Fact Check-Harris-Trump debate: 12 statements examined

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : When considering, CBP registered 10,249,626 encounters between January 2021 and July 2024.
53% : The jointly-signed, first reported by, says the economic agenda of President Joe Biden is "vastly superior" to Trump's.
50% : These figures do not account for "got aways," people who are never apprehended by CBP.
48% : WHAT WE KNOWTrump hastariffs of up to 20% on all imports and up to 60% on Chinese goods.
48% : Trump warned of a "bloodbath" while discussing the need to protect the U.S. auto industry from overseas competition during ain Dayton, Ohio: "If I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole ... country.
48% : In fact, I got more votes than any sitting president in history by far," Trump said (09:32 p.m. ET).
45% : In November 2012, Trump wrote on Twitter, now X, that "the concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
43% : In 2020, more votes were cast for both Biden and Trump than for any other previous candidate in U.S. history.
41% : This can´t be predicted and Trump has senton his abortion policy plans., he signaled support for a 15-week national ban on abortion with exceptions for rape, incest and saving the life of the mother because "you have to win elections."
40% : In 2019, Trumpto invite Taliban leaders to a presidential compound in Camp David, Maryland.
39% : Sixteen Nobel prize-winning economists raised concerns in June,that the U.S. economy will suffer if Trump wins the election in November.
39% : Trump received 74.2 million votes in the 2020 presidential election, surpassing former President Barack Obama´s record number of votes () for an incumbent candidate.
34% : On the topic of abortion, Trump said that the former governor of Virginia "said we put the baby aside and then we determine what we want to do with the baby.
33% : Trump also said in August that heenforce theto block mailing of the pill mifepristone, which is used inof U.S. abortions.
31% : This came just days after his running mateTrump would veto the ban if Congress passed it.
31% : WHAT WE KNOWTrump is referring to unsubstantiated claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.
30% : While it is unclear which 18 months Trump is referring to, the Defense Casualty Analysis System for Operation Freedom's Sentinelrecorded U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan each year since 2015 (except for 2022) and found there were casualties for each year of Trump´s administration.
28% : Reuters Fact CheckTrump saying there were no military deaths in an 18-month period under his administration.
27% : The prospect of the government monitoring miscarriages came from Project 2025, a set of conservative policy proposals its authors hope Trump will adopt if elected.
26% : CLAIMHarris cited Trump as saying, "there will be a bloodbath" if the outcome of this election is not to his liking (09:48 p.m. ET)
26% : In 2017, Trump argued the pact undermined the U.S. economy.
25% : CLAIMHarris said Trump negotiated directly with the Taliban, got 5,000 Taliban terrorists released and he invited the Taliban to Camp David.
22% : Minutes before, Trump had mentioned "executing" babies after birth, which is likely a reference to claims that former Virginia Governor Ralph Northam advocated for the legalization of infanticide in remarks in 2019 to a local radio station while discussing a bill (HB 2491) aimed at easing certain restrictions on abortions.
21% : Reuters examined 12 claims made by Harris and Trump.
21% : In a, Trump did not respond on whether he would veto a national abortion ban.
19% : The Harris campaign has accused Trump of being tied to, which was prepared by some of the former president´s closest policy advisors.
17% : Trump has repeatedly said that climate change is a hoax.
13% : STATEMENTS BY TRUMPCLAIMTrump said 21 million people have poured into the U.S. during the Biden administration (09:15 p.m. ET)WHAT WE KNOWIt´s not clear what Trump meant when he said 21 million people have poured into the U.S.
12% : CLAIMHarris said a Trump administration would lead to a "national abortion ban" and a national "monitor that would be monitoring your pregnancies, your miscarriages" (09:20 p.m. ET)Trump replied: "I'm not in favor of an abortion ban" (09:21 p.m. ET)
7% : "The Trump campaign and allies laterthat when he used the term, he was referring to the auto industry, which Trump said was threatened by the Biden administration over its promotion of electric vehicles.

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