A 2017 video of Vice President Kamala Harris calling on “everyone” to “wake up” has resurfaced on social media, with critics and conservatives slamming the presumptive Democratic nominee as a “communist” and “too radical to serve as president.”
“We have to be awake, like everybody has to be awake. And you can talk about whether you’re the most awake or the most awake, but it’s better to be more awake than not awake.” In 2017, then-Senator Harris At Recode’s annual Code Conference, he sits down with Laurene Powell Jobs, philanthropist and widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
The conference focused on issues such as immigration and the environment, and Harris spoke out against the Trump administration’s drug and immigration policies before calling on Americans to “wake up.”
“You say you’re going to close the door to refugees who are fleeing these atrocities, who have been waiting in line for two years to get refugee status, and then when they get to the United States, the United States turns them away. That makes me angry. It makes me angry that we have an attorney general who is trying to reinstate the war on drugs, and he thinks marijuana is the greatest evil in the history of mankind. … Leave your grandma’s medical marijuana alone,” Harris said.
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Vice President Kamala Harris called her husband in anger after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade earlier this year. (Reuters/Hannah Beyer)
In a message to Mr X the next day, Ms Harris reinforced her comments, saying: “We have to stay active. We have to stay awake.”
The word “woke” came into common usage in 2017 when dictionaries such as Oxford English and Merriam-Webster added the phrase, defining it as people who care about issues such as social justice. It has since become an umbrella term for left-wing issues and agendas.
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Seven years after Ms Harris attended the 2017 convention, critics on social media have slammed the Democratic front-runner over the video, with conservative author James Lindsay describing Ms Harris as a “Communist party official.”
“Kamala is tired of being told he is a low-ranking Communist Party official and having to pretend he is not,” he wrote.
Kamala Harris supported “defunding the police” in a 2020 radio interview, but the Biden campaign expressed opposition.
Fox News Digital reached out to Harris’ campaign for comment on the video and the criticism but did not immediately receive a response.
The video was released after President Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential race late last month and shortly after recommended that his running mate run for the White House instead. Harris received more than half the votes from the party’s convention delegates on Friday, officially clinching the Democratic National Committee’s nomination for 2024.
Vice President Kamala Harris has not held a press conference in 10 days since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
With less than 100 days until Nov. 5, Harris has time to garner voter support as she faces off against former President Donald Trump at the ballot box. As she steps up her campaign, critics have unearthed a trove of news articles and video clips of the Democratic front-runner expressing support for the 2020 movement to defund the police and praising a pastor who blamed the United States for the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Harris is expected to announce her running mate this week, who will travel with her to Chicago for the Democratic National Convention later this month.
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