Randy Fine Questions If Viral Mailbox Video is Even ‘Real’ – Despite Office Confirming He’s in Clip

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Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) questioned whether a viral video showing him digging through a voter’s mailbox was even “real,” despite his own office confirming that he indeed is the man captured in the footage.

The roughly 30-second clip, timestamped shortly before 5 p.m. on Sunday, appears to show Fine standing outside a home while campaigning door-to-door. After knocking and waiting on the porch, he looks toward a mailbox before briefly flicking through its contents.

TMZ, which obtained the footage, confirmed with Fine’s office that the congressman is indeed the person shown in the video but noted that he was not shown removing, inserting, or tampering with any mail and said there was no apparent criminal issue.

The Republican, however, was pressed by MS NOW reporter Alexander Tabet about the Ring camera video on Tuesday as voters headed to the polls in the state’s primary election.

“I’m just wondering, do you have any comment on that video of you rifling through a mailbox?” Tabet asked.

“Yeah, I knocked on 500 doors in the last few days. In the last week, there’s been videos of me with horns growing out of my head, videos of me dressed like a cheerleader, videos of me putting a swastika on my arm. I don’t even know that it’s real. I certainly don’t remember doing that, and I don’t even know the video is real,” Fine replied.

Asked by Tabet whether he believed the footage was legitimate, Fine again said he could not recall the encounter.

“I don’t remember doing anything like that. I don´t know why I would have. But again, I didn’t, like, go to one person’s house. I knocked on the doors of 500 houses, so I don’t remember anything,” he said. “Maybe it’s really, maybe it’s not. I don’t know.”

Tabet then pressed Fine on whether he was declining to take accountability for the episode.

“I don’t remember even doing it, so I’m not gonna take accountability for something I don’t know that I actually did,” Fine responded.

Fine had been campaigning in the Republican primary for Florida’s 6th Congressional District, taking roughly 57% of the vote on Tuesday in a race that drew national attention over rival Dan Bilzerian’s use of antisemitic tropes in attacks on the Jewish congressman and his support of Israel. Bilzerian finished with 18% of the vote.

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