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Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., listens as Vice President Mike Pence answers a question during the vice presidential debate Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, at Kingsbury Hall on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)

FACT CHECK: Mike Pence echoes Donald Trump falsehoods in VP debate

October 8, 2020 at 9:11 a.m.

Although more buttoned-up on the stage than his boss, Vice President Mike Pence nevertheless echoed many of President Donald Trump’s falsehoods Wednesday in the one and only debate with Democratic...

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump鈥檚 dubious claims on health care, court

September 28, 2020 at 7:29 a.m.

President Donald Trump isn鈥檛 providing all the facts when he promises that people with preexisting medical problems will always be covered by health insurance if 鈥淥bamacare鈥� is ruled unconstitutional.

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump鈥檚 made-up car plants, court revisionism

September 21, 2020 at 6:00 a.m.

President Donald Trump and his GOP allies are playing loose with the facts when it comes to a successor for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s errant views on voting, Biden miscues

September 7, 2020 at 6:00 a.m.

President Donald Trump has been putting forth convoluted guidance to his supporters on submitting double votes in the November election, an act that would be illegal and risk public safety...

Vice President Mike Pence waves before boarding Air Force Two at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, N.C., Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, to travel back to Washington after speaking at the 2020 Republican National Convention. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

AP FACT CHECK: Pence presses a distorted case on economy at RNC

August 26, 2020 at 10:28 p.m.

Vice President Mike Pence and fellow Republicans pressed a distorted case Wednesday that President Donald Trump took over a moribund economy from Barack Obama and supercharged it. That抖阴ap not what...

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AP fact check: Trump, GOP distort on health care, voting fraud

August 24, 2020 at 10:16 p.m.

President Donald Trump made a dizzying array of misleading claims about voting fraud and health care Monday as fellow Republicans opened their convention with speeches distorting the agenda of his...

Defiant DeJoy says he won鈥檛 restore USPS mail-sorting machines

August 24, 2020 at 10:37 a.m.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy refused requests by Democrats on Monday to restore mail-sorting machines or mailboxes removed from service as part of sweeping operational changes at the Postal Service, despite...

AP FACT CHECK: Trump muddies facts on mail ballots, Kamala Harris

August 17, 2020 at 9:14 a.m.

President Donald Trump is muddying the facts about mail-in voting and vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris on the eve of the Democratic National Convention.

AP FACT CHECK: A more measured Trump doesn鈥檛 mean accurate

July 26, 2020 at 11:06 p.m.

President Donald Trump in recent days suddenly acknowledged the gravity of the coronavirus pandemic and edged away from some of his most audacious falsehoods about it. That's not to say...

AP FACT CHECK: Trump team鈥檚 false comfort on schools, coronavirus

July 13, 2020 at 9:35 a.m.

President Donald Trump's aides are misrepresenting the record on kids and the coronavirus as they push for schools to reopen.

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