Kamala Harris’s ‘coconut tree’ quote goes viral

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Following President Joe Biden's disastrous debate against Trump in June, Harris's online fan community, the K-Hive, created 'fancam' edits of her speeches and dancing on TikTok, with palm tree emojis flooding social media.

The emojis reference something Harris once quoted her mother as saying when the vice-president was making a speech about education:

"She would sometimes say to us, 'I don't know what's wrong with you young people. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you'."

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