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2024, Kamala Harris, Opinion

Town Hall Host Responds To Conservatives Claims Kamala Harris Used Teleprompter During Event

No, the vice president did not use a Teleprompter during her Univision interview.

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A major part of the Republicans’ strategy in this election is repeatedly calling Kamala Harris dumb. When she wasn’t giving frequent interviews, Harris was too dumb to face the press. Now that she does, large social media strategies are based on calling her answers dumb.

Trump allies have now taken to borrowing a page from the Obama era, in implying that Harris must use a Teleprompter at all times, even though using them for speeches is pretty standard for most politicians.

In one instance this week, the accusation of Harris using such a device is false.

Harris appeared for a Univision town hall on Thursday. A town hall is not typically an event where a candidate would use a Teleprompter because the candidate doesn’t know what questions or coming, so the “answers” wouldn’t be loaded on the machine. And who would be typing the “answers”? How could do they do so quickly enough for it to matter, much less not in the right language?

That didn’t stop serial plagiarist Benny Johnson and other Trump backers from implying she had.

That it wouldn’t make any sense for Harris to use such a device — and that Harris, for most of the night, was not looking at the Teleprompter — would indicate that this particular charge wasn’t true.

Enrique Acevedo, who hosted the event, later explained that the Teleprompter wasn’t for the candidate:

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Bill Ackman, who appears to be the world’s most gullable man, also fell for the Teleprompter lie:

The Teleprompter accusation appears about as true as the notion that Harris was using Bluetooth-equipped earrings as an earpiece during the presidential debate. In other words, not true at all.

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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