Kamala Harris: Only Doritos Got Me Through Election Night 2016
Kamala Harris has revealed her coping mechanism for defeat by Donald Trump: a family-sized bag of Doritos.
The Democratic presidential candidate used a fundraising email to describe how she reacted to political defeat in 2016—not her own, but Hillary Clinton’s. The subject line for recipients was “A giant bag of Doritos.”
“Do you remember the day after Donald Trump was elected?” Harris, or at least her campaign team, said in the email. “I do. It was election night for me as well. It was incredibly bittersweet. 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.’