Former Vice President Kamala Harris was blasted and ridiculed on social media after delivering what critics called another “Joe Biden moment” during a bizarre appearance at the HumanX AI conference in Las Vegas on Sunday.
It left social media users openly questioning whether Harris was intoxicated during the event.
Harris, making her first major post-election address, shared a strange story on a DoorDash order of nacho cheese Doritos on Oscars night — and tried to compare it to broader issues of technological innovation, but quickly lost the thread and made a “word salad” that was quickly lampooned by critics.
“We did DoorDash ’cause I wanted Doritos, and the red carpet part was about to start, and nobody wanted to leave to go to the grocery store,” Harris told interviewer Nuno Sebastiao, CEO of data science company Feedzai. “So I was willing to give up whatever might be the tracking of Kamala Harris’ particular fondness for nacho cheese Doritos for the sake of getting a big bag of Doritos as I watched the Oscars.”
When Sebastiao tried to steer her rant back to reality, as an example of “consumer behavior,” Harris continued with a rambling response about consumer rights, innovation, disease research, and affordable housing that left many audience members and online commentators baffled.
“Kamala Harris tries to explain what scientific innovation looks like and it sounds like the dumbest thing imaginable. She’s three glasses of wine deep,” wrote one social media user on X.
“Kamala is drunk again,” wrote another.
Conservative commentator Matt Walsh asked followers to envision a scary alternative history: A Kamala Harris presidency.
“Imagine if we had to endure four years of Doritos anecdotes,” he asked. Harris was defeated by President Donald Trump in a landslide in the 2024 election.
Indeed, the 60-year-old former vice president’s Doritos references have become a recurring theme in recent public appearances.
Last August, she paused for a photo-op at a Sheetz convenience store in Pennsylvania, holding up a bag of the chips and declaring, “This is my go-to, the original, nacho cheese.”
She also reportedly consumed “a family-sized bag” by herself on election night 2016.
On March 2, her husband Doug Emhoff shared a photo of Harris with a bag of Doritos on Oscars night, the same snack she referenced in her AI conference anecdote.
Harris’ rambling and incoherent communication style — a theme of the Biden administration — was a significant issue during her presidential campaign, with critics blasting phrases like “unburdened by what has been” and tendency to rant off-topic during public remarks.
“How she managed to lose the 2024 election remains a mystery,” one social media user wrote sarcastically.
The former vice president is reportedly considering a run for California governor to succeed term-limited Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom. Harris will reportedly decide by the end of summer whether to enter the 2026 race.
That is assuming she can stay sober. This is not the first time Kamala Harris’ sobriety has been questioned.
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