Vice President Kamala Harris presented a perplexing two-minute monologue during her interview with Oprah Winfrey on Thursday, resulting in an unusually silent response from the live audience. The discussion featured several odd moments, including Harris’s remark about her readiness to use a firearm against any intruder in her home, culminating in her extended and confusing address.

“We love our country. I love our country. I know we all do. That’s why everybody’s here right now. We love our country. We– we take pride in the privilege of being American and this is a moment where [pause] we can and must come together as Americans, understanding we have so much more in common than what separates us. Let’s come together with [pause] the character that we are so proud of about who we are, which is we are an optimistic people,” she began.

“We are an optimistic people. Americans by character are people who have dreams and ambitions and aspirations. We believe in what is possible, we believe in what can be, and we believe in fighting for that,” Harris added.

“That’s how– that’s how we came into being, because the people before us understood that one of the greatest expressions [pause] for the love of our country, one of the greatest expressions of patriotism is to fight for the ideals of who we are, which includes freedom to make decisions about your own body, freedom to be safe from gun violence, freedom to have access to the ballot box, freedom to be who you are and just be the love, who you love, openly and with pride. Freedom to just be,” she said.

Harris went on to conclude: “And that’s who we are; we believe in all that, and so this is a moment where we stand knowing what we are fighting for. We’re not fighting against, it’s what we’re fighting for.”

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