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How unprecedented is it for President Joe Biden to drop out this late? Very

July 21, 2024

By now, most of us are used to living in “unprecedented times.” But just how unprecedented is Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race a little more than three months before Election Day?  Occasionally, incumbent presidents have decided to not seek reelection. But dropping out midcampaign is incredibly rare. And it […]

Fact-check: Kamala Harris is running for president. How accurate is she on abortion, economy, Trump?

July 21, 2024

Within a half-hour of announcing his withdrawal from the 2024 presidential campaign, President Joe Biden endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic presidential nomination.  “My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made,” Biden said in […]

Kamala Harris at Planned Parenthood in St. Paul, Minn., 3-14-2024

Harris, once Biden’s voice on abortion, would take an outspoken approach to health

July 21, 2024

Throughout Joe Biden’s presidency, he leaned on the outspoken former prosecutor and senator he selected as his vice president, Kamala Harris, to be the White House’s voice of unflinching support for reproductive health rights. Now, as Democrats rebuild their presidential ticket just a few months before Election Day, Harris would widely be expected to take […]

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in Wilmington, Del., 8-12- 2020

Joe Biden drops out, endorses Kamala Harris. How do the Democrats choose a 2024 nominee now?

July 21, 2024

President Joe Biden’s decision to forgo the 2024 president nomination and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris unleashes unprecedented questions about how Democrats will choose their nominee. Biden’s move follows weeks of Democratic drum-beating for him to bow out after his poor June 27 presidential debate performance and less than three days after the Republicans completed […]

READ: Joe Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race, endorses Kamala Harris. Read his letter here.

July 21, 2024

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 […]

Joe Biden at the White House, 7-15-2024

Joe Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race. Read PolitiFact’s updating coverage.

July 21, 2024

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 […]

It’s a wrap: Read our fact-checks and stories from the 2024 RNC

July 19, 2024

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 […]

Donald Trump acepta la nominación republicana: verificamos su discurso en la RNC

July 19, 2024

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 […]

Donald Trump RNC Night 4 speech in Milwaukee, fist up ear showing, 7-18-2024

In Context: Trump recounts assassination attempt. Here’s what he said at the RNC.

July 19, 2024

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 […]

Donald Trump fact-check: 2024 RNC speech in Milwaukee full of falsehoods about immigrants, economy

July 19, 2024

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,” […]

Wide view at RNC Night 3, JD Vance speaker

Biden blamed at RNC for wars, but how much sway does a US president have?

July 18, 2024

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 […]

Donald Trump credited this immigration graphic with saving his life. What did it show?

July 18, 2024

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 […]

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