A narrowed field of 10 Democratic candidates debated health care, immigration and gun control, but not all of their claims squared with the facts.
FactChecking the September Democratic Debate
Stories by Brooks Jackson
Director Emeritus, FactCheck.org
FactChecking July’s Round Two Debate
Several of the factual distortions concerned what the candidates had to say about one another.
FactChecking the Second Democratic Debate
The first of the back-to-back Democratic debates in July included spin from the candidates on gun violence, Republican tax cuts, climate change, manufacturing jobs and more.
Trump’s Numbers July 2019 Update
Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office.
FactChecking Round Two of the Democratic Debate
The second of a two-part debate offered a new crop of spin.
FactChecking the First 2020 Democratic Debate
We found some factual distortions in the first debate round of the two-night affair.
Trump’s Numbers, April 2019 Update
Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office.
Spinning GDP
The White House is claiming the economy grew 3.1 percent last year, but it is spinning the numbers — focusing on a little-used measure to make the economy look a little more robust than it does measured the usual way.
Does China Pay Tariffs?
President Donald Trump is fond of saying that China is paying the U.S. billions of dollars in increased tariffs. Not true. Tariffs are taxes paid by U.S. importers in the form of customs duties, and to some extent by U.S. consumers in the form of higher prices.
FactChecking the State of the Union
The president strayed from the facts, mainly on immigration and the economy.