Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) says he isn’t sure a video showing him going through a homeowner’s mailbox in Ormond Beach is even genuine, despite his own office previously confirming to TMZ that he was the man caught on camera.
The Ring doorbell footage appears to show Fine looking through a stranger’s mailbox while canvassing ahead of his Republican primary last month, a race he went on to win in a landslide against opponent Dan Bilzerian. TMZ first obtained and published the footage before questioning Fine directly about it in an ambush-style interview on Monday.
Ormond Beach Police told TMZ that a woman called to report a man on her porch going through her mail while she was away from home, and that she later identified the man as Congressman Fine. Police said the homeowner chose not to pursue charges and noted that the man in the video did not appear to remove, insert, or tamper with anything inside the mailbox.
Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow raised the video with Fine on Sunday at the 2026 Republican Jewish Coalition National Leadership Summit.
“I don’t even know that the video’s real, to be honest. I mean, in that last week, there was a video of me with horns growing out of my head. There was a video of me as a cheerleader. There was a video of me doing all sorts of crazy things,” Fine said. “I knocked on 500 doors. I don’t remember doing it. I don’t know why I would’ve done it. So I’m not even sure that the video itself is real.”
The doubt marks a shift from Fine’s office’s earlier response. When TMZ first reached out about the footage, a representative for Fine confirmed that it was indeed the congressman shown in the clip.
Pressed by a TMZ reporter on that discrepancy, Fine pushed back, saying his office believed the man in the video looked like him but that no one could say for certain it was him.
“I don’t remember doing it — that’s what I’m telling you,” Fine told TMZ. “Maybe it’s me, maybe it’s not. I have no idea.”
Fine has offered no alternative explanation for who else might have appeared in the footage or why his campaign staff initially treated the identification as settled.
