The real Kamala Harris crashes last “SNL” before Election Day

After the rally in North Carolina on Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris redirected Air Force Two from an expected landing in Michigan to New York City for a last-minute appearance in the cold open of the final episode of Saturday Night Live before election day.

After James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump spent a few minutes “walking on fumes” and blasting the microphone in his orange garbage truck vest, Maya Rudolph’s Harris shared her outraged reactions.

But the show saved the main event for the skit’s final moments, when the very real Kamala Harris appeared in the dressing room mirror to give her fictional self a pep talk. And she has never looked happier.

“It’s good to see you, Kamala,” Harris told her SNL Doppelganger. “I’m just here to remind you: you did this because you can do something your opponent can’t. You can open doors.”

In response to the joke that referenced Trump latest election stunt As he struggled to open the door of a garbage truck, Rudolph remembered Harris’ laugh.

Harris asked, “I don’t really laugh that much, do I?” And Rudolph replied, “A little.”

From then on, the two went back and forth, telling each other Kamala-based puns: “The American people want to stop the chaos and end the dramala,” Harris said, later adding, “Like Legally Blonde-ala.”

Rudolph agreed, adding, “Get back into our pajamas and watch a romantic comedy.”

The sketch soon left the mirror format, with Rudolph and Harris standing side by side.

“I’ll vote for us,” Rudolph said.

“Great,” Harris said. “Is there any chance you are registered in Pennsylvania?”

The cameo was reminiscent of Hillary Clinton’s cameo as “Val the Bartender” alongside fellow impressionist Kate McKinnon in October 2015 – more than a year before she lost the 2016 election to Trump.

But the last presidential candidate to appear on the show as himself so close to a general election was John McCain, who appeared on the show Saturday alongside Tina Fey’s Sarah Palin before losing to Barack Obama in 2008.

In that skit, McCain all but admitted that he knew he was going under when Fey turned to the camera and started selling “Palin 2012” T-shirts.

Harris’ joyous appearance opposite Rudolph in the mirror struck a much different tone as the two women laughed together amid what seemed like a Trump campaign meltdown after his hate-filled rally at Madison Square Garden, just a few blocks away, less than a kilometer away, seemed to be a week ago.