Kamala Harris ripped for ‘fake’ cartoon-like accent at Detroit rally

Published Sep 03, 2024  •  2 minute read

Flanked by labor union leaders, Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris speaks to union workers during a campaign event on September 02, 2024 at Northwestern High School in Detroit, Michigan. Photo by Scott Olson /Getty Images

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris was in Detroit on Labour Day, pitching herself to blue-collar union workers in the critical, and currently blue, battleground state.

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Her speech was fiery, however many who watched her speech noted an accent emerge.

“You better thank a union member for the five-day work week,” Harris told the crowd with a noticeable shift in her timbre.

“You better thank a union member for sick leave,” she continued amid applause. “You better thank a union member for paid leave. You better thank a union member for vacation time.”

The Libs of TikTok account on X asked, “What did I just watch… what’s with this new accent? The fakeness and cringe here is off the charts.”

Trump’s senior advisor Stephen Miller wrote: “This is her seventh new accent in four weeks. She has literally never used this accent before. She grew up in Canada. Phoniest politician in all of politics.”

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GOP strategist Matt Whitlock called Harris’ politicking a “performance.”

He declared: “She changes fake accents like she changes policy positions and political personas. Today she’s talking in a fake southern accent, pretending to be a moderate. Next week she’ll be back to San Francisco liberal.”

Other critics noted Harris dropped the accent in the exact same speech later that day in Pittsburgh.

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“Same speech. Two entirely different accents,” conservative commentator Greg Price noted, sharing clips from each rally.

Another clip from the vice president’s speech in Detroit was shared on social media by Trump campaign advisor Alex Bruesewitz, in which she says with a cackle, “Let’s just get through the next 64 days how ‘bout that?”

In a clip of her speaking to the Pittsburgh crowd, she says with a notably different inflection, “So friends, 64 days until the most…election of our lives.”

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One X user compared the accent to a Looney Tunes character, writing, “She’s turned into Foghorn Leghorn.”

Harris has repeatedly been accused of switching up her accent, depending on her audience.

Earlier this summer, she was savaged for faking a Southern accent at a rally in Atlanta.

In 2021 while touring a COVID lab in France, critics claimed Harris went French.

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