Fact-checking the presidential debate between Trump and Harris

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Before Russia invaded Ukraine, Trump praised Putin as "genius" and "savvy" for declaring his intention to invade.
61% : In Jul, CBP recorded 170,273 national encounters between and at U.S. ports of entry.
57% : "We wouldn't have left $85 billion worth of brand-new, beautiful military equipment behind," Trump said.
55% : In 2018, it boasted that Trump and his administration "embraced nearly two-thirds of the policy recommendations" it advanced in a similar document.
52% : I'll show you Georgia, and I'll show you Wisconsin, and I'll show you Pennsylvania," Trump said.
51% : These were jobs bounce back, and it bounced back, and it went to their benefit, but I was the one that created them," Trump said.
49% : By the way, I'm a big fan of solar, but they take 400-500 acres of desert soil," Trump said.
49% : At the Ohio rally, Trump said, "If you're listening, President Xi -- and you and I are friends -- but he understands the way I deal.
46% : "Her father's a Marxist professor in economics, and he taught her well," Trump said.
45% : Regardless of whether such a plan would ever bear fruit, Harris' latest comments build on the narrative that Trump continues to seek cozy ties with Moscow.
45% : "But when you look at what she's done to our country, and when you look at these millions and millions of people that are pouring into our country monthly, where it's I believe 21 million people, not the 15 that people say," Trump said.
40% : Trump has spent weeks trying to push back against associations with Project 2025, a 900-page policy wish list put out by the Heritage Foundation.
39% : "Do I save it and make it as good as it can be, or do I let it rot, and I saved it," Trump said.
39% : The number of people who are on the terroistr watchlist stopped at the border has largely stayed the same, with an estimated 1,400 encounters under Trump and 1,800 under Biden.
39% : They came up with some ideas, I guess, some good, some bad, but it makes no difference," Trump said.
38% : But by the time Trump left office at the height of the pandemic, the U.S. had given up virtually all those gains as a result of the worldwide economic devastation from the virus.
37% : And these people are trying to get them to vote, and that's why they're allowing them to come into our country," Trump said.
36% : Trump then scaled back U.S. troop levels over the course of 2020 from about 13,000 to 2,500 as part of the deal, even though the Taliban did not keep its commitment to reduce violence and it maintained ties with Al Qaeda.
36% : Trump then scaled back U.S. troop levels over the course of 2020 from about 13,000 to 2,500 as part of the deal, even though the Taliban did not keep its commitment to reduce violence and it maintained ties with Al Qaeda.
35% : It's happening at levels nobody thought possible," Trump said.
33% : "Later, Trump said, "If this election isn't won, I'm not sure that you'll ever have another election in this country.
31% : In addition, it's important to note that Trump did not say in his direct response to Muir that he wanted Ukraine to win in the war.
31% : They didn't fire, they should have fired all those generals, all those top people, because that was one of the most incompetently handled situations anybody has ever seen," Trump said.
31% : They didn't fire, they should have fired all those generals, all those top people, because that was one of the most incompetently handled situations anybody has ever seen," Trump said.
30% : It's true that Trump has disavowed some of the policies in the document and did not write it, but many of his allies and former aides are behind it and have advanced the positions proposed in it.
29% : And even if Trump won and tried to stop the war, U.S. and European governments say Russia has shown no sign it is genuinely interested in any peace negotiations.
28% : This is true, though Trump says differently.
27% : "Harris was referring to comments Trump made at a rally in Andalia, Ohio, in March.
27% : At the rally, Trump vowed there would be a "bloodbath" if he's not elected in November --
27% : "Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison," Trump said.
25% : He also says execution after birth is execution no longer abortion because the baby is born OK, and that's not OK with me," Trump said.
24% : We have inflation like very few people have ever seen before, probably the worst in our nation's history," Trump said.
23% : Meanwhile, Trump actually understated the number of manufacturing jobs lost last month: It was 24,000, not 10,000.
23% : "Trump hasn't publicly discussed what his specific plan to end the war would be.
22% : Trump falsely claimed that the more than 50 lawsuits brought by his supporters claiming widespread fraud were rejected by judges because the president did not have legal "standing.
20% : Pressed about the FBI crime rates' contradicting him, Trump claimed the FBI didn't "include the cities with the worst crime; it was a fraud."
20% : During the debate, Trump hit back at Harris, saying: "Let me just it was a different term, and it was a term that related to energ,y because they have destroyed our energy business.
19% : "Trump has continued to refuse to acknowledge that he lost the 2020 election.
13% : Under Biden, over 112,000 migrants with criminal backgrounds have been apprehended at the border, compared with over 63,000 under Trump.
12% : Here's what Harris and Trump got right and wrong on the debate stage in Philadelphia.
12% : Citing people who discussed the plan with Trump and his advisers, the Post reported that Trump would plan to push Ukraine to hand over control of Crimea and the Donbas region to Russia in any future deal, which would effectively formalize the gains Putin made during his illegal invasion.
12% : This is a frequent falsehood from Trump dating to 2019, referring to something former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, said on a radio program.
9% : The combative showdown saw Trump advance a number of debunked conspiracy theories related to migration, crime and voting, while Harris made misleading statements on manufacturing jobs and whether U.S. troops are in combat zones.
6% : Harris' comments came during a lengthy exchange that was kicked off when Muir asked Trump, "Do you want Ukraine to win this war?"Trump responded by saying only that "I want the war to stop.
4% : Trump and his supporters have tried to solely blame Biden and Harris for the chaotic pullout.
4% : Trump and his supporters have tried to solely blame Biden and Harris for the chaotic pullout.

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