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India Today found that the baseball fans chanted "Let's Go Rangers" and not profanities at US President Joe Biden.
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India Today Fact Check
The video actually shows baseball fans celebrating the Texas Rangers' victory with chants of "Let's Go Rangers" in November 2023.
In the 2024 Texas primary elections, Democratic President Joe Biden secured the nomination, while former Republican President Donald Trump emerged victorious in the Republican primary. These results will set the stage for a high-stakes national showdown in November.
Amidst this political landscape, a video has gone viral that shows a huge crowd chanting slogans. Social media users claimed that a crowd gathered during the recently held primary in Texas chanted expletives directed at President Biden.
An X user while sharing the viral video wrote, “Wow! Huge crowd in Texas chants FJB. It's over.” An archived version of the viral post can be seen here.
India Today Fact Check found that the viral video is old and actually shows baseball fans chanting “Let’s Go Rangers” to celebrate their team’s victory in Phoenix, Texas.
Our Probe
In response to the viral tweet, a user clarified that the crowd was chanting “Let’s Go Rangers” during the World Series parade in Arlington.
Taking this cue, we searched YouTube and found the viral video posted on the YouTube channel of Texas News Hub on November 4, 2023. The caption accompanying the video read, “Rangers World Series win Parade in Arlington turn out 500 - 700 thousand fans.”
On searching further, we found another video posted on the same date. The caption to it read, “Fans chant 'Let's go Rangers!' at World Series parade.” The description noted that the video shows the 2023 World Series parade in Arlington, Texas. In the video, an announcer requested the crowd to chant “Let’s Go Rangers”, to which they obliged.
Upon examination, we observed that the video features the same location and a crowd wearing similar clothes.
We found similar videos shot from different angles of the event that took place in November 2023 and all describing the chants as “Let’s Go Rangers.”
News reports from the same date also corroborated the context of the video, confirming that it is from the Arlington Entertainment District where fans celebrated the Texas Rangers' first World Series championship in franchise history.
Thus, chants of “Let’s Go Rangers” during the championship celebrations of the Texas Rangers baseball club were falsely interpreted as the crowd shouting expletives at US President Joe Biden.
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