WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris revealed Monday that she suffered from insomnia after President Biden endorsed her as his successor — and that she was sleep deprived the morning she picked her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
Harris, 59, told “All The Smoke” hosts Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson that she made her “gut” decision to select Walz after being unable to sleep much the night before, waking up early that Tuesday morning in Washington and using cooking to calm her mind.
“From the time that the president called me and told me he wasn’t running, I mean, it’s just like everything was in speedy, speedy motion, and I was not sleeping so well,” Harris told the basketball stars, who both played for the Harris-supported Golden State Warriors.
“And that one morning I just, I mean, I had, I don’t know, a few hours’ sleep — and I, you know, I like to sleep. I just got up,” she said. “I was like — so I just went out and got a pork roast and started marinating it.”
“And my family were all going to be in town, so they were very happy about the whole situation, but I just got up and started — everybody’s asleep, I just got up and started cooking,” she rambled on.
The Democratic presidential nominee has used her passion for cooking as a way to attempt to connect to voters — including visiting a spice shop in the Pittsburgh, Pa., area while preparing for her Sept. 10 debate against former President Donald Trump.
She previously told a story about Biden calling her to say he was dropping out and supporting her for the presidency just after finishing pancakes with her family.
Harris is neck-and-neck with Trump, 78, in national and swing-state polls ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
America’s possible first female president also said in the podcast interview that she manages her stress with regular morning exercise and “a prayer that comes in after that every day.”
“Number one rule, don’t read the comments,” Harris said.
