{"id":558421,"date":"2021-06-09T16:21:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T20:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=558421"},"modified":"2021-06-09T16:21:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T20:21:12","slug":"white-house-official-says-reporter-who-announced-her-vote-for-harris-misrepresented-herself-to-univision-vp-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-official-says-reporter-who-announced-her-vote-for-harris-misrepresented-herself-to-univision-vp-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Official Says \u2018Reporter\u2019 Who Announced Her Vote For Harris \u2018Misrepresented Herself\u2019 To Univision, VP Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhite-house-official-says-reporter-who-announced-her-vote-for-harris-misrepresented-herself-to-univision-vp-staff%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=558421&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233343758-1-scaled-e1623268354290.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The woman who purported to be a Univision reporter during Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s press event in Mexico \u201cmisrepresented herself\u201d to both the company and the vice president\u2019s staff, a White House official said Wednesday to the Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>Univision\u2019s crew \u201cwas properly credentialed for the event\u201d and the woman, named\u00a0Maria Fernanda Reyes, told staffers she was part of that crew. The official noted Reyes went through security screening and wasn\u2019t a threat to Harris. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/14\/vice-president-harris-mexico-guatemala\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Vice President Harris To Visit Mexico And Guatemala To Address Root Causes Of Northern Triangle Migration)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis person misrepresented herself to both Univision and to the Vice President\u2019s staff. She misrepresented herself to the Vice President\u2019s staff as part of Univision\u2019s crew, which was properly credentialed for the event. This person underwent the same level of security screening and was never a security threat to the VP,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.494623655914\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">UPDATE: The president of Univision says that the person who asked this question isn\u2019t a reporter with their network.<\/p>\n<p>So who exactly is this person and how did they end up asking the Vice President a question? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fFVkYLEmta\">https:\/\/t.co\/fFVkYLEmta<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1402422993301741568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reyes was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/08\/woman-press-conference-kamala-harris-univison\/\">called on<\/a> during Harris\u2019 Tuesday evening <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/08\/kamala-harris-commits-to-visiting-border-soon\/\">press conference<\/a> in Mexico. Reyes was introduced as Univision reporter \u201cMaria Fernanda\u201d and preceded her question by praising the vice president and noting that she voted for her.<\/p>\n<p>Univision does have a Miami-based <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/case-mistaken-identity-during-harris-074532965.html?guccounter=1&#038;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&#038;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFcdykRAMt8rpum7798pRoCpuYtU2P8OX4v8HNfHYJ8KFDryVnI5_0YFTgwIjVXrk-lbgSerdCSkjQjgiCN5OOuH0JeMp6wBwX7UB7UMDT7QnpNYrvSCyZoCj1s79-gq22g_rEj0M8zWh8IYuE9Cnfl90mAW53v4AKiQnfRxzvb-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reporter\u00a0named<\/a> Maria Fernanda, although this woman\u2019s last name is Lopez and she not attend the event. The name similarity may have helped spur along the confusion on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you Madam Vice President, for me it\u2019s an honor because I actually got to vote for the first time as a nationalized citizen. I voted for you,\u201d the woman, who was one of just a few to be called on, told Harris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u201cMy question is, what would you say to these women, those mothers and also women of color on both sides of the border, farmers, many of them who I see every day as a message of hope but also as \u2013 What will you do for them in the next coming years?\u201d Reyes asked.<\/p>\n<p>Reyes\u2019 voting comment sparked widespread attention after the event, prompting Univision News president\u00a0Daniel Coronell to say Reyes \u201chas no association with\u201d the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet it be clear to everyone that Ms. Maria Fernanda Reyes is not part of this media organization,\u201d Coronell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DCoronell\/status\/1402417068322996224\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Univision told the Caller a slightly different story, noting that Reyes <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UniNoticias\/status\/1402646700335022086?s=20\">was interviewed<\/a> Wednesday morning by the news outlet and \u201cmade the clarification in the interview.\u201d Reyes is apparently actually a member of the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative and was described by Univision as \u201ca guest\u201d at the event.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.8571428571429\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Who is Maria Fernanda Reyes? Why was she at Vice President\u2019s Kamala Harris press conference in Mexico?<\/p>\n<p>>> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Univision?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Univision<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinsOficial?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CollinsOficial<\/a> interviewed the person that is in no way affiliated with Univision and was incorrectly identified.???? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HcCZckMNPz\">https:\/\/t.co\/HcCZckMNPz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ???????????????? ???????????????????????? (@jczamora) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jczamora\/status\/1402654592198918146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Univision appeared to place the blame on an incorrect introduction rather than an intentional misrepresentation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnivision News Senior Correspondent interviewed Maria Fernando Reyes this morning,\u201d Joe Zamora, senior vice president of communications at Univision, told the Caller. \u201cAs stated before, she is in no way affiliated to Univision. She made the clarification in the interview. She is part of the Stanford Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative and attended the event as a guest. They introduced her incorrectly and both her and the person that introduced her failed to make the necessary correction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris also stopped in Guatemala in what marked her first foreign policy trip under the administration. The trip was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/09\/biden-harris-white-house-mexico-immigration\/\">intended<\/a> to address the \u201croot causes\u201d of illegal immigration and she returned Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The woman who purported to be a Univision reporter during Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019s press event in Mexico \u201cmisrepresented herself\u201d to both the company and the vice president\u2019s staff, a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279781,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233343758-1-scaled-e1623268354290.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"White House Official Says \u2018Reporter\u2019 Who Announced Her Vote For Harris \u2018Misrepresented Herself\u2019 To Univision, VP Staff","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1233343758-1-scaled-e1623268354290.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"White House Official Says \u2018Reporter\u2019 Who Announced Her Vote For Harris \u2018Misrepresented Herself\u2019 To Univision, VP Staff","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}