Holy “holistic,” Kamala.
The vice president and Democratic presidential nominee was mocked Wednesday night over her rapid-fire deployment of the word “holistic” during a friendly interview with MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle.
During an extended answer about housing, Harris used the SAT word — which refers to connections and complete systems rather than separate topics — three times in 23 seconds.
“Some of the work is going to be through what we do in terms of giving benefits and assistance to state and local governments around transit dollars, and looking holistically at the connection between that and housing,” the 59-year-old rambled, “and looking holistically at the incentives we in the federal government can create for local and state governments to actually engage in planning in [a] holistic manner that includes prioritizing affordable housing for working people.”
Republicans and conservatives mocked Harris for using the word as a crutch.
“Kamala appears to have just learned the word ‘holistically,’” the Trump campaign account Trump War Room wrote on X.
“When Kamala Harris learns a new word, it’s painfully obvious. Here she uses the word ‘holistic’ three times,” podcaster Eric Matheny posted along with a clip of the interview.
“The only thing shocking to me about this is that MSNBC aired it,” commented Red State senior editor Brandon Morse.
“Kamala has learned the word holistic, guys. Proceeds to use it three times in under thirty seconds. Intelligent people don’t talk like this. People trying to pretend to be intelligent do though,” Outkick founder Clay Travis chimed in.
The MSNBC interview was the first solo sitdown Harris has taken part in with a national outlet since replacing President Biden on the Democratic ticket.
Her campaign has been criticized for dodging the press and only choosing outlets who will give her softball questions, but they have argued that they have spoken to a wide variety of nontraditional media..
The vice president has done a total of eight recognized interviews since Biden stepped down from the race, including an interview with CNN alongside her running mate Tim Walz, three local radio hits, a sit down with Philadelphia’s ABC station, Spanish-language radio host Chiquibaby and a three-person panel at a gathering of the National Association of Black Journalists.
