Factcheck.org Roundup
Leading up to Election Day on Tuesday, November 3, Almanac will run a bi-weekly FactCheck.org roundup. This will be the final installment. Here are some of the latest stories:
FactChecking the Final 2020 Presidential Debate (October 23, 2020). The candidates repeated talking points from the stump and added some new twists on the facts.
Trump on the Stump (October 22, 2020). Factcheck.org identified 46 false and misleading claims President Trump made in six stump speeches from October 12 to October 16.
Biden on the Stump (October 22, 2020).Nine fact checked claims made by the Democratic presidential nominee in recent campaign speeches.
Trump’s Long History With Conspiracy Theories (October 20, 2020). President Trump has exhibited a years-long pattern of directly espousing or leaning into conspiracy theories, often those that smear his political opponents or critics.
FactChecking Trump’s Immunity Claims (October 16, 2020). President Trump said that once he came down with COVID-19, people shifted for partisan reasons from saying immunity was lifelong to saying it lasted only a few months. Experts haven’t changed their estimates.
FactChecking Trump’s Town Hall (October 16, 2020). In an October 15 town hall on NBC News, President Trump made false and misleading claims on the coronavirus, the economy and more.
FactChecking Biden’s Town Hall (October 16, 2020). At a televised town hall in Philadelphia, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden made false and misleading claims on COVID-19, health insurance and the 1994 crime bill.
Trump Ad Lifts Fauci Praise Out of Context (October 12, 2020). A Trump campaign ad uses a clip of Dr. Anthony Fauci praising federal public health officials—saying that he “can’t imagine that…anybody could be doing more”—and makes it seem like Dr. Fauci was personally complimenting the president. Dr. Fauci says the ad lifted his words “out of context.”
Kamala Harris, Honest Abe and the Supreme Court (October 9, 2020). There’s no evidence that Lincoln said he delayed the nomination to let voters choose the next president, as Senator Harris said.