Former Vice President Kamala Harris flubbed her opening line at a campaign event for Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) Thursday, referring to the incumbent as “the next” senator from Georgia.
“Let’s hear it for Jon Ossoff,” Harris said at the start of the small rally for Ossoff campaign volunteers.
“The next … and continuing senator from the state of Georgia,” she continued, briefly implying Ossoff wasn’t already in office before catching herself.
The former vice president, who has been on the stump for Democrats in Nevada, Mississippi, New Hampshire and Wisconsin in recent days, criticized the Trump administration’s “reckless tariffs,” “war nobody asked for” and cuts to Medicaid and food stamps.
She also praised the grassroots volunteers and doled out life advice throughout her short speech.
“I came here today to thank you in advance for all you will do in your lifetime,” Harris said, describing the volunteers as “fellow members of the Role Model Club.”
“The Role Model Club, we’re all in it, and in the Role Model Club sometimes it can be weighty,” she explained.
“But the thing about being a role model,” Harris continued, “is in the process of pursuing your excellence, with all the hard work that requires, you are lifting up folks you don’t even know.”
“You are lifting up folks who may never know your name or mine, folks you may never meet, but because they are aware of what you are and what you do, they are forever inspired, and that is a great gift you are giving our country.”
Harris tried wrapping up her remarks after the pep talk, but Ossoff’s supporters encouraged her to continue – and she did.
“OK, I got some more advice,” she cackled. “In your careers, there will probably be many moments when you are in a room where you are the only person like you. The only person who looks like you, the only person who has had your life experience, but one of the things I require you to remember when you walk in that room: I require you to be you.”
Earlier Thursday, President Trump spoke at a campaign rally in Rock Hill, S.C., in support of Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) in her competitive re-election race against Democratic challenger Annie Andrews.
Meanwhile, Vice President JD Vance headlined a midterm rally in Weatherford, Texas, in support of Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton.
The rallies come as early voting wraps up Friday in several states.
