Republican Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will face off for the primary time Oct. 1 on the CBS Information vice presidential debate in New York Metropolis.
That is the one scheduled vice presidential debate for the 2024 election, and it comes simply three weeks after the primary, and sure solely, presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.
PolitiFact has scrutinized greater than a dozen latest statements from Vance and Walz since every man turned his celebration’s VP nominee. Right here’s how correct their speaking factors have confirmed thus far.
Vance’s false and deceptive claims about immigrants
Vance was among the many first politicians to unfold the unsubstantiated declare that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, had been killing and consuming pets. In the course of the Sept. 10 presidential debate, Trump repeated this baseless rumor. Within the weeks since, Vance has used selective information to magnify Springfield’s issues amid the migrant inflow.
Vance cherry-picked crime information to hyperlink the immigration uptick to rising murders, saying they “are up by 81%.” From 2021 to 2023, murders in Springfield rose from 5 to 9 — an 80% improve. However FBI murder information additionally confirmed that the variety of homicides in Springfield fluctuated and not using a clear development from 2012 to 2022, and a criminal offense information professional cautioned in opposition to making annual comparisons in locations the place lower than one murder is reported every month.
Vance additionally claimed the variety of communicable illnesses, resembling HIV and tuberculosis, in Springfield have “skyrocketed” due to the rise in Haitian immigrants. That is Largely False. Not together with COVID-19 circumstances, the general communicable illness charge in Clark County, the place Springfield is, has typically dropped since 2018, apart from HIV circumstances. The county cautions that its charges could also be inflated as a result of 2020 Census information doesn’t account for inhabitants will increase. Public county information doesn’t separate case numbers by metropolis or demographics, so public well being specialists cautioned in opposition to tying modifications in case charges to immigrants.
When discussing immigrants within the U.S. extra broadly, Vance mischaracterized considered one of Harris’ proposals, saying she “desires to present $25,000 to unlawful aliens to purchase American properties.” However Vance is filling in blanks a few proposal that we all know little about. Harris has not detailed her plan or mentioned who would qualify for this first-time homebuyer help.
Walz’s assaults on Vance and Challenge 2025
Like Harris, Walz routinely works in warnings about Trump and Vance embracing proposals from Challenge 2025, despite the fact that the Trump-Vance marketing campaign has distanced itself from the 900-page coverage handbook for the subsequent Republican administration.
Walz mentioned Vance “actually wrote the foreword for the architect of the Challenge 2025 agenda.” That is True. Vance wrote the foreword for Heritage Basis President Kevin Roberts’ forthcoming guide, “Daybreak’s Early Mild.” The Heritage Basis led the community of teams that created the coverage handbook.
Nonetheless, Walz has additionally wrongly described Challenge 2025’s targets. He falsely claimed it requires girls to register with a brand new federal company in the event that they get pregnant. The handbook doesn’t point out, nor name for, a brand new federal company to be created for being pregnant registration. It recommends that states present extra detailed and constant abortion and miscarriage reporting to the federal authorities.
Vance’s assaults on Walz’s navy and political information
Vance has sought to negatively reframe Walz’s 24-year navy profession with the Nebraska and Minnesota Nationwide Guards. In August, Vance mentioned, “When Tim Walz was requested by his nation to go to Iraq, are you aware what he did? He dropped out of the Military and allowed his unit to go with out him.”
This has a component of reality however misstates the timeline in ways in which may go away a deceptive impression, so Vance’s declare charges Largely False. Walz retired from the Minnesota Nationwide Guard in Could 2005 to run for Congress. He submitted retirement paperwork 5 to seven months beforehand.
After Walz filed congressional candidacy paperwork in February 2005, his Minnesota Nationwide Guard battalion acquired a March 2005 notification for a possible deployment inside two years, not instantly. Walz’s battalion was not formally ordered to go to Iraq till July 2005, two months after Walz retired.
Vance has additionally attacked Walz for saying in 2018 that he wished to get “weapons of battle that I carried in battle” off the streets. Vance mentioned Walz “has not spent a day in a fight zone,” which is True.
On Walz’s gubernatorial report, Vance mentioned Walz enacted a regulation that will “take youngsters away from their mother and father if the mother and father don’t need to consent to intercourse modifications.” However that’s False, the regulation Walz signed doesn’t try this. It amended the regulation governing which court docket may have momentary jurisdiction over baby custody circumstances involving a couple of state.
Walz’s assaults on Trump’s report
Walz has characterised the Trump-Vance marketing campaign as antiunion, saying that when Trump was president, he “reduce additional time advantages for tens of millions of employees.” That’s Largely False.
In 2016, former President Barack Obama’s administration set a rule that will have raised the wage threshold for additional time pay. However a choose struck it down earlier than it took impact, and the incoming Trump administration dropped a problem in opposition to the ruling. The Trump administration set its personal rule to boost the wage threshold for additional time pay, which was decrease than the Obama-era coverage. The Trump rule didn’t quantity to a “reduce.”
Walz has additionally blamed Trump for racking up the federal authorities’s debt, saying Trump “added extra to the nationwide debt than every other president.” That’s Half True.
Wanting on the improve in federal debt, Trump ranks first for debt added in a single time period. Nonetheless, Biden is projected to go Trump’s whole by the point he leaves workplace in January 2025. Utilizing a distinct methodology — counting how a lot future debt a president’s insurance policies created — Trump is projected to about double Biden’s debt quantity.
Extra fact-checks of Vance and Walz’s statements
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Vance mentioned Harris is “calling for an finish to the kid tax credit score.” That’s Pants on Fireplace!
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Walz mentioned former President Ronald Reagan was “the final union member on a nationwide ticket.” That’s False.
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Vance mentioned Trump may have destroyed the Inexpensive Care Act, however “he selected to construct upon (it).” That’s False.
- Vance mentioned a zero-tolerance coverage in the course of the Trump administration “led to much less household separation than below Kamala Harris’ border insurance policies.” That’s False.
