FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims made during Trump and Harris' debate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

80% : Trump on abortions 'after birth'TRUMP: "Her vice presidential pick says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine.
70% : Trump overstates his economic recordTRUMP: "I created one of the greatest economies in the history of our country.
65% : The fastest growth under Trump was 3% in 2018.
60% : Trump falsely claims evidence shows he won in 2020TRUMP: "There's so much proof.
54% : The economy grew much faster under Presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan than it did under Trump.
50% : That funding included troop pay, training, operations and infrastructure along with equipment and transportation over two decades, according to SIGAR reports and Dan Grazier, a defense policy analyst at the Project on Government Oversight.Only about $18 billion of that sum went toward equipping Afghan forces between 2002 and 2018, a June 2019 SIGAR report showed.
50% : Trump delivered the line at a speech in March in Ohio in which he was talking about the impact of offshoring on the American auto industry and his plans to increase tariffs on foreign-made cars.
49% : Trump inflates numbers around new military equipment left in AfghanistanTRUMP, on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan: "We wouldn't have left $85 billion worth of brand new, beautiful military equipment behind.
38% : ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWTrump has distanced himself from Project 2025HARRIS: "What you're going to hear tonight is a detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025 that the former president intends on implementing if he were elected again.
35% : And a higher proportion of American adults had jobs under Clinton than under Trump.
33% : There's no evidence to support the claim, which Trump and his campaign have used to argue immigrants are committing crimes at a higher rate than others.
32% : The plan was written up by many of his former aides and allies, but Trump has never said he'll implement the roughly 900-page guide if he's elected again.
32% : ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWTrump falsely claims China is building 'massive' auto plants in MexicoTRUMP: "They're building big auto plants in Mexico, in many cases owned by China.
30% : It's not the first time Trump has claimed the Biden administration is allowing Chinese automakers to build factories just across the border in Mexico.
27% : Biden's victory over Trump in 2020 was not particularly close.
26% : ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWTrump misrepresents key facts of the Central Park Five caseTRUMP: "They admitted, they said they pled guilty and I said, 'well, if they pled guilty they badly hurt a person, killed a person ultimately ...
25% : Trump wrongly stated that the victim was killed and that the wrongly accused suspects had pleaded guilty.
25% : Trump appeared to be confusing guilty pleas with confessions that the men -- teenagers at the time -- said they made to police under duress.
24% : Trump misstated key details of the case while defending a newspaper ad he placed about two weeks after the April 1989 attack in which he called for bringing back the death penalty.
22% : Trump repeats false claims that noncitizens are being sought to voteTRUMP: "A lot of these illegal immigrants coming in, they're trying to get them to vote.
22% : U.S. intelligence agencies have said Russia favors Trump, who has openly praised Putin, suggested cutting funds to Ukraine and repeatedly criticized the NATO military alliance.
22% : It's going to be a bloodbath for the country," Trump said.
21% : In recent months, Trump and other Republicans have been repeating the baseless claim that Democrats want migrants to come into the country illegally so they will vote.
19% : ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWTrump endorses false rumor about immigrants eating petsTRUMP: "In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats...
15% : Trump has said he doesn't know about Project 2025, a controversial blueprint for another Republican presidential administration.
5% : Trump misrepresents crime statisticsTRUMP, criticizing the Biden administration: "Crime is through the roof.

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