Video shared in mid-October 2024 reveals former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence saying, “Vote for Kamala Harris as president of the USA or Tim Walz as her operating mate.”
The clip was edited to omit the essential first three phrases of Pence’s assertion: “I might by no means …”
On Oct. 13, 2024, a video spread (archived) on X, allegedly displaying former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence endorsing Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and her operating mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, for president and vice chairman. “Drumroll please….. Pence endorses VP Harris & Governor Walz,” the caption on the video learn. One X post (archived) with the clip reached greater than 485,000 views as of this writing.
“Pence proclaims he’s voting for Kamala Harris and won’t be endorsing #donaldtrump 💙💙💙💙💙,” learn a Threads post with the clip. “This can be a shame. A former operating mate encouraging individuals to vote different facet? You’re banned from republican occasion,” a person commented.
The footage additionally spread on TikTok. Google reverse picture search results confirmed related movies began circulating on-line in August 2024.
In brief, the video in query featured genuine footage clipped from Pence’s Aug. 9, 2024, look at The Gathering, an occasion hosted by speak radio pundit Erick Erickson, who interviewed Pence. Nevertheless, the clip was edited to take away essential elements of Pence’s precise assertion — particularly, the phrases “I might by no means,” which he uttered earlier than he mentioned, “vote for Kamala Harris as President of the USA or Tim Walz as her operating mate.”
Because of this, the edited video (transcript under) misleadingly prompt Pence endorsed Harris and Walz (which he didn’t). The edited video continued with Pence voicing criticisms of former President Donald Trump (with whom he served):
Vote for Kamala Harris as President of the USA or Tim Walz as her operating mate, interval, paragraph. And I feel it is essential that we perceive precisely what’s coming down the tracks from the opposite facet. However in the identical breath I additionally suppose we additionally want to consider who we’re as conservatives.
Between me and my former operating mate I can not endorse President Trump’s persevering with assertion that I ought to have put aside my oath to assist and defend the Structure, and acted in a approach that it could have overturned the election in January of 2021.
I simply can not endorse this rising abandonment of our allies on the world stage that is taken maintain in elements of our occasion. I can not endorse ignoring our nationwide debt that reached $35 trillion simply within the final week.
The video clip was stitched collectively from items of three separate statements Pence made through the interview, which was shared in full on Erickson’s YouTube channel on Aug. 12:
That is what Pence really mentioned about voting for Harris and Walz (between 5:42 and 6:05, omitted phrases in daring):
[I could never] vote for Kamala Harris as President of the USA or Tim Walz as her operating mate, interval, paragraph. And I feel it is essential that we perceive precisely what’s coming down the tracks from the opposite facet. However in the identical breath I additionally suppose we additionally want to consider who we’re as conservatives.
The center paragraph of the edited video was extracted from one other a part of Pence’s reply, which begins at about 8:08 within the YouTube video (omitted phrases in daring):
[I cannot support marginalizing the right to life in our party as we saw on the national platform, and] between me and my former operating mate I can not endorse President Trump’s persevering with assertion that I ought to have put aside my oath to assist and defend the Structure, and acted in a approach that it could have overturned the election in January of 2021.
Pence uttered the next sentences at across the 7:40 mark (omitted phrases in daring):
[So for me, while we have to make it clear to the American people what’s wrong and what’s failed about the Biden-Harris administration and the new Harris-Walz team, I think we have to make sure that we hew to our roots in this conservative movement. And for my part, you know, I’m staying out of the presidential campaign, for the reason that] I simply can not endorse this rising abandonment of our allies on the world stage that is taken maintain in elements of our occasion. I can not endorse ignoring our nationwide debt that reached $35 trillion simply within the final week.
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