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PBS News Hour - Segments

Fact-checking Democrats' claims at the 2024 Democratic National Convention

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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In dozens of speeches this week, Democratic leaders have drawn a sharp contrast between how Kamala Harris and Donald Trump would govern. For context to some of what's been said at the party's convention in Chicago, Geoff Bennett speaks with PolitiFact's Katie Sanders. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

In dozens of speeches, Democratic leaders have drawn a sharp contrast between how

0:04.8

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump would govern. We're going to add context to some of what

0:09.2

we've heard in Chicago, and for that we're joined by Politi Fact, editor-in-chief, Katie Sanders.

0:13.7

Thanks so much for being here.

0:14.7

Happy to do it.

0:15.7

Thanks for having me.

0:16.7

So let's start with what we heard from former President Bill Clinton.

0:19.3

Last night he said that Democrats have created 50 times more jobs than Republicans.

0:25.0

Since the end of the Cold War in 1989,

0:30.0

America has created about 51 million new jobs.

0:35.0

I swear I checked this three times.

0:42.0

Even I couldn't believe it. What's the score?

0:46.0

Democrats 50 Republicans won?

0:49.0

So he says he checked it three times. Was he right?

0:52.0

He is right on the numbers but there's

0:54.3

extra context that's needed so we rated this mostly true so the numbers are

0:58.9

accurate Democratic presidents have benefited from significantly more job gains going back to that precise 1989 starting point.

1:07.8

You have to listen to that.

1:09.6

That omits any job gains that were seen during the Reagan years, right?

1:13.5

But I think the extra context is that we would want yours to know.

1:17.2

Presidents are not all powerful.

1:19.4

It's not as if it's all the work. Former President Clinton might want to share some of that credit with

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