Live from New York, it’s Kamala Harris!
On November 2, the Vice President of the United States made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live to court voters—preferably Pennsylvanians—just a few days before the election. However, her appearance wasn’t really meant to move the needle in swing states, but to ease some of that rising election anxiety, including her own.
“This is it, the last campaign stop in Pennsylvania. Gosh, I wish I could talk to someone who’s been in my shoes,” Maya Rudolf’s Kamala Harris says towards the end of the episode’s political cold open. You know, a Black, South Asian women running for president, preferably from the Bay Area.”
When she sits down in front of a set “mirror” that’s exactly who she finds: the real life Kamala Harris. “I’m just here to remind you, you got this. Because you can do something your opponent cannot do,” the real VP tells her. “You can open doors.”
From there, the pair exchange comforting wordplay based on the Vice President’s name, at one point reminding each other of something they always say: “Keep calmala and carry onalala.”
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