CNN Fact-Checker Daniel Dale Says Trump ‘Made at Least 33 False Claims’ in Debate, While ‘Harris Made at Least One’

CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale claimed on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump “made at least 33 false claims” during ABC News’ presidential debate, while Vice President Kamala Harris “made at least one.”

Reacting to the debate on CNN, Dale said:

What stood out was that this was a staggeringly dishonest debate performance from former President Trump. Just lie after lie on subject after subject. By my preliminary count, Jake, Trump made at least 33 false claims. 33. By contrast, by again a preliminary count, Vice President Harris made at least one false claim, though she added at least a few misleading claims and a few more that lack key context. I think a lot of Americans say, “Well, all politicians lie.” No major presidential candidate before Donald Trump has ever lied with this kind of frequency. A remarkably large chunk of what he said tonight was just not true, and this wasn’t like little exaggeration, political spin. A lot of his false claims were untethered to reality.

Dale proceeded to go through some of the false statements Trump made during the debate, including about healthcare, Roe v. Wade, and Harris herself, before adding, “Frankly, I don’t have enough time here to run through each specific Trump false claim. I urge people to go to our CNN website or our app to read our team’s detailed fact checks on this and a whole bunch more.”

On the “one false claim that Vice President Harris did make about the economic situation that the Biden-Harris administration was left by Trump,” Dale played a clip of Harris claiming “Trump left us the worst unemployment since the Great Depression.”

“So the Biden-Harris administration was not actually left the worst unemployment since the Great Depression,” fact-checked Dale. “They were left a 6.4% unemployment rate in January 2021. That was certainly elevated by recent standards, pretty high, but it was significantly down from the 14.8% level it reached early in the pandemic, so it was already improving at the time the Biden-Harris administration took office, and that 6.4% level was the highest since the Great Recession, so in the last twenty years, not going back decades further.”

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