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Kamala Harris took a breather from her Donald Trump debate preparations for a fast pit cease at a household enterprise in Pennsylvania, which a Fox Information host slammed as America’s “meanest spice store.”
The vp was greeted by cheers at Penzeys Spices in Pittsburgh on Saturday, as she went round shaking arms, taking selfies and hugging consumers — together with embracing one tearful native — within the retailer.
She peddled a message of unity as reporters quizzed her about taking the stage in opposition to Trump for his or her first face-to-face assembly of the 2024 election in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which will likely be beamed dwell to ABC viewers throughout the nation at 9:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday night.
“Being at this spice retailer, I lastly bought out of the controversy prep,” Harris chuckled, holding up her new jar of spices.
When probed a few key message she wished to get throughout to the previous president throughout the debate, she replied: “Look, it’s time to show the web page on the divisiveness. It’s time to deliver our nation collectively, chart a brand new method ahead.”
Hosts of Fox Information’s Fox & Mates have been fast to grab on Harris’s go to to Penzeys, attacking each the vp’s messaging and accusing the shop of being vicious to GOP voters.
“Vice President Harris is hunkering down in Pittsburgh as she pushes for unity whereas visiting a spice store identified for mocking Republicans,” anchor Will Cain mentioned on Sunday’s program.
“They selected the comfiest, coziest place she might conceivably go, the place the entire homeowners and the workers are 100% libs who hate Trump,” co-host Pete Hegseth added.
Co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy, who apparently visited one in every of their retailers whereas staring in MTV actuality present The Actual World, chimed in calling Penzeys the “the meanest spice store in America.”
The store’s web site has an entire “about Republicans” web page noting the “sluggish decline” of the GOP.
It is going to nonetheless enable Republicans to enter the shop, however it’s “accomplished pretending the Republican Social gathering’s embrace of cruelty, racism, Covid lies, local weather change denial, and threats to democracy are something aside from the dangers they legitimately are,” the web site reads.
The webpage, written by the spice retailer’s CEO Invoice Penzey Jr, continues: “The reality of our time is we’ve arrived on the level the place there’s no option to respect the nonsense the Republican Social gathering is selling and have any hope of overcoming the issues we as a nation and we as a planet face.”
Penzeys had not too long ago wrapped up an commercial marketing campaign for his or her “Justice” spice mix directed at Trump, headlined as “Re-indicted and it feels so good!” based on the New York Submit.
The corporate hit headlines in 2019 for spending greater than $700,000 on Fb adverts encouraging Trump’s impeachment. In 2022, Penzey Jr tried to rebrand Martin Luther King Jr Day as “Republicans are Racists Weekend.”
Harris, nonetheless, didn’t depart the shop empty-handed and was delighted by her spicy haul.
“I look ahead to utilizing my new seasonings from Penzeys Spices in Pittsburgh at our subsequent Sunday household dinner,” Harris posted on X after her go to.
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