Vice President Kamala Harris was accused of using a “fake accent” on Monday his comment This letter was written to the members of the teachers union in Michigan.
Speaking at a Detroit high school, Harris modified the tone of her voice at moments when she became particularly excited and interacted with supporters in the crowd.
“You may not be a union member, but you should thank a union member for a five-day work week. You should thank a union member for sick leave. You should thank a union member for paid vacation. You should thank a union member for vacation,” Harris said at a point in her remarks that were shared by multiple social media users on X.
The Trump campaign noted that Harris said a similar sentence a few hours later, Addressing union workers in PittsburghIn which clear pronunciation was not present.
“Let's see if you can spot the difference…,” said a post on the Trump campaign's X account, which included video clips of both speeches.
In another viral moment, Harris responded to a supporter's prompting, “Let's just spend the next 64 days like this. How about that?” and then responded with a fist bump.
“This is so embarrassing!” Comedian and podcast host Chad Prather written on xShared a clip of Harris's Detroit speech.
He said, “Kamala Harris shows off her fake accent again… this time in Detroit, Michigan!” “No one is believing this!”
Republican communications strategist Matt Whitlock argued that “for Kamala Harris, politics is a performance”, comparing her accent changes to her policy fluctuations.
“She changes fake accents the same way she changes policy positions and political personas,” Whitlock said. written on x“Today she's talking in a fake Southern accent, pretending to be a liberal. Next week she'll be a San Francisco liberal.”
Comedian Terrence K. Williams accused Harris of “pretending to be a Southern Black woman” by “using a fake accent.”
“She's mocking Southerners and pandering to them for votes,” he argued,
The Vice President was born in Oakland, California, and grew up in the Bay Area, followed by education at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and the University of California's Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.
Harris has no obvious Southern roots, as her father is from Jamaica and her mother was born in India.
Harris has previously been accused of using a bizarre tone to woo certain people.
In July, when Harris faced flak on social media, she said, Speak with a Southern accent during a rally in Atlanta
She was also mocked online in 2021 when she was seen imitating him during a trip to Paris French pronunciation,
