Fact Check-Walz vs Vance debate: 12 statements examined

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : Trump did pay $750 the year he won the 2020 election, the paper added, as well as in his first year in the White House.
65% : CLAIMWhen discussing ways to address carbon emissions, Vance said Kamala Harris' policies have led to "more energy production in China, more manufacturing overseas" (9:13 p.m.)WHAT WE KNOWVance could be referring to the 2022that provides incentives to boost domestic energy production and manufacturing investment, including support for clean energy jobs and the sale of new and used electric vehicles.
48% : In 2018 under Trump, the U.S. imposed tariffs onworth of goods imported from China, with Beijing then retaliating with duties onworth of American products, including soybeans and other commodities.STATEMENTS BY VANCECLAIMVance said Iran "received over $100 billion in unfrozen assets thanks to the Kamala Harris administration."
44% : "Trump and his wife, Melania, paid some form of tax during all four years, the documents showed, but were able to minimize their income taxes in several years as income from Trump's businesses was more than offset by deductions and losses," Reuters.
43% : Trump ordered in 2020 a drone strike that killed, and launched in 2017 an, a move that marked an escalation of the U.S. military´s role in Syria.
42% : "In 2022, the U.S. House Ways and Means CommitteeTrump´s tax returns for 2015 through 2020, which showed that Trump paid no income tax during the final full year of his presidency.
38% : In 2020, the New York Times, based on an analysis of tax return data from 2017, that Trump had paid no income taxes in 10 of the previous 15 years.
25% : Data from theon the 12-month percentage change in the Consumer Price Index, which measures inflation across metropolitan areas, found that the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area recorded the lowest inflation rate in thein May and July 2023, and again in March 2024.CLAIMWalz said Trump created the largest trade deficit in American history with China.
11% : Trump hadas "fake news.
0% : Trumpsuch as Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower in not officially bringing the U.S. into a new war since 1945.

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