Joe Biden

“Three hundred sixty thousand Pennsylvanians fought on the side of the Union to defeat the flag, that Confederate flag, including more Black soldiers coming from Pennsylvania than any other state in the nation.”

PolitiFact says: Biden said that 360,000 Pennsylvanians fought for the Union Army during the Civil War and that's correct.

“The CDC tried to develop clear guidelines about what the stages of re-opening should look like — the administration delayed and scaled them back.”

PolitiFact says: The White House requested that the CDC revise its initial reopening guidelines. The CDC said that the review and revision were part of a standard process, but some experts criticized the delay.

“Trump lost a trade war that he started.”

PolitiFact says: It may be premature to say that Trump has “lost” the conflict he escalated, but we found wide agreement among experts that he is losing so far.

“You weren't allowed to own a cannon during the Revolutionary War as an individual.”

PolitiFact says: The Biden campaign didn’t offer evidence to support his statement, and historians of the period are dubious laws against private cannon ownership existed.

“Making sure we tell the American public what the president is doing, saying he wants to cut off money for the post office so they cannot deliver mail-in ballots.”

FactCheck.org says: We can find no instance of Trump saying he wants to thwart the Postal Service's ability to deliver mail-in ballots, and the Biden campaign hasn't provided us with any.

“[M]ost of the conservative think tanks," including the Heritage Foundation, say the Republican tax cuts "generated virtually no growth at all.”

FactCheck.org says: Biden's campaign cited as evidence three articles from conservative institutions: two from AEI and one from the Tax Foundation. None of them support Biden's claim, though.

“When, I started off as a kid, a young man in high school [was], uh, dealing with the issue. I got involved — I wasn’t any great shakes — but got involved in the civil rights movement. Desegregating restaurants, that kind of thing.”

Washington Post says: We can identify one incident involving Biden that can possibly be deemed an effort at desegregating a restaurant. Biden’s use of plural —“restaurants” — cannot be confirmed.

“If we shut it down a month earlier, we’d have probably another 45,000 to 60,000 people be alive instead of dead because he didn’t listen to — and I’m going to say something outrageous. He did not listen to guys like me back in January saying we have a problem, a pandemic is on the way.”

Washington Post says: Biden leaves the impression he had offered more specific plans to combat the virus. He did not say back in January that it was a pandemic, only that it was a possibility, and he did not advocate social distancing.

“Farm bankruptcies jumped 20% last year due largely to Trump’s unmitigated disaster of a tariff war.”

FactCheck.org says: International trade was a factor, but there were additional reasons — such as years of relatively weak prices, declining incomes and rising farm debt, according to agricultural economists and government reports.

“Says President Donald Trump “took more than a month to allocate Congress’ emergency funding to tribes — and only did so after tribes sued.”

PolitiFact says: More than a month after the CARES Act, the Trump administration said it would begin giving tribes part of the funds. A consultation process for disbursing the funds began before the administration was sued.

“The NAACP has endorsed me every time I've run.”

PolitiFact says: The NAACP doesn’t endorse candidates.

“Columbia University "pointed out that if [Trump] had listened to me and others and acted just one week earlier to deal with this virus, there’d be 36,000 fewer people dead.”

FactCheck.org says: Biden falsely suggested that he called for implementing nationwide social distancing restrictions prior to March 8, which Columbia University researchers said could have prevented nearly 36,000 U.S. death.

“40% of the initial small business funds didn’t go to small businesses at all.”

PolitiFact says: Biden's definition of “small business” conflicts with that used by the Small Business Administration and the program that administers the loans -- and with how he used the term a moment before this claim.

“The U.S. had 44 CDC staffers “in China to observe what was going on. (President Trump) brought home the vast majority of them, I think left only four in place.”

PolitiFact says: The CDC staff overall went down, but not as much as Biden said. On the other hand, the staff in a key program went to zero Americans.

“We had over 44, if I'm not mistaken, people from the CDC in China. ... The president brought home the vast majority of them and I think left only four in place.”

FactCheck.org says: CDC’s staff in China was reduced from approximately 47 people to about 14 under President Donald Trump, according to Reuters story cited by the Biden campaign.

“Wouldn’t it be nice to have a president who listens to someone other than himself?”

Washington Post says: The video tweeted by Biden was edited to leave a misleading impression, cutting the nurse's response to Trump, making it appear as if he cut her off in mid-sentence, when in fact she said she agreed with the president.

“Donald Trump owes money to the Bank of China”

“The Trump Administration promised 27 million tests by the end of March. As of now, only 4 million have been completed.”

PolitiFact says: Biden conflated two different metrics: the number of projected available tests in the market and the number of people in the U.S. actually tested.

“Until this week, they [OSHA] weren’t even enforcing these guidelines [for coronavirus]. Still today, OSHA is not specifying which rules employees must follow or how to keep their workers safe and healthy.”

PolitiFact says: OSHA did not release any COVID-19 enforcement instructions for its inspectors until April 13, however it told inspectors to focus on its existing general safety standards, not recommendations geared toward the outbreak.

“Trump rolled over for the Chinese. He took their word for it.”

PolitiFact says: Trump’s comments in January and February were generally positive about China.