President Donald Trump and Bad habit President Kamala Harris are confronting off in their to begin with presidential wrangle about, and challenging each other over their plans for the country and the economy. The 90-minute wrangle about is being facilitated by ABC News at the National Structure Center in Philadelphia and started at 9 p.m. ET.
CBS News’ Affirmed group is conducting the fact-checks of the comments Harris and Trump are making approximately each other and around their claim records and plans.
False: Trump claims “millions & millions of individuals” are “pouring into our nation monthly”
Trump: “[W]hen you see at what she’s done to our nation, and when you see at these millions (and) millions of individuals that are pouring into our nation month to month, where it’s, I accept 21 million individuals, not the 15 that individuals that say. And I think it’s a parcel higher than the 21. That’s greater than Modern York state. Pouring in. And fair see at what they’re doing to our country.”
Details: Experiences of transients by Traditions and Border Assurance at the U.S.-Mexico border have come to record levels in the past four a long time, beneath the Biden organization. But the number isn’t near to the figures cited by Trump, and not everybody who has crossed the border beneath Mr. Biden has been permitted to stay.
CBP has recorded over 8 million experiences with transients at the southern border since Mr. Biden took office in 2021, government figures appear. Experiences incorporate transients who cross into the nation wrongfully between lawful passage focuses and those handled at these official intersections, known as ports of section. Experiences do not speak to interesting people, since a few vagrants cross the border wrongfully numerous times.
CBP has never recorded “millions” of transient experiences in a month. The most noteworthy month to month vagrant experience count was recorded in December 2023, when CBP prepared over 300,000 migrants.
In expansion to those handled by CBP, there are transients who effectively cross the southern border illicitly without being caught. Border Watch gauges that 1.7 million transients have avoided trepidation since the begin of financial year 2021.
Just since transients were handled by CBP does not cruel they were permitted to remain. Numerous have been discharged into the U.S. with takes note to show up in movement court. But the U.S. has moreover turned absent or ousted over 4 million transients since the begin of monetary year 2021, agreeing to Division of Country Security data.
By Camilo Montoya Galvez (Ref: cbsnews)
Harris: “Financial analysts have said that Trump deals charge would really result — for center lesson families — in almost $4,000 more a year since of his arrangements and his thoughts approximately what ought to be — [on] the backs of center lesson individuals paying for charge cuts for billionaires.”
Details: Harris is citing an gauge of potential costs if Trump were to execute taxes on imported merchandise. Trump has pushed for a duty of at slightest 10% on most imports and a duty of at slightest 60% on Chinese imports.
However, gauges of the potential costs and the likely scale of the taxes shift. An investigation from the Center for American Advance Activity, a dynamic approach established, evaluated that a 20% duty on most imports, combined with a 60% charge on Chinese products, would sum to a assess increment of around $3,900 every year for middle-income families.
The Charge Arrangement Center, a nonpartisan think tank, evaluated that a 10% around the world tax and a 60% duty on Chinese merchandise would lower normal after-tax earnings by approximately $1,800 in 2025.
Economists told CBS News that regular buyers would bear the brunt of higher purport duties through expanded costs on products, viably acting as a charge. In an meet with The Modern York Times, Robert Lighthizer, who served as Trump’s chief exchange moderator and still exhorts his campaign on exchange issues, said the burden on American families might be counterbalanced by charge cuts.
By Emma Li (Ref: cbsnews)
False: Trump claims “they had the most noteworthy expansion maybe in the history of our nation”
Details: Beneath President Biden, year-over-year swelling crested at 9.1% in June 2022. That was the most elevated month to month figure in around 40 a long time, but not the most noteworthy ever. The 1970s and early 1980s saw swelling rates between 12% and 14%, concurring to Government Save information. Expansion has since cooled impressively. The figures for July 2024 appear year-to-year swelling is almost 2.9%.
By Laura Doan (Ref: cbsnews)
False: Trump claims Haitian workers are “eating the mutts” and pets in Springfield, Ohio
Trump: “In Springfield, they are eating the pooches — the individuals that came in — they’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the individuals that live there. And this is what’s happening in our nation, and it’s a shame.“
Details: Authorities in Springfield, Ohio, say they have not gotten any valid reports of Haitian migrants stealing and eating pets, in spite of viral claims on social media that have been increased this week by Republican bad habit presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance and others.
A city representative told CBS News there have been “no sound reports or particular claims” of pets being hurt by workers. Clark District Stop Area authorities told CBS News there has been “no prove or reports” of individuals eating pets or wildlife.
By Layla Ferris, Rhona Tarrant (Ref: cbsnews)
Inconclusive: Harris claims Trump “will sign a national fetus removal ban”
Harris: “In the event that Donald Trump were to be reelected, he will sign a national premature birth ban.”
Details: Whereas Trump has not flat-out supported a national fetus removal boycott, he coasted the thought of a 15- or 16-week national boycott in Walk when he still had competitors in the Republican essential, recommending it was something beneath dialog that he would bolster.
However, Trump has moreover more than once said that the issue has a place with the states, and when he was inquired straightforwardly approximately a boycott in an Aug. 22 meet with “Fox and Companions,” he answered, “I would never. There will not be a government boycott. This is presently back in the states where it has a place.”
During his to begin with term, Trump embraced House enactment forbidding premature birth across the country after 20 weeks.
Trump moreover said of Gov. Tim Walz, the Majority rule VP chosen one, “her bad habit presidential choose says premature birth in the ninth month is completely fine. He moreover says execution after birth — execution — no longer premature birth since it is after birth – is completely fine.”
But child murder, slaughtering a infant, is against the law in each state. As for late-term premature births, concurring to the Centers for Malady Control and Avoidance, less than 1% of all premature births take put at or after 21 weeks of pregnancy. In those uncommon cases, it’s overwhelmingly since the life of the mother is at chance or fetal irregularities that cannot support life.
By Libby Cathey (Ref: cbsnews)
Misleading: Trump claims Harris would conclusion fracking in Pennsylvania “on Day One”
Trump: “On the off chance that she won the race, fracking in Pennsylvania will conclusion on Day One.“
Details: As California lawyer common, Harris recorded a claim challenging a government appraisal and endorsement for fracking off the coast of California. She too said “there’s no address I’m in favor of prohibiting fracking,” when inquired amid a 2019 town corridor if she would commit to executing a government ban.
However, as a presidential candidate in 2024, Harris has said her organization would not boycott fracking. “As bad habit president, I did not boycott fracking. As president, I will not boycott fracking,” Harris said in a later meet with CNN.
When inquired why she changed her intellect on the issue, Harris said, “What I have seen is that we can — we can develop, and we can increment a flourishing clean vitality economy without prohibiting fracking.”
By Emma Li and Laura Doan (Ref: cbsnews)
False: Trump claims Harris is busing in and paying individuals to go to her rallies
Trump: “People do not go to her energizes, there’s no reason to go And the individuals that do go, she’s busing them in and paying them to be there and at that point appearing them in a distinctive light.“
Details: An Admirable 2024 Facebook post was circulated on the social media websites Truth Social by Trump and X by Kevin Sorbo. The post portrays a assumed Craigslist advertisement inquiring for paid performing artists to carry signs with “Anti-Trump” messages.
The post is a doctored picture of another created 2019 post of a Craigslist advertisement appearing to inquire for paid performing artists carrying “Master Trump” signs at a rally in Phoenix.
By Jui Sarwate (Ref: cbsnews)
