Kamala Harris got to feel like Hollywood royalty for a little bit on Saturday, canceling plans for a rally in Detroit midflight to go to New York and appear on “Saturday Night Live.”
BREAKING: Air Force Two took off from Charlotte, North Carolina for Detroit but was diverted to New York City.
Harris aides informed the press pool mid-air that @KamalaHarris was headed to New York and not Detroit.
They wouldn’t share what the Vice President is doing in New…
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In a high-profile appearance just days before the presidential election, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris joined Saturday Night Live for a playful cameo that saw her facing off with Maya Rudolph, the comedian best known for her Harris impersonations. The segment, part of Harris’s last media push before Election Day, blended humor with self-reflection as Harris poked fun at her own public persona, including her well-known laugh.
The skit opened with a mock CNN broadcast featuring James Austin Johnson’s impression of former President Donald Trump and Dana Carvey reprising his role as President Joe Biden. Rudolph’s Harris character then took center stage, declaring she needed “a moment to herself” before an imaginary mirror. The real Harris then appeared, humorously telling Rudolph, “I’m here to remind you, you’ve got this, because you can do something your opponent can’t do—you can open doors.”
The sketch continued with the two joking about Harris’s name, calling for “an end to the dramala” and closing with the line “Keep Kamala and Carry Onala.” The real Harris ended with the classic SNL tagline, “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!”
The Trump campaign hit Harris for revealing her true colors, putting celebrities ahead of ordinary people. Steven Cheung, a Trump spokesman, criticized Harris’s appearance, calling it “cosplaying with her elitist friends on Saturday Night Leftists.”
Harris’s departure from the Rockefeller Center studios wasn’t as smooth as she could have hoped, however. Outside of the studio, anti-Israel protesters gathered, chanting “Murderer!” as her motorcade departed, according to The New York Post.
The outlet noted that SNL has a long history of hosting political figures, including former presidential candidates like Al Gore, John McCain, and even Donald Trump, who hosted episodes in 2004 and again in 2015. Former presidents Gerald Ford, Barack Obama, and George H.W. Bush also made appearances during or after their time in office.
Later in the episode, SNL host John Mulaney took aim at the political scene with a game-show sketch that poked fun at liberal attitudes. Mulaney’s character, a clueless liberal, struggled to remember political details—at one point failing to identify Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 running mate, who made a surprise cameo.
With just days until Election Day, Harris’s appearance made for a memorable moment on SNL, drawing applause, laughter, and, predictably, some criticism as her campaign approaches the final stretch.
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