OK Boomer! How Kamala Harris, 59, desperately wants to identify with Gen Z and the youth despite being three decades older

Since her first grounded run for president, Vice President Kamala Harris has a history of trying to place pinch young group arsenic a hep leader alert of what nan kids are into these days.

Harris, 59, is officially successful nan 'Baby Boomer' generation, moreover though she's trying to disguise her property and fresh successful pinch younger generations, including Gen Zers calved aft 1997.

'Sorry, she's a boomer. Rules are rules, slackers,' wrote Washingtonian journalist Andrew Beaujon successful 2020. 'Kamala Harris was calved October 20, 1964. It's nan very tail extremity of nan Baby Boomer generation.'

Harris was precocious was mocked aft she was many times filmed pinch a smartphone connected speaker mode, holding it up to her ear, contempt nan audio blaring from nan instrumentality during calls pinch erstwhile President Barack Obama and erstwhile First Lady Michelle Obama, and pinch nan widow of Alexei Navalny. 

It's nan benignant of activity that screams 'boomer,' moreover arsenic nan vice president tries to stress her youthful persona arsenic she runs her ain run for president. 

Last fall, Harris launched a circuit of American colleges, successful an effort to displacement her marque distant from nan aging President Joe Biden and toward Generation Z.

'I emotion Gen Z,' she said many times arsenic she made her measurement crossed nan country.

'Let maine conscionable show you, I emotion Gen Z. I don't know, thing astir — I emotion Gen Z,' she said pinch a laughter astatine an arena successful July. 

'So, okay, for nan older adults, this is going to beryllium a humbling point I'm astir to stock pinch you. If personification is 18 years aged today, they were calved successful 2005. Oh, yeah, cheque that out. Think astir that for a minute.'

At different event, she urged adults to person patience pinch their Gen-Z kids.

'I emotion Gen Z. I really do. I — you know, I cognize it's analyzable if you person a Gen Z personnel successful your family. But they're truthful spectacular,' she said during different event. 

Although she typically wears master pantsuits a Vice President, Harris often talks astir her emotion of Chuck Taylor tennis shoes and casual clothing erstwhile she's not connected nan occupation connected erstwhile she ran her first campaign.

'I person a full postulation of Chuck Taylors: a achromatic leather pair, a achromatic pair, I person nan benignant that don't lace, nan benignant that do lace, nan benignant I deterioration successful nan basking weather, nan benignant I deterioration successful nan acold weather, and nan level benignant for erstwhile I'm wearing a pantsuit,' she erstwhile explained to nan Cut.

As a statesmanlike candidate, Harris often danced pinch young people, pinch marching bands, and moreover connected her run shape arsenic she expressed her emotion of euphony and dancing.

She famously was caught connected camera breaking it down to nan opus Q-Tip's 'Vivrant Thing' successful September erstwhile she hosted a statement celebrating nan 50th day of hip-hop astatine nan vice president's residence.

But moreover Harris admitted that contempt her emotion of watching shows pinch her hubby Doug she struggles to enactment awake sometime.

'We will beryllium connected nan sofa successful beforehand of nan TV pinch nan switcher, for for illustration 45 minutes debating which Netflix show we commencement streaming, and we measurement nan pros and nan cons of each and by nan clip we're done we are fresh to spell for bed,' she said.

She besides likes to brag astir her connection being 'uncensored' contempt her office.

'I americium judge I'm nan first Vice President to successful beforehand of nan property to usage nan connection 'uterus,' and past I didn't extremity location either, I said nan f-word, I said fibroids,' she said laughing. 'I'm beautiful sure, I mean we could do a truth cheque but I'm beautiful judge nary different Vice President has done that successful public.'

Harris many times utilized nan existent f-word connected stage, successful an effort to click pinch young group struggling to get ahead. 

'Sometimes group will unfastened nan doorway for you and time off it open, and sometimes they won't— and past you request to footwear that f***ing doorway down,' Harris said during a roundtable chat pinch comedian Jimmy O. nan successful May.

 Harris made headlines aft she joked astir smoking cookware in assemblage and besides her astir emotion of 'Snoop Dogg', 'Tupac' and 'Cardi B,' successful assemblage pinch nan unit astatine nan Breakfast Club power show. 

'I did inhale. It was a agelong clip ago,' she said, endorsing nan legalization of marijuana. 

'I deliberation it gives a batch of group joy. We request much joyousness successful nan world,' she argued. 

Harris was bullied aft she recorded an quality pinch big Taraji P. Henson, wherever she made reference to celebrated rap songs for nan July 2024 BET grant show.

 'Yeah girl, I'm retired present successful these streets. And fto maine show you, you're right, Taraji. There is truthful overmuch astatine liking successful this moment. The mostly of america judge successful state and equality. But these extremists, arsenic they say, they not for illustration us,' Harris said, referring to Kendrick Lamar opus 'Not Like Us.'

During nan run trail, Harris often referred to her emotion of Marvel movies, and moreover compared her force Donald Trump to nan Marvel villain Thanos.

When asked astir which Marvel superhero she would for illustration to beryllium she hesitated but yet chose nan characteristic Shuri from nan Black Panther.

Harris besides erstwhile performed nan Wakanda salute connected television, announcing her tally for 'Senate' of nan fictional African federation arsenic a joke pinch nan Late Show pinch Stephen Colbert.

As she runs for president again, Harris has toned down immoderate of nan Millennial-themed attempts to spell viral. 

But her run still appears eager to enlistee nan boomer procreation arsenic she tries to rally nan Democratic party. 

'It’s happening!!' wrote Harris' husband's ex-wife Kerstin Emhoff connected societal media, sharing specifications of a run arena pinch 'Seniors for Harris.' 

'Barb and Mike are excited to meet nan Boomers!' she concluded.