Kamala Harris Explains How She Dealt With Trump’s 2016 Victory — And It Involves Doritos

Vice President Kamala Harris just sent the most relatable email of her career.

While it may serve as just another fundraising email for her 2024 presidential election campaign, Harris charmed readers by reminding them of her reaction to the 2016 victory of former President Donald Trump that involved an orange snack food.

“It was incredibly bittersweet,” she wrote in the Friday email. “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,” Harris continued in the fundraising email. “Not even [my husband] Doug [Emhoff]. I just watched the TV with utter shock and dismay.”

While presumptive Harris voters on social media related, another noted the slew of product placements in this year’s race, as Trump’s running mate JD Vance has now praised Diet Mountain Dew repeatedly — and Trump got sidetracked Thursday by a box of Cheerios.

The email nonetheless resounded with those who similarly recall Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss.

“This is so real. I was curled up on the couch with Reeces Peanut Butter Cups and bourbon,” wrote one user on X, formerly Twitter, with another posting: “I think we all relate to that feeling. And a bag of Doritos was more healthy than my bottle of wine that night.”

Kamala Harris, seen here at a recent campaign stop, previously said she often has to eat on the go.

Harris has shared the Doritos story before and recounted it nearly word for word in her 2019 appearance on “Late Night with Seth Meyers.”

Harris does have a well-known taste for Doritos.

The vice president has not only been photographed munching on the cheese-flavored chips before but said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” in 2019 that Doritos are her favorite snack — and that her busy on-the-go schedule often requires her to rely on portable meals.

“I like vegetables,” Harris said at the time. “I like to eat with a knife and fork whenever I can. And I say that because these days, campaigning, I am often eating in the car, ripping open boxes and [choosing] something that can be eaten with one hand.”