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Project 2025: Are Biden campaign warnings about plan for Trump election win correct?

By now, you have probably heard about Project 2025. President Joe Biden certainly hopes so.  Biden’s reelection campaign is blitzing the internet with social media posts, videos, ads and a website that warn of a stark postelection agenda a victorious Donald Trump could execute. “Project 2025 should scare every single American,” Biden posted on X […]
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¿La economía de los latinos fue mejor con Joe Biden o con Donald Trump?

Los candidatos presidenciales están cortejando fuertemente a los votantes latinos en 2024, un año en el cual algunas encuestas muestran que el apoyo de este bloque de votantes puede estar más a la mano que en cualquier otro punto en al menos dos décadas. Históricamente, los votantes latinos han apoyado a los demócratas, aunque eso […]
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Ahead of RNC, a look back at our fact-checks of Trump’s Wisconsin claims

When former President Donald Trump takes the stage in Milwaukee during the Republican National Convention, he’ll be returning to a city and a state that has been the subject of many of his false claims. Many of Trump’s claims that PolitiFact Wisconsin has checked are about the 2020 election: From whether he won the state […]
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PBS News and PolitiFact announce partnership through 2024 election cycle

PBS News and PolitiFact, the political fact-checking website operated by the nonprofit Poynter Institute, today announced a partnership that will run through the 2024 election cycle, beginning with next week’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. As the rise of misinformation and disinformation continues, fact-based and impartial journalism is more important than ever during this historic […]
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Fact-checking Donald Trump on immigration, economy in first postdebate rally in Doral, Florida

In his first high-profile public remarks since a June 27 CNN debate, former President Donald Trump held a rally in Doral, Florida, challenging President Joe Biden, whose performance was widely panned by politicos and pundits, to an unmoderated debate and even a golf match as a “chance to redeem himself in front of the entire […]
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Comparing economic performance for Latinos under Trump, Biden

The presidential candidates are heavily courting Latino voters in 2024, a year in which some polls show this voting bloc’s support may be more up for grabs than at any point in at least two decades. Historically, Latino voters have backed Democrats, though that differs by place of ancestry. For example, a majority of Cuban […]
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Biden, so far, has signed fewer executive orders than Trump

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a Republican vice presidential contender, has made numerous comments that liken President Joe Biden’s administration to a dictatorship.  On June 23 on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Burgum said, “This president, more like any other, has bypassed Congress.”  He implied there is a double standard for Biden in his use of […]
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¿Qué pasaría si Joe Biden o Donald Trump abandonan su candidatura a la presidencia?

La actuación del presidente Joe Biden en el primer debate presidencial fue muy criticada, incluso por algunos demócratas quienes se preguntan si él a sus 81 años podría derrotar al candidato republicano, el expresidente Donald Trump. La elección es el 5 de noviembre. Aunque la condición de Trump como presunto candidato sigue siendo fuerte dentro […]
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¿Qué implica el fallo de inmunidad para Donald Trump y, potencialmente, futuros presidentes?

El 1 de julio, la Corte Suprema de Estados Unidos dictaminó en una sentencia histórica, que los presidentes — incluido el expresidente Donald Trump — tienen inmunidad judicial cuando llevan a cabo “actos oficiales”. Esta sentencia podría tener repercusiones importantes no solo en la campaña presidencial de 2024, sino en futuras presidencias. “Bajo nuestra estructura […]
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What Supreme Court’s immunity ruling means for Trump’s cases and, potentially, future presidents

Editor’s note: This story has been updated with developments in the New York case. In a landmark ruling with potentially major impact on the 2024 presidential campaign, a U.S. Supreme Court majority ruled that presidents — including former President Donald Trump — have immunity from prosecution when carrying out “official acts.”  “Under our constitutional structure of […]
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On the Biden-Trump debate stage, fact-checks were hard to find

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump — both of whom are running on the records of their first terms in office — tried, but mostly struggled, to fact-check each other in real time during CNN’s 2024 presidential debate.  The network said before the June 27 debate that the moderators would not challenge the […]
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What would happen if Joe Biden or Donald Trump leaves his party’s ticket?

President Joe Biden’s debate performance, which was widely panned including by some Democrats,  led to a spike in online searches on whether the 81-year-old incumbent can be replaced on his party’s ticket amid some worries over whether he can defeat the expected Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump, in November. Meanwhile, though Trump’s own status as presumptive nominee […]
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