Fact-checking the reshaped presidential race We certainly ill-timed our break. The world changed in that week. President Biden was no longer running for president, and Vice President Harris was suddenly the likely Democratic presidential nominee. The news resulted in four election-related fact checks this week. Harris, Trump lob Social Security and Medicare claims In her first campaign rally as the likely Democratic nominee, Vice President Harris falsely said that the GOP blueprint for governing in a new administration proposed cuts to Social Security. Meanwhile, the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, falsely claimed that Harris voted to cut Medicare and would raise the age to qualify for full Social Security benefits. To read the full report, please click this link. The first ads in the battle to define Harris Harris dropped a new biographical ad at about the same moment Trump's campaign released an attack ad framing her as "dangerously liberal." We made an assessment of the claims made in each ad. To read the full report, please click 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. Trump's many falsehoods at Black journalists' convention In his half-hour sit-down with three journalists at the National Association of Black Journalists convention, the former president and Republican presidential nominee unleashed his usual litany of falsehoods, ranging from a phony story about the ex-governor of Virginia executing a baby after birth to an absurd claim that he "saved" historically Black colleges and universities. To a Black audience, he yet again bragged he did more for Black people than any president since Abraham Lincoln — earning the instant rejoinder (which he ignored) from ABC News's Rachel Scott: "Better than President Johnson, who signed the Voting Rights Act?" We examined a fresh claim he made, concerning the social justice protests after the death of George Floyd in 2020 — and provided links to previous fact checks. To read the full fact check, please click here. JD Vance's false claim that Harris voted to 'preserve' NAFTA In his campaign stump speech, GOP vice-presidential nominee JD Vance uses some oddly specific language when claiming that Harris supported the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). He says she "voted to preserve" it or to "keep" it. Our Fact Checker antenna went up. When politicians use ambiguous wording, it often means they are intending to mislead. To read the full story and find out the Pinocchio rating, please click this link. 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 for this week's Pinocchio list. | 
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