{"id":2429695,"date":"2025-05-01T11:15:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-kamala-harris-first-post-election-speech-turns-into-a-cringey-mess-the-second-she-steps-onstage\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T11:15:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:15:54","slug":"watch-kamala-harris-first-post-election-speech-turns-into-a-cringey-mess-the-second-she-steps-onstage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-kamala-harris-first-post-election-speech-turns-into-a-cringey-mess-the-second-she-steps-onstage\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Kamala Harris&#8217; First Post-Election Speech Turns Into a &#8216;Cringey&#8217; Mess the Second She Steps Onstage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-kamala-harris-first-post-election-speech-turns-into-a-cringey-mess-the-second-she-steps-onstage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2429695&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-issues-multiple-corrections-for-article-falsely-claiming-900000-u-s-children-have-been-hospitalized-for-covid-19-during-pandemic\/\" title=\"New York Times Issues Multiple Corrections For Article Falsely Claiming 900,000 U.S. Children Have Been Hospitalized For COVID...19 During Pandemic\">article discusses<\/a> a recent speech by former Vice President Kamala Harris in San Francisco, where she showcased what the author perceives as a lack of presidential suitability. Upon taking the stage, she attempted to connect with the audience but came off as overly exuberant and insincere, eliciting criticism for her &#8220;cringey&#8221; demeanor. The piece suggests that her behavior and delivery were unsettling and expresses relief that she is not holding the presidency. <\/p>\n<p>Harris&#8217;s speech targeted President Donald Trump, reflecting a typical Democratic narrative while praising a list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-retain-new-mexico-house-seat-in-special-election\/\" title=\"Democrats Retain New Mexico House Seat in Special Election\">party figures<\/a> who the author characterizes as &#8220;out-of-touch.&#8221; The author argues that Harris&#8217;s tendencies toward exaggerated emotion and dubious intellect highlight a disconnect with broader American sentiments and political realities. The conclusion indicates that Harris&#8217;s political future, especially the potential for a gubernatorial run in California, raises concerns about the state of Democratic politics in the state. the commentary frames Harris&#8217;s performance as a reminder of the political landscape&#8217;s current challenges.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s more presidential poise at a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">high school beauty pageant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When former defeated Democratic candidate Kamala Harris took the stage Wednesday night for a speech in San Francisco, she reminded Americans how lucky they are that Donald Trump is in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>That wasn&rsquo;t what she set out for, of course. But within seconds of taking the podium, Harris was giving a stark demonstration of how unsuited she is to the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Kamala Harris is back in all her cringey glory,&rdquo; the conservative X account End Wokeness declared.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kamala Harris is back in all her cringey glory <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KdI5rX0uoW\">pic.twitter.com\/KdI5rX0uoW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EndWokeness\/status\/1917779093455790540?\">May 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Cringey&rdquo; might be one of the most overused adjectives in political commentary, but it fits the occasion. It&rsquo;s hard to take Harris&rsquo; grating maniacal laugh and patently fake emoting with anything but wincing disgust, combined with relief that she&rsquo;s not in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>To think this cackling poser could have been representing the United States to the world? It was bad enough when she was vice president and the country held its breath hoping the elderly, infirm, and clearly addled Joe Biden would hold on to keep Kamala from taking charge.<\/p>\n<p>Now? She makes Biden look like Otto von Bismarck.<\/p>\n<p>As the evening was reported by the Bay Area&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/kamala-harris-make-1st-major-speech-since-losing-election-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KTVU<\/a>, which described it as Harris&rsquo; first &ldquo;major&rdquo; speech since the November election, the former VP was on solidly home turf.<\/p>\n<p>Not only was she back in lefty San Francisco, where she started her political career, but she was speaking in front of one of the leftiest audience San Francisco has on offer, an anniversary gathering of the group <a href=\"https:\/\/emergeamerica.org\/about\/about-emerge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emerge<\/a>, which was formed to elect Democratic women to office.<\/p>\n<p>So the greeting she got was rapturous, but for a viewer with a better grasp on sanity, her demeanor (<em>&ldquo;And Dougie&rsquo;s here, too, hah, hah, hah &hellip;&rdquo;<\/em>)&nbsp;was damn near disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>As to the speech itself, KTVU reported, it stuck to the expected bashing of President Donald Trump on the occasion of his first 100 days in office. But it also contained shout-outs to some of the biggest, most out-of-touch lunatics in the Democratic Party today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kamala Harris: I&rsquo;m really inspired by Democrat leaders like Chris Van Hollen, Jasmine Crockett, Maxwell Frost AOC, and others. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OlEBpiJ5hw\">pic.twitter.com\/OlEBpiJ5hw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1917780078492070014?\">May 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Harris&rsquo; favorites? Cory Booker, the New Jersey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cory-booker-yammers-20-hours-straight-attempt-disrupt-normal-business-us-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">senator and blowhard<\/a> whose politics boil down to self-promotion; Chris Van Hollen, the Maryland senator who&rsquo;s willing to go to the mat for a[n alleged] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dems-cant-catch-a-break-another-protective-order-surfaces-from-past-of-maryland-man\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">violent MS-13 gang member<\/a> deported by the Trump administration; Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, a lefty who makes headlines for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/democratic-sen-chris-murphy-cozies-ceo-insidious-propaganda-outfit-leaving-wife\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all the wrong reasons<\/a>; Jasmine Crockett, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rep-jasmine-crockett-done-picking-cotton-apparently-need-illegals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reliably disgraceful<\/a> representative from Texas; Maxwell Frost, a Florida rep and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/democrats-make-ridiculous-demand-abrego-garcia-crusade-hits-brick-wall-el-salvador\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MS-13 fanboy<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-sen-kennedy-hits-aoc-scorching-shampoo-insult-go-far\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a>, the New York socialist rep and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-view-co-hosts-cant-even-defend-aoc-bernie-sanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protege<\/a> of one-foot-in-the-grave Vermont socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders; and, Sanders, the elder statesman of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pure-evil-bernie-sanders-transgender-singer-perform-outrageously-blasphemous-song-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leftist lunacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If that&rsquo;s what Harris thinks Democrats are selling, Americans aren&rsquo;t going to be buying. They weren&rsquo;t buying it last year. They won&rsquo;t be buying it in 2026. They won&rsquo;t be buying it in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>In short, it was a Kamala Harris appearance &mdash; a witless, embarrassing exercise in false emotion and falser intellect &mdash; and politically tone deaf, to boot.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that, as KTVU noted, there&rsquo;s serious talk of her running for governor of California, after four years of failure on the national stage, says everything there is to say about the tarnished state of Golden State politics.<\/p>\n<p>And it was a reminder &mdash; even if Harris didn&rsquo;t intend it &mdash; that Donald Trump might have dodged a bullet by grace of God in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July of last year, but the country as a whole dodged a bigger one in November.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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When former Democratic candidate Kamala Harris spoke in San Francisco on Wednesday night, she inadvertently highlighted how fortunate Americans are to have Donald Trump as president. This wasn\u2019t her intention, but almost immediately after taking the stage, Harris showcased her unsuitability for the presidency. 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