21 Things Kamala Harris Spoke About On Her Episode Of “Call Her Daddy”

This post deals with topics like sexual abuse. 

During the 44-minute episode, host Alex Cooper revealed that she had 40 minutes with the VP and “no topic was off limits.”

The podcast episode — which traditionally consists of topics like mental health, sex, and relationships — focused on Kamala and the importance of women’s rights. Here’s what they talked about:

Alex also shared that she and her team invited former president Donald Trump to come on the podcast “if he also wants to have a meaningful in-depth conversation about women’s rights in this country.”

1. Alex started off the interview by saying that Kamala doesn’t do many long-form interviews and asked why she decided to say yes to CHD. Kamala explained, “Well, I think you and your listeners have really got this thing right, which is one of the best ways to communicate with people is to be real, you know, and to talk about the things that people really care about. I mean, what I love about what you do is that your voice in, in your show is really about your listeners. And I think especially now, this is a moment in the country and in life where people really wanna know they’re seen and heard, and, and that they’re part of a community, that they’re not out there alone.”

2. Kamala shared that one of the most important lessons she learned from her mother was to have agency and not “let things happen” to her. “I realized she was actually teaching me to think about where you had agency in that moment and think about what you had the choice to do or not do, and like, don’t let things just happen to you,” she said. “And I realized that was a really powerful thing she was teaching, which is figure out how you can take charge of a moment. You can’t always, we don’t have control of everything, obviously, but don’t just let things happen to you without thinking about, okay, what can I do in this moment?”

3. She shared that as a prosecutor, she worked to protect those most vulnerable and give them a voice. She hopes to give a voice to those fighting for their reproductive freedom as well. She said, “You know, right now, this fight for what we need to do around reproductive freedom is, I mean, could it be more at its core about just the basic right. Any individual of whatever gender has to make decisions about their own body and not have their government tell them what to do.”

4. She also urged listeners to vote so their voices can be heard. “I know that there’s cynicism,” she said. “I know that there’s a real feeling that, well, what does it matter? Does my voice matter? But a lot of my push to kind of hopefully convince people that they should vote is because you should never let anybody take your power from you.”

5. Alex asked Kamala how it felt to have her identity called into question by her opponent, and Kamala said, “I think it’s really important not to let other people define you. And usually those people who will attempt to do it don’t know you.”

6. Kamala said that because of her friend from high school, Wanda, she wanted to become a prosecutor who specialized in sexual assault cases. “So, when I was in high school, my best friend, her name is Wanda. I learned was being sexually assaulted by her stepfather,” she said. “And, you know, I knew something was going on ’cause she didn’t wanna go home. She just seemed sad. And so she told me, and I immediately said, ‘You have to come and stay with us.’ I called my mother, who was at work. ‘She has to come stay with us.’ And she did.”

7. Kamala also offered some advice for people going through sexual abuse, she said, “So, the first thing that I would say to anyone going through it is tell someone that you trust. Don’t, don’t quietly suffer. You have done nothing wrong. You have done nothing wrong. And don’t let anyone convince you have. Often the abuser will tell her that if she tells, then something worse will happen. And that is usually wrong. Know that there are people that want you to be safe and will want to protect you, but don’t silently suffer, and know that you have a right to live in a place where you feel safe and are actually safe.”

8. Alex asked Kamala how we can make this country safer for women, and Kamala said, “That’s a big question. There’s a lot to unpack there. I mean, one of the things, for example, on domestic violence that I can tell you is this: when a woman, and in particular if she has children, if she is economically reliant on her abuser, she’s less likely to leave because most women will endure whatever personal physical pain they must in order to make sure their kids have a roof over their head or food. So. one of the ways that we know that women are able to walk away from abuse, and there are many layers to her being able to do that. But one of them is does she have the economic freedom to be able to do that? Right. Um, so one of the ways that we know we can uplift the ability of women to have choices is uplift the ability of women to have economic health and wellbeing.”

9. Kamala also fought back against Trump’s statement to women: “I will be your protector.” She said, “So, he who, when he was President, hand-selected three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention that they would undo the protections of Roe v. Wade. And they did just as he intended. And there are now 20 states with Trump abortion bans, including bans that make no exception for rape or incest, which we just discussed. Which means that you’re telling a survivor of a crime, of a violation to their body, they don’t have a right to make a decision about what happens to their body next, which is immoral? So this is the same guy that is now saying that? This is the same guy who said that women should be punished for having abortions? This is the same guy who uses the kind of language he does to describe women? So yeah, there you go.”

10. Alex asked Kamala to explain “what exactly is happening to abortion access in this country.” Kamala said, “So, you know, on public policy, I often tell my team, look, I don’t wanna hear about public policy as a fancy kind of speech or paper. Tell me how it’ll affect a real person. So let’s talk about how it affects a real person. The majority of women who receive abortion care are mothers. So if she’s in a state, and by the way, every state in the south except for Virginia, has an abortion ban.”

11. Kamala even shared that she was the “first Vice President or President to ever in office go to a reproductive healthcare clinic.”

12. She also explained how reproductive rights extend way beyond abortion. “And here’s the other thing about this point that it’s about IVF treatments and access,” she said. “It’s about access to contraception, which is very much at risk with these folks. It is about, back to the point tabout reproductive health clinics, you know what those clinics also do? They do paps, they do breast cancer screenings, they do HIV testing and they’re having to close in many places with these bans. So think about the fact that for anyone who has gone to one of these clinics, you understand that it is sometimes the most trusted place where people receive that kind of healthcare.”

13. Kamala debunked Trump’s statement that in the US, people are “executing” babies “after birth.” She said, “That is not happening anywhere in the United States. It is not happening, and it’s a lie. Just it’s a bald-faced lie that he is suggesting that. Can you imagine he’s suggesting that women in their ninth month of pregnancy are electing to have an abortion? Are you kidding? That is, that is so outrageously inaccurate and it’s so insulting to suggest that that would be happening and that women would be doing that. It’s not happening anywhere. It’s this guy is full of lies. I mean, I just have to be very candid with you.”

14. She also explained why Trump’s lies are dangerous and why this presidential election is so important. “You know, so in my career from the time I got out of law school, through most of my career as a prosecutor, I understood that the words that I spoke and what I did with those words would be the difference between whether somebody was charged with a crime or went to prison, maybe prison for life,” she said.

15. In a recent town hall, Sarah Huckabee Sanders made comments about Kamala not having biological children of her own. Sarah said, “My kids keep me humble. Unfortunately, Kamala Harris doesn’t have anything keeping her humble.” And Kamala took an oppurtinity to fight back at those comments saying, “I don’t think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who, one are not aspiring to be humble. Two, a whole lot of women out here who have a lot of love in their life, family in their life, and children in their life. And I think it’s really important for women to lift each other up.”

16. She also commented on J.D. Vance’s “childless cat lady” quote: “I just think it’s mean and mean-spirited. And I think that most Americans want leaders who understand that the measure of their strength is not based on who you beat down. The real measure of a leader’s strength is based on who you lift up.”

17. Kamala talked about her plan to help more people become homeowners. “Housing is too expensive and we need to increase the housing supply,” she said. “So part of my plan is to work with home builders in the private sector to create tax incentives to build, by the end of my first term, 3 million more housing units. Second piece is $25,000 down payment assistance for first time home buyers. ‘Cause a big issue in terms of the barrier to being a homeowner is just having enough to actually put that down payment down right? To get your foot in the door.”

18. She also has plans in place for the middle-class, working people, and new parents: “The other piece of it is we need to give tax credits and, and really understand that middleclass and working people need a break, she added. “And so part of my plan is to give a hundred million more people who basically are middle class working people, tax cuts, including for young parents, a $6,000 tax cut for the first year of their child’s life, which helps them buy a crib or a car seat or clothing and just get through that first year, which is such a, an important and critical stage of their child’s development.”

19. She is also still fighting for student debt relief and those in medical debt. She said, “We are fighting and I’m gonna continue to fight for student debt relief. I mean, student loan debt is a huge issue. And to your point, it’s a barrier to people being able to think, even think about starting a family, buying a home. And it just, we need to give people relief.”

20. She is also working to help small business owners. She said, “Another thing that I’m really focused on is small businesses and startups and giving startups a $50,000 tax deduction. ‘Cause right now it’s $5,000 and you can’t start up any small business with $5,000.”

21. And finally, she said, “But the bottom line is this, I believe in the promise of America. I have not been able to be the first in every position that I’ve had, were it not for the promise of America? I believe in our country. I love our country and I believe that leadership has to be about knowing our capacity and then investing in the people.”