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NRI Latest News: VP Kamala Harris left many to wonder Friday if she experienced a malfunctioning teleprompter when she kept referring to the same phrase in a campaign speech in Michigan – “32 days.”
The flub, caught on video, quickly spread across social media.
Speaking before some 5,000 supporters in Flint, Harris stumbled over her words, referring to “remember his number 32 today? We got 32 days until the election.”
She continued, “So 32 days, 32 days, Okay. We got some business to do. We got some business to do. All right. 32 day⦠and we know we will do it, and this is going to be a very tight race until the very end.
But like an old-time politician, the Democratic presidential candidate recovered and continued her speech: “This is gonna be a very tight race until the very end. We are the underdog and we know we have some hard work ahead.”
The furor has also fueled some online chatter over Harris’s alleged reliance on teleprompters during public appearances. When Vice President Harris recently spent time with Oprah Winfrey on the latter’s talk show, social media users who caught a glimpse of a teleprompter on the set criticized the VP for reading from a script.
The claim was, however, later denied by fact-checkers, who also observed that Harris was gazing away from the teleprompter. A clarification was also made by a representative of Winfrey that the teleprompter was in fact for the host, not Harris.
Harris’s appearance will be part of a campaign stop in Michigan, one of the key swing states ahead of the November 5 election. For 25 minutes, she promised increased federal investment in small businesses, housing, and the auto industry, pledging support to workers in one of the state’s most vital sectors.
Targeting directly former President Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance, Harris characterized Trump as one of the biggest losers of manufacturing jobs in American history. She criticized him over his administration’s not having delivered on promises she argued had harmed Michigan’s auto industry.
In Redford, another stop on the campaign trail, Harris began her attack on Trump, referring to him as a “union buster,” seeking support from Michigan’s working-class voters.
States like Michigan have voted in both of the past two presidential elections for the winner. It is, in this race to the White House, critical.
