Kamala Harris said she suffered from insomnia after Joe Biden offered her his stunning endorsement to be president.
Biden's decision to drop out and endorse his vice president shook up the 2024 election, and apparently kept Harris up all night.
“From the time that the president called me and told me he wasn’t running, I mean, it’s just like everything was in speedy, speedy motion, and I was not sleeping so well,” she told the podcast All The Smoke.
As a result of her restlessness, Harris was sleep-deprived when she made the "gut" decision to pick an obscure Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, as her running mate.
“And that one morning I just, I mean, I had, I don’t know, a few hours’ sleep — and I, you know, I like to sleep. I just got up,” she said. “I was like — so I just went out and got a pork roast and started marinating it.”
“And my family were all going to be in town, so they were very happy about the whole situation, but I just got up and started — everybody’s asleep, I just got up and started cooking,” she added.
Harris has made some revealing comments about coping with adversity, confessing to eating a large bag of Doritos on the night her now-rival Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election.
With her awkward attempts to relate to voters, Harris instead be feeding doubts about her readiness for the rigors of the presidency.
Harris has been running an unusually sheltered campaign, drawing scrutiny even from the New York Times, which has endorsed her as "the only patriotic choice."
In a recent article, the Times acknowledged that televised interviews are one of Harris' weak points and pointed out her visible "nervousness" during these events, where she tends to dodge direct questioning with rambling "word salad" answers.
President Trump has repeatedly mocked Harris as out of her depth, recently labeling her "mentally disabled."
Trump - who is seeking re-election after surviving two assassination attempts as Democratic prosecutors attempt to bankrupt him and put him in jail - has shared a stoic outlook on dealing with life's turns of fortune.
“If you care too much, you tend to choke. And in a way, I don't care. It's just, you know, life is life," he said in May.
