Fact check: Trump makes at least 19 false claims in one-hour Fox town hall with women
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/16/politics/fact-check-trump-false-claims-fox-townhall/index.html
Washington
CNN
Former President Donald Trump, who trails with women in recent national polls, participated in a Fox News town hall event on Tuesday in front of a female audience.
He told a bunch of lies.
The Republican presidential nominee made at least 19 false claims in the one-hour event that aired Wednesday morning most of them debunked earlier in the campaign but some of them new, notably including an absurd claim that he is the father of IVF.
Trumps falsehoods included repeat lies on the subjects of abortion, immigration, inflation and national security. Here is a fact check.
Opinions on Roe v. Wade: Trump repeated his false claim that everybody, even the Democrats and the liberals, wanted the Roe v. Wade abortion rights decision overturned and the power to set abortion policy left to individual states; he added, Nobody wanted it to be in the federal government.
Its not even close to true that everybody wanted Roe overturned or that the Democrats did. A large majority of Americans and an overwhelming majority of Democrats wanted the Supreme Court to preserve Roe in 2022, according to numerous polls. Democratic support for Roe exceeded 80% in many polls and 90% in some polls.
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