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Fact-checking Day 1 of the 2024 RNC

By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact

Here are eight economic claims about inflation, homeownership and the economy, fact-checked.

Fact-checking what Biden said in his NBC interview as the RNC began

By Amy Sherman, PolitiFact

As Republicans railed against him at their convention in Milwaukee, President Joe Biden sat for a counterprogramming interview with NBC’s Lester Holt.

Fact-checking JD Vance’s past statements and relationship with Trump

By Samantha Putterman, PolitiFact

Vance, 39, won his Senate seat in 2022 with Trump’s backing. He would be one of the youngest vice presidents in U.S. history.

Fact-checking the wild conspiracy theories related to the attempted Trump assassination

By Katie Sanders, PolitiFact

The 2024 Republican National Convention opens Monday with the unprecedented and grisly backdrop of its presumptive nominee having survived an assassination attempt.

Fact-checking the claims Biden and Trump made during the debate

By Geoff Bennett, Matt Loffman

Thursday night’s debate may be the first time millions of Americans have paid attention to the presidential race this year. They heard a lot of claims that have been familiar refrains on the campaign trail and not all of them…

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Analysis: Fact-checking the CNN Trump-Biden debate

By PolitiFact staff

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump clashed on topics including immigration, the economy, abortion and their ages.

Live fact check: CNN’s Biden-Trump debate

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump face off tonight for the first time since 2020.

Prepare for CNN’s Biden-Trump debate with these key facts

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman, PolitiFact

Inoculate yourself from the candidates' spin with this fact-checked guide.

Pence speech praised Trump’s ‘seamless’ COVID response, but left out his state feuds

By Jon Greenberg, Amy Sherman, PolitiFact, Victoria Knight, Kaiser Health News

After declaring a national emergency over the health crisis on March 13, President Donald Trump directed governors to order their own ventilators, respirators and supplies, saying the federal government is “not a shipping clerk.”…

RNC Day 3 fact check: Trump adminstration’s pandemic response

By By the staffs of KHN and PolitiFact

Vice President Mike Pence’s claims about the Trump administration, as well as his attacks on Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, were sometimes misleading, incomplete or wrong.