Headline Roundup • March 16th, 2020
Fact Checking the Joe Biden-Bernie Sanders Debate
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FactCheck.org
The first head-to-head debate of the Democratic presidential primary between former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders focused on the government’s response to the novel coronavirus outbreak. We sorted through competing claims the two front-runners made about the pandemic, as well as other topics including Social Security, super PACs and bailouts.
After Biden claimed the House had just passed a coronavirus relief bill that said “you do not have to pay for any of this, period,” Sanders responded by saying the legislation had an “enormous” loophole. The bill...
Washington Post
The 11th Democratic presidential debate of the 2020 campaign, hosted by CNN and Univision, only had two candidates, lasted two hours — and often devolved into lengthy debates about the voting records of two men who spent decades in Congress. Here are seven claims that caught our attention. Our practice is not to award Pinocchios in debate roundups.
“This was about saving the banks. And jobs. And those banks paid it back! Bernie voted against the bailout to the automobile industry, too.”
— Former vice president Joe Biden
“No. I...
Breitbart News
Claim: Joe Biden said Sunday night that the Trump tax cuts of 2017 and Fed rate cuts of 2019 have left the U.S. unable to afford measures needed to stabilize the American economy during the coronavirus crisis.
“The problem is the policies of this administration. Economically have we eaten a lot of our seed corn here,” Biden said during the Democrat presidential debate. “The ability of us to use leverages that were available before have been used up by this god-awful tax cut of $1.9 trillion and the fact that...
