Is Kamala Harris “brat”?
America’s TikTok election just became more interesting
“YOU THINK you just fell out of a coconut tree?”, begins a viral clip of Kamala Harris. It resurfaced in the days after Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance, but this video has a twist. The song “Von dutch”, by a British pop star, Charli XCX, begins to rev in the background. Ms Harris’s signature belly laugh rises up. A lime-green filter with the word “brat”—the cover art and name of XCX’s new album—flashes across the screen.
“You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you,” says Ms Harris. The beat drops. Enter supercuts of Ms Harris.
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This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline “The “brat” vote”
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