Political commentators and other social media users criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for comments she made at a campaign event Thursday night and during her interview with Oprah Winfrey.
“We love our country,” Harris said. “I love our country, and I know we all do. That's why we're all here right now. We love our country. We're proud of the privilege of being Americans. Now is a time when we can and must come together as Americans, understanding that we have so much more in common than what divides us. Let's come together with the character that we're so proud of, which is that we're an optimistic people. We are an optimistic people.”
Harris spoke with Winfrey at the Unite for America Rally, a livestreamed event featuring several celebrities and taking questions and hearing from citizens across the country.
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Political commentators and Internet users have criticized Vice President Kamala Harris' recent speech at an event with Oprah Winfrey. (Getty Images)
“Americans, at their core, are people with dreams, ambitions and aspirations,” Harris continued.
“We believe in what is possible, what is possible, and fighting for it. That's how we were born, because our forefathers understood that one of the greatest expressions of love for country, of patriotism, is to fight for the ideals of who we are. And those ideals include the freedom to make decisions about our own bodies, the freedom to be safe from gun violence, the freedom to access the ballot box, the freedom to be who we are, and who we love – openly and proudly loved. The freedom to just be.”
Online critics accused the vice president of making incoherent comments with little substance.
“Oprah is looking at this idiot and thinking, 'What on earth are you talking about?' It's unbelievable and embarrassing,” author Juanita Broadrick wrote Thursday.
“The fact that she is within 20 points of Trump's approval rating is a depressing and sad reflection of the state of our political system and the media that pollutes it,” attorney David Limbaugh wrote. “It is astonishing.”
“Calling this 'sweet' is an insult to 'sweet,'” Tom Bevan, co-founder of ReactClearPolitics, said Friday.
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“This may be the greatest two minutes of nonsensical wisdom from Kamala I've ever heard,” political commentator Kate Hyde wrote Thursday.
Screenwriter Steve Skojiec also responded to the video on Thursday, saying, “I can't do this. I can't do this. I got to 17 seconds and I can't go on anymore.”
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The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Fox News' Lindsay Cornick contributed to this report.
