Harris’ SNL cold open echoes Trump’s 2015 skit with Jimmy Fallon

Vice President Kamala Harris’ cameo in the latest episode of “Saturday Night Live” Before Tuesday’s presidential election, some viewers on social media pointed out that the skit appeared to mirror a former President Trump appearing alongside Jimmy Fallon in 2015.

Harris appeared in the sketch next to her impersonator, Maya Rudolph, at the end of the cold open. In the sketch, Harris appears as a reflection in a mirror to give advice to Rudolph’s Harris.

‘I wish I could talk to someone who has been in my shoes. You know, a black, South Asian woman running for president. Preferably from the Bay Area,” Harris wondered in an empty locker room.

The vice president, who was then revealed to be sitting on the other side of the locker room mirror, responded, “You and me both, sister.”

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While some praised the skit on social media, others claimed the skit copied one former President Trump performed with Jimmy Fallon on “The Tonight Show” in September 2015, when Trump was running for president.

“I knew that SNL sketch with Kamala Harris looked familiar…” KVI Seattle radio host Ari Hoffman wrote on X. “Kamala continues her pattern of impeaching Trump.”

Trump and his running mate, Senator JD Vance, have done that before accused Harris of plagiarism Trump’s policies such as no tax on tips, increasing the child tax credit, while she shifts to other policies to take positions more in line with Trump’s than what she previously held.

Another social media user argued that the sketch was “embarrassing” for Harris.

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Others took to social media to claim that the skit “directly copied” the bit between Trump and Fallon from nine years earlier.

Despite the criticism, both the Harris and Trump sketches followed other “in the mirror” sketches that Fallon also performed with celebrity partners.

Fallon performed the sketch “in the mirror” with The Rolling Stones rocker Mick Jagger in 2001 on “Saturday Night Live.”

In March 2015, Fallon performed the piece again Mitt Romney former Massachusetts governor, presidential candidate and current Utah senator, before the politician’s interview on “The Tonight Show.”

However, the Trump campaign discredited Harris’ appearance on the show when reports surfaced Saturday about her “surprise” cameo.

“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 elitist 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,” spokesperson Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital.

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Brendan Carr, a Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, called the appearance a “clear and blatant attempt to circumvent the FCC’s Equal Time rule.

Fox News Digital’s David Rutz and Michael Lee contributed to this report.