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The CNN team is fact-checking the first night of the Republican National Conference.
We’ll continue to update this list throughout the night.
Financial claims of North Carolina gubernatorial candidates
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who is now running for governor, made several financial claims in his tone at the Republican National Conference on Monday. One was misleading about the Biden era, another about the Trump era touting pre-pandemic data without acknowledging that the economy was in much worse shape after Trump left office.
Robinson said that under President Joe Biden, “grocery prices have skyrocketed, and fuel has almost doubled.”
Information First: It’s true that grocery prices have increased by more than 20% since Biden was sworn in, but fuel prices are not double what they were when he took office.
The national average price of a gallon of conventional fuel was about $3.52 on Monday, according to AAA. When Biden was inaugurated, the national fair value was $2.39.
Robinson also claimed that under former President Donald Trump, unemployment was at “historic lows”. This was unquestionably true before the pandemic. For example, in February 2020, the public unemployment rate was 3.5%, the lowest since the 1960s.
By comparison, the average unemployment rate per month during the previous decade was 4.8%.
But when Trump left office, it stood at 6.4%, a far cry from historic lows.
From CNN’s Elizabeth Buchwald
In her remarks at the Republican Nationwide Conference, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia claimed about Democrats: “They claim that our economy is booming, yet over the last few years hundreds of thousands of American-born workers have lost their jobs. Lost jobs.”
information first, This is misleading at the highest level. hard work statistics bureau figures Display The number of American-born workers getting jobs has increased significantly under the leadership of President Joe Biden. About 130.9 million American-born workers were hired in June, an increase of about 4.7 million since June 2021, after incoming Biden took office. (This data is not seasonally adjusted, so we need to look at the same past in each year for an accurate comparison. In January 2021, the year Biden was sworn in, approximately 123 million American-born workers have been hired. .)
Churning can happen all the time in a tight market, so it’s certainly possible that hundreds of thousands of American-born individual workers lost their jobs during this period – although contrary to Green’s insistence, the gains far outweigh the losses. Were for American-born employees as a group under Biden.
From CNN’s Daniel Dale and Tammy Luhby
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene referred to the tone of her convention Monday in attacking Democrats for the generation that “the establishment in Washington” held a transgender visibility date on Easter this year.
“They promised normalcy and gave us Transgender Visibility Day on Easter Sunday,” the Georgia Republican said.
Information first: This announcement needs context. date of transgender visibility It is held every year on March 31 since it was started in 2009 as an awareness week to appreciate the successes of the transgender and gender-nonconforming community. it’s easter celebrated on the first Sunday The first full moon occurs after the first week of spring and will vary from year to year. This happiness was to fall on 31st March in 2024.
Responding to Republicans criticizing President Joe Biden, white press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at an April 1 briefing that she was surprised by the “misinformation” that Easter and the transgender visibility date fell in the same week. Were.
“Transgender Day of Visibility has been celebrated every year on March 31 for the last several years. And as we know – for those who understand the calendar and how it works, Easter falls on a different Sunday every year. And this year, it coincides with Transgender Visibility Day. And so, that’s the simple fact,” she said.
From CNN’s Jack Forrest
A video screened at the Republican National Conference featured a narrator claiming that former President Donald Trump “gave us the biggest tax cut in history.”
Information First: That is fraud. Analyzes showed that Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and jobs program was not the largest in history, either in terms of percentage of gross domestic product or inflation-adjusted dollars.
Employment led to various permanent and brief adjustments to the tax code, including reducing each company and individual source of income tax charge.
In a document released in June, the federal government’s non-partisan Congressional Budget Office looked at the size of the opportunity tax cut implemented between 1981 and 2023. It found that two other tax cuts had higher rates – former President Ronald Reagan’s 1981 package and the law signed by former President Barack Obama, which repealed former President George W. Extends previous tax cuts enacted during the Bush administration.
CBO slows down the size of the tax cuts by looking at the income effects of spending as a share of gross domestic product — in other words, how much federal income the bill cuts as a share of the economy — over five years. The expansion of Reagan’s 1981 tax cuts and Obama’s 2012 tax cuts have been 3.5% and 1.7% of GDP, respectively.
In contrast, Trump’s 2017 tax cuts were estimated at about 1% of GDP.
The Committee for an Accountable Federal Price Limit, a nonprofit, presented in 2017 that the Trump tax cut outlined the inflation-adjusted greenback’s share of gross domestic product as the fourth largest since 1940 and the largest since 1918. 8th will be the biggest.
From CNN’s Tammy Luhby
Republican Nationwide Committee Chairman Michael Whatley said in his tone at a birthday celebration conference on Monday: “Four years ago, there was peace in Europe and the Middle East.”
Information First: Whatley’s claim is fake. Despite the merits of the Abraham Accords, which Trump’s leadership facilitated in negotiations by which Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates agreed to normalize relations with Israel in 2020 (adopted by Morocco and Sudan), there are still many unresolved issues. There were armed conflicts in the Middle East four years ago in mid-2020 and when Trump left office in early 2021.
The list specifically included the civil war in Yemen; civil war in Syria; and conflicts between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza and the Western Vault, between Israel and Hezbollah on the border with Lebanon, between Israel and Syria, and what former climate zone authority Aaron David Miller has called “the air war between Israel and Iran”. Said, land and sea. Additionally, America, its allies, and civilians faced attack in a paranoid Iraq.
“It’s an extremely false statement,” said Miller, who worked on the Middle East vacancy negotiation era in government and is now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for Global Affairs, when Trump himself made the same statement about filling the vacancy. When claimed, he mentioned ending the decline. Middle East.
Dana El Kurd, senior non-resident fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC think tank, often called that claim “false” when Trump made it. He noted in a November e-mail: “The Abraham Accords did not achieve peace in the Middle East. In fact, violence in Israel-Palestine increased after the agreements (using any metric you can think of – death toll, settlement violence, etc.).
From CNN’s Daniel Dale
A video attacking President Joe Biden over fuel prices was shown at the Republican Nationwide Conference. However the video misleadingly presented old figures as if they were streamed.
One narrator claimed: “When President Trump left office, the price of gas was only $2.20. Under Biden and Harris, gas reached more than five bucks a gallon, the highest price in history. After the video, a gentle man said, “Within my first year of driving, I’m paying an average of $5.03 across the country,” and a woman said, “It’s impossible to pay $5.03. We need our people That there is a need to take even better care.”
information first, Those claims about Biden-era fuel costs are two years old. The nationwide average price of a gallon of conventional fuel was about $3.52 on Monday, Keeping up with AAA, National liberals under Biden did, crash a document prime More than $5 per gallon – about $5.02, in line with aaa knowledge – However this took place in June 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine International oil prices increased, RNC films offer dissenting signal that national liberalism has declined significantly,
Additionally, the national average the week after Trump left office in January 2021 was approximately $2.39 per gallon, not $2.20, although in some states it was even less than $2.20.
From CNN’s Daniel Dale
A video played during the Republican National Conference attacked President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy, featuring a narrator saying, “The Wall Street Journal reported today that Americans’ incomes have fallen for three consecutive years. It has reduced.”
information first, This context demands it. The RNC video ignored an inconvenient reality wall boulevard magazine document Which was revealed in 2023, One of three straight years in which the inflation-adjusted average household revenue stream has deteriorated once it was 2020when donald trump was president, The COVID-19 pandemic played a big role in the fadeout, but the ad failed to clarify that the entire three years were not under Biden.
Real median family income by source fell from $78,250 in 2019 to $76,660 in 2020 (all under Trump), further falling to $76,330 in 2021 (usually under Biden) and falling further to $74,580 in 2022 (all Biden According to) . It seems that data for 2023 and 2024 is not available yet.
From CNN’s Daniel Dale
Attacking President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy, the Republican National Conference aired a video in which a narrator said, “America has reached the highest inflation in 40 years.”
Information First: This claim is 2 years old. The year-on-year inflation rate in June 2022, about 9.1%, was certainly the highest possible in the last 40 to 41 years since 1981. However, inflation has declined sharply since the end of the Biden-era, and the latest rate, for June 2024, was about 3.0% – a rate that, apart from the Biden presidency, was higher than as recently as 2011.
From CNN’s Daniel Dale
