Fact Check: 2024 Harris-Trump Presidential Debate

ABC News’ Linsey Davis, one of two moderators for last week’s presidential debate, admitted to the Los Angeles Times that the plan was only to fact-check former President Donald Trump, and not Vice President Kamala Harris.

Kamala Harris delivered only one false statement during Tuesday night’s debate on ABC News, CNN Senior Reporter Daniel Dale alleged.

CLAIM: Vice President Kamala Harris falsely suggested during Tuesday’s debate that she was at the Capitol Building during the January 6 riot.

Trump never made any serious claim that he would be a dictator; he made a joking reference to his determination to enact his policies on day one.

ABC News moderator Linsey Davis framed voting against a proposed abortion amendment in Florida as supporting the state’s six-week abortion restriction.

Vice President Kamala Harris claimed Tuesday during a debate with former President Donald Trump that there were currently no active-duty troops in any combat zone anywhere around the world for the first time this century.

“Donald Trump, when he was president, negotiated one of the weakest deals you can imagine,” Vice President Kamala Harris said to deflect criticism of how her administration handled the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Vice President Kamala Harris claimed at Tuesday’s debate that Russian president Vladamir Putin would “be sitting in Kyiv with his eyes on the rest of Europe” if former President Donald Trump had been commander-in-chief the past four years.

During the presidential debate, Kamala Harris claimed Donald Trump exchanged “love letters” with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

Former President Donald Trump asserted that President Joe Biden “approved” the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

ABC News moderators Linsey Davis and David Muir intervened during Tuesday night’s presidential debate to “fact-check” former President Donald Trump at least seven times, but never did so with Vice President Kamala Harris.

Claim: Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed that then-Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) helped raise money for those rioting in Minnesota in 2020.

Verdict: True. Harris urged X/Twitter followers to donate to a bail fund for those who had by arrested in Minneapolis.

During Tuesday night’s presidential debate, Vice President Kamala Harris claimed she and Tim Walz (D) “are not taking anyone’s guns away.”

Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris repeated her claim that she never called to ban fracking when running for president.

Vice President Harris repeated a familiar hoax from President Joe Biden, but the ABC News moderators said nothing.

Kamala Harris suggested during Tuesday night’s presidential debate that Donald Trump single-handedly squashed a bill to expand immigration.

It has been much higher under Biden-Harris.

Vice President Kamala Harris claimed during the debate with former President Donald Trump that Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin he could “do whatever the hell he wants and go into Ukraine.”

Trump referred to a “bloodbath” in the car industry, not another kind, but ABC News — voluble in correcting Trump — did not correct Kamala.

Former President Donald Trump says migrants are increasingly taking American jobs in the United States economy as a result of mass immigration under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

ABC’s moderators did not intervene when Kamala Harris falsely claimed that Trump had discriminated against black families and called for the “execution” of the Central Park Five.

CLAIM: Vice President Kamala Harris claimed on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump wants to “terminate” the U.S. Constitution.

Donald Trump said U.S. tariffs on imports did not cause the record inflation that has occurred under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Harris has offered tepid, boilerplate support for Israel against terror, but has hired a bevy of anti-Israel advisers to key positions

Consumer prices barely rose during Donald Trump’s presidency, even after the president imposed tariffs.

During Tuesday’s presidential debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump claimed the FBI’s report of lower violent crime is a “fraud.”

CLAIM: Vice President Kamala Harris accused former President Donald Trump of having “sold us out” to the Chinese government with policies that “ended up selling American chips to China.”

Vice President Kamala Harris pulled out the old “very fine people” hoax — not for the first time. She has used it on the campaign trail, and even used it during the vice presidential debate in 2020, when Mike Pence corrected her onstage.

Harris falsely described Trump’s tariffs as a sales tax.

Vice President Kamala Harris claimed during Tuesday night’s presidential debate that she had a middle-class upbringing.

Many Democrat-run states allow abortion up to birth, which can include allowing a baby to die after birth is induced for medical reasons.

Donald Trump said during the debate that migrants are “taking over” buildings in Aurora, Colorado, under Kamala Harris’s leadership.

The highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression was under Obama, at 10% in the early part of his administration.

Joe Biden attempted to bash Donald Trump for the pandemic at Thursday’s debate, but there were more coronavirus deaths under Biden.