Former Vice President Kamala Harris stopped by the A Day of Unreasonable Conversation summit in Los Angeles on Monday. Harris, who is currently promoting her latest book, 107 Days, which recounts her presidential campaign against President Donald Trump, reflected on losing to Trump.
“I couldn’t articulate anything else — I kept saying over and over again, ‘My God, my God,’” Harris told the crowd, according to a press release. “I had never felt that level of pain and grief except that when my mother died, and it was grieving for the country. I knew what was going to happen.”
“There is an agenda at play that is causing people to feel very disempowered. And my feeling, and I feel this very strongly, is you can never let anyone take your power from you,” she added. “We cannot let anyone circumstance election or person take our power from us. And this is a room full of extraordinary, creative people who are opinion leaders. You have a pen, you have a voice, you have a platform.”
Kamala Harris didn’t hold back while discussing the current political climate
While sitting down with WNBA player and advocate Napheesa Collier, Harris stressed the importance of continuing to speak out despite Trump’s attempt to divide people and silence anyone who disagrees with him.
“We are living history right now and you all as storytellers are living this,” Harris said. “You’re not passive observers, you’re living it and I would ask you that all the emotions that we are feeling, give those emotions, gift that experience to those people that you are writing about and writing for; it gets back to my point about helping people, just put a label on it, even if it doesn’t change the circumstance.”
“Because there is so much about this moment that is trying to make people feel like they’ve lost their minds, when in fact, these motherf***ers are crazy,” she added.
Kamala Harris discussed the temporary suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show
Following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk at the campus of Utah Valley University, Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show was briefly taken off the air over remarks Kimmel made calling out how “the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it, in between the finger-pointing.”
“I don’t envy some of the folks who are here, who are in a situation where you are being subtly or maybe not even so subtly being sent signals that now is not the time to speak a certain level of truth with certain level of candor,” Harris said about Kimmel, noting that how the incident was intended to deter others from speaking truth. “Every person has to make that decision for themselves, right? But there will always be risk associated with speaking truth.”
As Blavity reported in September, “Trump himself took to social media to celebrate Kimmel being ‘CANCELED’ and suggested that NBC late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers may be future targets.”
“That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform at the time. “Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!! President DJT.”