“Veep” showrunner Dave Mandel reacted to the increased viewership of the HBO political satire series after clips went viral following President Joe Biden’s announcement he was out of the race and endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Mandel — who took over as showrunner in Season 5 of “Veep” — said he was thrilled to see the clips of the Emmy-winning series recently circulating after Biden’s announcement as fans compare the “Veep” fictional character Selina Meyer (played actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus) to Harris.

“Today, there may be more people checking out ‘Veep,’ and I can’t think of anything better,” Mandel said. “I hope they are enjoying. The crazier politics gets, the more Veep holds up!”

“Politics seem fun again,” he added. “I don’t wake up dreading looking at the news. I wake up wondering what’s going on. How much money has Kamala Harris raised so far? All of a sudden, things seem enjoyable.”

And as far as people comparing Meyer and Harris, Mandel said, “Yes, they are both women. Yes, they are both VPs being elevated.”

‘Veep’ Is Going Viral (Again): David Mandel Talks Kamala Harris and If He’d Revisit the Series https://t.co/EOTZtebS1Z

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) July 24, 2024

“Selina was elevated into office; Kamala is being elevated to head of the ticket,” the showrunner explained. “There are some simple comparisons. But there are two types of people doing ‘Veep’ memes right now: There are people really enjoying Selina’s moment of telling her staff that she’s running for president…and then there are a**holes who are using it differently.”

Over the last few years, Harris has become well-known for her word salads and nonsensical phrases. One such example happened last month when a clip of her speaking about culture at the Essence Magazine “Festival of Culture” in New Orleans went viral.

“Culture is — it is a reflection of our moment and our time, right? And present culture is the way we express how we’re feeling about the moment and we should always find times to express how we feel about the moment,” Harris said. “That is a reflection of joy. ‘Cause you know…it comes in the morning.”

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The show — which wrapped up after seven seasons in 2019 — has seen renewed interest with viewership increased by 353% on Monday compared to the previous day, as previously reported. It happened 24 hours after Biden said he would no longer seek reelection. Viewers watched 2.2 million total minutes of the series on MAX Monday compared to 486,000 total minutes the day before.

In the show, which ran from 2012 until 2019, the president resigns, leaving Meyer to ascend the office herself and later launch her own campaign.

Amanda Harding contributed to this piece.

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Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy burned Vice President Kamala Harris — and her failure to address the crisis at the southern border — during a testy exchange with Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

Doocy’s questions came after 24 hours of breathless legacy media coverage in which multiple outlets tried to help Harris put distance between herself and the ongoing disaster at the U.S.-Mexico border — with some even going so far as to discredit their own previous coverage of President Joe Biden’s decision to name her the Border Czar.

Doocy began by holding up a card that has reportedly been circulated to Democrats on Capitol Hill and to media that outlines the new talking points on Harris and her “official” job with regard to the southern border.

“Democrats on Capitol Hill are being handed this card with talking points about the Vice President and the border. Do you know who’s handing this out?” Doocy asked.

“I have no idea,” Jean-Pierre replied, suggesting, “You probably should ask her campaign.”

“So, the first one says, ‘Vice President Harris was never appointed border czar. There’s never been such a position. It doesn’t exist,” Doom pressed. “Why are Democrats so sensitive about the Vice President and the border?”

Jean-Pierre attempted to throw the question back to Doocy, blaming Republicans for the recently scrapped bipartisan border legislation.

“Why are Republicans so sensitive about actually not owning up to them getting in the way of a border deal? Why?” she asked, blaming former President Donald Trump for its failure. “Why are they so sensitive to moving forward and actually dealing on an issue that majority of Americans care about is dealing with what’s going on at the border?”

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Doocy: “Do you think that the border would be less of a talking point now if there was less migration to the border, say, if somebody had addressed root causes of migration sooner?”

KJP: “Well, wait, hold on a second. Did you not hear the beginning of my — it was — I know there… pic.twitter.com/GMQSFScHMK

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 25, 2024

Doocy pushed back, making use of the fact that even the newly-issued talking points conceded that Harris had been tasked with addressing the “root causes” of migration: “Do you think that the border would be less of a talking point now if there was less migration to the border, say, if somebody had addressed root causes of migration sooner?”

Jean-Pierre responded by claiming that all progress at the border had been made by President Biden and Vice President Harris — although she failed to mention that some of their more recent improvements were potentially the result of quietly reimplementing policies from the previous administration.

“They sought — they — he moved forward and took actions to deal with what’s on at the border. Republicans continue — continue to block getting resources to the Border Patrol agents. They continue to block actually dealing with an immigration system. So, yes, we are going to debunk the false — the false, you know, characterization of the Vice President. She was not a border czar, and it’s not just us. Independent fact-checkers have said the same thing that that did not exist and that is not true,” she insisted.