Vice President Kamala Harris has trotted out yet another fake accent while pandering to voters, the New York Post reported. Harris humiliated herself this way during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday.
Colbert asked Harris about comments her opponent, former President Donald Trump, made about FEMA's response to Hurricane Helene. Something about that made Harris slip into a quasi-Jamaican accent.
"Have you no empathy, man? You know? For the, the suffering of other people. Have you no sense of purpose?" Harris said in her newly adopted manner of speaking.
Harris often shifts in and out of bizarre accents, and the internet noticed this one just the same. "Obsessed with Jamaican Kamala," a user captioned a meme of Harris wearing a Bob Marley beanie on X, formerly Twitter.
Republican commentator Savanah Hernandez noted a change in Harris as well. "Wake up babe, new Kamala Harris accent just dropped," Hernandez tweeted.
"I know Kamala is an expert at code switching, but is Stephen Colbert Jamaican and nobody told us?" Ian Miller, writer at Outkick, posted to X, formerly Twitter. Harris was born to a Jamaican father, but this was the first time she sounded like a person from the island nation.
This strange manner of speaking is a continuation of her habit of emulating the speech patterns of others. On Sept. 2, Harris spoke with a Southern accent while speaking in Michigan to a crowd of teacher union members.
Less than two weeks later, Harris trotted out another accent for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. She has faced criticism for this habit that many find condescending, especially when it appears that she's trying to pander to black audiences.
Although her accent usage was terrible, one of the worst moments of the night was when Harris tried to be relatable by drinking a beer. In a transparent effort to appeal to Midwesterners, Harris popped a can of Miller High Life and took a sip.
It seemed as if Colbert was about to ask her when she last had a beer. He never got the question, but Harris answered it anyway, likely because it was arranged beforehand.
"The last time I had a beer was at a baseball game with Doug," Harris said, referring to her husband, Doug Emhoff. "Cheers."
After a tiny sip of suds, Harris looked at the can and repeated the brand's tagline. "The champagne of beers," she said, punctuating the line with her signature cackle.
It's a well-established fact that Harris is the worst kind of pandering politician. Still, just when it seems she's reached her lowest point, Harris somehow goes even lower.
