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CNN hosted the talk, which had no viewers, at its Atlanta studio. CNN anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash moderated. The talk format allowed CNN to mute candidates’ microphones when it wasn’t their flip to talk.
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Trump attacked Biden’s report, blaming inflation and different points on Biden’s “insane and silly insurance policies.” Biden questioned Trump’s conduct, noting that Trump is a convicted felon and saying he has the “morals of an alley cat.”
Biden and Trump clashed on matters together with immigration, the economic system, abortion and their ages.
Trump’s outlandish immigration declare
Trump says Biden “allowed tens of millions of individuals to come back in right here from prisons, jails and psychological establishments.”
Pants on Hearth! Immigration officers arrested about 103,700 noncitizens with felony convictions (whether or not within the U.S. or overseas) from fiscal years 2021 to 2024, federal information exhibits. That accounts for individuals stopped at and between ports of entry.
Not everybody was let in. The time period “noncitizens” contains individuals who could have had authorized immigration standing within the U.S. however weren’t U.S. residents.
The info displays the those that the federal authorities is aware of about, nevertheless it’s inexhaustive. Nonetheless, immigration consultants mentioned regardless of the info’s limitations, there isn’t a proof to assist Trump’s assertion.
Biden’s near the mark about immigration reductions
Biden: “I’ve modified (the regulation) in the best way that now you’re in a scenario the place there are 40 p.c fewer individuals coming throughout the border illegally.”
Largely True. The Division of Homeland Safety introduced that unlawful immigration encounters dropped by 40 p.c, to fewer than 2,400 every daywithin the weeks after Biden introduced a coverage largely barring asylum entry for individuals coming into the U.S. on the southern border. The coverage was introduced June 4.
However immigration consultants warning that it’s troublesome to pinpoint a single motive for any change in border crossings. For instance, different components, reminiscent of sizzling climatecan have an effect on migration patterns.
Because the coverage was introduced only some weeks in the past, it’s unclear whether or not the drop in unlawful immigration will proceed.
Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh, affiliate coverage analyst on the Migration Coverage Institute, advised PolitiFact the coverage might have a short-term deterrent impact. However Adam Isacson, protection oversight director on the Washington Workplace on Latin America advised PolitiFact, that no crackdown prior to now decade has had an enduring impression.
Trump’s falsehoods about his and Biden’s financial achievements
Trump: “I gave you the biggest tax reduce in historical past.”
False. When it was handed in 2017, Trump’s tax reduce was, in inflation-adjusted {dollars}, the fourth-largest since 1940. And as a proportion of gross home product, it ranked seventh in historical past, in line with figures revealed by the Treasury Division.
Trump: “The one jobs (Biden) created are for unlawful immigrants and bounceback jobs, bounce again from the COVID.”
False. Since Biden took workplace in early 2021, the variety of foreign-born People who’re employed has risen by about 5.6 million. However over the identical time interval, the variety of native-born People employed has elevated by nearly 7.4 million. (There are numerous extra native-born People than foreign-born People, so on a proportion foundation, the rise for foreign-born People is about 22 p.c, in contrast with 6 p.c for native-born People.)
It’s additionally flawed to say that each one the foreign-born employment positive aspects (a lot much less all of the employment positive aspects, interval) stem from migrants right here illegally. The info for foreign-born People contains anybody born exterior the U.S., together with immigrants who’ve been in the USA legally for many years.
Employment on Biden’s watch handed its prepandemic stage by June 2022, a couple of year-and-a-half into his time period. Since then, the U.S. economic system has created a further 6.2 million jobs.
Biden’s financial speaking factors largely hit the mark
Biden: “Black unemployment is the bottom stage it’s been in an extended, very long time.”
Largely True. The report for low Black unemployment price was set beneath Biden in April 2023, at 4.8 p.c. It has risen modestly since then to six.1 p.c in Could 2024, however that’s nonetheless decrease than it was for a lot of the primary two years beneath Trump.
Total, Trump had success on this statistic, too. When Biden set the report, the report he was breaking was Trump’s: 5.3 p.c in August and September 2019.
Trump rewrites historical past about Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol
Trump: Pelosi mentioned “I take full duty for Jan. 6.”
False. That’s not what former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., mentioned.
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In a 41-second video taken on Jan. 6, 2021, Pelosi mentioned, “I take duty for not having them simply put together for extra,” referring to U.S. Capitol safety. She didn’t say she took duty for the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol assault.
Information present that Pelosi accredited a Jan. 6, 2021, request to hunt assist from the Nationwide Guard and pushed to get Nationwide Guard troops to the U.S. Capitol when their deployment was delayed by hours that day.
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