Vice President Kamala Harris was ripped online after she offered a confusing consolation for Californians besieged by ongoing fires on Monday.
President Biden, Harris and White House officials gave remarks during a briefing on the federal response to the wildfires across Los Angeles. Many people, including celebrities, have lost their homes in the Pacific Palisades area as wildfires continue to rage there and elsewhere in Los Angeles County, burning more than 27,000 acres, destroying over 10,000 structures and killing at least 25 people, according to local officials.
Harris argued that, amid all of this, her fellow Californians must remember that this is a time to be “patient.”
“Lots of people who still have a home who are under evacuation order, I know you want to get back home, but this is a time to be patient,” she said. “There is still so much work that firefighters, police officers, FEMA, and others are doing that is about search and rescue. The work that still needs to be done to ensure the safety around utility lines — this work is still very much in progress.”
She then offered a confusing statement some would refer to as one of her trademark “word salads” in telling those affected by the fires, “It’s critically important that, to the extent you can find anything that gives you an ability to be patient in this extremely dangerous and unprecedented crisis, that you do.”
Was drinking involved? Or is Kamala always confused?