Yahoo Lifestyle Kamala Harris reacts to Maya Rudolph's “SNL” impression as “The View ”plays 'vageorgia' clip in interview: 'She's so good'
Harris also slammed Donald Trump during her chat, telling the cohosts he talks about "fictional characters" and "his needs" over Americans' needs.
The View welcomed Vice President Kamala Harris to the Hot Topics table for her first live TV interview since accepting the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, and subsequently (hilariously) played the famed politician a clip of Maya Rudolph saying the word "vageorgia" while impersonating her on Saturday Night Live.
Harris joined all six cohosts — including Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Ana Navarro, and Alyssa Farah Griffin — for the wide-ranging interview, which ended with Behar teeing up footage of Rudolph's acclaimed SNL impression of Harris.
"The cast of Saturday Night Live is delivering for you, I think she's really good. She's spot-on, let's watch her do it," the 82-year-old comedian told Harris, who watched the footage and chuckled at Rudolph's SNL season premiere impersonation.
"I'm so happy to be campaigning in whatever swing state I'm in, which I will just refer to as Wisconsipennsylvageorgia, because I am going to protect your vageorgia," Rudolph said in the clip, which Harris admitted she "hadn't seen" before sitting at The View table.
"Maya Rudolph, she's so good, she had the whole thing, the suit, the jewelry, the mannerisms," Harris said, giving the actress her stamp of approval.
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Kamala Harris on 'The View'; Maya Rudolph on 'SNL'Elsewhere in the interview, Harris, 59, slammed her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, for preferring "to run on problems instead of fixing problems," she estimated.
"He's not solution-oriented," she said. "And again, I'll invite people, if you really need to know how he thinks, since he doesn't do these kinds of interviews, watch his rallies."
Harris went on to accuse Trump of "perpetuating lies and misinformation" and criticized him for referencing fictional characters in his speeches.
"What he does not talk about is you," she continued. "He does not talk about what you need, he does not talk about what your parents need, what your children need. That's not what he talks about. He doesn't talk about your child's needs. He talks about his needs. Back to the point, in this election, people are ready for a new generation of leadership that's about fixing problems."
Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for Trump for a response.
Harris previously made headlines for a 2021 appearance on The View which began with Hostin and Navarro being asked to leave the table ahead of Harris' interview after reportedly testing positive for COVID, though Hostin later said both tests were false positives.
Since its 1997 debut, The View has evolved to become one of the most important political programs in the country, with many politicians, presidential candidates, and even sitting presidents stopping by the show for high-profile interviews, dating as far back to Barack Obama sitting for an interview during his presidency in 2010, to more recent guests like Hillary Clinton and President Joe Biden, who joined the show in late September.
The current panel of The View has long shown support for Harris ahead of the upcoming election, particularly amid sustained criticism from Trump and his VP pick J.D. Vance — both of whom the panel have also repeatedly derided amid the current political cycle, for everything from his resurfaced 2021 quotes about "childless cat ladies" running Democratic politics to, during the VP debate against Tim Walz, his refusal to admit Trump lost the 2020 election.
Just last week, Behar urged undecided voters to follow the lead of Republican politician Liz Cheney, who also recently endorsed Harris at a campaign event.
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"Just do it this one time, do it this one time. Vote for the Democrat to save the country. Listen to Liz Cheney," Behar said last week at the Hot Topics table, before directing her point to Griffin, who previously worked under Trump at the White House. "When everything goes back to normal, then become a Republican again, like Alyssa will become."
Griffin later replied, stressing that she's "still a Republican" who doesn't "believe it's my job to tell people how to vote, but to give them the facts," she said. "I have facts, having worked closely with him, that they may not know. I feel that's my duty to the country."
The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC.
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