The presidential candidates are closing out another busy day on the campaign trail with less than three months to go in the race for the White House.

As events and advertising ramp up, so does the volume of misleading claims and outright lies.

Former President Donald Trump just wrapped a nearly 90 minute press conference outside his New Jersey

Golf Club in which he repeated familiar grievances and several lies.

There's virtually 100% of the net job creation in the last year has gone to migrants.

She wants to take away your private health care.

She wants to abolish coal, oil, and natural gas,

84% of US energy supply.

To parse out the truths and the falsehoods,

we're joined now by Politi

editor-in-chief Katie Sanders. Katie welcome back. Thanks for being with us.

Thanks for having me. So Katie the economy remains the number one issue for

voters. Mr. Trump made several economic claims yesterday

arguing when he left office as he says that gasoline was at a dollar 87 a gallon.

He also said that poverty rates for African Americans had dropped 7%, that they dropped 8% for Hispanics.

We know Mr. Trump often speaks in hyperbole, but what's the truth and what's not true about

what he's saying.

Sure, I'll start with the gas prices.

He's not referring to the month when he left office.

He's actually referring to a period where the economy was in a free fall.

That was during spring 2020.

That's the last time that gas was that low.

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