Cardi B suffers an awkward teleprompter blunder at Kamala Harris Milwaukee rally and sends staff into a frenzy

Cardi B faced with an awkward teleprompter mishap astatine Kamala Harris' rally connected Friday, and was forced to work her endorsement of the vice president from her phone.

The outspoken rapper was telling the packed assemblage successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin, that she 'wasn't going to vote' until the Vice-President entered the contention against 'bully' Trump.

The Grammy-winner past stopped successful her tracks erstwhile the teleprompter abruptly had method glitch.

For astir a infinitesimal she stood connected signifier wondering however to respond arsenic the assemblage cheered. 

 A subordinate of unit past had to frantically tally to springiness her a phone, truthful should could decorativeness the remarks successful the battleground state. 

Both candidates held rallies within 7 miles of each different past nighttime successful the Milwaukee country arsenic portion of a fevered last propulsion for votes successful swing-state Wisconsin's largest county.

Milwaukee is location to the astir Democratic votes successful Wisconsin, but its blimpish suburbs are wherever astir Republicans unrecorded and are a captious country for Trump arsenic helium tries to reclaim the authorities helium narrowly won successful 2016 and mislaid successful 2020. 

One crushed for his decision was a driblet successful enactment successful those Milwaukee suburbs and an summation successful Democratic votes successful the city. 

'I wasn't gonna ballot this year,' she said, earlier adding that Ms Harris taking implicit arsenic the Democratic nominee changed her mind.

'She's passionate, compassionate... and astir of each she is not delusional,' she said.

She referred to Donald Trump arsenic a 'bully'.

'He said he's gonna support women whether they similar it oregon not,' she says.

'If his explanation of extortion is not the state of choice... past I don't privation it. I'm not giving Donald Trump a 2nd chance.'

Democrats cognize they indispensable crook retired voters successful Milwaukee, besides location to the state's largest Black population, to antagonistic Trump's enactment successful the suburbs and agrarian areas. Harris is hoping to replicate, and exceed, turnout from 2020 successful the city, which voted 79 percent for Biden that year. 

The instrumentalist dressed successful achromatic took the signifier successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin and instantly paused arsenic the assemblage cheered wildly. 

'One 2nd guys. One second!' she began arsenic the assemblage cheered her on.

She removed her achromatic gloves and tried to statesman speaking, but yet paused again aft the teleprompter surface went blank.

'OK. So I don't instrumentality lightly the call,' she began, earlier pausing. 'I'm atrocious guys, I'm a small nervous. I'm a small tense guys, I've been waiting for this infinitesimal this full life, my full life.'

'I request patience implicit here, patience wherever are you girl?' she shouted. 'I request patience implicit here!'

'Are we acceptable to marque history?' she asked repeatedly.

Four of the past six statesmanlike elections successful Wisconsin person been decided by little than a point, oregon less than 23,000 votes.

It was absentee votes from Milwaukee, which typically are reported aboriginal successful the greeting aft Election Day, that tipped Wisconsin for President Joe Biden successful 2020.

After astir 90 seconds of stalling, yet an adjutant rushed connected signifier to springiness her a telephone with what looked similar her prepared remarks connected the screen.

'Now I took my clip penning my speech, truthful I wanted to marque definite I delivered it right,' she said.

Cardi B rapidly regained assurance and work disconnected her code from the phone.

'Just similar Kamala Harris I excessively person been the underdog, I've been underestimated, my occurrence belittled, and discredited,' she said, praising Harris for 'standing up' to bullies.

'Women person to enactment 10 times harder, execute 10 times amended and inactive radical question america however we got to the top!' she said. 

The rapper famously took shots astatine President Joe Biden successful July erstwhile helium was moving for president, calling him and the Democratic enactment 'selfish' for not stepping speech for Harris. 

Before heading to Milwaukee, Harris campaigned successful the confederate Wisconsin metropolis of Janesville, wherever she talked up her enactment for organized labour successful a code astatine an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local.

'Nobody understands amended than a national subordinate that arsenic Americans we each emergence oregon autumn together,' Harris said. She promised to destruct 'unnecessary' grade requirements for national jobs and propulsion backstage assemblage employers to bash the same.

She called Trump 'an existential menace to America's labour movement' and said the federation mislaid manufacturing jobs during his presidency.

Trump, whose basal includes working-class voters, has made sporadic efforts to scope retired to rank-and-file national members, who person traditionally been halfway to the Democratic coalition.

Harris aboriginal went aft Trump connected wellness care, telling hundreds who packed into a precocious schoolhouse successful Little Chute, Wisconsin, that the erstwhile president wants to undo the Affordable Care Act instrumentality and instrumentality the United States backmost to the days erstwhile insurers could contradict sum to radical with preexisting conditions.

'I consciousness similar this would person been her cleanable clip to shine. We already cognize she's crisp with the f–king mouth,' she said successful mid-July aft Biden's disastrous statement performance.   

She went connected to repetition a batch of acquainted themes from the Harris campaign, hitting erstwhile president Donald Trump for selling $100,000 watches, sneakers and Bibles from China. 

'I'm not giving Donald Trump a 2nd chance,' she said. I'm not taking immoderate chances with my aboriginal and I d**n definite americium not taking immoderate chances with my children. ... I'm not giving him the chance! I'm with Kamala!'  

Cardi B was 1 of respective celebrities Harris recruited to talk oregon execute astatine the run lawsuit to rally supporters to ballot successful the last days earlier the election.

Rapper GloRilla took the signifier astatine a Kamala Harris rally successful Milwaukee connected Friday, wherever she performed 2 of her hits: 'Hollon' and 'Yeah Glo.'

The much graphic lyrics were censored, but the magnitude of silenced lyrics prompted attendees to wonderment if determination were method issues with her microphone. 

Harris urged everyone successful Wisconsin to get retired and vote, and gave a shoutout to young Gen-Z voters who were voting for the archetypal time. 

'I emotion Gen-Z,' she said with a laugh. 'Here's what I emotion astir you guys. You are rightly impatient for change. I emotion that astir you!'