Vice President Kamala Harris led to a stream of grievance on social media upcoming showing to worth a southern speech all the way through a accent in Atlanta.
“You all helped us win in 2020 and we gonna do it again in 2024,” Harris, who’s from California, informed Atlanta rally goers date apparently debuting the unutilized speech.
The speech right away stuck the eye of critics on social media, who accused the presumptive Democratic nominee of pandering to her target audience.
“Kamala Harris went to speak in Atlanta and now has a southern accent,” OutKick founder Clay Travis mentioned on X, together with a clip of the era. “Why do people do this? It’s just so transparently fake.
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Vice President Kamala Harris. (Reuters/Hannah Beier)
“Do folk do that with any alternative regional accents?” Travis questioned in a subsequent post. “I don’t assume so. Nobody is going to Massachusetts and talks like a Kennedy. It’s most effective the South.”
Travis’ post garnered several replies from critics of the vice president’s accent.
“It’s what sociopaths do,” one reply said.
“It’s known as mirroring and this is a sturdy narcissistic tendency,” another user said.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event at Westover High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on July 18, 2024. (ALLISON JOYCE/AFP via Getty Images)
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The moment also caught the attention of conservative columnist Ian Haworth.
“Kamala Harris’s faux southern speech places Hillary Clinton to humiliation,” Haworth said on X, referencing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s widely mocked use of a southern accent at various stages of her career in politics.
The viral moment comes as Harris continues to try her footing on the trail after being elevated to the top of the Democratic ticket last week, with Georgia being one of the key swing states likely to decide November’s election.
Former President Trump won the state by just over five percentage points in 2016, only to have President Biden narrowly flip it to his column by less than one percentage point in 2020.
Former President Trump. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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The state figures to be one of the closest races again in 2024, with the Real Clear Politics polling average showing Trump with a narrow 3.6 point lead over Harris on Wednesday.
The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a Fox News Digital request for comment.
