Posted on 10/30/2024 11:26:48 AM PDT by John Semmens
The term "town hall" implies that a public figure or candidate for office will field questions from voters. This was not the case for the town hall for Democrat presidential nominee Vice-President Kamala Harris that was hosted by former California First Lady Maria Shriver.
After one woman in the audience wanted to know "are we going to be able to ask a question?" Shriver told her "You're not, unfortunately we have some predetermined questions. And hopefully, one of these questions might be the one you'd like to ask."
Shriver went on to add "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. It'll be raucous. It'll be hot. But it'll fun. That's what it's going to be like."
CNN Political Commentator Van Jones said "I was disappointed to see the Vice-President unnecessarily dodge some questions during her town hall with the network. And the word salad stuff gets on my nerves."
CNN's Dana Bash remarked "if her goal was to close the deal with voters I'm not sure she did that. Too many in the audience looked unsettled or confused by what they'd heard from her."
CNN's Political Commentator David Axelrod observed "when Vice-President Kamala Harris doesn't want to answer a question, her habit is to kind of go to word salad city. She did that a few times during her town hall with CNN."
That’s not how it works, Citizen.
We will tell you what to do.
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