President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on the simple message that he will fix what he sees as the country’s problems: the border, inflation, housing prices, health care. After Trump won the 2024 election, we asked PolitiFact readers to send us their questions about his campaign promises. Most were about taxes, immigration, abortion, the Affordable Care Act, […]
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President-elect Donald Trump spent a large part of his campaign attacking Vice President Kamala Harris for her performance in a role neither she nor anyone in the Biden administration held: “border czar.” Now, Trump has created and filled the position for his new administration. In a Nov. 10 Truth Social post, Trump announced that Tom […]
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Al final, no tomó mucho tiempo declarar que Donald Trump volvía a la Casa Blanca. En 2020, la pandemia de COVID-19 y una cantidad inusual de votos por correo complicaron el proceso de conteo. Joe Biden fue declarado ganador por The Associated Press y otros medios poco antes del mediodía del sábado 7 de noviembre […]
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A hit-and-run cover-up. Sexual abuse allegations from 27 years ago. An election worker ripping up ballots. Haitian immigrants admitting to voter fraud. These were some of the stories featured in a series of videos from a Russia-linked disinformation network that laid out serious allegations of fraud and other misdeeds in the 2024 U.S. presidential election’s […]
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President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration could try to remove fluoride from drinking water, according to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy, who campaigned with Trump after dropping his own presidential bid in August, called fluoride an “industrial waste” and linked it to cancer and other diseases and disorders. “On January 20, the Trump White House will […]
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Some of President-elect Donald Trump’s supporters took to social media to note, or mock, President Joe Biden for blowing a kiss at the end of his White House remarks following Vice President Kamala Harris’ loss in the presidential election. “Joe Biden was smiling and blowing kisses today… TWO days after Kamala lost the election,” one […]
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Former Republican President Donald Trump won back the White House on Nov. 5, after he fought his 2020 election loss with baseless claims of widespread fraud. Some social media users have claimed efforts by Trump, now the president-elect, to overturn the 2020 election results and remain in power disqualify him from holding office again under […]
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Leading up to Nov. 5, President-elect Donald Trump hammered home this message: The cheat was on in Pennsylvania. And by Election Day, Philadelphia was ground zero. Police were coming to stop it, he said. “A lot of talk about massive CHEATING in Philadelphia,” Trump said about three hours before the polls closed in a one-sentence […]
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In the end, it didn’t take all that long to declare that Donald Trump was returning to the White House. In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic and an unusual number of mail ballots complicated the counting process, Joe Biden was declared the winner by The Associated Press and other media outlets just before noon Saturday, […]
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El expresidente Donald Trump ganó las elecciones presidenciales de 2024. La agenda política de Trump para un segundo mandato resucita algunas propuestas de su primer mandato, pero va más allá en muchos frentes. Las nuevas propuestas incluyen una política de deportación más agresiva, el aumento de los aranceles y prohíbir la cirugía de afirmación de […]
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Former President Donald Trump’s election victory and looming return to the White House will likely bring changes that scale back the nation’s public health insurance programs — increasing the uninsured rate, while imposing new barriers to abortion and other reproductive care. The reverberations will be felt far beyond Washington, D.C., and could include an erosion […]
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After two impeachments during his first term, a 2020 election loss, two assassination attempts and four criminal cases, Donald Trump has won back the presidency in 2024. The Associated Press officially called the race for Trump at 5:35 a.m. Wednesday after he won Wisconsin and secured 277 electoral votes. Polls had shown close margins between Trump […]
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