The Associated Press is once again feeding propaganda to the Harris campaign in an attempt to further mislead voters about their political opponent.
In response to Wednesday's horrific school shooting in Georgia, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio)
Expressed He sympathized with the victims and their families and lamented the fact that such tragedies happen.
The Associated Press quoted Vance as saying: Deleted In his social posts and the subsequently retitled article, he had the ostensible aim of portraying himself as callous and condoning the current state of school shootings.
The Harris campaign took advantage of the AP's deceptive reporting to commit their own deception, showing no sign of weakness, and instead attacked Vance's statements and recommendations in a manner completely unrelated to the facts.
“More bullshit from the Fake News AP.”
While the Associated Press has retracted its misleading headline, the false narrative it sparked lives on in the propaganda shared by the Harris campaign and its supporters.
reality
A shooting occurred at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia on Wednesday morning, leaving two teachers and two students dead.
Vance
said “We're in a very difficult position,” said the crowd at a campaign rally in Phoenix the next day.
First of all, what happened in Georgia is just a terrible tragedy. I know there are a lot of parents and grandparents in this room, and I can't imagine how this must have been. Kids are so excited to go back to school, God loves them, and just after the first week of summer, a total barbarian opens fire, takes the lives of kids, and kills several teachers.
Associated Press video
Share YouTube omitted the following portion from its replay of Vance's speech:
We have to think about these people. If you're the type to pray, and I know I am, we have to pray for them. We have to hope for the best for this great community, because no parent should have to deal with something like this. No child should have to deal with something like this. And yes, after supporting these people with prayers and giving them sympathy, as people deserve in times of tragedy, we have to think about making this happen less. Now, think about it. Kamala Harris' answer is to take guns away from law-abiding Americans. That's what Kamala Harris wants to do. But we have to ask ourselves, “What if we just didn't have gun laws?” We could actually do an experiment on this, because there are states that have very strict gun laws and there are states that don't have strict gun laws at all. We have a lot of school shootings in states with strict gun laws, and we have school shootings in states with no strict gun laws. So it's clear that stricter gun laws are not going to solve this problem.
The Associated Press resumed sharing video of Senator Vance's speech as he discussed potential solutions to the issue, saying, “I don't like this. I don't want to acknowledge this. I don't like that this is a fact of life. But if you're a psychopath and you want to make headlines, you'd find that our schools are an easy target.”
“We must strengthen security in our schools so that someone who is willing to walk in through the front doors of a school and kill a group of children cannot do so,” Vance said.
The Ohio senator went on to point out that while this is not the reality he would want, especially not for his own children, it is the reality “we live in.”
Associated Press Framing
The Associated Press reported on the speech on Thursday, and while the article's main text portrayed Vance's remarks relatively accurately, the headline and social media posts that garnered millions of impressions and thousands of retweets before being taken down told a different story.
The original article title was
survive Recycled AP content on the pages of various publications that featured similar content. The Washington Post and other liberal publications write, “J.D. Vance says school shootings are 'everyday occurrence' and calls for increased security.”
Conspicuously absent from the title was the word “lament.”[ed]”The reality of school shootings, specifically what he said, 'I hate that this is a fact of life.'
X's post, like the original article,
said“JD Vance says school shootings are 'everyday occurrence' and calls for increased security.”
Critics, noting the discrepancy between the AP's reporting and what Vance actually said, lashed out. Community comments were quickly attached to the post, and the liberal paper changed the article's title and deleted the tweet.
X's Trump Strategy Room
Written“More bullshit from the Fake News AP.”
Vance Press Secretary William Martin
said Fox News Digital, “This is another example of the fake news media brazenly lying about a Republican politician. Senator Vance said the exact opposite of what the Associated Press claimed.”
“It's no surprise that the Associated Press has lost all the credibility it had a few years ago, because they will literally lie about anything to prop up Democrats,” Martin continued. “Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is putting children all over America at risk by calling for all police officers to be removed from schools. This is another example of Kamala Harris' weak, failed and dangerously liberal policies that make her unfit for the office of the presidency.”
The new title of the article is:J.D. Vance has lamented that school shootings are a “daily occurrence” and has called for increased security.”
New Tweet
read“J.D. Vance lamented that school shootings are a 'fact of life' and said the US needs to step up security to prevent massacres like the one this week in Georgia that left four dead.”
Associated Press
said A subsequent message said: “This post replaces a previous post which was deleted to add context to a partial quote from Mr. Vance.”
Harris' Propaganda
The Harris campaign used the AP's framing to
Internal communication plan after that Tweet“J.D. Vance responds to deadly Georgia shooting by saying school shootings are simply a 'fact of life,'” and attacks common-sense gun safety reforms.
“Instead of talking about her mistakes, she's lying about what I said.”
In an official statement, Harris' campaign wrote, “Yesterday, VP Harris said 'this doesn't have to happen' in the wake of yet another senseless school shooting. Donald Trump and J.D. Vance believe school shootings are 'a fact of life' and 'we must get over it.'”
Trump campaign
Responded“Kamala's intern released a statement claiming it was fake news, but the Associated Press retracted it. If you watch the entire video, you can clearly see that JD Vance did not say what they claim. These idiots lie every day.”
But Harris' campaign wasn't the only one spreading falsehoods, its leaders were acting out as well. Tweet“School shootings are simply not a reality. It doesn't have to be this way.”
Vance responded directly.
write“Instead of protecting our kids, Kamala is trying to make our schools less safe. Instead of calling out her own failures, she's lying about what I said. More desperation from the biggest con man in American politics.”
Late last month, the Associated Press again supported Democrats' false claims.
The Blaze News previously reported that liberal publications are repeating Democrats' false claims that Project 2025 is “the Republican blueprint for a second term for President Trump.”
Project 2025
Responded X says, “Is this an AP account or a DNC account? Project 2025 does not represent any candidate or campaign.”
After the damage was done, AP
correct The company acknowledged its error, removed the post, and noted that it had “misidentified the blueprint as belonging to the Republican Party.”
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