Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday left Earth’s orbit again to serve up another word salad — this time while bringing up constellations to talk about crime, earning her the nickname “Galileo Harris.”
Harris, 59, appeared to have her head in the clouds during an interview with Black Star Network host Roland Martin when answering a question about what she called opponent Donald Trump’s fixation on crime in Democrat-run cities.
“I talked with somebody once who said, ‘You know, if you just look at, where the stars are in the sky. Don’t look [at] ’em as just random things, if you just look at ’em as points,’ ” Harris responded. ” ‘Look at the constellation — what does it show you?’
“So you just outlined it, Roland, what does it show you? That the cities that he picks on in terms of black population or black mayor or both,” she said. “C’mon.”
The Trump campaign clipped the remarks and posted them online, prompting X critics to pile on the verbose veep.
“THIS is talking ‘black agenda with Roland?’ ” a person asked in disbelief.
Another snarked, “Space cadet? Yes she is LOL.”
Some site users accused Harris of being under the influence of marijuana — with one quipping, “Me after eating 250mg of THC” — while others said it revealed Democrats’ penchant for picking subpar political candidates based on identity markers.
“This is what happens when you pick leaders solely based on their skin pigment, genitals, attraction to genitals, or perception of genitals,” responded Mike Davis, who founded a conservative judicial advocacy group and has been targeted by the Harris campaign as a close Trump ally.
Still others mocked Harris, who chairs the National Space Council, as President Biden’s “space czar” and “Galileo Harris,” after the 17th century astronomer Galileo Galilei.
“Meanwhile, Xi and Putin lick their chops,” one warned.
Harris and Martin charged that Trump’s rhetoric had targeted predominantly black voters in Detroit, Milwaukee and Atlanta with allegations of voting irregularities during the 2020 election.
“He’s singling out cities where there are significant African Americans, and that’s who he’s talking about: black people,” Martin said.
“Yes,” Harris agreed.
The Harris campaign last week rolled out advertisements also highlighting Trump’s remarks about the decline of the auto industry, as well as his claims to the Detroit Economic Club that the US is heading in the wrong direction.
“The whole country will be like — you want to know the truth? It’ll be like Detroit,” the GOP presidential nominee predicted Thursday. “Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your president.”
Trump blamed Democrats for fueling big cities’ crime epidemics during his re-election campaign four years ago, adding to Fox News’ Sean Hannity in a June 2020 interview that his comments did not harbor racial animus.
“Take a look at Detroit, take a look at what’s happening in Oakland, take a look at what’s happening in Baltimore, and everyone gets upset when I say it, ‘They say, “Oh, is that a racist statement?” ‘ It’s not racist,” the 45th president said.
“Frankly, black people come up to me, say, ‘Thank you, thank you, Sir, for saying it.’ They want help, these cities — it’s like living in hell,” Trump said.
In 2020, large urban centers saw double-digit spikes in crime from the year before, with New York City recording a 97% increase in shootings, from 777 in 2019 to 1,531 in 2020 — a 44% increase in murders,from 319 to 462, NYPD stats showed.
Harris’ criticisms on “#RolandMartinUnfiltered” come as her campaign is ramping up its outreach to black voters.
Pundits, pollsters and even former President Barack Obama have pointed to the enthusiasm gap among the demographic in 2024 when compared with previous presidential election years.
“We have yet to see the same kinds of energy and turnout in all corners of our neighborhoods and communities as we saw when I was running,” Obama told attendees at a “Black Voters for Harris” event Thursday in Pittsburgh.
Neither the Harris campaign nor the Trump campaign immediately responded to a Post request for comment Monday.
