Fact-checking the vice-presidential debate between Vance and Walz

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Nearly three hours passed before Trump finally told the rioters to "go home.
54% : " Vance did not mention that, in a break with tradition, Trump refused to attend Biden's inauguration.
49% : There were about 700 pounds of fentanyl seized in fiscal 2016, the last full fiscal cycle before Trump took office. - - - "Look, in Springfield, Ohio, and in communities all across this country, you've got schools that are overwhelmed.
48% : Bill Clinton was president only 16 years before Trump.
47% : About one-quarter of the cases took place under Trump.
47% : About 458 miles of a border barrier was built during Trump's presidency, but most of it (373 miles) was replacement for existing primary or secondary barriers that were dilapidated or outdated, according to a Jan. 22, 2021, report by Customs and Border Protection.
44% : Trump inherited a growing economy from Barack Obama, which the tax cut may have extended a bit, but it was already running out of steam when the pandemic struck in 2020.
43% : Trump said at the time the strike was carried out in accordance with the Authorization for Use of Military Force resolution of 2001.
42% : Finally, Trump threw his support behind House and Senate bills that would have allowed states to seek waivers and consider a person's health status when writing policies in the individual market.
41% : The U.S. trade deficit with China hit a peak 0f $377.7 billion in 2018, when Trump was president.
40% : Trump had promised to build 1,000 miles of barrier, so even taking the lower numbers gets Trump 8.5 percent.
40% : Mexico did not pay for the barrier Trump erected along the southern border; American taxpayers did.
40% : As president, Trump often touted how much seizures of drugs at the southern border had increased on his watch.
38% : The amount of fentanyl seized at the border increased under Biden and Trump, though so far, the amount jumped by a larger percentage under Trump, CBP statistics show.
37% : Under Biden, according to Customs and Border Protection statistics, overall drug seizures have dropped, especially for marijuana, but until this year increased substantially for fentanyl - the drug most responsible for overdose deaths.
36% : The report recommended creating an automated system, rather than a manual one, which Homeland Security said it would implement. Until this report was issued, Trump had been using a much lower figure of 88,000 "lost children," but this was a different metric.
36% : Both the decrease in marijuana seizures and the increase in fentanyl seizures reflect trends that started under Trump.
33% : But experts say that even if Trump had been reelected, he would have had trouble keeping sanctions from eroding.
33% : But that also does not involve the app. - - - "He [Trump] gave the tax cuts that predominantly went to the top guys.
31% : " Nearly 100 million Americans with preexisting conditions could have been denied coverage by insurers or charged prohibitively high prices as a result, and Trump had no plan to replace ACA provisions such as coverage for preexisting conditions.
30% : Yet Trump has continued to say they suffered only from headaches - as he did again just hours before the debate. - - - "When was the last time that an American president didn't have a major conflict break out?
30% : When the crowd attacked the Capitol, as documented in the House select committee report on the Jan. 6 attack and other reporting, Trump was reluctant to take action to calm the situation, even as his staff pleaded with him to tell the rioters to leave the Capitol.
29% : The Trump administration also issued rules that promote the use of low-quality, short-term plans that were prohibited under Obamacare.
24% : Trump initially bragged about the fact that no one was killed, but it emerged that a U.S. contractor suffered a serious eye injury and 110 troops had traumatic brain injuries while sheltering in place, with 35 being sent to Germany and the United States for treatment.
24% : Trump consistently tried to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, either through legislation or regulation, and he acted in a highly partisan manner.
23% : Separately, Republicans have claimed that Iran received as much as $100 billion because oil sanctions have not been effectively managed by the Biden administration - a charge the administration denies.
23% : Iran attacked a U.S. drone in 2019, but Trump did not hit back.
22% : Then Iran attacked a U.S. military base in 2020 after Trump ordered the drone killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani on Jan. 3, 2020.
20% : Trump also escalated hostilities with Iran, including the killing of Soleimani.
17% : Then, the index fell almost every month of 2021, the first year of Biden's presidency. - - - "But when Obamacare was crushing under the weight of its own regulatory burden and health-care costs, Donald Trump could have destroyed the program.
13% : Trump encouraged a crowd of supporters to appear on Jan. 6, 2021, and then condemned his vice president when Mike Pence refused to halt the ceremonial counting of electoral votes.
5% : " Walz's state already does, leading a Heritage Foundation official to ask whether Walz is a "miscarriage monitor" after Harris made a similar claim in her debate with Trump. - - - "I never supported a national ban.

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