Kamala surrogate Maria Shriver refuses to take questions from voters at town hall, says they've been 'predetermined'

Journalist and former first lady of California Maria Shriver refused to take questions from voters at a town hall on Monday, telling the audience that questions for Vice President Kamala Harris had already been predetermined.

Ahead of the Harris Town Hall event in Oakland County which Shriver was hosting, an audience member asked Shriver: "Are we going to be able to ask a question?"

"You're not, unfortunately, we have some predetermined questions," Shriver responded, as reported by the Daily Mail. "Hopefully I'll be able to ask some of the questions that might be in your head," she added.

Social media users swiftly criticized the gathering as a Harris campaign "production" instead of a real town hall, where voters are often permitted to ask presidential candidates open-ended questions.

"So in reality, it wasn't a real town hall, it was another soft interview that she already had the answers scripted for her. Got it," one X user wrote.

"That's not how town halls work," added another.

Another X user suggested that live questions were not allowed following Harris's interview with Fox News's Bret Baier, sharing a clip from the interview and writing, "We know why."

The Democratic presidential nominee, VP Kamala Harris, 60, has faced criticism on the campaign trail for her failure to participate in press interviews. Harris has been accused of having scripted or altered interviews, such as her recent appearance on CBS 60 Minutes and her August interview with CNN's Dana Bash.

Chad Gilmartin, a former aide to Donald Trump in the White House, contended after the town hall that "everything is scripted" when it comes to Harris, adding that "nothing will change."

Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung also ripped into the Democratic candidate, sharing a clip of Harris and Shriver and writing, "HOLY SH*T! They're not even hiding it anymore."

The town hall also included former Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming, an anti-Trump conservative who has become a Harris-Walz campaign surrogate. Harris only took three questions from the audience during the hour-long event, the New York Post reported.