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PHILADELPHIA -- Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris volition conscionable face-to-face for the archetypal clip successful a highly-anticipated statement Tuesday night. The 2 statesmanlike candidates picture the authorities of the state successful starkly antithetic terms. Trump often paints a acheronian representation centered astir issues specified arsenic migration and precocious inflation, portion Harris focuses connected optimism for the future, promising that "we're not going back."
Here is simply a person look astatine immoderate of the claims some candidates person made passim the debate.
Claim: Haitian migrants eating pets successful Ohio
Fact Check: False
According to the metropolis of Springfield, Ohio, these claims are false. A metropolis spokesperson tells ABC News determination person been "no credible reports oregon circumstantial claims of pets being harmed, injured oregon abused by individuals successful the migrant community."
Rumors that migrants from Haiti are stealing and eating animals determination person tally rampant aft a bid of claims dispersed wide online, amplified by societal media posts from starring governmental figures successful caller days.
"Additionally, determination person been nary verified instances of immigrants engaging successful amerciable activities specified arsenic squatting oregon littering successful beforehand of residents' homes. Furthermore, nary reports person been made regarding members of the migrant assemblage deliberately disrupting traffic," the spokesperson added.
The House Judiciary GOP X relationship utilized AI tools to amusement Trump holding cats and ducks, portraying him arsenic a savior of animals.
One of the main images circulating online, showing a antheral holding a dormant goose, was taken not successful Springfield but successful Columbus, Ohio, 2 months ago. The nonmigratory who captured the representation told ABC News helium was amazed to spot his representation utilized to " propulsion mendacious narratives."
According to the Springfield News-Sun, the Springfield Police Department has not received immoderate reports of pets being stolen and eaten. The metropolis adjacent created a webpage debunking immoderate claims.
Migrants person been drawn to the portion due to the fact that of debased outgo of surviving and enactment opportunities, the metropolis says connected its site. The metropolis estimates determination are astir 12,000 to 15,000 immigrants surviving successful the county, and that the accelerated emergence successful colonisation has strained housing, wellness care, and schoolhouse resources. But the metropolis besides says that the migrants are successful the state legally and that galore are recipients of Temporary Protected Status from the national government.
Claim: 'If Donald Trump were to beryllium reelected, helium volition motion a nationalist termination ban.'
Fact Check: False.
Trump has said helium has "no regrets" successful selecting the Supreme Court justices who overturned the law close to an abortion. But helium besides repeatedly has promised that if elected, helium volition not motion a national termination prohibition into instrumentality and volition permission the contented up to the states.
One unfastened question this twelvemonth had been whether helium would enforce the Comstock Act, an 1873 instrumentality that prohibits mailing materials utilized successful abortions. Among different things, the instrumentality would marque it amerciable to vessel the cause mifepristone, which is utilized to terminate aboriginal pregnancies. The Biden medication has said the instrumentality is unenforceable due to the fact that the cause has aesculapian uses different than abortion, and it would beryllium intolerable to cognize however the cause was being used. Trump's moving mate, JD Vance, and different conservatives person called for the enforcement of the law.
In an August interrogation with CBS News, Trump said that portion "we volition beryllium discussing specifics of it," helium volition not enforce the Comstock Act.
Claim: Trump 'killed' measure that would person secured border
Fact Check: True
Earlier this year, a bipartisan radical of senators unveiled a $20 cardinal program to substantially bolster information on the U.S.-Mexico border. It would person added hundreds of borderline patrol and ICE agents and asylum officers; funded operation of caller borderline wall; expanded detention facilities; ended "catch and release;" efficaciously closed the borderline wholly erstwhile amerciable crossings surge; and raised the barroom for asylum claims. (Source: substance of bill
The influential Border Patrol union, which has antecedently endorsed Trump, publically backed the bill. But hours aft the draught authorities was unveiled connected Feb. 5, Trump urged his enactment to reason the bill, adjacent arsenic galore Republicans person spent years lobbying for immoderate of the information measures included successful the deal.
"I'll combat it each the way," Trump told supporters astatine a Las Vegas rally Feb. 8. "A batch of the senators are trying to say, respectfully, they're blaming it connected me. I say, that's okay. Please blasted it connected me."
Trump openly invoked election-year authorities arsenic a information for his position: "This Bill is simply a large acquisition to the Democrats, and a Death Wish for The Republican Party. It takes the HORRIBLE JOB the Democrats person done connected Immigration and the Border, absolves them, and puts it each squarely connected the shoulders of Republicans," Trump wrote connected societal media. The measure failed a cardinal Senate procedural ballot successful May, with each but 1 Republican voting against it, including each those progressive successful crafting the deal.
Claim: Trump near america the worst unemployment since the Great Depression.
Fact Check: Needs context
The unemployment complaint peaked astatine 14.8% successful April 2020 erstwhile Trump was successful bureau - that was so the highest level since the Great Depression, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But unemployment rapidly declined to 6.4% successful January 2021 by the clip Trump near office, arsenic the system started to rebalance. And that 6.4% unemployment complaint is inactive amended than the 10% highest during the Great Recession successful October 2009.
If you destruct pandemic statistics, the lowest unemployment complaint nether Trump was conscionable somewhat higher than the lowest constituent nether Biden. Both were good: 3.5% nether Trump and 3.4% nether Biden astatine their lowest respectively, according to information provided by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Claim: Trump says 'We person ostentation similar precise fewer radical person ever seen before. Probably the worst successful our nation's history.'
Fact Check: False, but it was precise high
It's existent that aboriginal successful Biden's presidency, the yearly ostentation complaint peaked astatine astir 9% (June of 2022), but that's not the highest it's ever been. There are respective examples of the ostentation complaint being overmuch higher than 9% successful the U.S, including successful the contiguous aftermath of WWII and during the lipid embargo and shortages of the precocious 70's and aboriginal 1980s. But, determination are respective examples of the ostentation complaint being overmuch higher than 9% successful the U.S., including successful the contiguous aftermath of World War II and during the lipid embargo of the precocious 70's and aboriginal 1980s erstwhile the ostentation complaint peaked astatine 14.5%. The ostentation complaint arsenic of July 2024 is astatine 2.9% yearly inflation, the lowest it has been successful 3 years. It should besides beryllium noted that President Biden has falsely claimed that helium inherited a precocious complaint from his predecessor. In fact, ostentation was astatine 1.4 percent erstwhile helium took office.
Data for this information cheque was gathered from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, oregon St. Louis Fed
Claim: Trump wants "20% taxation connected mundane goods" that would outgo families "about $4000 much a year"
Fact Check: True, but needs context
Trump has projected a cosmopolitan "10-20%" tariff connected each U.S. imports, from cars and electronics to wine, nutrient products and galore different goods. He has besides projected a 60% tariff connected imports from China. Vice President Harris called the program "Trump's income tax," though the erstwhile president has not explicitly projected specified a tax. Independent economists, however, accidental the projected import tariffs would unquestionably effect successful higher prices for American consumers crossed the committee (Tax Foundation, American Action Forum, Tax Policy Center, Center for American Progress, Peterson Institute)>. The precise fiscal interaction connected families is hard to foretell and estimates alteration wide - from further yearly costs per household of $1,700 to astir $4,000, depending connected the study.
Trump has not called for immoderate taxation hikes for American families. He has projected exempting Social Security benefits and tips from taxation, arsenic good arsenic extending idiosyncratic taxation cuts enacted successful 2017.
Claim: Trump says Democrats enactment abortions aft birth
Trump was asked astir his shifting stances connected termination issues, specifically his flip-flop connected enactment for Florida's termination rights ballot measure.
He spent a bulk of his effect railing against Democrats for being "too liberal" connected termination entree and falsely stating they enactment abortions aft birth.
"In different words, we'll execute the baby," helium claimed.
This is false. There is nary authorities that allows the sidesplitting of a babe aft birth. Infanticide is amerciable successful each 50 states.
"There is nary authorities successful this state wherever it is ineligible to termination a babe aft it is born," ABC News moderator Linsey Davis responded.
This is simply a processing communicative and volition beryllium updated
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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