“When Abraham Lincoln was faced with a Supreme Court vacancy 27 days before Election Day and his party controlled the Senate, he said the people should vote first.”
What PolitiFact found
She’s right about the proximity of the chief justice's death to Election Day, but historians can't say for sure whether Lincoln's motivations for a delay were exactly as Harris suggested.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Kamala Harris (Democratic vice presidential nominee) made this claim around 7 October 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 October 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
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.
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