Couple in Harris ad are Republican farmers, not Democratic actors

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Couple in Harris ad are *********** farmers, not Democratic actors

The claim: Former Trump supporters in Harris ad are actually Democratic actors

An Oct. 2

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post (

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) shows a Sky News anchor reporting that Vice President Kamala Harris released a campaign ad featuring two Democratic actors.”Harris / Walz Campaign BUSTED for using two paid actors to pretend they were former Pennsylvania Farmers & Trump Voters who switched to Kamala,” reads text within the post, which was originally shared on

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. “Turns out the two were not only actors but democrat donors for years.”

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post garnered more than 600 likes in a day. Similar versions of the claim were shared on

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Our rating: False

The couple in Harris’ ad debunked the claim. They said they are farmers and lifelong Republicans who previously voted for former President Donald Trump, not Democratic actors. Sky News issued a correction on the broadcast before the

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post was made.

Claim that ad featured Democratic actors is baseless

A campaign ad for Harris sparked criticism after her team

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on Sept. 24. The ad features a Pennsylvania couple named Robert Lange and Kristina Chadwick Lange, who say they previously voted for Trump but are now switching to Harris because of the former president’s divisiveness.

Hours later, an X user

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claiming the two are actors with a history of donating to Democratic causes. The post, which was viewed more than two million times in less than two weeks, includes screenshots of donations from the nonprofit campaign finance tracking website

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. The pictures show donations made by people with the same names as the Pennsylvania couple.

After the X post was shared, Sky News reported the claim in a live broadcast.

But Chadwick Lange told USA TODAY the claim is not true and is based on “very poor research skills.”

“The claims that we’re Democrats, that we’re paid actors and that we have contributed to Democratic campaigns are all *****,” Chadwick Lange said. “Bob once donated to the Tom Ridge campaign for Pennsylvania governor in the 1990s and I never made a single political donation to any party.”

She said the two are still lifelong Republicans but “cannot get behind Trump in this election.”

Fact check: Video shows Kamala Harris ad during Democratic primary race in 2019

The couple,

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in Willistown, Pennsylvania, helped produce a small 2022 horror film called “

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,” but they are not professional actors.

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says the film was shot on the couple’s farm and the screenplay was written by the two, but they are not listed as actors. They told Philadelphia outlet 

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they had “very small, non-speaking roles as monsters” in the film. Lange is chair of the

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and has

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by the Willistown-Malvern *********** Committee as one of the party’s local

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.Lange told WPVI-TV in Philadelphia that he

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in 2016 and 2020, while Chadwick Lange said she voted for the former president in 2016 and chose not to vote for Trump or President Joe Biden in the next election.

Sky News took down its broadcast and

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on Oct. 1, the day before the

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post was shared.

“During a discussion about a Kamala Harris campaign video on the program on Sept. 26, the people featured in the campaign ad were described as actors with a history of donating to the Democrats,” the correction reads. “In light of additional information which we have been made aware of, we correct the record that the people involved are not actors and do not appear to be Democrat donors.”

USA TODAY reached out to the

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user who shared the post for comment but did not immediately receive a response. The X user couldn’t be contacted.

Our fact-check sources:

Kristina Chadwick Lange, Oct. 3, Email exchange with USA TODAY

IMDb, accessed Oct. 3,

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Hayride to *****, accessed Oct. 4,

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Willistown-Malvern *********** Committee, accessed Oct. 3,

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ABC6 News, Sept. 30,

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Sky News, accessed Oct. 3,

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