In Royal Oak, Michigan, Maria Shriver met with Liz Cheney and Kamala Harris and asked the Vice President how she’s handling the anxiety surrounding the upcoming November election. The two joked about gummies, and then Harris explained that, like most of us, she does “wake up in the night.”
Harris also works out in the morning for her “mind, body, and spirit,” and she “eats well.” She said that she loves her family, but they aren’t together every day now since they’re covering a lot of ground. She also had some inspiring words for the rest of us who may have bitten off our nails or climbed a wall or two due to anxiety.
“Let me just speak to what people are feeling,” she said. “We cannot despair. We cannot despair. You know, the nature of a democracy is such that I think there’s a duality. On the one hand, there’s an incredible strength when our democracy is intact. An incredible strength in what it does to protect the freedoms and rights of its people.”
“Oh, there’s great strength in that,” Harris continued. “And it is very fragile. It is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it. And so that’s the moment we’re in. And I say do not despair because in a democracy, as long as we can keep it, in our democracy, the people — every individual — has the power to make a decision about what this will be.”
