Former Bravo personalities turned podcasters Jennifer Welch and Angie "Pumps" Sullivan stopped by CNN’s Inside Politics on Tuesday to react to their April interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. During the segment with host Dana Bash, Welch would claim that Harris is “carrying the weight” of women across America on her back this election cycle as she campaigns heavily on abortion.
Bash began by playing a clip of Harris on the podcast discussing how she views herself in history. Harris surmised that she is probably the first vice president to use the words “uterus” and “fibroids” in front of reporters, which the trio found greatly hilarious.
Afterwards, she hyped, “I do want to start though with that moment that we just heard. That was, of course, with Vice President Harris, it was in the spring. It was before she became the Democratic nominee for president. It was a pretty rare insight into how she thinks about the historic nature of her position. She’s usually careful not to engage about that because she wants to be seen as a person who is running to be president, not—never mind her gender or her ethnicity. What did you make of her response?”
Welch responded by claiming that Harris is carrying the future of women’s rights on her back:
I thought it was a great question that Angie asked her because I think that when Roe was overturned, the entire segment of females in this country, there was just this panic, this feeling of panic, and lack of rights, lack of control, and she, kind of, inhaled, the vice president, did and exhaled, and you could see it was heavy on her that she felt it more because she was a woman, and so as a woman who lives in a red state with a total abortion ban, that provided comfort for me because I wanted to know that she was carrying the weight of that on her back because we don't have voices in our state that represent us.
It would be creepy enough if Welch had said that the future of womankind was dependent on Harris winning for some glass ceiling-related talking point. That she made it about the ability to kill a baby in the name of convenience is equally nauseating.
Here is a transcript for the September 24 show:
CNN Inside Politics with Dana Bash
9/24/2024
12:44 PM ET
DANA BASH: I do want to start though with that moment that we just heard. That was, of course, with Vice President Harris, it was in the spring. It was before she became the Democratic nominee for president. It was a pretty rare insight into how she thinks about the historic nature of her position. She’s usually careful not to engage about that because she wants to be seen as a person who is running to be president, not--never mind her gender or her ethnicity. What did you make of her response?
JENNIFER WELCH: I thought it was a great question that Angie asked her because I think that when Roe was overturned, the entire segment of females in this country, there was just this panic, this feeling of panic, and lack of rights, lack of control, and she, kind of, inhaled, the vice president, did and exhaled, and you could see it was heavy on her that she felt it more because she was a woman, and so as a woman who lives in a red state with a total abortion ban, that provided comfort for me because I wanted to know that she was carrying the weight of that on her back because we don't have voices in our state that represent us.
