“If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive. All the people. I'm not making this up. Just look at the data.”
Joe Biden
Democratic presidential nominee. in a CNN town hall. Claim dated 17 Sep 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential nominee) made this claim around 17 September 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 September 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
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