The slings and misfires of the third GOP debate NBC News aired the third GOP debate of the 2024 election cycle from Miami on Wednesday night, featuring five candidates. Not every candidate uttered facts that are easily checked, but we came up with a list of 12 claims that caught our attention, including: - "Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden got a $5 million bribe from Ukraine." (entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy)
- "Obama sent millions to Iran. Frankly, President Biden has sent billions to Iran." (Sen. Tim Scott)
- "He [DeSantis] has opposed fracking; he's opposing drilling." (former ambassador Nikki Haley)
- "I think it's unethical, unethical and immoral to allow for abortions up until the day of birth." (Scott)
- "Social Security will go bankrupt in 10 years. Medicare will go bankrupt in eight." (Haley)
We also produced a TikTok video of three claims. You can read our full report by clicking this link. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. DeSantis group misleads on Haley and a Chinese company As South Carolina governor from January 2011 to January 2017, Haley recruited Chinese companies to her state. Chinese capital investment in South Carolina more than doubled, from $308 million in 2011 to nearly $670 million in 2015. Haley has sought to distance herself from the specifics of these deals, but she acknowledged at an Iowa town hall in October: "I recruited a fiberglass company," known as China Jushi. Now Never Back Down, a super PAC that supports DeSantis, is running an ad claiming she made a serious national security blunder because the state allowed the company to be built five miles from Fort Jackson, an Army training base — with almost 200 acres of county-owned land provided free of charge if promised investments were made. "Where they fly China's flag, serve China's interests. China's eyes and ears — dangerously close, too dangerous to lead," the ad charges. This is one of those cleverly crafted ads that string together a series of verifiable facts to create a compelling narrative. But it goes off the rails at the end. Fort Jackson is not on a list of sensitive facilities — and the factory is not close enough to merit additional government scrutiny even if it were on the list. We found the ad misleading. (Nevertheless, DeSantis repeated the claim in the debate.) Click the link below to discover how many Pinocchios it earned. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. We're also on TikTok. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. About the cats: It's a Friday and sometimes our fact checks deal with heavy subjects. So we hope to bring a smile to your face. Scroll down to read other campaign-related fact checks | 
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