The Associated Press and leading Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, faced criticism on Thursday for taking Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance’s comments on the Georgia school shooting out of context.

During a rally, Vance discussed the tragic shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, where two students and two teachers were killed allegedly by a 14-year-old student.

“I don’t like that this is a fact of life. But if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets. And we have got to bolster security at our schools. We’ve got to bolster security, so if a psycho wants to walk through the front door and kill a bunch of children, they’re not able,” Vance said.

The Associated Press initially reported on Vance’s remarks with the headline, “JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘fact of life,’ calls for better security.” After facing backlash on social media and receiving a community note on X providing the full context of Vance’s comments, the AP updated its headline to, “JD Vance says he laments that school shootings are a ‘fact of life’ and calls for better security.”

The AP then posted the revised headline on X, stating, “This post replaces an earlier post that was deleted to add context to the partial quote from Vance.”

Vance spokesman William Martin criticized the AP in a statement to Fox News, accusing the legacy media outlet of “brazenly lying.”

“This is yet another case of the fake news media brazenly lying about a Republican politician. Senator Vance said exactly the opposite of what the Associated Press claimed,” he said. “It should come as no surprise that the AP lost any and all credibility it had years ago, because they will lie about literally anything in order to prop up the Democrats. Meanwhile, Kamala Harris has called for all police officers to be removed from schools, putting children all over America at risk. It’s yet another example of how Kamala Harris’s weak, failed, and dangerously liberal agenda makes her unfit for office.”

Even after the AP revised its headline, Harris and Walz continued to use the out-of-context quote to criticize Vance.\

“JD Vance responds to the deadly shooting in Georgia by saying school shootings are just ’a fact of life’ and attacking common sense gun safety reform,” Harris’s campaign falsely claimed.