‘This is what happens when I drink!’: Harris calls out ‘loser’ Trump as she cracks a beer with Stephen Colbert

Kamala Harris cracked open a beer and took the opportunity to hit out at election rival Donald Trump on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night, calling the former president a “loser” and joking: “This is what happens when I drink!”

The Democratic presidential nominee walked on stage to rapturous applause from the CBS show’s studio audience and instantly took a jab at Trump as she exclaimed: “They know how to pronounce my name!”

Colbert invited her to have a drink with him, with Harris cheerily accepting a can of Miller High Life, hailing it as “the champagne of beers.”

The host then pitched her a “gotcha question”: “Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?”

She answered: “I’m gonna tell you what some of the people in my rallies – quite a few people are showing up, by the way.

“You know, when you’ve lost, you lost millions of jobs, you lost manufacturing, you lost automotive plants, you lost the election. What does that make you? A loser.”

Chuckling at the remark, she joked: “This is what happens when I drink!”

The beer immediately attracted an angry response from Trump’s campaign spokesman Steven Cheung, who posted on X: “Kamala drinks a beer to show Americans how relatable she is, but she ends up looking like an out-of-touch elitist trying to gaslight everyone into thinking she’s one of them.”

Harris also used the interview to bring up a line from veteran journalist Bob Woodward’s new book alleging that Trump secretly sent Vladimir Putin a batch of Covid-19 test kits during the pandemic for his personal use – an accusation the Republican’s campaign has denied.

“You remember how many people did not have tests and were trying to scramble to get them?” she asked.

“You remember how rare it was to have one? You