Latest Fact Checks By Louis Jacobson

¿Tenía razón Tim Walz al decir que ‘los crímenes violentos aumentaron bajo Donald Trump’?

By Louis Jacobson

August 9, 2024

"El crimen violento aumentó bajo Donald Trump".

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Was Tim Walz right that ‘violent crime was up under Donald Trump’?

By Louis Jacobson

August 7, 2024

“Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.”

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Kamala Harris says Donald Trump ‘intends to cut’ Medicare. This ignores Trump’s repeated pledges.

By Louis Jacobson

August 7, 2024

Donald Trump “intends to cut” Medicare.

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Have incomes outpaced inflation since Joe Biden took office?

By Louis Jacobson

August 6, 2024

"Since Vice President Harris and I took office … incomes have risen faster than prices."

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Kamala Harris repeats dubious claim that Donald Trump would cut Social Security

By Louis Jacobson

July 31, 2024

"Donald Trump intends to cut Social Security."

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Was U.S. manufacturing in recession before the pandemic, as Pete Buttigieg said?

By Louis Jacobson

July 31, 2024

“Even before the pandemic, America went into a manufacturing recession.”

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Fact-checking Kamala Harris on energy production, independence

By Louis Jacobson

July 26, 2024

“Today, America has record energy production and we are energy independent.”

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Vice President Kamala Harris correct that Project 2025 would end Head Start

By Louis Jacobson , Mia Penner

July 23, 2024

Project 2025 would “end Head Start.”

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Biden said political violence was ‘unheard of’ in US. There’s a long (and recent) history

By Amy Sherman , Louis Jacobson

July 15, 2024

“The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.”

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It’s True: Kamala Harris was an original backer of the Green New Deal

By Louis Jacobson

July 10, 2024

Kamala Harris "co-sponsored, fully sponsored" the Green New Deal.

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Joe Biden cherry-picks Donald Trump statement on cutting Social Security

By Louis Jacobson

June 21, 2024

Donald Trump’s plan is “cutting Social Security for you.”

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Black poverty, unemployment set record lows on Trump’s watch, and on Biden’s, too

By Louis Jacobson

June 20, 2024

The Trump administration “achieved the lowest African American unemployment rate and the lowest African American poverty rate ever recorded.”

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