Eight Republican presidential candidates sparred over foreign aid, abortion limits and climate change in the first GOP primary debate ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Former President Donald Trump didn’t join them, though he loomed large in the discussion, which delved into topics such as his record and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the […]
Republican presidential candidates will take the debate stage Aug. 23 and make their case to voters why they should win the White House in 2024. PolitiFact will be live fact-checking candidates’ claims about their records and their attacks on Democrats, President Joe Biden and one another. Read our full fact-checking: What Republican candidates got right, […]
The same day a plea deal collapsed between Hunter Biden and federal prosecutors in Delaware, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel from that state to continue the investigation into President Joe Biden’s son. David Weiss, a 2018 Trump administration U.S. attorney appointee, had requested special counsel status after overseeing the case that […]
As most of the Republican presidential candidates prepare to take the stage for the first debate in Milwaukee, here’s a rundown on who they are. Who will appear at the debate? Eight Republicans will appear at the debate, which will air from 9. to 11 p.m. Aug. 23 on Fox News Channel; Fox Business Network; foxnews.com; Fox Nation, […]
On days like today, PolitiFact’s birthday, it’s fun to look back at how we got started. Our fact-checking website launched in 2007 with a small team of journalists from a local Florida newspaper, the St. Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times). PolitiFact broke ground by standing in as a referee for voters, penalizing the […]
To hear some Republican presidential candidates tell it, Democratic leaders want to ban gasoline-powered cars, permit post-birth abortions and are to blame for illegal immigration. These attacks mislead to varying degrees. We have fact-checked about four dozen statements by Republican presidential primary candidates, including many attacks on President Joe Biden or his party more broadly. […]
Republican candidates for president have a short but weighty to-do list as they face-off in the first debate of the 2024 election Aug. 23: Grab voter attention. Erode former President Donald Trump’s polling lead. And build a credible case for why they should be in the White House. Until now, these candidates have tested attacks […]
Days after his fourth indictment, former President Donald Trump released a video on a very different topic: the economy. In his Aug. 16 video, released on the conservative video site Rumble and mass emailed to supporters, Trump touted his economic record and suggested it outperformed that of his successor and potential 2024 presidential rival, Joe […]
Having just experienced the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, and facing predictions of more extreme temperatures, U.S. cities are confronting the unique problem of “urban heat islands,” areas that experience higher temperatures because of dense building and lack of green space. Cities, with heat-absorbing asphalt, steel and cement, are turning to “cool” building materials […]
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott has floated a plan he says will reduce the flow of fentanyl into the U.S.: reinstating the COVID-19 era public health policy known as Title 42. Title 42, enacted by the Trump administration in March 2020 and lifted May 11, was used to curb the spread of COVID-19. It […]
President Donald Trump’s allies are reframing Trump’s Georgia indictment as the work of overzealous prosecutors who are pursuing defendants for mundane — and legal — activities. “Things that are apparently illegal in America,” wrote Libs of TikTok, a conservative social media account with 2.4 million followers on the platform X. “1. Tweeting that you’re watching TV “2. […]
A grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, handed up an indictment against former President Donald Trump and 18 alleged co-conspirators, charging them with efforts to overturn his 2020 loss in the battleground state. The Aug. 14 indictment in Georgia was Trump’s fourth in less than five months, following indictments in a New York state hush […]