In this video, we highlight several claims made by some of the candidates in the Oct.15 Democratic presidential debate.
Video: FactChecking October Debate Claims
Person: Andrew Yang
FactChecking the October Democratic Debate
The spin focused mainly on the economy and health care.
Yang’s Top-Gun Tale
Making a point about Defense Department waste, Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang related a secondhand story about a Navy fighter pilot who said that airmen routinely dumped fuel into the Pacific Ocean at the end of the fiscal year as a way to preserve the following year’s fuel budget. But the story doesn’t add up.
Video: FactChecking Round Two of July Debate
This video covers some of the claims the candidates made on July 31 during round two of the second Democratic debate in Detroit.
FactChecking July’s Round Two Debate
Several of the factual distortions concerned what the candidates had to say about one another.