district attorney who is challenging incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) in the midterm elections, said his decision to invite the failed 2024 presidential candidate to stump for him raised eyebrows.
“Why would you do that?” Colom said he was asked.
“You know what I told them, ‘Why not?’” the Senate hopeful told the audience ahead of Harris’ fumbled speech.
Social media users also commented on a “new accent” the former vice president appeared to deploy at the event in the deep South.
“Kamala Harris just unveiled a new accent at a rally in Mississippi,” read a post from End Wokeness on X. “This might be the worst one yet.”
The post included a clip from the rally of Harris repeatedly shouting, “Mississippi matters” and “We got 12 days,” in reference to the upcoming election.
“Holy cringe… it’s like nails on a chalkboard,” talk show host Chris Ripa remarked on X. “And what’s with the new accent.”
