Published at 6:55 a.m. Updated at 9:11 a.m.
“It's not true”: during their first debate before the November presidential election in the United States, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump railed against each other over their respective records and programs, using approximations and false information.
Here are the main false or misleading statements on the main themes of the debate, verified by AFP's team of fact-checkers.
When asked whether Americans were living in better conditions today than they were four years ago, the Democratic candidate did not answer directly.
She accused her opponent of having left the Democrats, when he left the White House, “worst unemployment rate since the Great Depression.”
This claim is misleading: The U.S. unemployment rate hit its highest level since the 1930s in April 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. A few months later, at the end of Donald Trump's term, it had returned to 6.4%.
It was 4.2% last August, a few months before the end of the term of Joe Biden and his vice-president Kamala Harris.
The Democratic candidate also accused her opponent of wanting to implement a tax on the sale of products that would have a significant impact on the purchasing power of Americans, which Donald Trump denied.
However, he acknowledged that he would impose customs duties of at least 10% on other countries, which, according to many economists, would amount to increasing the prices paid by consumers.
Donald Trump, for his part, accused the Biden administration of having opened the door to the highest inflation rate in the history of the United States, claiming that it had reached 21%, or even 60% for certain products. This claim is misleading. Inflation peaked at 9.1% in 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine, well below the record high of 23.7% reached in 1920.
The Republican candidate falsely claimed that “millions of people” were streaming into the United States “from prisons, mental institutions and insane asylums” abroad to commit crimes.
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000He also did not hesitate to repeat his camp’s false accusation that migrants are eating “cats and dogs” in an Ohio town, a claim that local authorities and police have recently denied. days.
Violent and property crime are near their lowest levels in decades, according to the most recent FBI data available from 2022.
A study published in June 2023 showed a decline in incarceration rates among immigrants of all nationalities since 1960. Others have shown that migrants commit fewer violent crimes than U.S. citizens.
Illegal immigration has been higher during Donald Trump's term than during the two terms of Barack Obama, his predecessor in the White House. But it did reach a historic peak earlier this year under President Joe Biden, before falling back after the signing in June of an executive order providing for the temporary closure of the border with Mexico as soon as a daily limit is reached.
Kamala Harris accused Donald Trump of putting political quarrels first by blocking a bill earlier this year that could have increased the resources allocated to securing the southern border of the United States.
The Republican candidate, who appointed three conservative justices to the Supreme Court, allowing the overturning of the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that granted American women a federal right to abortion, denounced the “radicalism” of the Democrats on the issue.
He notably falsely claimed that Kamala Harris’ running mate, Tim Walz, supported “the execution of babies after birth — execution, not abortion, because the baby is born.”
No state allows the killing of a child after birth, infanticide being of course illegal in the United States. A debate moderator corrected the Republican candidate after he persisted in asserting this.
“Nowhere in America is a woman going to go to term to seek an abortion,” Harris added, adding that Donald Trump, if elected, would sign a federal abortion ban, something Harris immediately denied, saying that was a decision up to the states.
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