It was enough to make Mel Blanc blush.
Vice President Kamala Harris, whose “transparently fake” speaking styles have drawn public attention before, is back in the social media spotlight after a Labor Day speech in Detroit on Monday that featured a bellicose Southern drawl unusual in a figure who was born in Oakland, California, and spent much of her teen years in Montreal, Canada.
And comparisons to a classic cartoon character were inevitable.

“Kamala Harris turned into Foghorn Leghorn,” one conservative social media user commenter wrote in post on X.

Kamala Harris turned into Foghorn Leghorn
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