Tallies:

Vance: * 7 False / mostly false. * 1 half true * 0 true/mostly true

Walz: * 2 False * 5 true

  • Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    the tallies are misleading below is the actual skinny

    Walz: “When Iranian missiles did fall near U.S. troops and they received traumatic brain injuries, Donald Trump wrote it off as ‘headaches.’”

    True.

    Walz: “Sen. Vance has said that there’s a climate problem in the past. Donald Trump called it (climate change) a hoax and then joked that these things would make more beachfront property to be able to invest in.”

    True.

    Walz: “We are producing more natural gas and more oil at any time than we ever have.”

    True.

    Walz: “And the good news on this is, is the last 12 months saw the largest decrease in opioid deaths in our nation’s history.”

    Mostly True.

    Walz: Trump “gave the tax cuts that predominantly went to the top class. What happened there was an $8 trillion increase in the national debt, the largest ever.”

    Mostly True.

    Vance: “What (Harris has) actually done instead is drive the cost of food higher by 25%, drive the cost of housing higher by about 60%.”

    Half True.

    Vance: Donald Trump “peacefully gave over power on January the 20th as we have done for 250 years in this country.”

    Mostly False.

    Vance: “So there’s an application called the CBP One app, where you can go on as an illegal migrant, apply for asylum or apply for parole and be granted legal status.”

    Mostly False.

    Vance: “Kamala Harris let in fentanyl into our communities at record levels.”

    Mostly False.

    Walz: “Donald Trump hasn’t paid any federal tax in the last 15 years. The last year as president.”

    Mostly False.

    Vance: Donald Trump “peacefully gave over power on January the 20th as we have done for 250 years in this country.”

    Mostly False.

    Walz: “Their Project 2025 is gonna have a registry of pregnancies.”

    False.

    Vance: “As I read the Minnesota law that (Walz) signed into law … it says that a doctor who presides over an abortion where the baby survives, the doctor is under no obligation to provide lifesaving care to a baby who survives a botched late-term abortion.”

    False.

    Vance: “Iran, which launched this attack (on Israel), has received over $100 billion and unfrozen assets, thanks to the Kamala Harris administration.”

    False.

    Vance: “Donald Trump could have destroyed the (Affordable Care Act). Instead, he worked in a bipartisan way to ensure that Americans had access to affordable care.”

    False.

    • gi1242@lemmy.worldOP
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      the content of Vance’s lies are really really scary. not to mention his damned non answer

      • Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world
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        The fact that he got all pissy and started talking over the moderators when they did explain something saying essentially you agreed you weren’t going to fact check us but now you are fact checking me is really telling.

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          yep. why are they opposing fact checking in the first place? no one should be able to lie unchecked to dupe voters