Vice President Kamala Harris visited Democratic National Committee headquarters on Election Day, dropping in on volunteers manning the phone banks. She then purportedly made some calls herself, but eagle-eyed viewers noticed that when she flipped her phone around while making one of the calls, she appeared to be on her phone's camera app.
Video shows Harris speaking into the phone, saying, "Have you voted already?" She pauses as if she were listening, then exclaims, "You did, thank you!" She then turns her phone screen around to show supporters gathered around her. They cheer and clap, but the phone screen does not appear to be on an active call screen.
Social media users were quick to jump on the apparent gaffe.
One X user posted, "LMAO! Kamala just pretended like she was talking to a voter on the phone, and then exposed herself by showing she was actually on the camera app. More FAKERY from a campaign of fraud!"
Another said, "Absolutely nothing is authentic about this woman! Get her far FAR away from the Whitehouse!"
A third said, "If you're on television staging a phone call at the DNC Headquarters, things might not be going well."
Others defended her, with one person saying, "You know the phone app can run in background mode on an iPhone, don't you?"
Another said, "You can use the phone app and call and switch to the camera app while on a call. I just tried it. You can also talk on the phone while the camera app is running full screen."
The Vice President took several other calls on camera, telling supporters that their vote was important and encouraging them to get to the polls.
"'I am well," Harris told one caller. "I just wanted to call you and check in and make sure you know where you can go vote today if you haven't already."
Kate McManus ✉
Kate McManus is a New Jersey-based Newsmax writer who's spent more than two decades as a journalist.
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