Daniel Dale

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Trump claimed this morning that the people he got killed, ISIS leader al-Baghdadi and Iranian commander Soleimani, were "bigger names than Osama bin Laden." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump claimed that Biden is the actual bad one to the military, he called them “a bunch of dirty bastards." Biden joked during a speech that soldiers were "stupid bastards" for not applauding his line about a lieutenant present. Even Breitbart reported this was obviously a joke. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump continued to make his usual array of false claims about mail-in voting fraud. And he again claimed “they found trays of ballots in the river" without naming the alleged river. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump again falsely said this morning that Nevada's Democratic governor is "in charge of the ballots" (it's a GOP secretary of state), then said, "We have law enforcement watching him very strong. US Attorney is watching him very strongly. The US Marshal is watching." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump explicitly said he wants indictments from Attorney General William Barr related to the Russia investigation. Without that, he said, there'll be "little satisfaction" unless he wins the election, and then "we'll just have to go [he trailed off] -- because I won't forget it." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump explicitly said he wants indictments from Barr re to the Russia investigation. Without that, he said, there'll be "little satisfaction" unless he wins the election, and then "we'll just have to...because I won't forget it." He said this scandal includes Obama and Biden. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump today on Gold Star families: "They come within an inch of my face sometimes. They want to hug me and they want to kiss me. And they do. And frankly, I'm not telling them, 'Back up,'" even though "it's a dangerous thing, I guess, if you go by the Covid thing." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump said this morning of the coronavirus: “You catch this thing. A lot of people caught it.” He continued: "What happens is, you get better. That's what happens: you get better." More than 211,000 Americans have died. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump said this morning that he wanted to be having a rally last night. Asked if he thinks he’s contagious, he said, “I don’t think I’m contagious at all.” (?) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @seungminkim: And we don’t know when Trump’s last negative test was BECAUSE THEY WILL NOT TELL US. https://t.co/r0XCL6WcAR — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kaitlancollins: The Trump campaign says he'll do a rally instead of the virtual debate next week. Campaign manager Bill Stepien claims… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kaitlancollins: President Trump says he doesn’t think he’s contagious. His doctor, who hasn’t taken questions from reporters since Mond… — PolitiTweet.org

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@kjaintplayin Uh, there are Harris fact checks both on my Twitter feed and in this article, and I did some on TV — PolitiTweet.org

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CNN's debate fact check roundup as of now, featuring Pence parroting a whole bunch of Trump's favorite false and misleading claims: https://t.co/x1jkrZ06Lk — PolitiTweet.org

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@jacobkornbluh So sorry, Jacob. — PolitiTweet.org

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Harris's claim that "1 in 5 businesses closed" needs context. That stat is based on a *June* Chamber of Commerce survey about *small* businesses, and it was 19% *temporary* closure, 1% permanent closure; we don't have complete up-to-date data. (Info from CNN's @AnnekenTappe.) — PolitiTweet.org

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So how is this debate going? — PolitiTweet.org

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The website GovTrack did rank Harris #1 most liberal senator in 2019, based on bills/resolutions sponsored. But worth noting it had Sanders more liberal than her in 2018 (he was 2nd, she was 4th) and 2017 (2nd, 8th). And, obviously, there are other ways to assess ideology. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's my previous fact check on Joe Biden's position on the bin Laden raid. (Biden himself previously said that he told Obama not to go ahead with the raid before getting more info; he then changed his account of what happened.) https://t.co/LX7Lqr5Qz6 — PolitiTweet.org

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That's fair. But she didn't explain she wasn't talking about an actual loss from the previous measured level, and I haven't seen good estimates it's 300,000 lost by any measure. https://t.co/qPQVGWgePU — PolitiTweet.org

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4) Pence then boasted of a former 500,000-job gain even though it's now a net loss of 164,000. — PolitiTweet.org

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3) Pence, like Trump, wrongly suggested Obama said manufacturing jobs were dead or couldn't be created. Obama said some were gone forever, but he also boasted about how many were being created during his presidency. — PolitiTweet.org

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2) Pence then said Obama lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs. That's highly misleading. The losses occurred during the recession he inherited; starting in March 2010, 14 months into his tenure, the number of manufacturing jobs rose pretty steadily. https://t.co/t8HU3Ses5S — PolitiTweet.org

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This manufacturing jobs section is a mess on both sides. 1) Harris said the US lost 300,000 manufacturing jobs because of the China trade war. But the US gained manufacturing jobs under Trump, 483,000, before the pandemic; it's now a loss of 164,000, but pandemic-related. — PolitiTweet.org

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The Trump administration has repeatedly attempted to get bills passed that would weaken the protections, is now trying to get all of Obamacare including the protections killed in court, has presented no plan to replace the protections. https://t.co/l2qdQpGzEl — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden is not running on banning fracking; he's proposing to end new permits for oil and gas on public lands and waters. (During the primary, he gave the Trump team ammo by suggesting in ad-libbed remarks that he would end all of it, even though it was never in his written plan.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Both Pence and Harris were accurate enough about the Trump tax cut: Pence is right that most Americans got a tax cut, wasn't just the rich; Harris is right that it disproportionately benefited the rich. — PolitiTweet.org

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Pence falsely claims the Obama administration left the National Stockpile "empty." Some supplies were indeed low when Trump took over, but others were not. For example, there were more than 16,000 ventilators in good working order. — PolitiTweet.org

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The White House festivities for Amy Coney Barrett also included an indoor component, at which Trump and others were photographed maskless. — PolitiTweet.org

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Pence saying they have "always" told the American people the truth is just a whopper of a lie. — PolitiTweet.org