Fact-checking all three debates
Times staff writers are fact-checking the candidates as they square off on a debate stage. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump went head-to-head on Sept. 26. Tim Kaine and Mike Pence debated on Oct. 4.
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In his calls for a shutdown on immigration from Muslim-majority countries, Donald Trump has tried to tap into voters’ fears on terrorism – and to draw a sharp contrast with Hillary Clinton, who believes the United States has a responsibility to accept more refugees from war-shattered Syria.
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Donald Trump doubled down on his allegations of a “rigged election” during Wednesday’s debate, declining in a major breach of democratic protocol to say he’d accept the results of the election.
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump sparred in Wednesday’s debate over Trump’s plan to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico.
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Neither candidate has a plan to reduce the national debt, according to the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, but Donald Trump would increase it far more than Hillary Clinton.
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It’s the foundation of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign: curbing illegal immigration and securing the border.
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The mass shooting in San Bernardino in 2015 became a topic of the second presidential debate Sunday when Donald Trump repeated the false claim that several witnesses saw explosives at the home of the attackers but neglected to alert law enforcement.
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Donald Trump’s murky finances and his refusal to make public his personal tax returns — breaking decades of tradition by presidential candidates — have dogged his campaign for months.
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No issue has dogged Hillary Clinton’s campaign more than her decision to use a private email server while she was secretary of State, and Donald Trump tried to maximize the political pain with sharp sparring Sunday.
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What you need to know about the four women Donald Trump appeared with at a surprise pre-debate event
Less than two hours before tonight’s presidential debate, Donald Trump appeared alongside three women who have previously accused former President Bill Clinton of rape or unwanted sexual advances.
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Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that the Affordable Care Act is a disaster, and did so again Sunday, noting that Americans’ monthly insurance premiums are rising by “astronomical” amounts.
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Mike Pence, asked during the vice presidential debate how he would deal with home-grown terrorists, quickly turned to a frequent talking point of his running mate: Donald Trump often says that Hillary Clinton supports a radical 550% increase in Syrian refugees.
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When Jim Asher, formerly the investigative editor in the Washington bureau of the McClatchy newspaper chain, tweeted Thursday that a former longtime aide to Hillary and Bill Clinton had “told me in person #Obama born in #kenya,” he set off yet another in the seemingly endless side debates over who is to blame for which seamy aspect of contemporary politics.
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Donald Trump has made opposition to multilateral trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement and the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership a staple of his case against Hillary Clinton.
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Donald Trump on Monday touted stop-and-frisk as a way to combat urban crime, but the controversial policing tactic was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge and has divided experts on its effectiveness.
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Keeping with the populist theme of his campaign, Donald Trump blamed bad trade deals for America’s uneven economic recovery and accused Hillary Clinton for only recently focusing attention on jobs lost overseas.
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Donald Trump returned to a familiar excuse for not releasing his tax returns Monday night: He is under a “routine audit.”
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Donald Trump said he did a “great job and great service” in raising questions on President Obama’s birthplace, but the GOP nominee continued to stoke doubts about Obama’s heritage long after the president released definitive proof of his Hawaii birth.
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Clinton and Trump, who disagree sharply on gun rights, seem to agree on ‘no fly, no buy’ restriction
One of the starkest differences on policy that exists between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is on guns, specifically what limitations there should be on gun ownership and the role of Congress and the courts in establishing clear guidelines.
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Donald Trump stated falsely in Sunday night’s debate that he opposed the Iraq War from the start.
