I can almost hear the mariachis singing.

FELIZ KAMALA! FELIZ KAMALA!

Can't you? (There's an earworm for you - you'll thank me later, I'm sure.)

As the Vice President seems to be having some outreach issues during the campaign - trouble connecting with black men, white men, blue-collar workers, Hispanics, rational Americans in general - there have been little teams of firefighters assigned to running interference all over the country for her. Their mission is trying to "woo" some of those disaffected and unimpressed groups back to the fold.

Prizzy Joe Cool of the Perfectly Creased Pants was working his magic on his fellow black men yesterday—well, trying to. First, he appealed to them in mournful tones, reminding them of all the life experiences he, they, and Kamala Harris have in common. In Obama's own inimitable, insufferable fashion, he also sort of smugly wondered why these brothers can't love her half as much as they do him, knowing the answer full well.

No one could ever be as beloved as Barack.

*sad smirk*

That should help.

Another lost constituency was also under scrutiny. Those white guys who don't seem sold on the VP's brand of happy happy joy joy?

The Harris campaign is launching their secret white boy weapon straight at them.

Why do "WOO" and "Walz" work so well together...? One of life's imponderables.

A former Jimmy Kimmel producer has even volunteered his questionable talents with what I'm assuming is a satirical crack at toxic masculinity in the all-out appeal to woo men for Harris.

AW, HAY-YULL, NO

I mean, WTF even was that? Only Woo-Woo Boys for Harris will know. 

With so many others going all out on her behalf, Kamala decided to do her part. She'd stretch those frightened little wings, take the plunge, and accept an invitation to a Univision town hall. Normally, that venue is awfully safe territory for a Democrat, so it's not as if she would be in any danger of a rough evening. 

There were already telltale hints and signs that Univision was bubble-wrapping the event.

With that sort of care being taken, any actual hazards would be bound to be entirely of her own making - no doubt the always hovering prospects of that are scary enough.

Hazards like switching to a Spanish accent.

"Oh, she didn't?!" you cry in horror.

Girl can't help herself.

PUH-LEEZ, KAMALA - PUH-LEEZ, KAMALA

A real brouhaha erupted when the Univision cameras panned around the "live unscripted" town hall and caught a teleprompter!?

Well, there's no denying it IS a teleprompter, but who was it for? Naturally, everyone thought it was for the woman who couldn't string six words together without reusing three of them to make six, especially with the suspicious blink out as the cameras panned by it.

But Univision says, oh, no, no, cray cray MAGA conspiracy freaks - that was for the moderator's introduction in Spanish and English.

The moderator for Kamala Harris’s Univision town hall personally debunked yet another teleprompter conspiracy theory cooked up by right-wing influencers.

Conservative commentators claimed to have uncovered a “gotcha” moment when a Univision camera panning the room during Thursday’s event showed Harris speaking in front of a teleprompter with writing that then went black.

Jorge Bonilla, a Radio Libre host, tends to agree with them because we've all seen what happens to Harris when her teleprompter shuts down. It's obvious, and it's not pretty.

For myself, I'm on the fence simply because of what I heard as the teleprompter's script blinked out, and a "script" it was, but I think she already knew it well. What Harris was saying is verbatim the lines from her current TV ad, making a teleprompter burp not quite as critical as she can not doubt rattle these sad lines off in her sleep. After over a week of being subjected to them, God knows I can.

If anyone eventually confirms that it is Spanish on the teleprompter, I'm not sure that it matters in any event. It seems as if Univision was kind enough to have a second Harris firewall running - the translator.

Who would know if Harris stuck her foot in her mouth again? Who could ever hear it?

Another Harris boilerplate nothing-burger appearance, with serious noise being made about pre-vetting questions and answers.

There certainly were awkward and/or insensitive moments, too, that rubbed some Hispanics wrong - her advocating for open borders, a path for citizenship for the illegals already here, talking about insulin as if to suggest they all back off the tamales (as one friend indignantly noted) - so this is not a needle mover nor seen a serious outing.

And the attention it is getting - yikes. 

Nope. Not gonna cut it.

It is not at all what Harris-Walz needs to bring a spring back into their steps and joy into their campaign.

Beege Adds: A longtime, exceptionally talented girlfriend watched the town hall last night, too, and had something to say about it as it was in progress that I found really fascinating. I wanted to sneak this in here even though it's a smidge late, but I had to wait to ensure she was cool with me using her impressions. 

She's not buying the Harris using a teleprompter, either, but her expert opinion bolsters everyone's "pre-scripted event" suspicions, which I think are far worse. 

Who needs a teleprompter if every word and interaction is staged and set beforehand?