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| FALSE | Claim by Vivek Ramaswamy (R): “The reality is the anti-carbon agenda is the wet blanket on our economy. And so the reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.”
PolitiFact rating: False (Lacks evidence) Fact-check: What Republican candidates got right, wrong in first debate on Fox News |
| UNSUBSTANTIATED | Claim by Will Hurd (R): Former Republican Texas Representative Will Hurd claimed in an August 13 interview that 141 people drowned in the Rio Grande river in 2022.
Check Your Fact rating: Unsubstantiated (There’s not enough evidence to establish this claim as true or false.) FACT CHECK: Will Hurd Claims 141 People Drowned In The Rio Grande In 2022 Corrected on 8/25/2023 from Blatant Lie to Unsubstantiated due to a lack of evidence to substantiate the claim. |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim by Tim Scott (R): “Parents who show up at school board meetings, they’re called, under this DOJ, they’re called domestic terrorists.”
PolitiFact rating: False (No Evidence) Fact-check: What Republican candidates got right, wrong in first debate on Fox News |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social media: The federal government has declared food emergencies in at least six states.
USA Today rating: False (The federal government has made no such declarations. The video appears to be confusing a grazing and haying emergency in parts of some states with a food shortage.) States face grazing emergency, not food shortage | Fact check |
| MOSTLY TRUE |
Claim by Nikki Haley (R): “Donald Trump added $8 trillion to our debt.”
PolitiFact rating: Mostly True (One measure is publicly held debt. During Trump’s four years in office, debt held by the public rose by $7.2 trillion. The other measure is to take publicly held debt and add to it the borrowing between one part of the government and another. This is known as gross federal debt, and it increased by $7.8 trillion during Trump’s presidency.) Fact-check: What Republican candidates got right, wrong in first debate on Fox News |
| FALSE | (International: Nigeria): “Nigeria has the highest unemployment rate in the world.”
Africa Check rating: Incorrect |
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