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, […]
On Sept. 19 on Instagram, former President Donald Trump shared a graphic featuring an image of Vice President Kamala Harris next to a list of policies it described as “Kamala’s Project 2025.” Trump, Harris’ Republican presidential challenger, was one of several social media users who shared this 10-point list that covered topics such as immigration, […]
Sign on to social media these days and you’ll soon find posts warning about the threat of immigrants to your family’s — and your pets’ — safety. Immigrants are eating the dogs, cats and geese in Springfield, Ohio, some posts have claimed. (They’re wrong.) They’re also taking over apartment complexes in Colorado and Chicago, or […]
This story has been updated to include new information. Republicans in Wisconsin have often repeated the phrase “every state is a border state.” For evidence, they’ve recently turned to Prairie du Chien, a city of about 5,500 people across the Mississippi River from Iowa. U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden and U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde […]
Rumors about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, stemmed from secondhand accounts, unsubstantiated calls to local officials and misrepresented media. In short, the claims lacked hard evidence. That didn’t matter to Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president, who still pushed the narrative on X, or former President Donald Trump, who […]
Minutes after former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt on July 13, entrepreneur and X owner Elon Musk, endorsed Trump’s presidential campaign in an X post. On Sept. 15, hours after news broke that Trump had survived yet another apparent attempt on his life, Musk made another attention-grabbing X post. Responding to another X […]
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, did an interview in Pittsburgh with Stephanie Ruhle starting at 7 p.m. ET on Sept. 25 on MSNBC. The interview is Harris’ first one-on-one network interview since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee. She and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, did a joint interview Aug. 29 on […]
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance unveiled a new catchphrase in his quest to tie Democrats to inflation: Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris cast the tiebreaking vote for the “Inflation Explosion Act.” Vance said this on at least three recent occasions, including a Sept. 16 rally in Sparta, Michigan. “Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote […]
In what has become a pattern of spreading vaccine misinformation, the Florida health department is telling older Floridians and other people at highest risk from COVID-19 to avoid most booster shots, saying they are potentially dangerous. Clinicians and scientists denounced the message as politically fueled scaremongering that also weakens efforts to protect against diseases like measles […]