The general consensus is that Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders meant to disparage, rather than praise, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris as the VP visits Africa this week in her official capacity. Instead, Sanders called Kamala Harris a great patriot, stating that Harris loves her country more than all the other countries.
Shown footage during her Fox News interview of Harris interacting with African citizens, Gov. Sanders said of Harris: “I wish that she cared as much about other countries and their success as she did our own.”
[Patriotism: “The feeling of love, devotion, and sense of attachment to one’s country.”]
Oops.
— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) March 29, 2023
The governor meant to say she wished VP Harris cared as much about our country as she does about others. Nepo baby Sarah Huckabee Sanders can’t even get her snide jokes right. But she did get in a southern border snipe. https://t.co/rkSDuEXcwb
Did Sanders slip, meaning to characterize Harris as non-patriotic and then just mix up her words? Given that Fox posted a headline quoting Sanders from the interview that reads White House sends Kamala abroad so she doesn’t create more problems, it’s safe to say yes.
Sanders cemented the suspicion that her praise of the Vice President was inadvertent by saying of Harris: “It would be nice instead of travelling all over the world she would travel to our southern border.”
