VP DEBATE FACT CHECK: What the Candidates Got Right and Wrong

Sen. JD Vance and Gov. Tim Walz discussed an array of topics during Tuesday night’s 2024 vice presidential debate, from abortion and climate change to gun control and missing migrant children. Live fact checking by the moderators was not allowed, however. So, what did the candidates get right and what did they get wrong?

00:00 Introduction and Opening Statements
00:06 Gun Control Debate
01:00 Migrant Children Crisis
02:12 Abortion Laws and Tragic Cases
03:30 Climate Change and Hurricanes

Below are the links to our sources for the fact checks:

Death of Woman in ProPublica Article Reveals Danger of Abortion Pills, Not Abortion Ban:

Kamala for Gun Confiscation: In Her Own Words

The Facts Behind Biden-Harris Admin’s Loss of 300K Migrant Kids

Fact Check: Is Climate Change Really Causing More Frequent or More Severe Hurricanes?

[ljs]

I think it's absolutely hilarious that we got a fact check the fact checkers 😂😂😂

[julianmasciocchi]

No sources cited, just a whole 4 minutes of these ladies saying "nu-uh"

[dpiland]

FULLY funded by the Heritage Foundation that should tell you all about being independent.

[linlinthedinosaur]

Just because a state has it written into their law that they are allowed to preform a procedure does NOT mean they will not be denied access... she was denied healthcare because many of these laws while state that you can save the mother are written so poorly that many healthcare workers, clinics, and hospitals refuse care and also the policy has changed in the state SINCE she died.

[mjen]

Love when fact check videos can't get the facts right.

[MetsBarth]

The thing that annoys me the most about Walz isnt his policies or his military background, it’s that Arther gets shanked in Arkham at the end, never fighting the Batman, proving he was never the Joker the whole time

[vilheim]

I'm not trusting a source known to lean to a certain side when it comes to fact checking

[pereirahawk]

The problem with the 320, 000 migrant children number is this: there are actually many more because so many came over that are unknown due to wide open borders.

[sangha]

The "fact check" was wrong on abortion. She said that the woman didn't have to travel because every state allows abortions to remove unexpelled fetal tissue.

But she WAS in a state and was denied care and so, obviously, the state law exceptions didn't matter.

[snakeoilsails]

Super fail at all the fact checks here. Click bait.

[backupschmliff]

I don't get the gun control thing. I don't even like guns but why are they trying to take the big ones that are never used in mass shootings?

[MariateresaTeresa-rzxy]

YEP she said you can have guns but we have the Right to walk into your house and take them. She said that .! Really!!

[capntrips]

I didn't BUY my guns from THEM, so how are THEY going to BUY my guns BACK???

[theMusicdash]

They refuted exclusively left wing arguments, and supported exclusively right wing arguments, all without a single source. I'm sensing a bias.

[rimrock]

You blew the hurricane fact check. Hurricanes are fueled by warm ocean water, which can be part of a climate warming cycle. It is logical, and demonstrated by recent history, that hurricanes can be made more extreme by a warming ocean as part of a warming climate.

[CursedEarthPizza]

It doesn't matter how hard you try to spin it or flat out like, Vance wiped the floor with Walz.

[SlackerXYZ]

The fact these fact checkers couldn't even realize their own inaccuracies shows alot

[GeneFuller-tzbb]

Hurricane camille, the year i was born, killed 259. At that time, a fear of global cooling was all the rage..

[hwfranjr]

If you killed the live child then said it's ok to finish job YOURE lying only to yourself !!!,

[thavidu]

"You said you wouldn't fact check me." Totally the words of someone who doesn't lie.