{"id":2339795,"date":"2024-09-11T15:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T19:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-checking-the-kamala-harris-claims-that-abc-wouldnt-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T19:08:08","slug":"fact-checking-the-kamala-harris-claims-that-abc-wouldnt-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-checking-the-kamala-harris-claims-that-abc-wouldnt-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact checking the Kamala Harris claims that ABC wouldn\u2019t &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-checking-the-kamala-harris-claims-that-abc-wouldnt-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2339795&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses multiple claims made by Vice President Kamala Harris during \u200ca debate with former President Donald Trump, labeling several of them \u200cas misleading or\u200c false. Below are the key points of Harris&#8217;s \u2064claims along\u200b with \u200dthe critiques provided:<\/p>\n<p>1. **Unemployment Rates**:<\/p>\n<p>   &#8211; **Claim**: Harris stated that &#8220;Donald Trump left us the worst unemployment since the Great Depression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>   &#8211; **Critique**: The unemployment rate was at 6.3% when Biden and Harris took office, significantly impacted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-times-confused-by-drop-in-public-school-enrollment\/\" title=\"NY Times Confused by Drop in Public School Enrollment\">pandemic-related job losses<\/a>. In fact, before the pandemic, \u2064under Trump, the\u200c unemployment rate had\u2062 fallen to 3.5%.<\/p>\n<p>2. **Project 2025**:<\/p>\n<p>   &#8211; **Claim**: Harris insinuated that Trump has a &#8220;detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025&#8221; that he intends to implement if re-elected.<\/p>\n<p>   -\u200d **Critique**: Trump has disavowed Project 2025, which was developed by the Heritage\u2063 Foundation, \u2062and his campaign played no role in \u2062its creation.<\/p>\n<p>3. **Abortion Claims**:<\/p>\n<p>   &#8211; **Claim**: &#8220;Nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy \u2063to term and asking for an abortion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>   \u200c- \u200b**Critique**: This statement ignores\u2062 that in\u200c several states, \u2063laws allow women to seek abortions late in pregnancy, and some abortions do occur in the later stages.<\/p>\n<p>4. **Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Bloodbath&#8221; Comment**:<\/p>\n<p>   \u200b &#8211; **Claim**: Harris suggested that Trump threatened a &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; if\u2064 he loses the \u200belection.<\/p>\n<p>   \u2063 &#8211; \u200c**Critique**: The \u200bcomment was taken out of context; \u200bTrump was referring to economic consequences rather than a literal threat of violence.<\/p>\n<p>5. **IVF \u2063Treatments**:<\/p>\n<p>   &#8211; **Claim**: Harris claimed \u2063that couples\u200d are being denied in vitro fertilization\u2063 (IVF) \u2063treatments due to Trump&#8217;s abortion policies.<\/p>\n<p>   &#8211; **Critique**: There is no direct link \u200cbetween abortion restrictions and IVF\u2063 accessibility, which\u2063 remains legal across\u200c the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>6.\u200d **Charlottesville Remarks**:<\/p>\n<p>   &#8211; **Claim**: Harris referenced Trump&#8217;s comments regarding the 2017 Charlottesville rally,\u2064 implying he equated &#8220;very fine people on both sides.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>   &#8211; **Critique**: Trump&#8217;s\u200d comments have been debated; he did\u2064 condemn neo-Nazis and white \u2063nationalists, trying to differentiate between various\u2063 protestors.<\/p>\n<p>The article emphasizes the importance\u2064 of context and accuracy in political debates, highlighting \u200chow statements can be misrepresented\u200d or\u2064 oversimplified in the heat of discussion.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Fact checking the Kamala Harris claims that ABC wouldn&rsquo;t<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1758438\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a> made a number of misleading or false claims during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/presidential-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>debate<\/a> on Tuesday, but the ABC News moderators declined to fact check her statements in real time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>David Muir and Linsey Davis faced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/3150264\/neither-trump-nor-abc-news-held-harris-accountable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>criticism<\/a> for pressing former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> on incorrect statements while permitting his opponent to make several of her own during the two-hour debate they moderated in Philadelphia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the inaccurate things Harris said during her first debate with Trump.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. &ldquo;Donald Trump left us the worst unemployment since the Great Depression.&rdquo;<\/h2>\n<p>This is a misleading statement because it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teachers-unions-swarm-small-town-conservative-school-board-that-dares-to-reform-public-ed\/\" title=\"Conservative school board faces backlash from teachers unions over public education reform in small town.\">omits key context<\/a> that renders Harris&rsquo;s underlying point meaningless.<\/p>\n<p>Unemployment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/archives\/empsit_02052021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>sat at 6.3%<\/a> when President Joe Biden and Harris took office in January 2021, less than a year after the onset of the pandemic. Government mandates had forced businesses around the country to close for extended periods of time, causing the economy to shed jobs temporarily.<\/p>\n<p>But once life started to return to normal, those jobs returned as well. That was already starting to happen by the time Biden was inaugurated. The unemployment rate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/opub\/mlr\/2021\/article\/unemployment-rises-in-2020-as-the-country-battles-the-covid-19-pandemic.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>hit double digits<\/a> in the spring of 2020 and was falling significantly heading into 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The unemployment rate at the end of Trump&rsquo;s term, therefore, had little to do with Trump&rsquo;s agenda. In fact, in the three years he was in office before the pandemic, Trump managed to bring the employment rate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/what-happened-to-the-economy-under-trump-before-covid-and-after-11602713077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>down<\/a> to 3.5%, which was lower than the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/pdf\/empsit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>current rate<\/a> under Biden and Harris.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. &ldquo;What you&rsquo;re going to hear tonight is a detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025 that the former president intends on implementing if he were elected again.&rdquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Democrats have focused intensely on a policy document produced by the Heritage Foundation in 2023 that contains a blueprint for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-make-election-year-push-to-undo-ban-on-mailed-abortion-pills\/\" title=\"Democrats aim to lift mail ban on abortion pills during election year\">future conservative administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3080136\/project-2025-fact-checking-democrats-claims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>disavowed<\/a> the project, and his allies have criticized the people who wrote it. While some former Trump administration officials were involved in crafting the policy blueprint, Trump&rsquo;s campaign played no role in it.<\/p>\n<p>Harris falsely claimed that Trump plans to follow Project 2025&rsquo;s lead if elected. He has never said this, and in fact, he has repeatedly said the opposite.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. &ldquo;Nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion.&rdquo;<\/h2>\n<p>When Harris and Trump sparred over abortion on the debate stage, the ABC News moderators jumped in to correct a statement Trump made about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2880549\/the-anniversary-of-the-partial-birth-abortion-ban-act-should-encourage-action-on-abortion-limits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/becerra-i-hope-to-find-common-ground-on-late-term-abortions\/\" title=\"Becerra: I hope to find common ground on late-term abortions\">partial-birth abortion<\/a><\/a>, but left unchallenged a statement from Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/3149972\/harris-trump-fact-checking-late-term-abortion-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>about late-term abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Women can seek an abortion at any point in their pregnancies, theoretically even late into their third trimester, in at least seven states and the District of Columbia, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/womens-health-policy\/issue-brief\/abortions-later-in-pregnancy-in-a-post-dobbs-era\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kaiser Family Foundation<\/a>. Some other states allow such broad exceptions to their gestational limits on the procedure that anti-abortion advocates say women can effectively obtain an abortion at any stage.<\/p>\n<p>Most abortions occur before 13 weeks of pregnancy, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2024\/03\/25\/what-the-data-says-about-abortion-in-the-us\/#when-during-pregnancy-do-most-abortions-occur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Pew Research Center<\/a>. However, Democrats have resisted placing limits on abortions occurring later than that, and a small percentage of abortions do occur later in pregnancy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More than 900,000 abortions are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/news-release\/2024\/number-abortions-united-states-likely-be-higher-2023-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>performed<\/a> each year in the United States, and 1% of those occur after 21 weeks, meaning thousands of abortions are performed later in pregnancy annually.<\/p>\n<p>A baby is considered full-term at 37 weeks of pregnancy, and presumably, even fewer abortions are performed at that stage. However, it is not true that &ldquo;nowhere in America&rdquo; could a woman request an abortion late in her pregnancy.&nbsp;A woman in any of the states that place no gestational limits on the procedure, including Minnesota and Colorado, would legally be able to seek an abortion in the final month of her pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> standard that Harris said she supports would allow restrictions on the procedure after roughly 24 weeks of pregnancy, or the point at which a baby has a reasonable chance of surviving outside the womb. Even that position obscures what many Democrats support, however.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While abortion restrictions based on fetal viability were permitted under the <em>Roe<\/em> framework, those restrictions were not required. Some states allowed abortion after that point, even before the Supreme Court changed how abortion law is enacted, and many Democrats have declined to say whether they support limiting the procedure at any point in pregnancy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. &ldquo;Donald Trump the candidate has said in this election there will be a bloodbath, if &hellip; the outcome of this election is not to his liking.&rdquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Harris repeated a talking point about comments Trump made in March that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/2925492\/biden-and-media-peddle-dishonest-trump-bloodbath-smear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>completely misrepresented<\/a> what the former president actually said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump never threatened a &ldquo;bloodbath&rdquo; in the literal sense if he loses the election in November.<\/p>\n<p>Harris was referring to a quote from a Trump speech at a campaign rally in Ohio earlier this year in which the former president criticized the Biden administration&rsquo;s manufacturing agenda.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you&rsquo;re not going to be able to sell those guys if I get elected,&rdquo; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/2024\/03\/trumps-bloodbath-comment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>said<\/a>. &ldquo;Now, if I don&rsquo;t get elected, it&rsquo;s going to be a bloodbath for the whole &mdash; that&rsquo;s gonna be the least of it. It&rsquo;s going to be a bloodbath for the country. That&rsquo;ll be the least of it. But they&rsquo;re not going to sell those cars. They&rsquo;re building massive factories.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump was clearly making an economic argument when he used the term &ldquo;bloodbath&rdquo; during that speech in March. However, Democrats and the media quickly spun the comment into a controversy at the time about Trump&rsquo;s intentions in the event of a loss.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. &ldquo;And understand what has been happening under Donald Trump&rsquo;s abortion bans. Couples who pray and dream of having a family are being denied IVF treatments.&rdquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Setting aside the fact that Trump has not proposed an abortion ban and has not been in office since the Supreme Court cleared the way for red states to start banning abortion, Harris&rsquo;s claim about IVF denials was also misleading.<\/p>\n<p>There is no clear connection between the Republican-led push to restrict abortion in some states and access to fertility treatments such as IVF.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>IVF is legal in all 50 states. Trump has not only advocated for protecting IVF access &ndash; he has also proposed forcing private insurance companies to cover IVF treatments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The political debate over IVF began in February when an Alabama court ruled in favor of couples who <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.jhu.edu\/2024\/the-alabama-supreme-courts-ruling-on-frozen-embryos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>sued<\/a> a fertility clinic that accidentally destroyed their frozen embryos. The court ruled that the embryos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/2868604\/alabama-ivf-case-everything-you-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>could be considered &ldquo;extrauterine children&rdquo;<\/a> for the purpose of filing lawsuits under wrongful death statutes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ruling itself did not ban IVF, but some experts acknowledged that it could make access to the treatments more difficult by increasing liability for IVF providers. Still, even the ultra-conservative Alabama legislature saw the political risks of the ruling and moved quickly to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/2896849\/alabama-ivf-protection-bill-passes-both-chambers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>pass bills<\/a> providing immunity to IVF clinics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6. &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s remember Charlottesville, where there was a mob of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abc-news-turns-debate-into-one-sided-show-trial-against-trump\/\" title=\"ABC News Turns Debate Into One-Sided Show Trial Against Trump\">people carrying tiki torches<\/a>, spewing antisemitic hate, and what did the president then at the time say? There were fine people on each side.&rdquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s comments in 2017 after violence broke out at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, have been a fixation of Democrats for years &mdash; despite fact-checkers finding that the former president did not praise white supremacists as &ldquo;very fine people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The infamous line from Trump came in a press conference days after a protest in Charlottesville over the removal of Confederate statues from city property turned violent in August 2017. Some of the protesters chanted antisemitic sentiments and carried Nazi symbols, and the rally attracted counterprotesters from the Left who clashed with the protesters from the Right.<\/p>\n<p>In the ensuing violence, a counterprotester named Heather Heyer was killed when a man rammed his car into the crowd in what the Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/national-news\/articles\/2017-08-14\/jeff-sessions-calls-charlottesville-attack-domestic-terrorism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>described<\/a> as an act of domestic terrorism.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During his press conference after the incident, Trump condemned the attack on the counterprotesters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2019\/apr\/26\/context-trumps-very-fine-people-both-sides-remarks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>saying<\/a>, &ldquo;I think the driver of the car is a disgrace to himself, his family, and this country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump also went after the alt-right protesters he has been accused of praising as &ldquo;very fine people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And you had people &mdash; and I&rsquo;m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists &mdash; because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists,&rdquo; Trump said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGON EXAMINER\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He sought to distinguish between the people carrying tiki torches and saying antisemitic things &ndash; the ones Harris mentioned during the debate on Tuesday &mdash; and the people who were on the scene solely to protest the removal of the Confederate statues.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sparring with a reporter who said, &ldquo;neo-Nazis started this,&rdquo; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/article\/2019\/apr\/26\/context-trumps-very-fine-people-both-sides-remarks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"responded\">responded<\/a> with the controversial line:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;Excuse me, excuse me. They didn&rsquo;t put themselves &mdash; and&nbsp;you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that <strong>were very fine people, on both sides.<\/strong>&nbsp;You had people in that group. Excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of, to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><cite>&ndash;Donald Trump<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Trump then went on to specify that he did not mean to include the neo-Nazis in his defense of the monument protesters. Earlier this year, fact-checking organization <em>Snopes<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/trump-very-fine-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>debunked<\/a> the claim that Trump praised the white supremacists at the Charlottesville rally as &ldquo;very fine people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1758438\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1758438\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fact-checking Kamala Harris&#8217;s Claims During the Debate<\/p>\n<p>During the debate on Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris made several misleading or inaccurate statements, yet the ABC News moderators chose not to fact-check her comments in real time. David Muir and Linsey Davis received backlash for challenging former President Donald Trump on false claims while allowing Harris to make multiple questionable assertions throughout the two-hour debate held in Philadelphia. Below are some of the inaccuracies presented by Harris during her first debate with Trump:<\/p>\n<p>1. **Unemployment Rate**: Harris claimed that &#8220;Donald Trump left us with the worst unemployment since the Great Depression.&#8221; This statement is misleading as it lacks crucial context. When President Joe Biden and Harris took office in January 2021, unemployment was at 6.3%, a figure influenced by pandemic-related business closures rather than solely Trump&#8217;s policies. The unemployment rate had peaked at over 10% during spring 2020 but was already declining before Biden&#8217;s inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>2. **Project 2025**: She stated, &#8220;What you\u2019re going to hear tonight is a detailed and dangerous plan called Project 2025 that the former president intends on implementing if he were elected again.&#8221; This claim misrepresents Trump&#8217;s stance; he has disavowed this policy document created by the Heritage Foundation and has never indicated plans to adopt it.<\/p>\n<p>3. **Abortion Access**: In discussing abortion, she asserted that &#8220;nowhere in America is a woman carrying a pregnancy to term and asking for an abortion.&#8221; This statement overlooks that women can legally seek abortions late into their pregnancies in several states without gestational limits.<\/p>\n<p>4. **Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Bloodbath&#8217; Comment**: She accused Trump of saying there would be a &#8220;bloodbath&#8221; if he lost the election, which mischaracterizes his remarks made earlier this year regarding economic consequences tied to his campaign promises rather than any literal threat of violence.<\/p>\n<p>5. **IVF Treatments**: Regarding IVF treatments under Trump&#8217;s administration, she claimed couples are being denied access due to his abortion bans; however, there\u2019s no direct link between state-level abortion restrictions and IVF availability since IVF remains legal nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>6. **Charlottesville Remarks**: Lastly, she referenced Trump&#8217;s comments about Charlottesville where he allegedly said there were \u201cfine people on both sides.\u201d However, fact-checkers have clarified that Trump did not praise white supremacists as such but attempted to differentiate between various groups present at that rally.<\/p>\n<p>In summary, while moderating debates involves challenging candidates&#8217; statements for accuracy, critics argue that Muir and Davis failed to hold Harris accountable for her misleading claims during this particular event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2775,"featured_media":2339796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Harris_Trump_Debate_uhh3.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14599,36059,32438,32076],"class_list":["post-2339795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-fact-checking","tag-abc-news","tag-kamala-harris","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Harris_Trump_Debate_uhh3.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2339796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}