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Fact check: Harris campaign social media account has repeatedly deceived with misleading edits and captions

  • Bias Rating

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -7% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : The full video of the rally shows that earlier in the speech, Trump had pointed to the same spot on his left to acknowledge and then speak to a group of ardent supporters from North Carolina, eventually saying, "Thank you very much.
53% : It included a six-second video clip in which Trump said, while pointing to his left, "Would that be okay, North Carolina?
52% : Its post said, "Trump: 'Pennsylvania, remember this when you have to go to vote' (He is in Arizona)."
51% : "But Trump was not lost or confused.
51% : The post included a seven-second clip of Trump speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania.
50% : This is a small -- ..."The Instagram post of this remark, too, was more explicit than the X post; on Instagram, the Harris campaign added text over top the video that read, "Trump forgets which state he is in (again).
49% : An August 30 post from @KamalaHQ said, "Trump says he plans to bring back laws from 100+ years ago, echoing Project 2025: 'We don't pass laws like that.
46% : The extended footage shows that the Harris campaign clipped out critical context: Trump was talking about immigration, a key topic in Arizona, and had just read a part of his prepared text about how a small Pennsylvania town has "experienced a 2,000% increase in the population of Haitian migrants under Kamala Harris."
42% : A public-private combination for veterans' care was the general approach taken by President Barack Obama and then by Trump; it's certainly not without critics, but it's much less contentious than the idea of a total privatization.
41% : "But Trump, again, had not forgotten which state he was in.
32% : "One could try to argue it's odd for Trump to make a direct appeal to Pennsylvanians while speaking in Arizona.
32% : The Harris campaign said that "no tax on tips and Social Security were not new.
27% : "But the full video of the speech shows the @KamalaHQ post cut the video clip right before Trump elaborated on what he meant by cutting taxes "even more."
26% : The Harris campaign defended the post in question in part by noting that wealthy Trump donors were in attendance and in part by saying that one of the biggest policy announcements Trump made in speech was that he plans to try to lower the corporate tax rate from 21% to 15% (a reduction Trump said would be "solely for companies that make their product in America").
25% : The post made a specific claim about what Trump was supposedly saying in a specific video included in the post, and Trump wasn't actually saying that.Deceptively clipping and misleadingly describing a Trump comment about taxesA September 5 post from @KamalaHQ said, "Trump tells his wealthy donors he is going to make his tax handouts for the ultra-wealthy 'permanent' and cut their taxes 'even more.'"
24% : The Harris campaign deploys @KamalaHQ as a kind of irreverent attack dog, using jocular posts to draw attention to controversial, incorrect, or dubious comments by Trump and his allies.
24% : But the full video of the rally shows Trump was not even talking about Project 2025 or his future plans.
20% : We say Harris' debate description of the 2017 comments was fair, but regardless, Trump was not defending murder on Friday.
19% : "But the full video of Trump's California comments shows that the Harris campaign deceptively cut the clip right before Trump made clear he was not claiming that neo-Nazis in Charlottesville did nothing wrong or that the murder of innocent Charlottesville counterprotester Heather Heyer was not wrong.
17% : Rather, Trump was telling his usual tale about how he supposedly "signed" a century-old law to give automatic 10-year prison sentences to people who were damaging monuments.
11% : Misleadingly describing a Trump comment about his supportersAn August 17 post from @KamalaHQ strongly suggested Trump had gotten confused about what state he was in during an event in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
8% : The Harris campaign declined to comment on this @KamalaHQ post.Deceptively clipping and misleadingly describing a Trump comment about his 2017 Charlottesville remarkA Friday post from @KamalaHQ said, "Trump says 'nothing was done wrong' in Charlottesville in 2017 when neo-Nazis chanted 'Jews will not replace us' and killed an innocent woman."
7% : The Harris campaign declined to comment on this @KamalaHQ post.Deceptively clipping and misleadingly describing a Trump comment about immigrationOn Thursday, the @KamalaHQ account made a new attempt to suggest that Trump was confused about his location.
7% : Specifically, Trump was complaining that a moderator of the presidential debate on Tuesday, David Muir of ABC News, did not challenge how Harris described Trump's 2017 comments.

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