Don’t End Up Like Mondale, Cardinal Dolan Jokingly Warns Harris After She Declines Al Smith Dinner

The dinner is especially important during presidential election years, because nominees come to lightly roast each other.

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Timothy Cardinal Dolan celebrates Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Jeenah Moon/Getty Images

The Archbishop of New York, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, says he is “disappointed” Vice President Harris is planning to skip the annual Al Smith Dinner, and made a lighthearted joke that she would be wise to not suffer the same fate as the last presidential nominee to miss the event — Vice President Mondale.

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