Kamala Harris’s altered “Today is Today” video resurfaces ahead of US Presidential race; Fact Check

Posted by: Sridevi P July 23, 2024

A post on X posted on July 22, 2024, included a video of Kamala Harris in which she was shown saying, “Today is today, and yesterday is today yesterday. Tomorrow will be today tomorrow, so live today so the future today will be as the past today, as it is tomorrow.”

It has been widely shared on social media for over a year and can be accessed here and here.

FACT CHECK

A simple search on social media revealed that the quote attributed to Kamala Harris was more than a year old and was shared widely since May 2023. Harris has been mocked for her affectations several times and now that Biden would be leaving the 2024 race, leaving room for Harris to take the helm, the same attribution has surfaced on social media.

We looked for the original video and found that the White House archives have the script of a pro-choice address that Kamala Harris made at Harvard on April 25, 2023. In this, Kamala Harris said: “I think it’s very important, as you have heard from so many incredible leaders, for us at every moment in time—and certainly this one—to see the moment in time in which we exist and are present, and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past but the future.”

Taking a few words like “moment in time” or “moment” — repeated in the script, the soundtrack has been altered to show Harris was making a confusing and incoherent statement while addressing the Harvard students.

The full transcript of the video can be accessed from the White House records here. Harris never said the quote attributed to her in the video shared currently on social media, ahead of the US Presidential race.

Hence, the claim is false.

Claim: Video of Kamala Harris shows her saying, “Today is today, and yesterday is today yesterday. Tomorrow will be today tomorrow, so live today so the future today will be as the past today, as it is tomorrow.”

Conclusion: The claim is false. An altered soundtrack of a 2023 speech at Harvard was used.

Rating: Misrepresentation —

 

About Sridevi P

Sridevi, a business management graduate from Osmania University, Hyderabad has contributed fact-checks whenever she found time. She can be reached at psridevi@digiteye.in

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