Tuesday, July 30, 2019

AP Fact Check: Yeah, A Bunch of Democrats' Standard Attack Lines Just Aren't True

On a series of issues, Democrats are employing misleading, unfair, or false arguments to make their political points.

Harris, a California senator, calls them a human rights abuse like other Democrats, solely blames Trump.

A year ago, Associated Press photographs showing young people in such enclosures were misrepresented online as depicting child detentions by Trump and denounced by some Democrats and activists as illustrating Trump's cruelty.

"Many Democrats continue to exploit the imagery of"babies in cages" - as Harris put it - without acknowledging Obama used the facilities, too.

His administration built the McAllen, Texas, center with chain-link holding areas in 2014," the fact check goes on, calling this line of attack "One of the most persistent distortions by the 2020 Democrats." Next, the AP questions Bernie Sanders' assertion that so-called 'Medicare for All' would reduce national spending on healthcare.

The report calls that claim unclear, citing a nonpartisan study finding that the Vermont socialist's single-payer plan "Would do the opposite of what Sanders is promising." On the economy, the AP tackles Kamala Harris' AOC-style talking point that unemployment is artificially low because Americans are working multiple jobs.

Rew Clark July 30, 2019 There's a reason Trump gleefully tweeted "That's the end of that race!" during the first debate: Too often, you succumbed to chasing plaudits on Twitter, which closed the door on swing voters in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio...This time, don't fall into the traps that had many of us shaking our heads during the debates in Miami.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/07/30/ap-fact-check-democrats-ignore-inconvenient-truths-on-economy-immigration-n2550846

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