LAURA COATES: All right. tonight’s take comes to us from Elizabeth Spears from The New York Times, who writes this headline: “The Real Reason the Harris Twang Is Driving Republicans Crazy.” Now, in this piece, she argues: “conservatives find her accent infuriating for one very specific reason: because they buy the negative stereotypes. They associate southern accents with less educated working class people who, if they're white, might be racist- and that’s a demographic the conservatives cynically regard as their property.” Unquote. Now Republicans pounce each time she seems to change the way she talks based on her audience. Here she is talking about the same topic on the same day. But in the first clip, she's in Detroit. The second: Pittsburgh.
KAMALA HARRIS (IN DETROIT): You may not be a union member. You better thank a union member. For the five-day work week. You better thank a union member for sick leave. You better thank a union member for paid leave. You better thank a union member for vacation time.
KAMALA HARRIS (IN PITTSBURGH): Thank union members for sick leave. Thank unions for paid family leave. Thank unions for your vacation time.
COATES: Now conservatives would look at this difference in her cadence, in her delivery, and they would point to what they think is evidence of Harris’s lack of authenticity.
