Who wants Maya Rudolph when you possibly can exhibit the actual factor?
U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is predicted to seem on “Saturday Night Live,” in response to an individual accustomed to the matter, the most recent Oval Workplace hopeful to go to the present in an election yr in a bid to win assist and generate new publicity for a marketing campaign. She has been performed throughout the present’s present season — its fiftieth — by former solid member Rudolph.
A brand new schedule launched by the Harris marketing campaign indicated that the Vice President would fly from Charlotte, N.C., the place she was attending an occasion, and fly to New York Metropolis on Saturday night, touchdown at 7:21 p.m. That might presumably give her ample time to journey to Studio 8H in NBC‘s Rockefeller Middle headquarters, the place “SNL” is produced, earlier than the present’s ordinary 11:30 p.m. begin time. Harris was not anticipated to go away New York Metropolis till 12:40 a.m.
A consultant for “Saturday Night time Reside” didn’t reply to queries. CNN and The New York Publish beforehand reported that Harris was anticipated to seem.
In 2008, President Barack Obama, then only a candidate, appeared on this system in its opening section, disguised initially beneath a Halloween masks of himself. Hilary Clinton, additionally vying for the presidency that yr, additionally made a cameo, only a week later. Jon Huntsman, a Republican candidate vying to get into the 2012 election, made an look on the present’s “Weekend Replace” in 2011. Sarah Palin, the candidate for Vice President beneath John McCain in 2008, appeared on this system with only a few weeks to go earlier than the election.
Former president Donald Trump hosted this system in 2015, when he was vying amongst a wider pool of candidates for the 2016 race. He appeared on the broadcast for just 12 minutes overall, with NBC aware of getting to offer equal time to different candidates.
Harris will seem on this system with simply two days between her cameo and the beginning of in-person voting — maybe the closest any candidate has visited to the present to the beginning of Election Day.
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