Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live as part of a final media push before Tuesday’s presidential election.

Harris came face to face with her impersonator Maya Rudolph in the cold open air of the show.

The skit opened with a CNN news broadcast cutting to a James Austin Johnson impression of former President Donald Trump at a rally, wearing the orange garbage collector vest he wore to a campaign event this past week.

The open cuts to Maya Rudolph, Andy Samberg and Jim Gaffigan as Harris, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and Harris’ running mate, Governor Tim Walz, respectively.

Dana Carvey also appeared as President Joe Biden.

Rudolph’s Harris clears the room and says she “needs a moment to herself.”

“I wish I could talk to someone in my shoes,” Rudolph said to himself in the empty room.

Then the real Kamala Harris appears in the locker room mirror.

“You and me both sis!” said Harris, grinning from ear to ear after 30 seconds of applause from the live audience.

Harris went on to say, “I’m here to remind you that you have this because you can do something your opponent can’t: you can open doors.”

When Rudolph let out a loud, familiar Kamala cackle, the candidate said, “I’m not really laughing like that, am I?”

The pair had fun with the veep’s name. Harris said her election would put an end to the “drama” of politics, and the two said in unison: “Keep Kamala and Carry Onala.”

“I’m going to vote for us,” Rudolph says.

“Any chance you’re registered in Pennsylvania?” Harris joked.

The veep also participated in the signature “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!”

Harris received a less than kind reception as she left the SNL studios in Rockefeller Center, as anti-Israel protesters chanted “Murderer, murderer, murderer!” chanted. as her motorcade passed by.

Trump’s campaign criticized Harris for going on the show.

“Kamala Harris has nothing of substance to offer the American people, so that’s why she’s living out her twisted fantasy by cosplaying with her elite friends on Saturday Night Leftists while her campaign fades into obscurity. Over the past four years, Kamala’s destructive policies have led to untold misery and pain for all Americans. She broke it and President Trump will fix it,” spokesman Steven Cheung told Fox News.

The politics continued on the show in a later sketch, with host John Mulaney playing an ignorant liberal on a game show that featured a tweet I made in 2016 about how the election would be the end of the world if Hillary Clinton didn’t did. ‘don’t win.

Then he got a huge reward if he could identify Clinton’s running mate, and the real Senator Tim Kaine showed up – and Mulaney’s character had no idea who he was.

“You voted for me four years ago,” Kaine says in disbelief.

Kamala Harris had a busy schedule on Saturday.

Harris was in Atlanta, GA, and Charlotte, NC, earlier in the day, doing some last-minute campaigning in the Peach State in the final 60 hours before the election.

SNL has a history of inviting presidents and presidential candidates.

Former Vice President Al Gore, the late Senator John McCain and Trump each hosted episodes of the historic show. Trump hosted the show in 2004 and 2015, in the run-up to the presidential elections.

Former presidents Gerald Ford and Barack Obama both appeared on the show during their terms in office. Obama in 2018 and Ford featured in an episode of the second season of the 50th anniversary show in 1976.

The late President George HW Bush appeared on the show in 1994, after leaving office.

Hillary Clinton also appeared in an episode in 2015, in the month leading up to the election.