It was all very civil. Candidates even kept to time limits. Still, all sides had a lot to say, and many claims were worth checking. From the socially distanced safety of the Missourian newsroom, PolitiFact Missouri took on almost a dozen statements from the four candidates: incumbent Republican Gov. Mike Parson, Democrat Nicole Galloway, Libertarian […]
A stark partisan split in how Wisconsinites vote will add some unique twists to an already bizarre election cycle in this battleground state. Wisconsin drew national headlines for the April presidential primary, where a lack of poll workers left voters standing in line for hours in the state’s largest cities. Milwaukee had just five polling […]
President Donald Trump is pushing hard to get an experimental COVID-19 drug into the hands of anyone who needs it. Soon after he tested positive for the coronavirus, Trump received several drugs to treat his symptoms. The one he keeps talking about is a blend of two monoclonal antibodies that hold the promise of preventing […]
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., unveiled a bill Oct. 9 to establish a commission that could be tasked with determining if a president is no longer fit for office. The bill from Raskin, a former constitutional scholar, comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s Oct. 2 announcement of his positive […]
Since his return from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, President Donald Trump has repeated that he may now be “immune” to the coronavirus. In a video released shortly after he arrived back at the White House, he said, “Now I’m better, and maybe I’m immune, I don’t know.” In a 55-minute interview on Fox […]
The White House’s struggle to get ahead of the coronavirus outbreak within its walls reflects a problem public health officials have felt for months as they’ve tried to help their communities fight the pandemic: The U.S. is not contact tracing as well as it could be. Contact tracing, the practice of informing people who have […]
Question: “I do not understand why you grade the charge that Trump called the coronavirus a hoax as false. It seems the quote from a rally, ‘And this is their new hoax’ is straightforward.” Answer: We heard from many readers questioning our fact-checking of Kamala Harris during the vice presidential debate when she said this: […]
Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris invoked Abraham Lincoln to say why a nominee to succeed the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg should not be confirmed until the next president is sworn in. Harris brought a “history lesson” to the vice presidential debate on Oct. 7. Harris said that Lincoln was up for reelection when […]
Shortly before the 1980 election, Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan urged voters to ask themselves a simple question that became a bombshell: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” The answer soon became clear that Americans felt they weren’t better off, and Reagan ousted President Jimmy Carter by winning all but […]
Plexiglass partitions didn’t stop the vice presidential candidates from clashing over the coronavirus, taxes, China, health care, and climate change. In a civil but pointed 90-minute exchange, Democrat Sen. Kamala Harris exaggerated the failings of the Trump administration’s handling of the pandemic and the economy. Vice President Mike Pence repeatedly used the phrase “the reality […]
The coronavirus makes this election like no other, and its mark is in full view on the stage of the vice presidential debate. Organizers installed two large plexiglass shields to separate Republican Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris. After President Donald Trump contracted COVID-19, the Biden-Harris campaign insisted on the […]
In a new campaign ad, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden offers an optimistic, can-do pitch to American voters struggling with the coronavirus and economic insecurity. In the minute-long ad, released Oct. 4, Biden touts a scientific approach to fighting the coronavirus before turning to aid for the economy: “Joe listened to both small business owners […]