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2024 Election:

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Fact-checking on 2024 presidential, gubernatorial, and Senate campaigns

EXPLANATORY NOTE by OnTheIssues.org:

"Fact-checking" means that an independent news/political organization examines statements made in campaign advertising or in poltiical debates, to see if they are objectively true or not.

The first fact-checking organization was called FactCheck.org (described below) but in recent years many other organizations have joined in. Some that we use are:

Fact-checking has become commonplace in recent years; but originally we used only FactCheck.org. They are often accused of partisanship (as are all fact-checking services, so we attempt to balance them against each other and report only non-partisan facts here). Following is FactCheck.org's self-description; all of the other services are linked from above so you can check out their similar self-descriptions:

Fact-checking in 2024 races:
• FactCheck.org, "Musk's Unsupported Claim to Have Unveiled Massive Illegal Voting by Noncitizens," by Robert Farley, April 17, 2025, (Link)
• Trump/Vance campaign press release, "ANOTHER Major Outlet Backs Away From Kamala," October 28, 2024, (Link)
• Wikipedia FactCheck: "List of Kamala Harris/Donald Trump endorsements: Newspapers and other publications", October 28, 2024, (Link) and (Link)
• CNN, "Fact check: John Deere says Trump's story about how he saved US jobs with a tariff threat is fictional," by Daniel Dale, October 16, 2024, (Link)
• The Guardian (UK), "A very old political trope': the racist US history behind Trump's Haitian pet eater claim," by Claire Wang, 14 Sep 2024 (Link)
• The Hill, "Who is the 'Abdul' Trump mentioned from the Taliban?," by Elizabeth Crisp, 09/11/24, (Link)
• The Guardian (UK) FactCheck on ABC News 2024 Presidential debate in Philadelphia, 10 Sep 2024 (Link)
• AdWatch: "The Best People," by Kamala Harris campaign, 09/09/2024, (Link)
• Wired.com e-zine, "DOJ: Russia Aimed Propaganda at Gamers, Minorities to Swing 2024 Election," Sep 05, 2024, (Link)
• Santa Fe New Mexican, "Heinrich, Domenici ramp up attacks in advertisements as election draws nearer," by Daniel J. Chacon, Sep 4, 2024, (Link)
• CNN, "Fact check: Biden's false and misleading claims at high-stakes news conference," by Daniel Dale, 7/11/24, (Link)
• On 2024 presidential race: "Hunter Biden convicted on all 3 charges at federal gun trial," by Marshall Cohen and Holmes Lybrand, June 11, 2024, (Link)
• Trump Presidential Campaign press release, "Trump Campaign Statement on the Hunter Biden Trial Verdict and Biden Crime Family," June 11, 2024, (Link)
• On 2024 presidential race: "International Transgender Day of Visibility," downloaded 4/5/2024, (Link)
• Trump Presidential Campaign press release, "Statement from Trump Campaign on Joe Biden's Blasphemous Declaration of Trans Visibility Day on Easter Sunday," March 30, 2024, (Link)
• FactCheck.org, "Trump's Comments About 'Cutting' Entitlements in Context," by Robert Farley, March 15, 2024, (Link)
• FactCheck.org, "FactChecking Biden's State of the Union," by Robert Farley, D'Angelo Gore, Saranac Hale Spencer, Catalina Jaramillo, Kate Yandell, Jessica McDonald, Alan Jaffe, Eugene Kiely and Lori Robertson, March 8, 2024, (Link)
• PolitiFact.com, "Fact-checking Joe Biden's 2024 State of the Union address," by Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman, Maria Ramirez Uribe, and Amy Sherman, March 8, 2024, (Link)
• Mediaite, "Trump Insists He's 'Not Going to Have Time for Retribution'--Hours After Telling Supporters 'I AM YOUR RETRIBUTION'," by Ken Meyer, Jan 11th, 2024, (Link) [FactCheck on Trump's 1/10/24 statement on "Retribution"]
• American Enterprise Institute (AEI), "The State of al Qaeda and ISIS in 2023," by Katherine Zimmerman & Nathan Vincent, September 11, 2023, (Link) [FactCheck on Trump's 1/10/24 statement on beating ISIS]
• On 2024 N.C. Governor race: Ogletree.com, "Supreme Court Issues Ruling in Religious Accommodation Title VII Case," by Andrew (Drew) P. Burnside, Philip K. Kontul, James M. Paul, Justine L. Abrams, and Zachary V. Zagger, June 29, 2023 (downloaded with AndyWells.org 12/23/23), (Link)
• The Daily Beast, "Cornel West Owes More Than Half a Million in Unpaid Taxes," by William Bredderman, Aug. 03, 2023, (Link)
• 2024_Hopefuls: ABA Journal: "'Very, very wise and learned counsel' defense will be key in Trump's election trial, his lawyer says," by Debra Cassens Weiss, August 3, 2023, (Link)
• CBS News, "What does the Presidential Records Act say, and how does it apply to Trump?," by Stefan Becket & Melissa Quinn, June 13, 2023, (Link)
• Human Rights Watch (HRW), "Hungary’s authoritarian leader is no gift to US conservatives," by Lydia Gall, August 4, 2022, (Link) [FactCheck on Trump's 1/10/24 statement on "Viktor Orban"]
• The Guardian, "'Anchor babies': the 'ludicrous' immigration myth that treats people as pawns," by Alexandra Villarreal, 16 Mar 2020, (Link) [FactCheck on Ron DeSantis' 1/4/24 statement on "14th Amendment" and "Anchors"]