Kamala Harris has largely stayed out of the public eye since her loss to Donald Trump on November 5. Her rare appearances have made headlines, however, for their awkwardness (see: this video message and this word salad), and her latest was no exception.
While presiding over a swearing-in ceremony for newly elected senators on Friday, the vice president appeared to flub the words to the Pledge of Allegiance. On Monday’s show, Megyn was joined by Glenn Greenwald, host of Rumble’s System Update, to discuss the fumble and all that has gone wrong for Harris these last four years.
Pledge Problems
As vice president, Harris also serves as the president of the U.S. Senate. Before swearing in the senators of the 119th Congress on Friday, the former Democratic nominee for president led the chamber in the pledge and seemingly mixed up its opening line that states: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.”
Video of the fumble quickly went viral on social media:
“Join me in pledging allegiance to our flag,” Harris said before turning towards the stars and stripes. After a brief pause, she began to speak. “I pledge allegiance to the United States…” she said incorrectly before picking it back up at a later point.
Megyn said there is no excuse for the blunder. “This woman… doesn’t know the pledge or she says it so infrequently that she forgot it in the moment. I’m sorry, but it was ridiculous,” she said. “It is what kids used to say every day in elementary school, including yours truly and my little guy did too at his elementary school. But… I guess they didn’t do that up in Canada where she was raised.”
The Truth About Harris
In Greenwald’s view, the verbal miscue illustrated what has plagued Harris’ political career. “This is kind of an intangible, but I think one of the biggest problems with Kamala Harris as a politician is that she was constantly petrified of saying something that would bring embarrassment to her,” he explained. “And that insecurity generally comes from a lack of knowledge. If you are supposed to know about something but you don’t, you want to be as vague as possible.”
While he said she may be an expert in the law from her career as a prosecutor, she was out of her depth as vice president. “She never thought about, studied, or got involved with foreign policy, economic policy, immigration policies, curing the root causes in Central America of instability and poverty in those countries – the things that she was supposed to be able to speak on,” Greenwald noted. “She knew she was a fraud. And that is why, for three years, we never heard from her – except in the most scripted ways.”
While Joe Biden may be taking the fall for Democrats not winning the 2024 election, Greenwald said Harris is to blame for (1) not being honest about her boss’ cognitive decline and (2) not knowing how to run for office. “She is a terrible politician,” he concluded. “She knows almost nothing, and the entire attempt to foist her on the country with no votes, no debates, no democracy was at least as bad as what the media did in concealing Joe Biden’s mental decline.”
You can check out Megyn’s full interview with Greenwald by tuning in to episode 976 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.