Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance will meet on Tuesday to debate the issues. The debate is the first for the vice presidential candidates and may be their only debate. No other debates are currently scheduled for the presidential or vice presidential candidates. Watch the video in the video player above.Get the facts about the claims made. On National SecurityClaim: Walz said, “Both of his secretaries of defense and his national security advisers said he should be nowhere near the White House.”Get the Facts: Walz was referring to statements made by officials who were in Trump’s cabinet during his administration but who have since been critical of the former president during media interviews and/or prepared statements.Former Trump administration officials such as James Mattis, Trump’s first secretary of defense; John Bolton, his former national security adviser; Mark Esper, Trump’s second secretary of defense, have each offered critical remarks about the former president. However, not all of the former officials who have made public statements against the former president have outright said that he should be “nowhere near the White House.” It should be noted that while a number of former Trump administration officials have said they don’t think he should be re-elected, others continue to support him.Rating: Partially TrueClaim: Tim Walz said of Donald Trump: “It was Donald Trump who — we had a coalition of Nations that had boxed Iran’s nuclear program in, the inability to advance it — Donald Trump pulled that program with nothing else in its place, so Iran is closer to a nuclear weapon than they were before.”Get the Facts: In 2018, Donald Trump pulled the US out of a multi-nation deal with Iran that required Iran limit nuclear activity in exchange for eased sanctions. Government reports show Iran has since increased it’s nuclear enrichment — something Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have blamed on Trump in a 2020 report. However, international experts have said the US’s withdrawal from the agreement can’t solely be blamed for Iran’s nuclear advances.Rating: Mostly true, but needs context.On Immigration Claim: JD Vance said of Kamala Harris: “The only thing that she did when she became the vice president, when she became the appointed border czar, was to undo 94 Donald Trump executive actions that opened the border.”Get the Facts: This is misleading. In reality – Harris was never given a role to manage the border. CNN fact checkers say President Biden gave Harris a limited immigration-related assignment. She was to address the factors that cause people to leave their home countries and migrate to the United States. Homeland Security Secretary – Alejandro Mayorkas – has been in charge of border security during the Biden administration.Rating: Misleading. Claim: Vance claimed: “Kamala Harris led fentanyl into our communities at record levels.”Get the Facts: Fentanyl is a significant problem in the US, and much of it enters through the southern border. The CDC says more than 70,000 people die each year as a result of fentanyl overdoses. However, to say Kamala Harris is responsible for leading it into communities is misleading. U.S. Custom and Border Protection says the majority of fentanyl actually comes through legal ports of entry. And fentanyl had been on the rise since well before the Trump or Biden administrations were in office.Verdict: Misleading.Claim: Vance also claimed, “We’ve got 20-25 million illegal aliens in the country.”Get the Facts: The most widely accepted estimate for the number of undocumented immigrants in the US is around 11 to 12 million, according to sources like the Pew Research Center and the Department of Homeland Security. Both Donald Trump and JD Vance have said they believe the number to be much higher but the government agencies estimate much lower numbers.Verdict: False.
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Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance will meet on Tuesday to debate the issues. The debate is the first for the vice presidential candidates and may be their only debate. No other debates are currently scheduled for the presidential or vice presidential candidates.
Watch the video in the video player above.
Get the facts about the claims made.
On National Security
Claim: Walz said, “Both of his [Donald Trump’s] secretaries of defense and his national security advisers said he should be nowhere near the White House.”
Get the Facts: Walz was referring to statements made by officials who were in Trump’s cabinet during his administration but who have since been critical of the former president during media interviews and/or prepared statements.
Former Trump administration officials such as James Mattis, Trump’s first secretary of defense; John Bolton, his former national security adviser; Mark Esper, Trump’s second secretary of defense, have each offered critical remarks about the former president. However, not all of the former officials who have made public statements against the former president have outright said that he should be “nowhere near the White House.”
It should be noted that while a number of former Trump administration officials have said they don’t think he should be re-elected, others continue to support him.
Rating: Partially True
On Immigration
Claim: JD Vance said of Kamala Harris: “The only thing that she did when she became the vice president, when she became the appointed border czar, was to undo 94 Donald Trump executive actions that opened the border.”
Get the Facts: This is misleading. In reality – Harris was never given a role to manage the border. CNN fact checkers say President Biden gave Harris a limited immigration-related assignment. She was to address the factors that cause people to leave their home countries and migrate to the United States. Homeland Security Secretary – Alejandro Mayorkas – has been in charge of border security during the Biden administration.
Rating: Misleading.
Claim: Vance claimed: ”Kamala Harris led fentanyl into our communities at record levels.”
Get the Facts: Fentanyl is a significant problem in the US, and much of it enters through the southern border. The CDC says more than 70,000 people die each year as a result of fentanyl overdoses. However, to say Kamala Harris is responsible for leading it into communities is misleading. U.S. Custom and Border Protection says the majority of fentanyl actually comes through legal ports of entry. And fentanyl had been on the rise since well before the Trump or Biden administrations were in office.
Verdict: Misleading.
Claim: Vance also claimed, “We’ve got 20-25 million illegal aliens in the country.”
Get the Facts: The most widely accepted estimate for the number of undocumented immigrants in the US is around 11 to 12 million, according to sources like the Pew Research Center and the Department of Homeland Security. Both Donald Trump and JD Vance have said they believe the number to be much higher but the government agencies estimate much lower numbers.
Verdict: False.
