STAMFORD, Conn. — Republican state Sen. Ryan Fazio is demanding an apology from Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont over a video that appears to show the Democratic governor striking at the phone of a woman filming him at a get-out-the-vote rally in Stamford's Scalzi Park on Oct. 31, WFSB reported.

"He should take accountability. He should apologize," Fazio, Lamont's opponent in the governor's race, told the station.

Accounts of the contact vary. WFSB and Patch said Lamont smacked the phone, while The Connecticut Mirror said he pushed it away. In the clip, the woman can be heard asking, "Why did you touch my camera?" and calling it assault, Patch reported.

No outlet named her, but she identified herself as a Connecticut Centinal reporter. The Mirror said she confronted Lamont over an aide's traffic ticket. WFSB identified the campaign staffer at issue as Rob Blanchard, a 28th District state Senate candidate, and said it could not independently confirm the video's claims about him.

Lamont told WFSB, "I think Ryan [Fazio]’s getting desperate," suggested someone had come to stir up trouble and said he was there to celebrate Halloween.

In a later statement reported by WFSB, his campaign said people calling themselves journalists, some seen in Republican campaign gear, have disrupted his events for months. "Taking a page out of Trump’s playbook, Fazio is trying to turn nothing into something in a last-ditch effort to generate attention for his struggling campaign," the statement said. The Mirror, however, reported that the campaign ignored the episode.

The campaign also gave WFSB a statement from Lauren Meyer, a supporter at the rally, who said Lamont flicked his hand toward the camera after the woman crowded him. "He did not slap her phone, and he never made physical contact with her," she said.

Fazio called the suggestion that he was involved "shameful," WFSB reported, though Patch said he used the word for Lamont's actions. His campaign promoted the video and labeled the encounter a "criminal confrontation," according to the Mirror.

Lamont, who is seeking a third term, holds double-digit leads in recent public polls, the Mirror reported. It said Fazio spent Sunday, Nov. 1, back on his central argument, pinning Connecticut's steep living costs on the governor rather than the Republican president.