No, this video doesn’t show Karl Rove stumping for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania

Republican strategist Karl Rove regularly opines on the 2024 presidential election as a Fox News contributor. On Oct. 21, for example, he called the race between Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, and former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, a "nail-biter."  

But he didn’t recently stump for Harris, as some social media posts have claimed. 

"Karl Rove was rallying support for Kamala Harris yesterday in Pennsylvania," an Oct. 15 Threads post said, sharing a video of an MSNBC segment featuring Rove. 

"Bush vet Karl Rove condemns Jan. 6 MAGA’s ‘thugs,’" the video’s chyron says. 

In the clip, Rove speaks while seated on a stage ande criticizes Trump’s response to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. 

"I’m a Republican, I don’t want to have a Democrat president, I want to have a Republican president, but we’re facing as a country a decision … as to what kind of leadership we’re going to have," he says. 

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The video doesn’t show Rove rallying support for Harris on Oct. 14 in Pennsylvania. 

The footage of Rove is from Feb. 1, when he spoke at the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival in California. The festival called the panel, which also featured former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., and Reince Preibus, a former Republican National Committee chairman who also served as Trump’s chief of staff, "The Elephants in the Room: The GOP and the 2024 Election." 

President Joe Biden, who has since withdrawn his reelection bid, was still the Democratic nominee. 

"It’s amazing what people come up with and what they’ll fall for," Rove said in an Oct. 15 X post. "This clip is from the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival back in February. I have not been in Pennsylvania since September, when I gave a speech to folks in the healthcare industry. I have not been rallying for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania or anywhere else nor organizing any state for her."

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