Social media erupts over Kamala Harris trying out ANOTHER ‘accent’ with Stephen Colbert

Harris continued her friendly media blitz with an interview on CBS’ hit The Late Show, where she lectured hurricane victims and chugged a beer with the liberal comic host.

Social media users erupted after she used a ‘phony Jamaican accent’ while discussing the importance of empathy.

‘Have you no empathy man? No. For the, the suffering of other people. Have you no sense of purpose?’ she stated.

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‘Wake up babe, new Kamala Harris accent just dropped,’ conservative commentator Savanah Hernandez wrote on X.

‘Obsessed with Jamaican Kamala,’ X user Jebra Faushay wrote, while sharing a meme of Harris wearing Bob Marley’s signature beanie on top of thick dreadlocks.

It’s not the first time Harris has unveiled a ‘fake accent’ in recent weeks while on the campaign trail.

Critics claimed the presidential nominee used an accent when speaking to a teachers union during a swing state campaign push in Michigan last month.

‘New Kamala accent just dropped,’ one X user wrote in response to a clip of Harris speaking to a teacher’s union at a high school in Detroit, Michigan on Monday.

In her remarks, social media users claim that Harris adopted an urban accent to relate to the working class crowd.

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She went on: ‘You better thank a union member for sick leave. You better thank a union member for paid leave. You better thank a union member for vacation time.’

‘I’m from California. We all talk like this,’ an X user sarcastically wrote alongside a phonetic spelling of how Harris spoke in her remarks: ‘I’m gonna make sure to thanka union memba today.’

At another point an audience member shouted something about her future beyond just the 2024 election.

Harris, still employing this new accent, replied with a large smile and laugh before leaning over the podium and saying: ‘Let’s just get through the next 64 days.’

‘New Kamala accent just dropped,’ one user wrote on X.

Harris was in Detroit on Labor Day speaking with union members at Northwestern High School’s gymnasium about the contributions of unions to the labor force.

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Trump also said during a hostile interview with the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago last month in an interview that Harris only started ‘promoting’ her blackness when she ran for president.

‘I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black,’ he said during the annual convention. ‘So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?’

Discovery Institute journalist Jonathan Choe noted on X, formerly Twitter, that it was a code switch Harris was using to relate more with a predominantly black and urban audience listening to her remarks on Monday.

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‘You all helped us win in 2020 and we gonna do it again in 2024,’ Harris told voters in her fake Southern accent.

Harris commonly slips into a Southern accent when speaking to voters in Southern communities. The VP grew up in San Francisco, California and spent her high school years in Montreal, Canada.

She faced similar criticism on the campaign trail in 2020 when she extending her vowels during an even in Florida when she said: ‘We will tell them we were hangin’ out in a parking lot this particular Saturday afternoon with Kamala and all our friends.’

Outkick writer Ian Miller posted of the latest accent use: ‘At some point, Kamala’s going to speak in England and adopt a full on British accent and everyone will pretend like it’s totally normal.’

‘This is cringe pandering,,’ another wrote. ‘Kamala is using her new ‘accent’ when talking to a certain demographic of people.’

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