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Kamala Harris: “The water that comes out the pipe [in Jackson, Mississippi]…”

Featuring: Kamala Harris, Democrat | Former Vice President of the United States | National

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Published August 13, 2026 | Video Starts at 16:25

We went to then the aisle where the beverages are and she got this big pallet of bottled water because as she explained, The water that comes out the pipe [in Jackson, Mississippi] is brown. Sometimes it's so bad she cannot bathe her children in that water. Now this is America, right? (16:25–16:28)

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Asserts that the water in Jackson, Mississippi, is discolored and potentially unsafe.

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