One of the scariest things for Kamala Harris heading into election night is her problems with Muslim voters. Since Israel responded to the October 7th attacks by going to war with Hamas, the Democratic Party has been desperately trying to find a way to appease radicals in places like Dearborn, MI, while not completely alienating Jewish voters.
That effort hasn’t exactly been successful, with some polls showing independent candidate Jill Stein beating Harris outright among Muslims. In Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, all of which have sizeable Muslim populations, that could prove devastating for the vice president’s chances against Donald Trump.
In an attempt to claw back some of her lost support, Harris recently appeared with Kareem Rahma, a Muslim influencer. During the interview, which was so bad it went unpublished, the vice president made two major mistakes.
The first was a refusal to discuss the war between Israel and Hamas. Surprising no one, Rahma is extremely anti-Israel and was looking for Harris to throw him a bone on the issue. For her to show up and think she could get away with not talking about it is unfathomable for a presidential campaign. It does show the sense of entitlement Harris continually operates with, though.
That wasn’t the worst of it, though. Instead of talking about the conflict in the Middle East, Kamala Harris decided to pivot to trying to convince Rahma that “bacon is a spice,” noting that it’s “pure flavor” when she received pushback.
Yes, she tried to discuss the finer points of how great bacon is with a Muslim. You can’t make this stuff up.
Rahma said he was then told the vice president was going to argue against taking off shoes on airplanes — and only learned when the two sat down that Harris was instead going to deliver the take that “bacon is a spice.”
“I don’t know,” Rahma — who is Muslim and doesn’t eat pork as part of his faith observance — responded to Harris in their video interview, according to the Times.
“Think about it, it’s pure flavor,” she prodded.
I’m just gobsmacked at how awful of a retail politician Harris is. Her mixture of natural vapidity and laziness leading to being unprepared is truly legendary at this point. She goes into an interview with a Muslim and thinks that is a good time to talk about how great bacon is. It’s incredible.
In the aftermath, campaign officials tried to play clean-up crew by claiming they had let Rahma know there would be a discussion about bacon.
Two senior Harris campaign officials told the Times that Rahma had been forewarned that the discussion would touch on pork.
But why? Why was it ever planned for her to “touch on pork?” And when it all blew up in her face, Harris then pivoted to talking about how much she loves anchovies on pizza.
Rahman said he was already apprehensive about an interview with such a high-profile politician before it happened.
“Then they made it worse by talking about anchovies. Boring!’’ he said.
She’s a cyborg. I’m convinced of it at this point. Harris was pieced together by scientists using bolts and duct tape. If she wasn’t, she’d have been able to have a normal discussion like a human being about something not deeply offensive to the person interviewing her. Recall that this is the same person whose office had to hold a mock cocktail dinner to prep her on how to drink wine and talk to world leaders.
This is what happens when you have an empty suit running for president. Because Harris has never had an original thought in her life, everything is scripted and force-fed to her. That means when the teleprompter goes out, either literally or figurately, she has nowhere to go. That’s how you end up with her riffing on bacon while talking to a Muslim. It’s laughable.
