Fox News host and contributor Tammy Bruce and the “Outnumbered” panel shredded Vice President Kamala Harris over an accent she used during a rally in North Carolina to make herself sound more ‘southern.’
Harris, who was speaking to union members in the battleground southern state, used what panel member Gerri Willis—who’s from the state—described as sounding extremely “false.”
“We are just 63 days away from Election Day. Happy September. And in some crucial swing states, early voting begins in a matter of days,” Bruce said to begin the segment. “Recent national polls show former President Trump and Vice President Harris locked in a razor-tight race for some reason. Many of them within the margin of error.
“However, we still don’t have a clear idea of the vice president’s policies. Harris’s official website still lacks any section about her platform, and she’s only held one interview since August 6th, the day she named Tim Walz as her running mate,” Bruce continued. “In comparison, Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance have sat for at least 34 interviews in that time.
“Now, Harris is being accused of using a new tactic to avoid the press. The vice president was spotted wearing headphones as she walked by a group of reporters yesterday. She didn’t stop to take questions. She just waved, you know, because she couldn’t hear them, supposedly. And she adjusted her earbuds. Like, ‘look, I’m on the phone!’ And quickly boarded a flight,” Bruce went on.
“Yeah. It’s like an alternate universe here. Gerri, what I think immediately without the policy issue, it’s, you know, Americans are realizing finally that policies have a direct impact on the quality of their lives,” the co-host speculated. “It’s not some amorphous thing. And they realize that school is starting. Driving the kid to work — to school, gas prices, sitting at the table in the morning thinking what can dinner be? Did I put enough in the lunch box? Am I going to be able to pay the rent next month? As these kids are going back and forth. Isn’t this the dynamic that Americans care about? Or do you think they’re going to notice that she has not given them any specifics?”
Willis responded: “Well, that’s just the problem, right? It is the economy, stupid. And she’s not really talking about it in detail in any way. And when she does, I think it’s, you know, completely divorced from how the economy actually works. And that’s what Americans really understand. I understand that the price of bread has gone up so much in the last three years. Eggs, steak. I tried to buy a steak the other day. Forget about it.
“Look, I thought the funny thing about her speech to the union, though, and I just have to say this because I’m from North Carolina, OK? I’m a Southerner, and she did that really funky Southern accent. I found it so strange,” Willis continued.
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“Speaking of which, I want people to hear this because it was kind of compared to Foghorn Leghorn, and the North Carolina early voting starts in three days. So she can — the more she waits. Let’s listen to that tape, what Gerri referred to,” Bruce said before playing the clip.
Harris told the rallygoers in attendance: “Ya beddah thank a union member for paid leave. Ya beddah thank a union member for vacation time. Thank unions for sick leave. Thank unions for paid family leave. Thank unions for your vacation time.”
“Yeah. Gerri, you know, that’s — it’s very strange,” Bruce said. “I’m sorry. And so, this is not a woman who’s a Southerner or it’s just — it just doesn’t make sense.”
“It doesn’t ring true. And that’s the problem. She feels false when she does it. And every time I hear somebody who’s not from there do that, I think way, way in the back of their head what they’re thinking is she’s hanging on to her guns and her Bible. And at the end of the day, you think they don’t — they think less of us,” said Willis.
