When campaigns include on-screen citations in campaign ads, it’s intended to validate the arguments with reliable, nonpartisan sources. But in a closing ad from former President Donald Trump, on-screen quotes are deceptively edited to distort what the source material said. The ad criticizes the economy under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and […]
Vice President Kamala Harris is rolling out her closing argument for president in a new TV ad that attacks former President Donald Trump on health care, entitlement programs and taxes. “What would a Trump second term look like? It’s all laid out in his Project 2025 agenda,” the narrator says. “He’d let insurance companies deny […]
WASHINGTON — In a speech from the Ellipse adjoining the White House, one week from Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris drew a sharp contrast with former President Donald Trump, calling him a “petty tyrant” and repeating a line she has used in recent days, that she would begin her presidential term not with an […]
As Election Day nears, former President Donald Trump released an ad chock-full of economic claims. Many are misleading or wrong. Here’s a look at some of the claims in his Oct. 25 ad, “Never Quit.” “When I first came into office, I cut taxes more than any other president.” This is a falsehood Trump said […]
Former President Donald Trump hammered an anti-immigration theme in his closing argument pitch to voters Oct. 27 at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. But before Trump spoke, the event made headlines for a series of racist jokes by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe. He called Puerto Rico an “island of garbage” and disparaged Black Americans, Latinos […]
In a three-hour interview with podcaster Joe Rogan — a conversation that lasted even longer than one of Donald Trump’s rally speeches — the former president repeated falsehoods about the outcome of the 2020 election. The conversation came less than two weeks before Election Day and ranged from claims about life on Mars to illegal […]
In a 30-second campaign ad, a narrator tells voters that former President Donald Trump warned them about criminal immigrants. Throughout his campaign, Trump has connected immigrants crossing the U.S. southern border to crime even though violent crime is down in the U.S., and studies show that immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens. […]
With abortion access on Missouri’s November ballot, anti-abortion advocates are arguing that a proposed amendment, Amendment 3, goes beyond giving women the right to choose whether to have children. “It will mandate constitutionally, all reproductive health services, and that includes transgender treatments for minors,” Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said at a Sept. 7, religious conference […]
En una entrevista con Julio Vaqueiro de Noticias Telemundo, la vicepresidenta Kamala Harris habló sobre su propuesta económica para ayudar a los latinos a abrir pequeños negocios, dándoles deducciones de impuestos. Ella también acusó a su oponente, el expresidente y candidato presidencial republicano Donald Trump de ser “fascista” y de querer acabar con la Constitución […]
In a CNN town hall, Vice President Kamala Harris faced tough questions about her policy approach from voters and took the opportunity to share several introspective moments. Voters at the Oct. 23 event in the Philadelphia suburb of Delaware County pressed Harris on why her administration didn’t act sooner to curb illegal immigration, what she planned […]
When misinformation spreads in 2024, it often has Elon Musk’s fingerprints on it. PolitiFact analyzed more than 450 X posts Musk made from Sept. 30 to Oct. 14, including reposts, quote replies and some standard replies to various X users. That period spanned disaster response in parts of the Southeast U.S. hit hard by hurricanes […]
PolitiFact fact-checked Vice President Kamala Harris on CNN as she spoke with voters in a town hall outside of Philadelphia. Former President Donald Trump was invited to hold a town hall on the network but declined. There are no future debates planned for the campaign. ELECTION UPDATES: Follow along for our latest updates, fact-checks and analysis […]