Latest Fact Checks By Amy Sherman

JD Vance’s faulty comparison of Trump, Harris on child separation at the border

By Amy Sherman

September 4, 2024

A zero-tolerance policy during the Trump administration "led to less family separation than under Kamala Harris' border policies.”

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Fact-check: Trump called Kamala Harris a communist and a Marxist. Pants on Fire!

By Amy Sherman

September 4, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris “is a communist. … She is really a Marxist.”

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Sen. Rick Scott said 3 states removed thousands of noncitizens on voter rolls. Here’s what we know

By Amy Sherman , Samantha Putterman

August 29, 2024

“This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.”

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Fact-check: Trump falsely said Harris voted to hire 87,000 IRS agents to go after tipped income

By Amy Sherman

August 28, 2024

“Kamala cast the tiebreaking vote to hire 87,000 new IRS agents to go after your tip income.”

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Fact-check: Tim Walz misleads about Trump and overtime pay

By Amy Sherman

August 20, 2024

Former President Donald Trump “cut overtime benefits for millions of workers.”

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Fact-checking Buttigieg’s claim that Walz provided Minn. paid leave as GOP blocks US policy

By Amy Sherman

August 16, 2024

Gov. Tim Walz delivered paid family leave in Minnesota but “Republicans are blocking” a Biden-Harris proposal.

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Trump’s False crowd comparison with his Jan. 6 speech and the crowd at MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech

By Amy Sherman , Louis Jacobson , Samantha Putterman

August 9, 2024

Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin…

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Video spreads misinformation about immigrants illegally in the US getting driver’s licenses to vote

By Amy Sherman , Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu

August 7, 2024

In Pompano Beach, Florida, Somali immigrants illegally in the U.S. were in line to get driver’s licenses and “all you need to vote is a…

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Trump said that Gov. Tim Walz didn’t call in the National Guard in 2020. Walz’s order shows he did.

By Amy Sherman

August 7, 2024

During the 2020 Minnesota riots after George Floyd’s murder, Gov. Tim Walz didn’t call in the National Guard, “so, I sent in the National Guard…

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Kamala Harris once backed mandatory assault weapons buybacks. Not anymore.

By Amy Sherman

August 7, 2024

Kamala Harris “supports mandatory gun confiscation.”

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Fact-checking Trump’s misleading statement that Kamala Harris ‘wants to defund the police’

By Amy Sherman

July 30, 2024

Kamala Harris “wants to defund the police.”

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Fact-checking Donald Trump’s False claim that Kamala Harris ‘supported abolishing ICE’

By Amy Sherman

July 29, 2024

Kamala Harris “supported abolishing ICE.”

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