“Joe Biden "already has what is the most progressive platform of any major party nominee in history.”
What PolitiFact found
Obama is on the strongest ground if you compare Biden’s platform with an absolute concept of liberalism. However, in his own time, Biden is hardly on his party’s ideological vanguard, unlike some previous nominees.
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In short
Barack Obama (Former president) made this claim around 14 April 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 April 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Barack Obama has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-s3ANu4eMs
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