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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Senate Leadership Fund
stated on September 17, 2024 in a TV ad:
“Two years ago, Bob Casey promised us his vote will reduce inflation. … Casey’s vote for reckless spending” made inflation worse.
Mostly False
By Caleb McCullough, Louis Jacobson • September 25, 2024
Tim Walz
stated on September 21, 2024 in an event in Bethlehem, Pa.:
“The last union member on a national ticket (was) Ronald Reagan.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 24, 2024
Kamala Harris
stated on September 12, 2024 in a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina:
Former President Donald Trump “started out with $400 million on a silver platter and then filed for bankruptcy six times.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2024
Jon Tester
stated on September 6, 2024 in a Facebook ad:
“Tim Sheehy told us his health care plan: ‘We need to return health care to pure privatization.’ That would eliminate Medicare.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on September 13, 2024 in a rally in Las Vegas:
Vice President Kamala Harris is “talking about bringing back the draft.”
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2024
Tim Sheehy
stated on August 21, 2024 in an X post:
The “‘Inflation Reduction Act’ increased inflation and drove prices sky high!”
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 17, 2024
Jon Tester
stated on September 8, 2024 in a Facebook ad:
Tim Sheehy “would let politicians like him ban abortion, with no exceptions for rape or to save a woman’s life, and criminalize women.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 12, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on September 7, 2024 in a rally in Mosinee, Wis.:
Vice President Kamala Harris “cast the tiebreaking votes that caused the worst inflation in American history, costing a typical American family $28,000.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2024
Kamala Harris
stated on August 22, 2024 in su discurso de aceptación en la Convención Nacional Demócrata:
El expresidente Donald Trump “tiene la intención de promulgar lo que, en efecto, es un impuesto nacional sobre las ventas…que elevaría los precios para las familias de clase media a casi $4,000 al año”.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Marta Campabadal Graus • September 5, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on August 23, 2024 in a campaign event in Glendale, Ariz.:
“There’s been a 43% increase in violent crimes since I left office.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 4, 2024
Kamala Harris
stated on August 22, 2024 in her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention:
Former President Donald Trump “intends to enact what, in effect, is a national sales tax … that would raise prices on middle-class families by almost $4,000 a year.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 30, 2024
JD Vance
stated on August 25, 2024 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
“Anything that you lose on the tariff from the perspective of the consumer, you gain in higher wages, so you’re ultimately much better off.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 29, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on August 21, 2024 in a Truth Social post:
“The Harris-Biden Administration has been caught fraudulently manipulating Job Statistics.”
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • August 23, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2024 in a press conference:
Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • August 9, 2024
Tim Walz
stated on August 6, 2024 in un mitin de campaña en Filadelfia:
“El crimen violento aumentó bajo Donald Trump”.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 9, 2024
Tim Walz
stated on August 6, 2024 in a rally in Philadelphia:
“Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2024
Kamala Harris
stated on July 30, 2024 in a rally in Atlanta:
Donald Trump “intends to cut” Medicare.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2024
Joe Biden
stated on August 2, 2024 in a written statement:
“Since Vice President Harris and I took office … incomes have risen faster than prices.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • August 6, 2024
Kamala Harris
stated on July 30, 2024 in an event in Atlanta:
“Donald Trump intends to cut Social Security.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2024
Pete Buttigieg
stated on July 28, 2024 in an interview on Fox News Sunday:
“Even before the pandemic, America went into a manufacturing recession.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2024
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