WATCH: Kamala’s ‘Big Speech’ Gets Undercut As Sirens Go Off In The Background

Vice President Kamala Harris suffered an embarrassing moment during her “closing argument” speech in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, as she struggled to speak over sirens blaring in the background.

Harris gathered voters and D.C. bureaucrats at the Ellipse Hotel in Washington D.C. on Tuesday evening for a rally not far from the White House. The vice president framed the speech as the most important in her campaign and bussed in thousands of supporters to drive the point home.

Her speech got off on the wrong track, however, as the vice president was drowned out by sirens going off nearby.  “One week from today, you will have the chance to make a decision that directly impacts your life, the life of your family, and the future of this country we love,” Harris said as the sirens blared.

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Kamala’s high-stakes speech has been largely overshadowed by comments made by her boss, as President Biden labeled tens of millions of Trump supporters as “garbage” in an interview with CNN. The president was reacting to a jokes made by insult comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at the former president’s rally in Madison Square Garden, specifically reacting to a comment made about Puerto Rico.

“They’re good, decent, honorable people,” President Biden said of Puerto Ricans. “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.”

The White House has been scrambling to claim that the president’s comments were taken out of context, even though his statement is on video. “Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage—which is the only word I can think of to describe it,” Biden wrote in an X post as outrage over his statement mounted. “His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation.”

Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump's supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage—which is the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That's all I meant to say. The…

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 30, 2024

In addition to President Biden taking the oxygen out of his former running mate’s speech, several political commentators questioned the optics of Harris’ choice of a D.C. venue given her desire to distance herself from the Biden-Harris Administration.

“I hate to be the skunk at the garden party, but I think, you know, I plan political events for a living and I think this was political malpractice to put her in front of this White House,” veteran political analyst and CNN contributor Brad Todd told fellow panelists. “68 percent of Americans think that the country’s on the wrong track and they blame Joe Biden and increasingly they’re blaming Kamala Harris. By standing in front of that White House tonight, she’s going to own all 68 percent of that disapproval.”

Todd further noted that Washington D.C. is far from representative of the rest of America. “And you know, I think it’s a comfort reason. I think Northwest Washington, D.C. is about her best precinct in America. Everybody likes her there. She should have been in the Union Lodge in Philadelphia or Pittsburgh tonight. That would have done her a lot more good,” he added.

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