Former Vice President Kamala Harris claimed on “House Guest” Thursday that her 2024 campaign rally attendees would repeatedly “pass” babies through the crowd for her to take a photo with or embrace.
Harris is currently on a tour promoting her new memoir, “107 Days,” about her failed 2024 presidential campaign against President Donald Trump. The former vice president said on the podcast that it was “so magical” to witness her rally attendees supposedly passing babies because it displayed trust of strangers.
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“You know, one of my favorite things to see — and it would always happen spontaneously at our rallies … invariably somebody would want me to take a picture or to hug their child,” Harris said. “And someone in the back would hand that baby over through the crowd … pass the baby and then pass the baby back! Pass the baby back. And I don’t know, there was something about that when it would happen. I mean, I could get very emotional about it right now.”
“But you know, I believe that we should always feel that the children of the community are the children of the community. Of all of us … and that we all participate in caring about that child,” she added. “And in caring for that child. And there was just something about that … the parent trusted the stranger that was next to them, who trusted the next person and all of them as though it was their own child. There was something so magical in many ways about that, and about affirming that you can create an environment where people feel safe and feel a sense of communal responsibility and community.”
In contrast to the rosy framing of children’s experiences at her rallies, a video trended on social media appearing to show a Harris supporter screaming at a child in a stroller in October outside of a Houston rally.
The video showed a white woman getting into the face of a little blonde girl as she seemingly yelled, “I don’t give a fuck, your dad’s a [bitch?]!” A black woman who stood beside the apparent Harris supporter then yanked her away from the child and seemed to confront her for lashing out at the toddler before a man lifted the child out of the stroller.
Harris has consistently said that the “children of the community are the children of the community” during her public speaking engagements, Fox News reported on Thursday.
Political pundits warned during the vice president’s short campaign that her habit of giving word salad speeches could pose a risk to her viability. She ultimately lost all battleground states and the national popular vote to Trump.
Some Democrats are livid with Harris over her memoir, Politico reported on Wednesday.
“In an era where Democrats need all hands on deck in the fight to protect the country and the constitution from the lawlessness of the Trump administration, she had a real opportunity to be a critical voice in the resistance,” Michael Hardaway, a Democratic strategist who served as a senior adviser to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, told the outlet. “This book seems to be unhelpful and divisive in a way that makes it hard for her to be the face of the party as we look to the future.”
Moreover, a Harris aide had to instruct former Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff to write love letters to his wife following a fight on her birthday during the campaign, according to “107 Days.”
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