NEW YORK -- Live from New York, it’s a presidential candidate scrounging for every vote in the final days before the election. Vice President Kamala Harris made a surprise trip to New York City on Saturday to appear on “ Saturday Night Live ,” briefly stepping away from the battleground states where she’s been furiously campaigning in favor of the iconic sketch comedy show. Harris departed on Air Force Two after an early evening campaign stop on in Charlotte, North Carolina.
She was scheduled to head to Detroit, but once in the air, aides said she'd be making an unscheduled stop and the plane landed at LaGuardia Airport in Queens. She was appearing in the cold open kicking off the show, her campaign confirmed, and the vice president's motorcade arrived at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, where SNL tapes, shortly after 8 p.m.
— enough time for a quick rehearsal before the show airs live at 11:30 p.m. It's the final SNL episode before Election Day on Tuesday.
The episode's musical guest, pop star Chappell Roan, announced in September that she was voting for Harris. Actor Maya Rudolph first played Harris on the show in 2019 and has reprised her role this season, doing a spot-on impression of the vice president, including calling herself “Momala,” a reference to the affectionate nickname that her stepchildren call her. Rudolph opened the show’s season premiere with the line: “Well, well, well.
Look who fell out of that coconut tree .” And she’s joked about.
