Vance's silly, false claims about Kamala Harris GOP vice-presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance has been attacking Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, at every turn. This week we examined a substantive policy attack, as well as some of the sillier false claims he's made. The absurd claims included: - She thought it was "reasonable" not to have children because of climate change
- She wanted to take away gas stoves
- She wanted to take away your ability to eat red meat
All of these false claims seem rooted in misleading clips that circulate on right-wing social media. To read the full report, please click this link. The substantive policy attack concerned the Inflation Reduction Act, which Vance claimed is sending manufacturing jobs to China. Harris cast the deciding vote for the IRA, a catchall bill that included $370 billion in climate and energy funding to combat climate change. It turned out this claim was based on a facile hunch, not evidence. Vance assumed that China will benefit if more electric vehicles are sold because China currently dominates the supply chain. He ignored that the IRA is intended to break up that pattern — and bring more of those jobs to the United States. He also ignored the fact that the IRA is creating many jobs — even in communities where he makes these outlandish claims. To read the fact check and find out the Pinocchio rating, 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. Walz's false claim that Vance never voted for any pro-worker bills Vance wasn't the only candidate earning Pinocchios this week. Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor and Harris's running-mate, used an address to the largest public employees union to make a slashing attack on Vance. He declared that Vance "never cast a vote on a pro-worker bill in his life. Not once," earning boos from the audience. For good measure, he added: "The only thing those two guys know about working people is how to work to take advantage of them." We documented that Vance voted for at least two bills that helped workers and had union support — the Railway Safety Act (which he co-sponsored) and the Radiation Exposure Compensation Reauthorization Act. Moreover, Vance's best-selling memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy," recounted being raised by his grandmother and grandfather, whom he described as union Democrats. His grandfather worked at a steel mill and was a member of the local union. To read the full fact check and see 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 to read other fact checks related to the election campaign | 
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