Vice President Kamala Harris suggested sexism was to blame for her infamous giggling comment in an interview with Drew Barrymore, blaming her mother for her tendency to burst out into ill-timed giggles. Stated.
“Apparently, some people like to talk about the way I laugh,” Harris told the actress-turned-talk-show host on Monday’s segment. Mediaite reported.
“Well, let me tell you one thing: I have my mother’s laugh,” Beep continued. “And I grew up surrounded by women, especially women who had a good belly laugh.”
“You know, I’ll never be—” she said, pausing with a mockingly graceful laugh behind her feminine hands. “I’m not that person.”
“And that we encourage each other, and our young people, to not get bogged down in other people’s perceptions of what this is like and how we should behave in order to be… Please.”
“I love your laugh!” Barrymore exclaimed. “And I love that message.”
The appearance comes days after CNN reported that a focus group funded by the Democratic National Committee found that Harris had a habit of disemboweling in public at inappropriate moments or for mysterious reasons. I was disappointed. annoy voters to no end.
“Several people said Harris was being rubbed the wrong way,” the paper reported. “A few people specifically cited her laugh, which is frequently targeted by Republican operatives and is heavily distributed on social media, which feeds into sexism.” advocates claim.”
The X Republican RNC Research account posted multiple videos of Harris “laughing uncontrollably” during her speech. white house ceremony, Visit with votersand official event.
However, the country’s first female vice president has repeatedly been criticized for laughing at critical moments.
In 2021, when pressed by reporters about the Biden administration’s chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, Harris threw a fit and insisted the White House had “no higher priority at this time.”
After footage of her laughing out loud went viral on social media, one critic tweeted: “Apparently she thinks it’s funny.”
A USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll last month found that only 36% of voters approve of Harris’ performance as vice president.
