Harris says in fundraising email she ate ‘a family-sized bag of nacho Doritos’ on night of Trump election

Vice President Harris said in a fundraising email sent Friday that she ate “a family-sized bag of nacho Doritos” the night of the 2016 election.

In the email, Harris questions whether recipients remember their own emotions and reactions to Donald Trump’s win over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in that presidential cycle.

“It was election night for me as well,” Harris says in the email. “It was incredibly bittersweet. When I took the stage for my acceptance speech — to represent California in the Senate — I tore up my notes. I just said, ‘We will fight.’”

“Then I went home and I sat on the couch with a family-sized bag of nacho Doritos. I did not share one chip with anybody. Not even [second gentleman] Doug [Emhoff]. I just watched the TV with utter shock and dismay,” Harris continued. “Two things are true eight years later: I still love Doritos and we still have not stopped fighting.”

After four years in the Senate, Harris was chosen as presidential nominee Joe Biden’s running mate in 2020. She became vice president when that ticket defeated Trump.

Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race last month and endorsed Harris as his successor. The change has dramatically shifted the presidential race, with Harris moving into the lead over Trump nationally and in some swing states.

Harris is now leading Trump in an average of national polls from The Hill/Decision Desk HQ by 1.8 points, with the vice president garnering 49 percent support to the former president’s 47.2 percent support.

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