Were Tim Walz and JD Vance's claims true during the VP debate? | VERIFY

The vice president nominees discussed issues like climate change, the economy and housing during Tuesday night's debate.

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[anleekij]

Since 2020 my house is up 64% and my grocery bill is up 115% despite what the "fact checkers" and their gov sources say this is my reality

[Daregrad]

Waltz’s body language said way more than he did

[trainrecked]

Who else is here for the comments?? lol

[simpsonzack]

You can’t compare how “clean” a country is based on such a metric. None of those Western European countries export at scale. They import everything, including natural gas and oil, so of course they’re gonna seem more clean.

[janicelaporte]

I pray one day we can trust the media again. Now not so much.

[Kingfisher]

“We can’t afford four more years of this” - Tim Waltz. I couldn’t agree more, Tim.

[tracyconfair]

I'm a retired oilfield worker, I live in Kern county and we have most of the states OIL right here! And nobody is working the oilfields since 2020 here!

[craig]

Your sources are all "government"

[tomloehr]

What a joke. Should be titled my station’s schill for Walz.

[madeintexas]

Rent may not have risen 60% but I can tell you in a lot of places the total price of the home has definitely gone up above 50% including where I live. I bought my house in 2020 for 110, 000 here in Texas and in 2023. My neighbors bought similar homes or smaller for 175, 000 or better. These houses were not worth that much three years previous, but my original neighbors just couldn’t pass up the offers they were getting. Since That’s what houses around me sold for that is now what my house is worth and that is also what I have to pay taxes on. And that is happening all over America.

[DontworryButtercup]

How is fact-checking Walz’s lies explained by “Needs Context”? No, a statement is either true or false, so Walz’s answers were false.

[jlateralus]

Imagine if JD Vance had said that he is friends with school shooters... I can't believe this isn't getting talked about.

[jiggly_emup]

I think the Dems should try harder if they want the job

[ghhtdesfh]

“Fact checking “ should be called “making counter claims because that is what they’re actually doing.

[kevinchambers]

Not only the moderators fact checking incorrect but they were also biased for not checking Tim once.

[LucGarue]

“The most dangerous knowledge isn’t what you don’t know, it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so”

[sirdiealott]

Dear KVUE, how much of that "cleaner" energy in Western Europe is produced in Western Europe? That was the whole point of JD's answer, if warming is a "global" issue, then moving emissions to another part of the world doesn't change anything and in fact makes things worse by allowing lower standards. Also the way you gloss over the 100% increase in mortgage rates that easily covers that 60% increase you claim is false by itself was pretty amusing. Work on you fact checking.

[HillFarden]

Tim Walz has character. I don’t know which JD that was.

[timr]

Numbers and statistics don’t tell the story for REAL people. Yes housing and rent has skyrocketed, the place I rented 4 years ago in college is up 43% per month.

[aaronking]

Top takeaway is that Vance CRUSHED the debate, CRUSHED Walz and CRUSHED the Moderators helping Walz. Vance destroyed them. Loved it. Walz was on the defense the entire time and played catch-up constantly. It was all over his face and Americans saw it.
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