Vice President Kamala Harris giggled when she was asked how she dealt with the stress of the campaign trail on Monday night.
With just over two weeks to go before the 2024 presidential election and the race in a dead heat Harris spent her evening in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, alongside Republican Liz Cheney who has become one of Harris´ fiercest advocates.
Both Harris and Cheney were interviewed by Maria Shriver, the former first lady of California under Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who asked the Democratic nominee about what she is doing to de-stress.
‘Everybody I talk to says “I have to turn off the news, I can’t read anything, I’m meditating, I’m doing yoga, I’m so anxious I just don’t even know, I’m eating gummies, all kinds of things,” the evening’s moderator Maria Shriver said.
‘What are you doing?’ Shriver asked.
The crowd laughed with Harris cackling, ‘Not eating gummies!’
While Harris might not be eating gummies, marijuana is legal in the state of Michigan, something Harris came out in support of nationally last week.
During the 2020 presidential campaign, Harris said that she had smoked in college.
However, Harris admitted she was feeling the pressure of the ongoing campaign.
‘I wake up in the middle of the night usually these days, just to be honest with you,’ the vice president admitted to an audience of supporters.
Harris told Shriver that Americans should not despair and that everyone in a Democracy has the ability to make a decision about the future through their votes.
‘Let’s not feel powerless,’ she said. ‘That’s not in our nature.
‘In a democracy … the people, every individual, has the power to make a decision about what this will be,’ she said. “So let’s not feel powerless.’
‘We rise to a moment and we stand on broad shoulders of people who have fought this fight before for our country,’ Harris added.
‘Let us look at the challenge then that we are being presented and not be overwhelmed by it. The baton is now in our hands to fight for not against.’
