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Joe Biden, Democratic presidential nominee

“President Donald Trump's effort in court to nullify the Affordable Care Act would "take 100 million people with preexisting conditions and move them in a direction where they can't get coverage.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Misleading

FactCheck.org says: The figure is an estimate for the number of Americans, outside of Medicare and Medicaid, with preexisting conditions. To be at risk of being denied insurance, they would have to seek coverage on the individual market.

Mike Pence, Vice President

“When asked whether he’d support cutting funding to law enforcement, Joe Biden replied, 'Yes, absolutely.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the Facts

FactCheck.org says: Biden was asked about shifting some police funds to social service agencies for tasks that could be better handled by the latter. “Yes, absolutely,” Biden responded. But said he also supports additional police funding.

Donald Trump, president

“A Joe Biden-Bernie Sanders “unity” policy document shows “they want to abolish our police departments. They want to abolish our prisons, I guess.”

PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire

PolitiFact says: The document Trump cited does not say anything about abolishing the police or prisons. In fact, it includes several passages that clearly indicate that police and prisons will exist in the future.

Donald Trump, President of the United States

“Under Joe Biden’s policy, immigrants in the country illegally “get welfare benefits. United States citizens don't get what they're looking to give illegal immigrants.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: A task force recommended undoing many of Trump’s policies, but not an immediate enrollment for welfare. Plan also did not say immigrants illegally in the country should have more benefits than U.S. citizens.

Joe Biden, Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee

“Says President Donald Trump “took more than a month to allocate Congress’ emergency funding to tribes — and only did so after tribes sued.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True

PolitiFact says: More than a month after the CARES Act, the Trump administration said it would begin giving tribes part of the funds. A consultation process for disbursing the funds began before the administration was sued.

Joe Biden, Democratic presidential candidate

“We had over 44, if I'm not mistaken, people from the CDC in China. ... The president brought home the vast majority of them and I think left only four in place.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Exaggerates

FactCheck.org says: CDC’s staff in China was reduced from approximately 47 people to about 14 under President Donald Trump, according to Reuters story cited by the Biden campaign.

Charlie Kirk

“Under the leadership of former Vice President Joe Biden, H1N1, also known as swine flu, killed 12,000 people and infected 61 million others”

MediaWise rated this: Needs context

MediaWise says: Even though the post included accurate data, the Obama administration responded quickly to H1N1, and state and local officials have the authority to respond to national emergencies in their own way. It’s a stretch to co…