Because the 2024 presidential election nears, some conservative commentators have wrongly asserted that they know why so many individuals are at Vice President Kamala Harris’ rallies.
“It’s Gotten So BAD, Even Liberal CBS Simply Uncovered How Faux Kamala’s Marketing campaign Is,” the title of an Oct. 12 Fb video by conservative commentator Dan Bongino reads.
Within the video, Bongino, whom PolitFact has beforehand fact-checked, says, “How unhealthy does it should be for CBS to reveal the truth that Kamala Harris, who’s drawing … the most important crowds you’ve ever seen, hundreds of thousands, billions … Right here’s CBS like, ah, truly I feel they’re busing them in.”
The clip then cuts to a CBS reporter at a Sept. 4 rally for Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, in North Hampton, New Hampshire. The reporter says, “Behind me, a whole lot of invited Harris supporters are leaving and boarding shuttle buses.”
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The declare additionally went viral on X. Customers there shared a video of 12 buses from Yankee Line, a constitution bus firm, leaving Harris’ Sept. 4 occasion and stated it was proof that Harris was busing individuals to the rally from Massachusetts.
The proof that Bongino supplied for his declare that the Harris’ marketing campaign was busing individuals to the rally was the CBS reporter saying attendees have been leaving the rally on shuttles.
However the buses have been used solely to move individuals to the rally from a parking zone a couple of miles away. A Yankee Line spokesperson informed PolitiFact in an electronic mail that the corporate supplied shuttle service buses from “an offsite parking zone 3 miles away” due to parking restrictions on the venue.
The rally occurred at Throwback Brewery in North Hampton, New Hampshire. We geolocated the enterprise and confirmed that its parking zone can be too small to accommodate the hundreds of individuals who have been reported to have attended the occasion.
We contacted Bongino for remark however didn’t instantly obtain a response.
PolitiFact has beforehand rated a number of claims False that the Harris’ marketing campaign is paying attendees at its occasions. A Harris-Walz spokesperson informed PolitiFact in August that their “marketing campaign doesn’t pay individuals to attend rallies.”
The declare was shared amid information that attendees at former President Donald Trump’s rally in California’s Coachella Valley have been stranded for hours Oct. 12 after shuttles that had introduced them to the venue from parking heaps have been delayed in taking them again to their autos.
Though the Harris-Walz marketing campaign supplied buses to shuttle individuals from a close-by parking zone to the rally, the marketing campaign didn’t bus individuals from out of state to the venue to extend attendance on the occasion, as Bongino and social media customers claimed.
We price Bongino’s declare that CBS uncovered “the very fact” that Kamala Harris’ crowd sizes are inflated as a result of her marketing campaign bused a whole lot of attendees to her New Hampshire rally Principally False.
