Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris lectured Hurricane Helene’s victims on falling for so-called “misinformation” on prime-time US television last night.
The incumbent Vice President, as she shared tins of beer with “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert, was pushed on her opinions on Helene – which has devastated much of the southern US – and the incoming Category 5 Hurricane Milton.
Having already visited areas affected by the first hurricane, she then told off victims of Helene for believing what she called Republicans’ “misinformation” about the state of US emergency response agency Fema in the storm’s aftermath.
She told viewers: “First of all, to all of those folks in North Carolina and Georgia, please know that people on the ground with Fema are there to help you… You are entitled to it.
Harris and Colbert said cheers as Hurricane Milton barrelled towards FloridaCBS“There’s a lot of information and I beseech you, I beg you not to listen to it.”
Later on, Harris laughed as host Colbert presented some beers for the pair to share on his desk after stating that 2024 was a “vibes election”.
Colbert joked: “Elections, I think, are won on vibes… Because one of the old saws is they just want somebody they can have a beer with.
He then asked: “So… Would you like to have a beer with me so I can tell people what that’s like?”
Colbert then produced two cans of American lager Miller High Life – which the Vice President had apparently requested.
Harris told the prime-time host how the last time she’d had a beer was at a baseball game with her husband Doug Emhoff.
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Hurricane Milton was pictured approaching Fort Myers in Florida just hours after Harris’s late-night appearance
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Harris tore into Trump for saying “he wants to be a dictator on day one” on the Howard Stern show earlier that day
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After taking a sip and toasting with Colbert, she jubilantly announced the brand’s decades-old slogan: “The champagne of beers!”
Her late-night toast followed some earlier talk-show campaigning, with Harris labelling her Republican challenger Donald Trump a “loser” who has said “he wants to be a dictator on day one” on the Howard Stern show earlier that day.
There, she warned audiences: “Understand what dictators do: They jail journalists, they put people who are protesting in the street in jail.”
Harris laid into Trump, who appears to be narrowly nipping at her heels in American national polling aggregates, for refusing to accept the results of the last election by echoing her supporters’ chants at her recent rallies.
“When you’ve lost millions of jobs, you lost manufacturing, you lost automotive plans, what does that make you? A loser,” she said.
Harris labelled her Republican challenger Donald Trump a “loser”
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Despite her politicking, Hurricane Milton – as of Wednesday evening – is mere hours from making landfall in Florida.
The storm, which threatens to devastate parts of the US already weakened by Helene, re-strengthened into a Category 5 yesterday afternoon, local time.
Milton’s outer reaches have already spawned tornados and lashed the region with rain and wind hours ahead of the hurricane’s expected landfall near Tampa Bay, where it could herald a life-threatening metres-tall surge of seawater across thousands upon thousands of homes.