Kamala Harris Cracks A Beer with Stephen Colbert on ‘The Late Show’

Vice President Kamala Harris joined Stephen Colbert on The Late Show for a lager and a candid chat concerning the situation of worldwide politics, Donald Trump, and her whirlwind presidential marketing campaign.

The interview kicked off with a zinger about Trump’s absence on 60 Mins, with Colbert declaring, “We invited Kamala Harris to be our guest this evening… In the interest of fairness, we also invited Donald Trump to go f— himself.”

Colbert after requested Harris if she would attach him in cracking revealed a Miller Prime Generation, pronouncing, “Elections are won on vibes. They just want somebody they can have a beer with — so would you like to have a beer with me, so I can tell people what that’s like?”

Harris responded “The last time I had a beer was at a baseball game with Doug [Emhoff],” ahead of quipping, “The champagne of beers!”

The Democratic nominee, who has been on a media blitz to succeed in more youthful citizens, didn’t keep again throughout her look at the display, particularly when it got here to addressing Donald Trump’s dating with leaders reminiscent of Vladamir Putin.

“Donald Trump — he openly admires dictators and authoritarians,” Harris remarked. “He has said he wants to be a dictator on Day One if he were elected again as president. He gets played by these guys. He admires so-called strongmen, and he gets played because they flatter him or offer him favor.”

Harris additionally addressed untouched revelations from Bob Woodward’s secure, the place it used to be reported that Trump despatched Covid checks to Russia within the early days of the pandemic.

“The commander-in-chief of the United States of America must stand strong and defend the principles that we hold dear. We should stand with our allies,” she declared. “We should strengthen the alliances that we have, such as NATO, which is the strongest military alliance the world has ever seen. We must stand with our friend Ukraine where Russia is attempting to change borders by force.”

“I ask everyone here and everyone who is watching: Do you remember what those days were like? You remember how many people did not have tests and were trying to scramble to get them?” Harris stated.

“And this man is giving Covid test kits to Vladimir Putin? Think about what this means on top of him sending love letters to Kim Jong Un… He thinks that’s his friend. What about the American people? They should be your first friend.”

Within the episode, Colbert additionally highlighted a up to date surge of incorrect information matching to Typhoon Milton, a fatal hurricane threatening the West Coast of Florida, and the utility of AI-generated photographs in political manipulation.

“One AI-generated image making the rounds shows Trump wading into floodwaters with first responders—it’s completely fake, but people are falling for it,” Colbert stated, critiquing how such techniques are impaired to sway citizens.

In the meantime, Harris steered the ones affected to hear native officers, day criticizing at politicians who “tell lies” for his or her achieve.

“It’s crude,” she stated. “Have you no empathy, man, for the suffering of other people? Have you have no sense of purpose if you purport to be a leader?”

Then within the interview, when requested about Trump’s 2020 election loss, Harris reiterated sentiments she’d heard at her rallies. “You lost manufacturing, you lost automotive plants, you lost the election. What does that make you? A loser. This is what somebody at my rallies said. I thought it was funny.”

“It’s accurate. It’s accurate,” Colbert stated. Harris added, “This is what happens when I drink beer.”

In a lighter month throughout the dialogue, the dialog shifted to tune when Colbert requested Harris about her favourite Bob Seger songs in an struggle to enchantment to Michigan citizens. Harris answered, “I’ll go Aretha or Eminem.”

Previous within the week, Harris additionally gave the impression on ABC’s The View, the place she unveiled a plan to increase Medicare to preserve at-home take care of seniors. This media excursion has integrated stops on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM Display and the Name Her Daddy podcast, the place she mentioned the urgent factor of reproductive rights.

Attend to Kamala Harris break a lager on The Overdue Display with Stephen Colbert underneath.