Kamala Harris Pushes Back When CNN Asks About ‘Insult’ Hurled By Critics ‘That You Are Incapable’

Vice President Kamala Harris pushed back — with a laugh — when CNN host Laura Coates asked about attacks insinuating “that you are incapable” of assuming the presidency if need be.

On Monday night’s edition of CNN’s Laura Coates Live, Coates aired her exclusive interview with the VP, and asked about political rivals who level her VP role as an attack by saying “a vote for President Biden is a vote for President Kamala Harris”:

HARRIS:

But it matters. It matters. And elections matter. The voice of the American people matter, and one of the ways that we all express our voice is through our vote.

COATES: Let me ask you one more question. It — I’m struck just in your presence, the — I was watching you on stage, and watching the reactions from the crowd.

HARRIS: Uh-huh.

COATES: Looking you in the eye with your passion that you were displaying and talking about so many issues.

And yet, you hear candidates suggesting that a vote for President Biden, because of his age, is somehow a vote for you. And that is hurled as an insult. It’s intended to demonstrate some negative viewpoint towards you.

What is your reaction to this thought that with your background, in particular, with your career, that there is some thought that you are incapable?

HARRIS: Well, I think that most women who have risen in their profession, who are leaders in their profession, have had similar experiences. I was the first woman to be elected district attorney. I was the first woman to be elected attorney general in the state of California, and I’m the first woman to be vice president.

And I love my job.

(LAUGHTER)

COATES: Enough said.

Thank you so much for the time.

HARRIS: Thank you.

COATES: I really do appreciate it. Thank you.

HARRIS: Thank you.

Watch above via CNN’s Laura Coates Live.