Vice President Kamala Harris’ Nevada town hall event on Thursday was marketed to undecided Latino voters, who have already decided to support her, according to independent journalist Michael Tracy. It is reported that the venue was packed with Democratic voters who were determined to hold their own.

After a week of media appearances, Harris took to the stage in Las Vegas at a Univision-sponsored town hall aimed at undecided Latino voters in the state. In “Systems Update with Glenn Greenwald,” Tracy observed “two segments” of the audience during the event, one of which asked questions that were allegedly flown in by the network from out of state. He said it was made up of people who

“So what I understood was that there were two segments of the audience that filled this ‘town hall venue,’ and one segment had the right to actually stand up and ask questions. “They stood up and asked questions. They were Latino voters from all over the country, people who had flown in at the expense of Univision, which is strange,” Tracy said. spoke.

“So we’re in the battleground state of Nevada. I think there are a lot of people in Clark County, Nevada, who would be willing to go and ask Kamala Harris questions,” Tracy continued. “But instead, we flew people from Florida, Wisconsin, California and other places to Las Vegas to ask questions that we thought only they could ask.”

Tracy said people who had access to question Harris pressed her on “common platitudes” like immigration policy. The independent journalist then went on to highlight that a second “segment” of Harris’ audience was the seat fillers, who were allegedly commissioned by a casting company called FansOnQ. (Related: Steve Kornacki makes shocking remarks as key Democratic voting bloc collapses)

of the company site claims to be the “best audience casting and fan engagement” group and says it is based in Miami and serves productions in Miami, Washington DC, Puerto Rico, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles.

“…Some people in the audience at this event were just filling their seats without being asked questions, and it just so happened that that task had been delegated to a company called fansOnQ…so these weird You never really thought about the service, you never thought it existed, you never thought about the fact that it existed, but once it existed. When you hear that, it makes sense,” Tracy said.

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“The company is a casting call company that recruits audience members to attend music award shows and such. So this company is used for the Latin Grammy Awards, and there are people who attend the awards ceremony and dance, but they don’t do it in advance. has been selected and vetted by…and we have employed the same service for this event,” added Tracy.

The independent journalist then played a clip in which two audience members can be heard saying they are not voters, but supporters of Ms Harris, before attending the event.

“I had made up my mind a long time ago, and a lot of people didn’t,” one woman told Tracy.

“I have already [knew] I was planning to go to Kamala before. [this] And now it’s kind of solidified,” a second attendee was heard saying. “Part of the reason I wanted to go was just like that.” [to] Please support her. ”

During the event, Harris answered questions about the border crisis and pledged to focus on both border security and building a path to citizenship. According to To The Hill. According to the newspaper, Harris said it was a “false choice” for lawmakers to be forced to choose between the two.

Polls in the key battleground state of Nevada show Trump holding 48.2% support, a margin of just 0.2 percentage points, to Harris’ 48%. According to Compared to the RealClearPolling average.

FansOnQ and Univision did not respond to Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment.

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