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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, […]

Updated with additional promises, Oct. 29, 2024. Former President Donald Trump’s policy agenda for a potential second term resurrects some familiar proposals from his first, but it would go further on many fronts. It would, for example, include a more aggressive deportation policy, greatly expand tariffs and roll back transgender rights. Since PolitiFact’s founding in […]

Tim Walz, el gobernador de Minnesota, fue escogido por la vicepresidente Kamala Harris como su compañero de fórmula para la candidatura presidencial demócrata en agosto. Harris escogió a Walz por su experiencia como gobernador y su historial en el Congreso como representante de un distrito de tendencia conservadora.  Desde su nominación a candidato, Walz ha […]

El senador de Ohio JD Vance es el candidato republicano a la vicepresidencia como compañero de fórmula del expresidente Donald Trump. A los 40 años, Vance sería uno de los vicepresidentes más jóvenes en la historia de Estados Unidos, si Trump gana la elección presidencial en noviembre.  Desde su nominación a candidato en julio, Vance […]

Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will face off for the first time Oct. 1 at the CBS News vice presidential debate in New York City. This is the only scheduled vice presidential debate for the 2024 election, and it comes just three weeks after the first, and likely only, […]