Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Tim Walz mitin el 7 de agosto de 2024

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

August 9, 2024

"El crimen violento aumentó bajo Donald Trump".

Walz speaking in Eau Claire, Wis., 8-7-2024

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

August 7, 2024

“Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.”

Harris in Philadelphia rally for Walz, 8-6-2024

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

August 7, 2024

Donald Trump “intends to cut” Medicare.

Biden and Harris at Andrews Air Force Base, 8-1-2024

Have incomes outpaced inflation since Joe Biden took office?

August 6, 2024

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

Kamala Harris campaigns for President in Wisconsin July 2024

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

July 31, 2024

"Donald Trump intends to cut Social Security."

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in Washington, 7-23-2024

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

July 31, 2024

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

Man fishing near oil platforms in Port Aransas, Texas

Fact-checking Kamala Harris on energy production, independence

July 26, 2024

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

donald trump whisked away by Secret Service after rally shooting, 7-13-2024

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

July 15, 2024

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

Kamala Harris speaking in NYC, 6-21-2024

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

July 10, 2024

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

Social Security card with thumb covering the number

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

June 21, 2024

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

Black union workers striking in South Carolina

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

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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