Actress Mindy Kaling, best known for “The Office,” recalled how she “hit it off immediately” with Vice President Kamala Harris when they first met to make dosas, a South Indian dish, for an Instagram video.
The speech was made during a speech at the Democratic Party National Convention this Wednesday (21).
“It’s not every day that a senator comes in, and I was really nervous. But when she came in, we hit it off right away,” Kaling said, adding that they talked about their mothers — both immigrants from India who died of cancer.
She shared that after speaking with the then-senator, “it became clear” that Harris’ mother, Shyamala Gopalan, “passed that same optimism and fearlessness on to her daughter.”
But Kaling said the most memorable thing about that day was how well Kamala Harris cooks and her treatment. “She was so much better than me,” Kaling said, noting that Harris made a point of praising her in front of her daughter.
“She had no desire to be seen as better than anyone else. She just wanted my daughter to be impressed by her mother,” the actress said.
“It is this warmth and generosity of spirit that I know she will bring to the White House as our next president,” she added.
Criticism of Donald Trump’s speech
Kaling also mocked former President Donald Trump’s remarks questioning Harris’ racial identity at a Black journalists’ conference last month, introducing herself as an actress and “the woman who bravely outed Kamala Harris as Indian in an Instagram cooking video.”
The actress is one of four celebrity hosts chosen to emcee one night of the Democratic Convention.
Kaling is a longtime supporter of Vice President Kamala Harris. In 2019, the actress told Jake Tapper of CNN, who supported the then-senator among a crowded field of Democratic presidential hopefuls.
This content was originally published in Mindy Kaling, from “The Office”, recalls a personal moment with Kamala Harris in a speech on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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