A social media account run by Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has been repeatedly deceptive.
The campaign deploys the @KamalaHQ account as a kind of irreverent attack dog, using jocular posts to draw attention to controversial, incorrect or dubious comments by Trump and his allies. But the account, which the Harris campaign calls its “official rapid response page,” has itself made inaccurate comments on multiple occasions.
In one example, an August 17 post from @KamalaHQ strongly suggested Trump had gotten confused about what state he was in during an event in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
The post said, “Trump: Would that be okay, North Carolina? (He is in Pennsylvania).” It included a six-second video clip in which Trump said, while pointing to his left, “Would that be OK, North Carolina? I don’t think so, right.”
The Harris campaign was explicit about its intentions in the version of the post it made on the Instagram @KamalaHQ account, saying, “Donald Trump is lost and confused.”
But Trump was not lost or confused.
The full video of the rally shows that earlier in the speech he had pointed to the same part of the crowd to acknowledge a group of ardent supporters from North Carolina. Later, in the moment shown by @KamalaHQ, he pointed to these supporters again and referred to them as “North Carolina.”
On Thursday, the @KamalaHQ account made a new attempt to suggest that Trump was confused about his location, but again left out key context.
Read about that post and six more examples in the full fact check.
