Speaking during the Tuesday, September 3 White House press briefing, Fox News Channel Senior White House Correspondent Peter Doocy pressed White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre about Vice President Kamala Harris, namely on whether her seemingly changing voice, which sometimes includes hints of a southern twang when she’s in the southeast on the campaign trail, is how she speaks when in meetings.
Doocy’s question, which put KJP on the defensive, came after people online pointed to various videos of Kamala showing that she seems to speak in one way while in some places and another in others. Recently, that took the form of her seeming to use a slight southern accent in Detroit and another voice in Pittsburg while on the campaign trail. Some viewers argued that her voice changes show she’s attempting to pander to certain crowds on the campaign trail.
Broaching the matter during the Tuesday press briefing, Doocy asked KJP, “Since when does the vice president have what sounds like a Southern accent?” KJP first denied any knowledge of what Doocy was asking about, despite it becoming a highly popular issue recently, snapping at him, “I have no idea what you’re talking about.”
Continuing after denying any knowledge of the subject, KJP asked Doocy whether the Kamala accent question was an important one for America. She asked, “Do you think Americans seriously think this is an important question?” Her dismissal comes amidst the public caring a great deal about issues like Bidenflation and poor job numbers for the economy.
Then, after dismissing the question, saying that merely “hearing” Doocy’s question “sounds so ridiculous,” Doocy again attempted to press her, saying, “Well, but, hearing it, is –” At that point, KJP cut him off in the midst of his attempt to describe why the question is important and interesting, snapping, “The question, just the question is insane.”
Doocy, following up on his previous attempt to describe the importance, changed tacks and asked if the southern twang is what Kamala uses behind closed doors in meetings. He asked, “Is that how she talks in meetings here?” KJP, unsurprisingly, refused to give him a straight answer about Kamala’s voice changes in front of crowds and behind closed doors.
Watch Doocy and KJP spar over the matter here:
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Drawing attention to the matter of Kamala’s voice, conservative Alex Bruexewitz posted side-by-side videos of Kamala saying much the same thing in Pittsburgh and Detroit but with different voices. In Detroit, she told the crowd, with a slight southern accent, “Let’s just get through the next 64 days, how ’bout that?” Then, in Pittsburgh and with a different voice, Harris said, “So friends, 64 days until the most … election of our lives.”
Watch that here:
Responding to Alex’s post, commenters dropped jokes like “Perfectly normal accent for an Indian woman who grew up in Canada. Geeze Alex 
” and more serious comments like “As a lifelong resident of Michigan, there is not an accent like the one she tried to FAKE. How insulting to our Great Lakes state.” Another said, “Kamala believes the accent changes are effective. Or someone told her they’re effective. Either way, Kamala’s demonstrating that she has no philosophical grounding. She’ll shift into whatever she thinks will help her win. There’s nothing there. She’s a total fabrication.”
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video