Vice President Kamala Harris made a shock go to to a Washington, D.C., Democratic Nationwide Committee cellphone financial institution on Election Day. Harris was handed a cellphone to talk with a voter, a second that went viral as social media customers questioned the interplay.
An Instagram consumer shared the clip of Harris with the caption, “#KamalaHarris pretends to speak to voter on the cellphone, forgets she’s FAKING IT and holds her cellphone up, revealing her CAMERA APP open.”
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The clip went viral with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and former President Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump reposting it on X saying it reveals that Harris faked the cellphone name.
Within the full video Harris is handed a cellphone that she solutions by saying, “Alexandria, it’s Kamala Harris … Have you ever voted already? You probably did, thanks!” The viewers erupts in applause and Harris faces the cellphone in the direction of the gang, displaying that the digicam app is open.
However the clip isn’t proof that the cellphone name was staged, as social media customers stated. iPhones can run different apps throughout a name, in keeping with the iPhone consumer information for working methods 12 to 18.
We tried it ourselves on an iPhone and efficiently made a name whereas the digicam app was open.
In the remainder of the complete video, Harris talks to different voters on speaker cellphone. Different folks’s voices might be heard whereas the cellphone app is open.
We fee the declare {that a} video of Harris speaking to a voter on the cellphone is faux as a result of the digicam app was on False.
PolitiFact Workers Author Maria Ramirez Uribe contributed to this report.
