Kamala Harris takes flack and praise for attending Celebration Bowl: ‘Such a Howard Girl’

Vice President Kamala Harris attended college football‘s Celebration Bowl to mixed reactions on Saturday.

Harris watched her alma mater Howard Bison take on the Florida A&M Rattlers, who would go on to win 30-26. Harris watched the game from a box, calling it a “celebration of [historically black colleges and universities] culture and excellence” in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

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Fellow Bison expressed pride in seeing the vice president at the game online. Clips of Harris dancing and laughing during the game were shared on X.

“Look at my Vice President… the joy of being a Bison!” one user wrote.

“She’s such a Howard Girl!!!! She can’t help herself!!!!” another user wrote.

Meanwhile, others were less enthusiastic to see Harris at the game.

“‘Border czar’ Kamala Harris has time for this, but not the southern border?” the RNC Research account wrote. “10K+ illegal immigrants crossed every single day this week and that doesn’t even include the ‘gotaways.’ Her last trip there was 904 days ago.”

“Is there a more hatable VP in history?” another user wrote.

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Harris graduated from Howard in 1986 with a degree in political science and economics. While a student there, she was also a part of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

Saturday’s postseason Celebration Bowl featured the matchup of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference and the Southwestern Athletic Conference champions. The first Celebration Bowl was in 2015.