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.
APS 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…