Vice President Kamala Harris giggled and insisted she wasn’t ‘eating gummies’ when she was asked how she dealt with the stress of the campaign trail on Monday night.
With just over two weeks to go before the 2024 presidential election and the race in a dead heat, Harris traveled to Michigan alongside Republican Liz Cheney who has become one of Harris’ fiercest advocates.
Both Harris and Cheney were interviewed by Maria Shriver, the former first lady of California under Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who asked the Democratic nominee about what she is doing to de-stress.
Shriver began: ‘Everybody I talk to says I have to turn off the news, I can’t read anything – I’m meditating, I’m doing yoga, I’m so anxious I just don’t even know, I’m eating gummies, all kinds of things.’
She then asked Harris, ‘What are you doing?’
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney react during a conversation in Royal Oak, Michigan on Monday night
Democratic presidential nominee Harris sits with former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney for a town hall with Maria Shriver at the Royal Oak Music Theatre in Royal Oak, Michigan
The crowd laughed with Harris cackling, ‘Not eating gummies!’
While Harris might not be eating gummies, marijuana is legal in the state of Michigan, something Harris came out in support of nationally last week.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Harris said that she had smoked marijuana in college.
‘I have. And I inhaled. I did inhale. It was a long time ago, but yes. I just broke news!’ Harris said through a cascade of laughter on NYC’s hip-hop radio program ‘The Breakfast Club.’
‘You know, I joke about it – half joke – but half my family’s from Jamaica! Are you kidding me?’
However, now in October 2024, Harris admitted to Shiver she was feeling the pressure of the ongoing campaign.
‘I wake up in the middle of the night usually these days, just to be honest with you,’ the vice president admitted to an audience of supporters.
Harris told Shriver that Americans should not despair and that everyone in a Democracy has the ability to make a decision about the future through their votes.
‘Let’s not feel powerless,’ she said. ‘That’s not in our nature.
Despite the smiles, Harris admitted she was feeling the pressure of the ongoing campaign
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, center, with former Congresswoman Liz Cheney, right, and moderator Charlie Sykes, left, on stage together during a town hall at Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts in Brookfield, Wisconsin
‘In a democracy … the people, every individual, has the power to make a decision about what this will be,’ she said. “So let’s not feel powerless.’
‘We rise to a moment and we stand on broad shoulders of people who have fought this fight before for our country,’ Harris added.
‘Let us look at the challenge then that we are being presented and not be overwhelmed by it. The baton is now in our hands to fight for not against.’
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