Podcast host and former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly slammed what she called Kamala Harris’s “new accent,” saying the former vice president is using “street accents” to appeal to black voters.
“She’s got to go full black accent, blaccent,” Kelly said on the Megyn Kelly Show Tuesday.
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Kelly’s comments came after Harris attended the Power Rising summit in Chicago, Illinois, on Sunday. According to the summit’s website: “Power Rising provides a space for Black women to turn power into action and create an actionable agenda to be implemented in their communities.”
Harris said to attendees while seemingly debuting the new accent: “We’re gon’ win the midterms. It’s gon’ be difficult.”
Harris said that, for some people, a flaw in human nature is being transactional and focused on personal gain. She suggested Democrats could also use the strategy.
“Their mantra is ‘I’m gon’ get mine,” Harris said. “I think it’s okay for us to be a bit transactional too. And to say, ‘I’m gon’ get mine also.’”
“She’s so repetitive, and she inserts so many phrases in her sentences that are unnecessary, and I think it’s a nervous tic to buy time because she can’t think quickly enough,” Kelly said.
“Honestly, I picture somebody like Professor Carol Swain looking at this like, ‘How dare you imitate me in this way,” Kelly added. “How dare you pander to me with these fake, bizarre street accents as though that represents the black experience?”
Harris has been criticized for using accents before, including by Vice President JD Vance during the 2024 election campaign.
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Kelly said this type of behavior from Harris may signal that she is going to run in the 2028 election.
“She’s playing the black woman card to a bunch of black women,” Kelly said. “She’s basically saying, ‘Don’t let them take your vote for granted. We matter, and we should get ours.’”
