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Latest Fact-Checks On Joe Biden

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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 31, 2020 a speech:
“I am not banning fracking.”
Mostly True
By Jessica Calefati • September 1, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 23, 2020 an interview with ABC News:
Says Donald Trump “proposes cutting a half a billion dollars of local police support.”
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • August 25, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 6, 2020 an interview with members of NAHJ and NABJ:
Asked about asylum seekers in camps in Mexico, “This is the first time ever you've had to seek asylum in a third country.”
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • August 12, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 6, 2020 an interview with journalism associations:
“If the vaccine came out tomorrow, how in the heck would we get it to people? There is no game plan.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • August 11, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 22, 2020 a SEIU roundtable discussion:
“McDonald’s (makes) you all sign noncompete contracts that you cannot go across town to try to get a job at Burger King.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • July 28, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 21, 2020 a campaign speech:
On home health workers’ low pay and limited benefits, “40% are still on SNAP or Medicaid.”
True
By Stephanie Stapleton • July 28, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 22, 2020 a town hall:
No U.S. presidents elected before Donald Trump were racist.
False
By Louis Jacobson, Sophie Austin • July 27, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 22, 2020 a campaign video:
There’s already 10,000 businesses that are not likely to open again, and a significant number of small businesses and minority businesses.”
Mostly True
By Samantha Putterman • July 24, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 20, 2020 an interview with Joy Reid on MSNBC:
“I, all the way back in January, warned (President Trump that) this pandemic was coming. I talked about what we needed to do.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 22, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 9, 2020 a speech:
On COVID-19, Donald Trump said that “maybe if you drank bleach you may be okay.”
Mostly False
By Jessica Calefati • July 11, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 9, 2020 a speech in Dunmore, Pa.:
"Three hundred sixty thousand Pennsylvanians fought on the side of the Union to defeat the flag, that Confederate flag, including more Black soldiers coming from Pennsylvania than any other state in the nation."
Mostly True
By Jessica Calefati • July 10, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 30, 2020 a speech:
“The CDC tried to develop clear guidelines about what the stages of re-opening should look like — the administration delayed and scaled them back."
Mostly True
By Samantha Putterman • July 6, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 24, 2020 an ad:
“Trump lost a trade war that he started.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 30, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 21, 2020 a video:
"You weren't allowed to own a cannon during the Revolutionary War as an individual."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 10, 2020 a USA Today op-ed:
“Today, the gap between African American and white homeownership is larger than it was in the late 1960s.”
True
By Miriam Valverde • June 11, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 21, 2020 a statement:
Says President Donald Trump “took more than a month to allocate Congress’ emergency funding to tribes — and only did so after tribes sued.”
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • June 1, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 22, 2020 an interview on The Breakfast Club radio show:
“The NAACP has endorsed me every time I've run.”
False
By Amy Sherman • June 1, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 20, 2020 a virtual town hall:
“40% of the initial small business funds didn’t go to small businesses at all.”
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • May 26, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 14, 2020 an interview on MSNBC:
The U.S. had 44 CDC staffers “in China to observe what was going on. (President Trump) brought home the vast majority of them, I think left only four in place.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • May 21, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 21, 2020 a tweet:
“The Trump Administration promised 27 million tests by the end of March. As of now, only 4 million have been completed.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • April 23, 2020
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