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In a letter posted July 21 from his social media account, President Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race after calls for him to do so from within the Democratic Party. Biden has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the ticket in November.  Biden’s June 27 debate performance, which […]

After a criticized debate performance and calls from within the Democratic Party to step aside, President Joe Biden announced July 21, 2024, in a letter posted on social media that he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race.  Biden quickly endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination. Delegates will meet in August at the […]

Former President Donald Trump wrapped up the final day of the Republican National Convention on July 18 with a lengthy speech, his first since he was nearly assassinated days earlier in Butler, Pennsylvania. He recounted the “happy” vibe as he arrived at his campaign rally July 13, rose to speak and then heard a “loud […]

MILWAUKEE — El expresidente Donald Trump detalló el intento de asesinato en su contra del 13 de julio y repitió su narrativa sobre inmigración y economia, en la cuarta y última noche de la Convención Nacional Republicana.  Aquí, verificamos algunas de sus declaraciones.  Trump dice que los demócratas usaron el COVID-19 para “hacer trampa” en […]

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump opened his acceptance speech on the Republican National Convention’s final night by recounting the July 13 assassination attempt he survived at his rally five days earlier. Before the speech, Trump’s only public remarks about his experience were in a brief Truth Social post shared after the shooting: “I was shot […]

MILWAUKEE — Former President Donald Trump closed the Republican National Convention by accepting the presidential nomination and offering a speech that began somber and turned combative. First, he recounted surviving an assassination attempt five days earlier in Butler, Pennsylvania. “You’ll never hear it from me again a second time, because it’s too painful to tell,” […]

One message Republican National Convention speakers have repeated: The world was at peace under former President Donald Trump but is now on fire because of President Joe Biden. Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 and Hamas attacked Israel in October 2023, things that never would have happened had Trump still been president because of his […]

Just before gunfire flew across former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally July 13, Trump turned his head to his right to look at a graphic shown on a big screen. The graphic, titled “Illegal Immigration into The U.S.,” saved his life, Trump told his former White House doctor, U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, the next […]

As he’s campaigned to win back the White House, former President Donald Trump has made a lot of big promises.  Since its founding in 2007, one of PolitiFact’s cornerstones has been tracking the progress, or lack thereof, sitting presidents have made on their campaign promises: We’ve done it for Barack Obama, Trump and Joe Biden. […]

PolitiFact will live fact-check the fourth and final night of the 2024 Republican National Convention headlined by former President Donald Trump. The lineup wraps an eventful week for the RNC, preceded by the attempted Trump assassination on July 13. Trump also announced his running-mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who delivered a speech to delegates heavy on his biography […]

JD Vance, el candidato a vicepresidente de Donald Trump, hizo su debut en el tercer día de la Convención Nacional Republicana, bajo el lema “Make America Strong Once Again” (“Hagamos que Estados Unidos vuelva a ser fuerte”). A los 39 años, Vance sería uno de los vicepresidentes más jóvenes en la historia de Estados Unidos, […]

MILWAUKEE — Newly minted Republican vice presidential nominee Ohio Sen. JD Vance delivered a speech to delegates heavy on his biography and economically populist views, zeroing in on the Midwest’s manufacturing heritage and future. “President Trump represents America’s last, best hope to restore what is lost and may never be found again,” Vance said in the final […]