Fact Check

President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden are engaging in their final debate, and an AP Fact Check is looking at their statements.

President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden spoke about the coronavirus pandemic during Thursday’s presidential debate. Trump spoke about recovering from the virus and defended his handling of the pandemic. Biden spoke about how he would handle the crisis if elected in November.

We reviewed all of President Donald Trump’s speeches at campaign rallies over five days, from Oct. 12 to Oct. 16. There were six speeches and combined, Trump spoke for more than eight hours, averaging about one hour and 20 minutes per speech. Below is a compilation of 46 of the false and misleading claims he made; Trump often repeated those…

After months of doing mostly virtual events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden returned to in-person events with small, socially distanced crowds in September. He’s kept up his travel in October. We reviewed Biden’s speeches on the stump between Oct. 12 and 16. He held six events over three days in swing states: two in Ohio, two in Florida and two more in Michigan....

PolitiFact Managing Editor Katie Sanders breaks down the remarks made at last night’s town hall events, including President Trump’s claim that 85% of people who wear masks catch the coronavirus, which Sanders says is entirely false.

Senators are debating “Obamacare” in Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination hearings

Impatient to return to the campaign trail, President Donald Trump made a series of claims over the weekend about his health and the course of the pandemic

The coronavirus may have sidelined President Donald Trump over the past week but it didn’t silence him

President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis cut short the week’s political arguing and even quieted his Twitter account for a time

PolitiFact managing editor Katie Sanders fact checked claims by both President Trump and Joe Biden from last night’s first presidential debate, including misleading statements from Trump about insulin costs and pre-existing conditions and from Biden about the U.S. trade deficit with China.

Plenty of misstatements flew in a momentous week in which the U.S. reached the grim milestone of 200,000 deaths from the coronavirus and President Donald Trump pushed ahead with plans to name a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

President Donald Trump is claiming that coronavirus deaths in the U.S. are running lower than projections

President Donald Trump is muddying up claims about clean air and dirty election ballots in the U.S. That’s according to an AP Fact Check.

In the more than eight months since the novel coronavirus emerged and then spread around the world, scientists across the globe have made rapid progress on developing a COVID-19 vaccine. As of Sept. 3, at least 176 vaccines are in the works, with nearly three dozen already in clinical trials, according to the World Health Organization. But until a vaccine is...

President Donald Trump made a dizzying array of false claims about voting fraud and health care in opening remarks at the Republican National Convention.

President Donald Trump is misrepresenting the U.S. Postal Service’s financial problems as his postmaster general defends cuts that have slowed mail delivery in advance of the November election.

President Donald Trump is teasing the possibility of executive action to require health insurance companies to cover preexisting conditions

President Donald Trump is challenging the election process in ways other presidents haven’t

President Donald Trump in recent days has acknowledged the gravity of the coronavirus pandemic in ways he hadn’t before

President Donald Trump is clinging to the false notion that the coronavirus will just “disappear.”