Fact-checking the fifth Republican presidential debate ❘ Analysis

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : Trump is head-to-head; on a good day he might be up by two points.
60% : Customs and Border Protection agents have recorded about 7.5 million "encounters" between February 2021, after Biden took office, through September of last year.
57% : CBP has released more than 2.3 million migrants into the United States at the southern border under the Biden administration through September, the Department of Homeland Security said.
55% : Meanwhile, the biggest drivers of the debt are spending on Social Security and Medicare, established decades ago.
55% : These plans sought to rapidly reduce the federal budget and included proposals that proponents said would put Social Security and Medicare on stronger financial footing.
52% : She proposed raising the tax only if it was part of a package deal that reduced the state income tax.
50% : Given the impact of the war on the Ukrainian economy, the U.S. government as of May had spent about $19 billion on direct support of the Ukrainian government, including social assistance payments to vulnerable populations, civil service employees and about $7 billion in payment of pensions, according to a report to Congress by the U.S. Agency for International Development.-- -- --"He spent more money on private planes than he has on commercials trying to get Iowans to vote for him."-- HaleyThis appears to be wrong.
46% : More than half of the debt under Trump came in the last 10 months of his term because of the pandemic.
46% : When he first ran for president, Trump confidently claimed that he could eliminate the national debt -- then $19 trillion -- in just eight years through better trade deals.
40% : According to the Treasury Department, the nation's total public debt, including intragovernmental holdings, climbed from nearly $20 trillion to $27.8 trillion under Trump, a gain of $7.9 trillion.
38% : Other rankings don't put Florida in first place, but South Carolina is usually in the bottom 10.-- -- --Trump "said he was going to build a wall and have Mexico pay for it.
35% : Trump falsely has tried to claim that Mexico provided 28,000 soldiers along its northern and southern borders to stem migration "free of charge," which he says equals payment for the wall.
32% : -- -- --Trump "said he was going to eliminate the debt, and he added $7.8 trillion to the debt."-- DeSantis"He's not defending the fact that he allowed us to have $8 trillion in debt over four years."-- Haley
31% : "For me getting Social Security at 65 or 67, if I'm going to live in my 80s, is probably not sustainable," he said.-- -- --"If you look at the polls right now, going against Joe Biden.
29% : "DeSantis is correct that Mexico did not pay for the barrier Trump erected along the southern border; American taxpayers did.
26% : He did not deliver that."-- DeSantisOverall, Trump built a barrier along 458 miles of the border, including secondary barriers.
20% : "-- HaleyHaley is referencing a Wall Street Journal poll released in December showing that Trump had a four-point lead over President Biden and that DeSantis was tied, but she led Biden in a test match-up by 17 points, 51 percent to 34 percent.

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