Ex-Vice President Kamala Harris’ latest word salad has drawn head scratches for arguing that the word “hope” should be a verb — even though it already is.
Harris, 61, speaking on former CNN anchor Don Lemon’s podcast Friday, tried to convey a message about the importance of hope in spite of President Trump’s 2024 win — but her attempt went viral on social media for all the wrong reasons.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris waves at the opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago last week. REUTERS“I really, truly believe this: We each have have light inside of us. And we need to know that that is what inspires our hope as much as anything external to ourselves,” she told Lemon.
“When we feel that and, and, and not allow an election or an individual to dampen that light, and instead let that light kind of carry us in particular through moments of darkness, we not only act on that hope, but we inspire that hope in each other,” she said.
“And in particular, at this moment, it is so important that we not only have hope, but that we understand that that should be a verb.”
Harris attends the Obama center opening with hubby Doug Emhoff. REUTERSShe’s made similarly confusing, convoluted comments about other words in the past, too: for example, when she said in 2024 that “faith is a verb.”
Her latest rambling discussion — about hope — only provided more fodder for her conservative critics, who have long ripped into her penchant for word-salad responses to questions.
“Not sure even Don was buying it,” video producer Western Lensman quipped on X.
Another user wrote of Harris, who lost to President Trump in 2024, “Our hope became a verb November 5, 2024, when the darkness was defeated by popular and electoral vote.”
Someone else jabbed, “The word salad is strong with this one.”
Lemon pressed Harris about whether she will run for the presidency in 2028.
“I have not decided, to be honest with you,” she said. “I’ve been spending a lot of time traveling the country [and] listening to folks.
“I think that people want a leader who is willing to take risks as opposed to just doing what is popular,” Harris said.
“I think people want to know that they are being seen and heard and that their leaders — whether they’re at the local, state, federal level or in the White House — are looking first at the people, not looking at themselves in the mirror.”
