Did Harris Use Teleprompter Throughout Univision City Corridor?

Following U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’ Oct. 10, 2024, city hall-style appearance on the Spanish-language community Univision, former President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign posted a video to X — captioned solely with the phrases “the teleprompter” and an “eyes” emoji — displaying Harris responding to an viewers member’s query with a teleprompter in her line of sight:

A number of pro-Trump influencers urged that Harris, Trump’s Democratic rival within the November presidential election, relied on a teleprompter to reply questions from the general public. Tim Pool, for instance, shared the video on X with the remark “she will be able to’t even ask honest questions and not using a script.”

“Watch them panic after they realized they have been displaying the prompter dwell on-air,” Benny Johnson posted. This video, it must be famous, cuts out earlier than any signal of this supposed panic.

On Oct. 11, Trump himself repeated the declare:

Trump: “Did you see the place she did a city corridor yesterday and she or he used a teleprompter?” (Harris didn’t use a teleprompter) pic.twitter.com/w2u84c1jtP

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 11, 2024

This declare that the teleprompter was for Harris’ use was immediately rebuffed by the Univision anchor who moderated the occasion, Enrique Acevedo. On X, he said that the teleprompter textual content — which was in Spanish — contained his introduction for the occasion:

Acevedo’s account of occasions is supported by a number of strains of proof.

First, the video appears to point out Spanish phrases on the teleprompter — Harris spoke in English all through the occasion.

Second, there’s a marked lack of panic. As seen in context, the teleprompter turning off mid-answer (beginning on the 5:42 mark) doesn’t in any manner have an effect on or interrupt her reply:

Third, Acevedo’s assertion that the teleprompter was later changed by a timer is verified by a Getty Pictures photograph of the occasion displaying that timer:

If proximity to a loaded teleprompter throughout a community tv city corridor occasion is ample proof {that a} candidate made use of that teleprompter, then Trump, shown below at a Fox city corridor held in September 2024, can be responsible:

As a result of the teleprompter contained a Spanish-language introduction supposed for the Univision moderator and was changed with a timer throughout Harris’ first response to an viewers query, and since no different proof refutes this rationalization, the declare that Harris used a teleprompter throughout her Univision city corridor is fake. 

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