Kamala Harris says she’s ‘not eating gummies’ to deal with election stress

There is no food here.

Vice President Kamala Harris might want to legalize marijuana, but she laughed off the idea of ​​turning to “gummies” to deal with election-cycle stress.

The 59-year-old Democratic presidential candidate denied using an anxiety-relief method when asked During a town hall in Royal Oak, Michigan On Monday night, he explained the mechanisms he had in place to stay calm during the campaign.

Moderator Maria Shriver told Veep that “everybody” she knew had adopted stress-relief methods, recalling those who told her, “‘I have to turn off the news, I can do something Can’t even read, I’m meditating, I’m doing it.” doing yoga. I’m so worried… I’m eating gummies. all sorts of things.

“What are you doing?” Shriver asked Harris.

“I’m not eating gummies,” Harris immediately responded — before breaking into his signature cackle.

“Okay, we’ve got that cleared up,” Shriver said, laughing.

The veep admitted she is still feeling the pressure just weeks before the election.

“I usually wake up at midnight these days, just to be honest with you,” she told the audience, adding that she tries to stay grounded by exercising “every morning” and interacting with her family. Do it.

Harris had a cheerful reaction after coming out Support for legalizing marijuana nationally last week – although he observed Over 1,900 marijuana convictions When she was the District Attorney of San Francisco between 2004 and 2011.

While preparing for an afternoon interview with radio host Charlamagne Tha God last Tuesday, he vowed to legalize the drug while urging black people to support his presidential candidacy.

Before the 2020 election, Harris also confessed to Charlamagne that she had smoked marijuana in college.

At the time, this confession sparked outrage and accusations of hypocrisy given his prosecutorial record.