After AARP published interviews with Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, a PolitiFact reader noticed that the organization did not fact-check the candidates’ responses. The presidential candidates spoke by phone with Robert Love, vice president and editor-in-chief of AARP Publications, in late August. On Oct. 2, AARP published the Q&A’s, in which […]
Former President Donald Trump returned to Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of the first assassination attempt against him, to rally his supporters just a month before Election Day. “Exactly 12 weeks ago this evening, on this very ground, a cold-blooded assassin aimed to silence me and to silence the greatest movement, MAGA, in the history of […]
A surge of misinformation has bubbled up as federal and state agencies and officials have led relief efforts for people affected by Hurricane Helene’s deadly storm system. In North Carolina, government officials declared 25 of the state’s 100 counties disaster areas after the storm swept across the state’s western region last week — causing record […]
One year ago, on Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas militants attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 250 hostages. The attack triggered the Israel-Hamas war that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, and a year of misinformation. Images and videos that have been altered or taken out of context flooded social media platforms, […]
During their first debate, Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and his Republican Senate challenger, Dave McCormick, traded jabs over prices, immigration, energy policy and personal investments. In the Oct. 3 faceoff, Casey frequently attacked McCormick for investments he made while he led the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, and accused McCormick of not living in the state. […]
During the Oct. 1 vice presidential debate in New York, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, declined to answer when asked whether he and former President Donald Trump would challenge the results of November’s election if they lost, as Trump had in 2020. Instead, Vance pivoted to what he said was a much bigger threat to democracy: […]
Durante el debate vicepresidencial, el gobernador demócrata de Minnesota Tim Walz, y el senador republicano de Ohio, JD Vance, coincidieron ocasionalmente en puntos políticos y se dirigieron respetuosamente el uno al otro. Pero también culparon a los compañeros de fórmula del otro por los problemas que enfrenta Estados Unidos, entre ellos, la inmigración y la […]
Former President Donald Trump’s election-year message to his supporters is clear and often repeated: If Democrats win the November election, blame voter fraud. Fraud by mail-in voting. Fraud by noncitizen voting. Fraud by a vast interstate conspiracy. Fraud orchestrated by the Democratic Party. Trump sent a fundraising appeal in August that said his victory needed […]
Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz met in an Oct. 1 vice presidential debate hosted by CBS News that was cordial and heavy on policy discussion — a striking change from the Sept. 10 debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump that often devolved into personal […]
PolitiFact is fact-checked the first 2024 vice presidential debate Oct. 1 in New York City between Republican Sen. JD Vance and Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. Read our full roundup of fact-checks here. Live debate fact-checks See Figure 1 on PolitiFact.com
In the final planned debate of their closely watched Senate race, Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester and Republican challenger Tim Sheehy sparred over major campaign topics, including abortion, immigration and the economy. The Sept. 30 debate, sponsored by PBS Montana and held audience-free in Missoula, turned sometimes testy, with Sheehy tying Tester to the Biden-Harris […]
Updated with additional promises, Oct. 14, 2024. Presidential campaigns usually plan their policy agendas months, or years, in advance. But since she became the Democratic presidential nominee this summer, Vice President Kamala Harris has been playing catch-up. Harris’ policy proposals overlap with many that President Joe Biden has pursued, particularly on abortion, guns, voting rights, […]