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Kamala Tells Bizarre Story About Zoo Animals During First Speech In Months

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris is a woman unchained from responsibility, but she couldn’t help feeling empathy for some zoo animals she spoke of in a bizarre moment contained within her first public speech since leaving office.

Now a free agent for the first time in years, Harris is off the public dole and weighing her next bid for office. Wednesday night’s speech before Emerge America’s 20th anniversary gala was ostensibly intended to land a counterpunch against President Donald Trump, the man who tossed her out of the White House in November.

Instead, the quixotic Democrat fell back on her old ways, spinning off into a tangent about a video she saw recently on social media where a herd of elephants crowded together during an earthquake to protect their fellow members.

“A lot of folks are wondering what’s going to guide us through this moment. How are we all going to figure out how to chart the course?” Harris said during her Wednesday address in San Francisco. “Please allow me, friends, to digress for a moment.”

“OK, it’s kind of dark in here, but I’m ask[ing] for a show of hands — who saw that video from a couple of weeks ago, the one of the elephants at the San Diego Zoo during the earthquake? Google it if you’ve not seen it,” she then said with a cackle.

Harris said the herd “felt the earth shaking beneath their feet,” and as a result, they “got in a circle and stood next to each other to protect the most vulnerable.”

“What a powerful metaphor,” she said. “Because we know those who try to incite fear are most effective when they divide and conquer, when they separate the herd, when they try to make everyone think they are alone.”

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The former veep’s storybook metaphor was certainly a head-scratcher at a time when party elite were waiting to see whether Harris could shed her habit of word salads and meet the moment. She currently leads most polls among Democrats asked who they’d prefer to see run for president in 2028.

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Her homespun Aesop’s fable contrasted with darker imagery presented on Wednesday as she listed off the perceived transgressions by Trump in his first 100 days. His tariffs, Harris said, have caused “the greatest manmade economic crisis in modern presidential history,” while also accusing him of a “wholesale abandonment” of American democracy and instituting a constitutional crisis, according to the NY Post.

“Americans across the political spectrum are declaring that the president’s reckless tariffs hurt workers and families by raising the cost of everyday essentials, devastate the retirement accounts that people spent a lifetime paying into, and paralyze American businesses, large and small,” Harris said in between some of her classic cackles.

At the same time, she urged Democrats not to be “duped that everything is chaos,” and that the GOP “agenda that has been decades in the making.”

After the election, Harris stated it is “not in my nature to go quietly into the night” and has stoked rumors that she is preparing to run for governor of California in 2026, where Gavin Newsom is term-limited. Allies say she views the perch as a powerful one from which to potentially run for president two years later, but she may have to contend with new evidence that even California voters aren’t keen on voting for a staunch anti-Trump governor.