“Vice President Kamala Harris said “it was a bad idea to have kids because of climate change anxiety.”
What FactCheck.org found
Harris said that young climate leaders had spoken to her about “climate change anxiety,” which included their concerns about having kids in the future. But she did not endorse the notion of not having children.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
JD Vance (Senator and Republican vice presidential nominee) made this claim around 28 July 2024. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 August 2024, 5 days later. Its rating was “False”.
JD Vance has 38 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 21 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- foxnews.comhttps://www.foxnews.com/video/6359536060112
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