Kamala Harris has been mocked for appearing to put on a French accent to speak to scientists in a Paris lab, on the first day of her trip to France.
The vice president began her program in Paris on Tuesday as the highest-ranking member of the Biden administration to visit France. The five-day trip is aimed at undoing some of the damage caused by a series of blunders the White House made in its dealings with the French.
Harris on Tuesday visited the Institut Pasteur science lab, where Americans are working alongside Europeans to tackle COVID-19 and where her Indian-born mother researched breast cancer.
Harris spoke about her love of science, and her dismay at how politics could not be as methodological and logical as their experiments.
'In government, we campaign with 'The Plan,' Harris said, with what some said was a French accent to discuss 'the plan'.
Kamala Harris on Tuesday visited the Institut Pasteur laboratory in Paris, as part of her five-day trip to try and rebuild bridges with France
The Quebec-educated vice president, who speaks some French, spoke on Tuesday of her love for scientific principals - but was mocked for appearing to put on a French accent
'Uppercase T, uppercase P, 'The Plan!
'And then the environment is such we're expected to defend 'The Plan' even when the first time we roll it out there may be some glitches and it's time to reevaluate and then do it again.'
Harris also spoke about why she liked scientific approaches.
'One of the things people in politics and government should really take from the approach of scientists - scientists operate with a hypothesis. I love that,' Harris said.
'A hypothesis - it's well-thought-out, it's well-planned, they start out with a hypothesis and then they test it out knowing invariably, you're trying something for the first time, there will be glitches, there will be
