“Even before the pandemic, (Donald Trump) lost manufacturing jobs, by most people’s estimates at least 200,000.”
What PolitiFact found
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.
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In short
Kamala Harris (Vice President) made this claim around 25 September 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 26 September 2024, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Kamala Harris has 63 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 13 of them false or fake, 40 misleading or mixed and 7 true.
Where the claim appeared
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