Kamala Harris Delivers Word Salad Response to Oprah: ‘Let’s Come Together With the Character That We Are So Proud of About Who We Are’

Vice President Kamala Harris delivered an awkward, two-minute word salad monologue during an interview with Oprah Winfrey on Thursday as a live audience watched in complete silence.

At the end of the interview – which included such moments as Harris threatening to shoot anyone who breaks into her home – the vice president broke into a monologue, saying:

We love our country. I love our country. I know we all do, that’s why everybody’s here right now. We love our country. We– we take pride in the privilege of being American and this is a moment where [pause] we can and must come together as Americans, understanding we have so much more in common than what separates us. Let’s come together with [pause] the character that we are so proud of about who we are, which is we are an optimistic people. We are an optimistic people. Americans by character are people who have dreams and ambitions and aspirations. We believe in what is possible, we believe in what can be, and we believe in fighting for that.

That’s how– that’s how we came into being, because the people before us understood that one of the greatest expressions [pause] for the love of our country, one of the greatest expressions of patriotism is to fight for the ideals of who we are, which includes freedom to make decisions about your own body, freedom to be safe from gun violence, freedom to have access to the ballot box, freedom to be who you are and just be the love, who you love, openly and with pride. Freedom to just be.

“Hmm,” replied Winfrey with a straight face.

Harris concluded, “And that’s who we are; we believe in all that, and so this is a moment where we stand knowing what we are fighting for. We’re not fighting against, it’s what we’re fighting for.”

Throughout the monologue, Winfrey could be seen looking away from Harris and around the room, seemingly bored.

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