So, of course she’s going to be comfortable, be herself, walk around, crack jokes in the middle of a sentence.”Īlencia Johnson, a former Biden campaign senior adviser, said she hopes the administration (and campaign) takes Harris’ performance and the reception as proof positive they need to make sure they let her loose during the next 18 months. When she’s here, she sees kids that look up to her. She feels comfortable around us because unlike the outside world, we don’t judge her,” freshman student Jomalee Smith said. “I feel like when she’s around Howard students, she feels at home. The first vice president to hail from a historically Black college or university spoke to a packed auditorium of students and reproductive rights advocates on Howard’s campus in Washington, D.C., to multiple standing ovations and shouts of “H-U!” She responded: “You know!”Īttendees who’d seen Harris speak before say she felt like a different speaker Tuesday: That she was laid back in a way they hadn’t seen before and tied that to her being in the same auditorium that she had freshman orientation in. Six weeks into a pregnancy? Well, clearly most of them don’t even know how a woman’s body works because most women don’t even know they’re pregnant at that stage of a pregnancy,” Harris said to a raucous applause.įor Harris, the event was a bit of a homecoming. “They’re also saying they’re going to ban abortion.

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