Kamala Harris continued her media blitz by letting her hair down and drinking a beer with Stephen Colbert on CBS’ ‘The Late Show’ Tuesday night.
Progressive darling Colbert, who briefly ended a vacation week to do an all-new episode with Harris amid a week of reruns, pitched the idea to Harris by stating that 2024 was a ‘vibes election.’
‘Elections, I think, are won on vibes,’ he said. ‘Because one of the old saws is 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?’
Colbert then pulled out a couple of cans of Miller High Life, which the vice president had apparently requested.
Harris, apparently delighted, confessed the last time she’d had a beer was at a baseball game with her husband Doug Emhoff.
After taking a sip and toasting with Colbert, she proudly announced Miller High Life’s decades-old slogan: ‘The champagne of beers!’
Harris is continuing her media tour Tuesday with three more interviews for national audiences, with Election Day now just four weeks away.
The Democratic presidential nominee appeared in New York with the women of ‘The View,’ spoke with radio host Howard Stern, and taped a show with late-night comedian Colbert.
The trio of appearances comes after Harris granted interviews to CBS´ ’60 Minutes,’ which aired Monday night, and Anderson Cooper´s podcast, which was released Sunday.
The blitz comes after Harris has largely avoided interviews since replacing President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket.
Long past the midway point of her unexpected presidential campaign and with voting already underway, Harris is still introducing herself to Americans who will determine her fate in this year´s presidential election.
Harris came out to raucous applause and chants of her first name, with the vice president pleased that everyone had pronounced it correctly.
She claimed that the ‘whirlwind campaign’ she’s run in the past few months hasn’t felt particularly short.
‘The one thing I can report back from the field is people are exhausted by that old, tired playbook of Donald Trump’s and even if they voted for him in the past they’ve had enough of the rhetoric. It’s like, let’s chart a new way forward,’ she said.
‘A lot of Americans are ready for a new generation of leadership that is about solutions and common sense and that is what I am offering.’
She also joked that her amused reaction to Trump’s performance at their debate weeks ago was, essentially, ‘WTF?’
‘It starts with a W, there’s a letter in between and the last letter is F,’ she said, while giving her trademark cackle.