At the Univision town hall, Harris put on yet another accent that she doesn’t seem natural or authentic. Addressing a predominantly Hispanic audience on a Spanish language channel, she seemed to put on a disingenuous Latin accent as she was being introduced.
Kamala Harris has been repeatedly criticized for her bizarre usage of various accents on the campaign trail.
Earlier this week, she used a Jamaican accent in an interview with Stephen Colbert, asking “have you no empathy, man?”
While some of her supporters have tried to dismiss inquiries about her accents, insisting that she’s “code switching” or speaking in a more relaxed, informal dialect in certain settings but trying to sound more palatable and professional and others, many voters have a hard time buying it.
Many believe she has an authenticity issue, and puts on different accents in an attempt to pander to different demographic groups.
Hillary Clinton faced similar challenges in her 2016 presidential run.
Her accents may have something to do with her declining numbers among blacks and Hispanics, who are embracing the Republican ticket in unprecedented numbers. Hispanics in particular have exhibited a historic shift in voting patterns, threatening the vice president’s path to electoral victory.
Perhaps her campaign could benefit from focusing more on articulating her policies and less on mastering accents from every corner of the globe.
In rallies held in predominantly black cities, she seems to put on more southern or “urban” accents, while in other cities, she seems to speak with her standard inflection.
In addition to forced accents, many believe she downplays the privilege she’s known her entire life, constantly referring to herself as a “middle class kid,” insisting she worked the cashier and ice cream at McDonald’s despite no outlets being able to verify it, and sharing incredulous tales of preparing collard greens in a bathtub.
Supposedly “candid” moments on the Harris-Walz campaign — like her search for Doritos at the beloved Pennsylvania gas station chain Sheetz — have been revealed to be manufactured and carefully planned, as they uploaded two different versions of the “spontaneous” moment.
While Trump has struggled with many perception problems throughout his three runs for president, authenticity isn’t an issue he struggles with. If anything, the former president has been criticized for being too authentic and too unfiltered. It set him apart in 2016, and gave him a serious competitive edge over other Republicans in a crowded field.
What in hell is wrong with people like Harris and Clinton. Do they really thing minorities are that stupid that a fake accent will convince them you are like them.
She be whatever youse want her to be. She got a face like a horse, so she be puttin on a saddle so’s youse kin ride her off into the sunset. Now dats dedication. “Hi-O- Karmrella-Away”. Da farderdabetter!