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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fact check: Walz makes false claims about Vance, Trump and Project 2025

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2...p-jd-vance

Washington
CNN
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, has made at least three false claims over the last two weeks about the Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump.

Two of Walz’s false claims are related to Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation think tank’s detailed right-wing blueprint for the next Republican administration. Project 2025 has been the subject of multiple false or misleading claims from Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign this summer.

The campaign declined to comment for this article.

1.) Trump, Project 2025 and pregnancies
Walz claimed in a speech in North Carolina last Tuesday: “And now Trump is trying to create this new government entity that will monitor all pregnancies to enforce their abortion bans.” He made an even more dramatic claim in a speech in Wisconsin on September 14: “Think about what they’re saying in Project 2025: you’re going to have to register with a new federal agency when you get pregnant.”

Facts First: Walz’s claims are false. Project 2025 does not propose to make people register with any federal agency when they get pregnant. And there is no indication that Trump is trying to create a new government entity to monitor pregnancies.

Project 2025 is firmly anti-abortion; it proposes, among other things, to criminalize the mailing of abortion medication and devices. But it does not propose to require people to register their pregnancies with the federal government.

2.) Vance’s comments about power
In a Saturday speech in Pennsylvania, Walz said, “My opponent, Senator Vance, had a quote that – you read it, you hear it, gloss over it. But think about how deeply disturbing this is. He said that when they get power and they will use the Project 2025, they need to be ruthless when it comes to the exercise of power.”

Facts First: Walz’s claim is false. Vance never said they “will use” Project 2025 in this comment about ruthlessly exercising power. In fact, Vance made the comment before Project 2025 was even created. He spoke in May 2021; Project 2025 was launched by the Heritage Foundation in April 2022, and the project’s extensive policy recommendations were released in April 2023.

Vance’s comments about power
In a Saturday speech in Pennsylvania, Walz said, “My opponent, Senator Vance, had a quote that – you read it, you hear it, gloss over it. But think about how deeply disturbing this is. He said that when they get power and they will use the Project 2025, they need to be ruthless when it comes to the exercise of power.”

3.) Vance’s reaction to interest rate cuts
In the Saturday speech in Pennsylvania, Walz said, “We saw Senator Vance lead an audience when he said, ‘Well, they reduced interest rates this week. How terrible is that?’ And he got the crowd booing. Who boos for lower interest rates?”

Facts First: Walz’s claim about Vance is false. Vance did not respond to the Federal Reserve’s September rate cut by saying “how terrible is that,” and he did not goad a crowd into booing the cut; rather, the crowd at a Vance event last Wednesday in Raleigh, North Carolina appeared to independently start booing after a reporter asked Vance for his reaction to the cut (and asserted in the question that the cut would “alleviate inflation for a lot of people”).

Vance had started responding to the question in a neutral tone, saying, “Well look, my reaction is …” But the crowd booed the question and he paused briefly. Vance then said that the Fed’s half-point reduction wasn’t enough to make up for the inflation families have faced in the Biden-Harris era. But he also said, “It’s better than nothing.”

So Vance certainly did not offer a particularly enthusiastic reaction to the rate cut, but he did not decry the cut as Walz claimed.[/quote]
The side by side at the debate will be interesting and good for Americans to see. Harris propelled her campaign further with her debate when she exposed the emperor had no clothes (just a concept of clothes), Walz will remind us of JD’s weirdness. The moderators will fact check.[/quote]

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