Donald Trump, Former U.S. president
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: The “vast majority” of the 13,099 entered the U.S. and had their custody status determined before the Biden administration, according to the Department of Homeland Security. They also gained entry legally and illegally.
Donald Trump, former president and 2024 Republican presidential candidate
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said Biden asked what Kemp needed and offered for Kemp to contact him directly.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: PolitiFact reviewed Nexis news archives and Google and found no credible news reports to support this claim.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The image featured in the post was taken Aug. 31 on Delaware’s Rehoboth Beach — almost a month before Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend.
Donald Trump, Former President
FactCheck.org rated this: False
FactCheck.org says: The methods of verifying an overseas voter's identity and eligibility vary by state, but most require either a valid state driver's license or the last four digits of a person's Social Security number.
Social media posts
Logically Facts rated this: Misleading
Tim Sheehy, U.S. Senate candidate, R-Mont.
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Tester voted against an amendment, but its passage would not have given "taxpayer-funded health care to illegal immigrants." Such spending was then, as now, prohibited under federal law.
Donald Trump, Former US president
Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios
Washington Post says: Zelensky never said this.
Social media posts
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: In an interview, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania said some people in his state think former President Donald Trump is a “terrible person” but they say “I will still vote for him.”
Kamala Harris, Vice President
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: The Trump administration rolled back numerous Obama-era protections against LGBTQ+ discrimination under the Affordable Care Act. But legal challenges hampered enforcement of both rules, so the impact is less clear.
Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States
FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading
FactCheck.org says: Harris was mostly correct in her description of Moody's Analytics, the Financial Times survey and the 16 Nobel laureates. But she is wrong about the Wharton analysis and exaggerates what Goldman Sachs said.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: There are no projects that can modify or create hurricanes.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: This photo was taken in Tampa, Florida, in 2023, ahead of Hurricane Idalia.
Jared Moskowitz, U.S. Rep., D-Fla.
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: Project 2025, the conservative policy blueprint for a Republican administration, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration "should be broken up and downsized."
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: PolitiFact’s reporting does not support the authenticity of the account. Routh’s social media accounts on Facebook and X nor his self-published book mentioned LGBTQ+ identity.
Kamala Harris, Vice President
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: The prepandemic job losses were 48,000, about one-fourth of the figure Harris cited. The 200,000 figure is in the ballpark for the number of manufacturing job losses for Trump's whole tenure, including the pandemic.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign confirmed to PolitiFact the claim is untrue. We found no legitimate news reports about the Harris-Walz campaign paying people to attend events.
Ruben Gallego, U.S. Representative, D-Ariz.
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake appeared in a 2023 promotional video for Project 2025, but that blueprint doesn't address raising the retirement age for Social Security.
Social media posts
FactCheck.org rated this: Not the Whole Story
FactCheck.org says: Montana temporarily took down its online system used by citizens and military personnel voting abroad to fix a technical glitch that omitted the Democratic presidential and vice presidential candidates.
Donald Trump, Former President of the United States
FactCheck.org rated this: No Evidence
FactCheck.org says: We can’t predict the future, but auto industry jobs declined between 2019 and 2020, before the pandemic, showing no evidence of a pending boom.