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NEW YORK (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris has made an unannounced travel to New York to look connected “ Saturday Night Live,” concisely stepping distant from the battleground states wherever she’s been campaigning with conscionable 3 days to spell earlier the election.
Harris departed connected Air Force Two aft a run halt connected Saturday successful Charlotte, North Carolina. She was scheduled to caput to Detroit, but erstwhile the craft was successful the air, aides said it was really going to New York.
Her quality connected the amusement was confirmed by 3 radical acquainted with Harris' plans who were not authorized to talk publically astir them. It is the last SNL occurrence earlier Election Day connected Tuesday.
Actor Maya Rudolph archetypal played Harris connected the amusement successful 2019 and has reprised her relation this season, doing a spot-on content of the vice president, including calling herself “Momala.”
Rudolph opened the show’s play premiere with the line: “Well, well, well. Look who fell retired of that coconut tree.” And she’s joked astir keeping President Joe Biden successful his place.
Harris' husband, 2nd man Doug Emhoff, has been played by erstwhile formed subordinate Andy Samberg and Biden is played by Dana Carvey, who besides famously played then-President George H.W. Bush successful the aboriginal 1990s.
Rudolph's show has won captious and comedic acclaim — including from Harris herself.
“Maya Rudolph — I mean, she’s truthful good,” Harris said past period connected ABC's “The View.” “She had the full thing, the suit, the jewelry, everything!”
Harris added that she was impressed with Rudolph’s “mannerisms."
Politicians person a agelong past connected SNL, including Harris’ Republican opponent, erstwhile President Donald Trump, who hosted the amusement successful 2015.
Hillary Clinton was moving for president successful the 2008 Democratic superior erstwhile she appeared adjacent to Amy Poehler, who played her connected the amusement and offered a trademark, exaggerated cackle. The existent Clinton wondered during her appearance, “Do I truly laughter similar that?”
Clinton returned successful 2016, portion moving against Trump successful a contention she yet lost.
The archetypal sitting president to look connected Saturday Night Live was Republican Gerald Ford, who did truthful little than a twelvemonth aft the amusement debuted. Ford appeared connected April 17, 1976, and declared the show’s celebrated opening, “Live from New York.”
Barack Obama was inactive conscionable a Democratic statesmanlike campaigner erstwhile helium appeared successful February 2008, and Republican Bob Dole made an quality successful 1996 -- a specified 11 days aft losing that year’s predetermination to Democrat Bill Clinton. Dole consoled Norm Macdonald who played the Kansas legislator connected the show.
Then determination was Tina Fey’s 2008 content of vice statesmanlike campaigner Sarah Palin — and successful peculiar her gag that “I tin spot Russia from my house.” It was truthful bully that Fey won an Emmy award. Palin herself appeared connected the amusement that season, successful the weeks earlier the election.
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Long, Miller and Weissert reported from Washington.
