Supporters weigh in on Kamala Harris snack food revelation

Efforts are afoot to make Democratic Party candidates Kamala Harris and Tim Walz come across to voters as down-to-earth, relatable figures, but the latest such attempt has prompted significant debate.

As the Daily Mail reports, controversy erupted after the Harris campaign revealed that in the wake of the “shock and dismay” of the 2016 election of former President Donald Trump, the current Democratic Party hopeful scarfed a bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos, a disclosure that set the Internet ablaze.

Unusual fundraising pitch, unusual snack

It was on Friday evening that the campaign dispatched a fundraising email containing an account of Harris' reaction to the election of Trump, her opponent in the current presidential cycle.

The message described that particular election night as “incredibly bittersweet" for the woman who had just won a seat in the U.S. Senate.

“When I took the stage for my acceptance speech – to represent California in the Senate – I tore up my notes prepared to read and I just took the stage and said, 'We will fight.'”

The email to supporters went on, “Then I went home and I sat on the couch with a family-sized bag of nacho Doritos. And I did not share one chip with anybody. ...And I just watched the TV in uttter shock and dismay.”

Going for that folksy vibe, Harris added, “Two things are true eight years later: I still love Doritos and we still have not stopped fighting.”

Mixed reactions pour in

Harris received a good measure of support regarding her snack food endorsement, with one X poster saying simply, “I love Doritos. I'm with Kamala” and another suggesting they felt a common thread with the VP over their shared love of the savory treat.

Another poster took issue on with the fact that Kamala did not favor Cool Ranch flavor Doritos over the Nacho Cheese variety.

Former co-host of The View, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, however, was not impressed with the attempt to connect with the rank and file, saying, “That's the emotional response of the leader of the free world – to binge-eat a bag of Doritos?”

She jokingly added that she had her doubts that Vladimir Putin reaches for a container of Sour Patch Kids or that Qasem Soleimani ever found comfort in Funyuns during times of global strain.

The Harris campaign does not seem ready to abandon the Doritos schtick anytime soon, however, with ABC News reporting that the VP and her running mate made a stop at a Sheetz convenience store in Pennsylvania over the weekend as part of a campaign bus tour, making sure to be captured on video scouring the shelves for, you guessed it, Doritos.