Video altered to make it look like Biden greeted wrong state

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It’s an awkward moment when a presidential candidate greets the audience at a rally and names the wrong state. Fortunately for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, that didn’t happen to him this week, despite a widely shared video that appears to show him saying “Hello, Minnesota” to a crowd in Florida.

It turns out he was, indeed, in Minnesota. The video that was shared had been altered to change the text on a sign and the podium to refer to Tampa, Florida, instead of Minnesota.

What you need to know about this edited video and the falsehoods spreading around it:

CLAIM: Video shows Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden mistakenly saying “Hello, Minnesota” at a campaign event in Tampa, Florida.

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The sign behind Biden in this video has been edited to add the words “Tampa, Florida” and remove the words “TEXT MN to 30330.” The podium has also been edited to add “FL” instead of “MN.” Original video from this event confirms that Biden was in Minnesota and addressed the correct state in his greeting.

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Several Associated Press images from the event provide additional proof that the sign and podium said “TEXT MN to 30330” and did not include mention of Florida. There are other contextual clues as well. The video shows Biden wearing a thick coat for Minnesota’s cold climate. At a recent appearance in the warmer Tampa, Florida, on Oct. 29, Biden only wore a suit jacket.

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-video-altered-58124115393828f85cd496514bba4726

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1. Yeah, and it was 87 degrees from what I've heard...trump supporters were passing out from the same

heat (in FL). Such inept attempts to make Biden look bad are a joke and way way too ineffective. I personally (IMHO) think it some young men (like the morons in Michigan) who have way way too much time on their hands in mom and dad's basement and still haven't landed that million dollar a year job (yeah, right). Like the idiots that were going to try and do kidnap the governor of Michigan.

What is this, the keystone cops, highlighting the sheer incompetence of the entire trump campaign and / or its' supporters? I hope Biden cracks down on these ridiculous attempts to smear candidates, distract voters from voting, etc. With trump and his thugs, this whole process seemed to have been fine tuned and is used as an active weapon far too much, the smearing, the lying, the distortions of facts, the misleading of voters, etc. It's funny that the consent decree lifted off of republican operators occurred this very same year.