Fact checking Kamala Harris's speech at the DNC.
Vice President Kamala Harris formally accepted Democratic Party's nomination for
the 2024 presidential election Thursday night.
Here's a rundown of key claims we analyzed.
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He plans to create a national anti abortion coordinator and
force states to report on women's miscarriages and abortions.
This claim does not appear to reference any plan or
platform endorsed by Trump, but rather aspects of Project 2025,
a political playbook created by the Heritage Foundation and dozens
of other conservative groups.
The project calls for increasing the CDC surveillance of abortion
information by forcing states that don't currently provide this information
to do so.
The plan also calls for appointing someone who is unapologetically
pro-life as the senior coordinator of the Office of Women,
Children and Families.
While Democrats have insisted Project 2025 is Trump's plan of
elected president, he has attempted to distance himself from it.
In a July 5th True Social Post, Trump wrote that
he disagrees with parts of the plan and has no
idea who is behind it.
Trump, on the other hand, threatened to abandon NATO.
He encouraged Putin to invade our allies, said Russia could,
quote, do whatever the hell they want.
This quote, while technically accurate, is significantly oversimplified.
During a campaign rally last February, Trump suggested he might
not come to the aid of NATO members attacked by
Russia if they weren't contributing enough money to the alliance.
No, I would not protect you.
In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the
hell they want.
You got to pay.
You got to pay your bills.
I took on the big banks, delivered 20, $1,000,000 from
middle class families who faced foreclosure.
This refers to the settlement Harris, as California's attorney general,
negotiated with several large mortgage companies in 2012 to provide
relief for struggling homeowners in her state following the foreclosure
crisis.
The nation's five largest mortgage servicers were accused of using
illicit tactics to wrongfully foreclose on homeowners.
Harris pulled California out of nationwide mortgage settlement talks when
it appeared her state share would be roughly $4 billion.
She ultimately negotiated a settlement reported as between 18 and
$20 billion.
He intends to enact what in effect is a national
sales tax.
Call it a Trump tax that would raise prices on
middle class families by almost $4000 a year.
This overstates the impact economists project from Trump's proposed 10%
tariff on imported goods.
While Trump has described it as a way to raise
revenue, economists say it would mostly pass along to consumers,
effectively making it a tax.
A study by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center found the
tariff, along with a 60% tariff on Chinese goods also
proposed by Trump, would lower the average post tax incomes
of American households by about $1800.
Projections from other organizations are similar and well short of
$4000.