Kamala Harris is being called out on social media after saying during a speech that voters “got what they asked for” by electing her and Joe Biden to office.
At a Black History Month event at the White House, Kamala Harris brought up Biden’s recent nomination of Judge Ketanji Jackson to the Supreme Court. If she is confirmed, Jackson would be the first black woman to sit on the highest court in the land.
During the speech, Harris noted what she viewed as “the assault on the freedom to vote” in the U.S. and then mentioned Jackson.
“And that is why I felt such pride and such hope — understanding how votes lead to action through elections — it is why I felt such pride and such hope this past Friday when President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson… to sit on the United States Supreme Court,” she said as the audience clapped. “Because, as we all know, elections matter. And when folks vote, they order what they want. And in this case, they got what they asked for.”
As the crowd continued to clap, Harris admitted that she “went off script a little bit” and then let loose with her familiar and unbelievably uncomfortable laugh.
It’s not clear which of her words she was referring to when she said she “went off script,” but one could argue Harris meant Jackson’s nomination when she said voters “got what they asked for.” However, there’s a bit of a factual problem with that conclusion.
According to The Blaze:
Because even though Biden made it a campaign promise that he would choose a black woman as his first Supreme Court nominee, a recent poll showed the vast majority of Americans — 76% — wanted Biden to “consider all possible nominees” and not nominate anyone to the high court based solely on race or gender. Only 23% of the ABC News/Ipsos poll respondents wanted Biden to stick with his campaign promise.
So exactly how is Jackson’s nomination what voters “asked for”? If that’s not what Harris meant, has the Biden/Harris administration given voters “what they asked for” so far?
Response
Social media quickly lit up with responses to Harris’ ridiculous statement, with critics pointing out exactly what Americans didn’t “ask for” when they supposedly elected Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Here are just a few of the thousands of responses:
The American people didn’t ask for any of this:
Record Inflation
Record border crisis
Closed schools
A war on American energy
Afghanistan disaster
Russia invasion of Ukraine https://t.co/hahTDoG2rC— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 28, 2022
Yes, elections do matter! And in November, we’ll see that no one asked for the Democrats’ soaring inflation, closed schools & masked kids, record crime, or war on American energy. It’ll be a referendum on Biden’s complete and total failure. https://t.co/7o7HIVOqdN
— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@SarahHuckabee) March 1, 2022
Gonna see this in about every GOP campaign in America. https://t.co/0s4ldYwM9S
— Josh Holmes (@HolmesJosh) February 28, 2022
