• Kamala Harris appeared on “Saturday Night Live” for a cameo ahead of the US elections.
• The vice president appeared alongside actor Maya Rudolph in the show’s cold opening.
• “You can do something your opponent can’t do: you can open doors,” Harris joked about Trump.

Kamala Harris made a surprise campaign stop this weekend: Studio 8H, 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

The vice president flew to New York City on Saturday after a campaign event in North Carolina to appear on the final episode of “Saturday Night Live” before voters go to the polls on Nov. 5.

She appeared in the episode’s cold open alongside her “SNL” impressionist, actor Maya Rudolph, in a sketch that began by parodying CNN’s “The Source with Kaitlan Collins.”

Harris’ cameo came after James Austin Johnson’s parody of a “four and a half hour” rally speech by Donald Trump.

While posing as Harris backstage at a campaign rally, Rudolph wished out loud she could talk to someone “who has been in my shoes,” a “black, South Asian woman running for president, preferably from the Bay Area.’

The camera then panned to a beaming vice president.

“You and I are both sisters,” Harris said.

Harris then appeared to poke fun at a recent video of Trump struggling to climb into a garbage truck at a campaign event in Wisconsin.

“I’m just here to remind you that you have this. Because you can do something your opponent can’t do: you can open doors,” Harris said.

The remainder of the sketch involved Harris questioning Rudolph’s impression of her laugh, a rhyming pep talk (“keep calm-ala and carry on-ala”), and a final joke about whether Rudolph was registered in Pennsylvania – a swing -state which will do that. play a key role in this year’s elections.

“SNL” has a long history of politicians appearing on the show.

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have all made cameos before, while Trump hosted the show in 2015.

In response to Harris’ appearance on the show, a Trump campaign spokesperson told News Nation in a statement that 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. “

“SNL” creator Lorne Michaels said earlier this year that he had not approached any political candidates to join the show before the election and had no plans to do so.

“You can’t include the actual people running for office because of the election laws and the equal time provisions,” he told The Hollywood Reporter.

“You can’t have major candidates without all the candidates, and there are a lot of minor candidates who are only on the ballot in three states and that gets very complicated,” Michaels added.

A representative for the Harris campaign did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider, which was sent outside regular business hours.