Mike Pence endorsed Kamala Harris for president? No, clip is doctored | Fact check
By Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY,
6 hours ago
Former Vice President Mike Pence, the 2024 MTSU Constitution Day speaker talks on “Defining Democracy,†the Constitution and other topics during the school’s Constitution Week event Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, at Tucker Theatre. HELEN COMER/The Daily News Journal, HELEN COMER/The Daily News Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
The claim: Video shows Mike Pence endorsing Kamala Harris for president
An Oct. 13 Facebook post ( direct link , archive link ) shows a video of Republican former Vice President Mike Pence sitting on a stage and speaking.
“Vote for Kamala Harris as president of the United States or Tim Walz as her running mate," Pence says at the start of the clip. "Period. Paragraph."
Both the post’s caption and on-screen text in the video characterize the statement as Pence's endorsement of the 2024 Democratic ticket.
The video was edited to cut the start of Pence’s sentence and change the meaning of his statement. Pence did not endorse Vice President Kamala Harris in the video, he said he couldn't vote for her.
In unedited video, Pence says ‘I could never’ vote for Harris
But at no point during that event did he endorse Harris for president. The clip in the Facebook post was edited to remove the first three words of his statement and reverse its meaning.
The unedited version of the video shows Pence saying, “I could never vote for Kamala Harris as president of the United States or Tim Walz as her running mate. Period. Paragraph.”
He made that statement after listing several criticisms of the Biden-Harris adminsitration. Then, he appeared to acknowledge his rift with Trump and his subsequent March announcement that he would not endorse his former running mate, stating, “I saw some people the other day who’ve defected to the other side who were wondering where I would come down in this campaign. Let me go on the record here at ‘The Gathering.’”
The clip in the Facebook post combines edited versions of three statements Pence made during the event with significant context removed. For example, the video in the post shows Pence referencing his refusal to endorse Trump and “this growing abandonment of our allies on the world stage." But it leaves out Pence’s criticisms of both the Biden administration and the Harris-Walz ticket along with his declaration that “ I’m staying out of the presidential campaign .”
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