Joe Biden

“The cost of an automobile, it's kind of back to what it was before the pandemic.”

PolitiFact says: New and used car prices began to increase in the summer of 2020, federal data shows. By June 2021, prices were almost 21% above their level right before the pandemic hit. Private-sector data shows the same pattern.

“Si tienes la vacuna del COVID-19 no vas a contraer el virus.”

Noticias Telemundo says: Aunque es muy poco habitual, sí es posible contagiarse del coronavirus pese a estar completamente vacunado. La eficacia de las vacunas no es absoluta, según indican sus propios ensayos clínicos.

“Ten thousand people have recently died. 9,950 of them, thereabouts, are people who hadn’t been vaccinated.”

PolitiFact says: Biden is citing a figure that has been offered publicly on at least two occasions by the director of the CDC, Dr. Rochelle Walensky.

“The cost of an automobile is kind of back to what it was before the pandemic.”

FactCheck.org says: The Consumer Price Index for new and used cars in cities was up about 20% between January 2020 and June of this year. But a car price expert says that's partly because people are buying bigger, more expensive cars.

“You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”

PolitiFact says: The CDC says that COVID-19 vaccines are effective. However, no vaccines are 100% effective at preventing illness. There will be a small percentage of fully vaccinated people who get sick, are hospitalized, or die.

“Hemos creado más de 3 millones de empleos desde que asumí el cargo, más puestos de trabajo de los que se han creado en los primeros cinco meses de cualquier presidencia en la historia moderna”

Noticias Telemundo says: Biden tiene razón en los números. Sin embargo, su afirmación pasa por alto el hecho de que la economía de Estados Unidos está casi 6.8 millones de puestos de trabajo por debajo de su pico antes de la pandemia.

“This year alone, 17 states have enacted — not just proposed, but enacted — 28 new laws to make it harder for Americans to vote.”

PolitiFact says: About two-thirds of the laws enacted tighter restrictions. However, about a quarter of the laws would have only a speculative impact on voting access, and a few included expansions along with restrictions.

“Some state legislators ... want the ability to reject the final count and ignore the will of the people if their preferred candidate loses.”

PolitiFact says: Biden's claim about legislators wanting to be able to overturn the voters' will wasn’t as clear cut as he made it sound.

“There’s noncompete clauses of people running the machines that lay down asphalt. If, in fact, you get offered a job and you know, you’re in Arkansas doing it, a specific example is you can’t take a job in west Texas to do it. ... … Or there were clauses in McDonald’s contracts: You can’t leave Burger King to go to McDonald’s.”

Washington Post says: The McDonalds-Burger King story is wrong and the asphalt story cannot be verified.

“In 2020, more people voted in America than ever in the history of America, in the middle of a once-in-a-century pandemic.”

PolitiFact says: The number of votes has mostly set new records every four years, in line with population growth. As a percentage of the voting eligible population, the turnout rate in 2020 was higher than in any election since 1900.

“We have now created over 3 million jobs since I took office, more jobs than have ever been created in the first five months of any presidency in modern history.”

PolitiFact says: Biden is right on the numbers, but he glosses over the reality that the economy remains almost 6.8 million jobs under its pre-pandemic peak, and he makes a comparison that is biased by when each president took office.

“My wife who — I think, I’m not sure of this — may be the only first lady or second lady to go into a war zone — an active war zone.”

FactCheck.org says: Second lady Lynne Cheney visited Iraq with her husband, then-Vice President Dick Cheney, in 2008.

“The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own. You couldn’t buy a cannon.”

Washington Post says: No such ban on cannons existed.

“The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own.”

PolitiFact says: The 2nd amendment limits government, not people.

“In my first four months in office, more than two million jobs have been created. That’s more than double the rate of my predecessor, and more than eight times the rate of President Reagan.”

Washington Post says: The Fact Checker automatically assigns Two Pinocchios for claims that a president is responsible for job growth. Too many factors are beyond a president's control.

“I hear all the folks on TV saying, ‘Why didn’t Biden get this done?’ Well, because Biden only has a majority of, effectively, four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends.”

Washington Post says: There’s no evidence that either Manchin or Sinema vote more with Republicans. But they are certainly more moderate than other Democrats and in a 50-50 Senate, they have the power to block any part of Biden’s agenda.

“If we don’t do something about Alzheimer’s in America, every single, solitary hospital bed that exists in America — as the nurses can tell you — every single one will be occupied in the next 15 years with an Alzheimer’s patient — every one.”

Washington Post says: Our calculations show there is no evidence to support this claim.

“Says he can't get much of his legislative agenda passed because there's "a tie in the Senate, with two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends.”

FactCheck.org says: Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin by one measure have voted with Biden's position 100% of the time since he has been in office.

“Two Democratic senators vote more with Republicans than Democrats.”

“Two members of the Senate," Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, "voted more with my Republican friends" than with the president from their own party.”

PolitiFact says: Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema support the continued use of the Senate’s filibuster rule, which imperils key elements of Biden’s agenda. But on actual votes, both Manchin and Sinema backed Biden 100% of the time.