After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, CNN presented Vice President Kamala Harris with one of the simplest questions she could have hoped for, but she still failed to answer it correctly.
She was prompted by host Dana Bash to comment on the Supreme Court, but instead she went off on a tangent about who she was traveling on Air Force Two with.
Bash stated, “You were on a plane when the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade. As the highest-ranking woman ever elected in U.S. history what was going through your mind at that moment?”
The vice president stated, “Well, so, I was on Air Force Two heading to Aurora, Illinois, to talk about maternal health.”
“We were with Lauren Underwood, with the chair of Judiciary, Dick Durbin, Senate Judiciary. We were headed there to unveil a plan based on the work we have been doing to ensure that women receive the kind of support they need during and post-pregnancy.
“And we thought that the decision would come down sometime soon, but not at that moment. And I was shocked,” she added.
“And it’s one thing when you know something’s going to happen. It’s another thing when it actually happens. And I just actually turned to CNN,” she said with her trademark chuckle.
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KAMALA HARRIS: "First of all, if you are a parent of sons, do think about what this means for the life of your son and what that will mean in terms of the choices he will have." pic.twitter.com/OsYccsby4L
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“And I couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe it, because they actually did it. And here’s what they did. They — the court actually took a constitutional right that has been recognized for half-a-century and took it from the women of America,” she said.
“That’s shocking, when you think about it, in terms of what that means in terms of democratic principles, in terms of the ideals upon which we were founded about liberty, about freedom,” she said before things got awkward. CONTINUE READING…