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A video has been shared on X claiming that US Vice President Kamala Harris was using a teleprompter during a Univision town hall appearance.
The teleprompter👀 pic.twitter.com/fIhyPzedXY
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 11, 2024
Mostly shared by the Trump campaign, the video shows Harris’s speaking while the camera pans behind her to show a teleprompter with text too small to make out. Captioned “The teleprompter,” the post has been shared widely on X.
FACT-CHECK
Towards the last second of the video, the teleprompter is seen cut off but Harris did not stop speaking, as those speaking from teleprompter usually do. The footage at 6th minute timestamp of the original YouTube video uploaded by Univision shows the teleprompter stop and never turned on again, while Harris continues to speak without its aid.
When allegations appeared, Univision refuted the claim and said the teleprompter was in Spanish and the town hall moderator, Enrique Acevedo, said that the teleprompter was meant to help him moderate in Spanish, not Harris.
The prompter displayed my introduction (in Spanish) and then it switched to a timer. Any claim to the contrary is simply untrue. https://t.co/eYWZFoCyZf
— Enrique Acevedo (@Enrique_Acevedo) October 11, 2024
Daniel Coronell, the president of Univision News, also denied the claim in his X post.
That’s not true. The teleprompter that displays a text written in Spanish was a support element for the town hall moderator. I can tell you this with first-hand knowledge because I was in charge of the television program. https://t.co/Co5MIgZkry
— Daniel Coronell (@DCoronell) October 11, 2024
“That’s not true. The teleprompter that displays a text written in Spanish was a support element for the town hall moderator. I can tell you this with first-hand knowledge because I was in charge of the television program,” Coronell tweeted.
Hence, the claim that Harris is speaking from a teleprompter is false.
Claim: Kamala Harris is speaking from a teleprompter during a Univision town hall appearance.
Conclusion: Misrepresentation. The teleprompter displays a text written in Spanish to help the town hall moderator, not for Harris.
Rating: Misrepresentation — 
