A town hall event with Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday featured a shocking revelation after one voter simply wondered whether she could ask a question.
Former California First Lady Maria Shriver admitted while hosting the event with former Rep. Liz Cheney in Royal Oak, Michigan that she would only include ‘predetermined questions.’
‘Are we going to be able to ask a question?’ asked a woman in the audience.
‘You’re not, unfortunately we have some predetermined questions,’ Shriver replied. ‘And hopefully I’ll be able to ask some of the questions that might be in your head, I hope so.’
Typically, presidential campaigns allow voters at townhall meetings to ask unscripted questions, which lends a level of authenticity to the proceedings and highlights a presidential candidate’s personal touch.
Shriver said she had agreed to moderate the event as a ‘concerned citizen’ but also a ‘journalist.’
‘I want this to be like a kitchen table, like just think that we’re sitting around at the kitchen table and we’re jamming about all kinds of stuff,’ she said.
Shriver is a member of the Kennedy family and was an NBC journalist who was married to former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger before the couple divorced.
Cheney joked that it felt like a Kennedy family dinner table, noting the number of people in the room.
More at The Daily Mail
Was this with or without a teleprompter?
Why bother with a “town hall” if no public invited get to ask questions?
It was just a scripted event.
She had her “earrings”.
Who uses a teleprompter at a “town hall” and tries to pretend it’s all spontaneous? Well, aside from Kamala Hamas. And then, “We don’t give a shit about YOUR questions, you are all just props for Kamala to perform her recitation of pre-programmed answers to ‘pre-determined’ questions.”