Fact-Checking Night 1 of the Democratic National Convention

The Democratic National Convention commenced on Monday with a list of over two dozen speakers, closing with a speech from President Joe Biden. Here's what fact-checkers said.

From the Right: Breitbart (Right bias) focused on fact-checking claims about the economy, jobs, voter ID, and Donald Trump's claims about COVID-19. The outlet argued that Kamala Harris was not from the middle class and that Trump had fought for autoworkers, which it juxtaposed with a quote from a DNC speaker who it said accused Trump of having “lied [to] and abandoned” autoworkers. Breitbart also drew a distinction between voter ID laws and voter suppression; it's unclear whether Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA), who said, “the lie and the logic of January 6" had " metastasized into dozens of voter suppression laws all across our country” was referring to voter ID laws or other laws regarding practices like mail-in voting. 

From the Left: The New York Times (Lean Left bias), CNN (Lean Left bias), and Politifact (Lean Left bias) also focused on claims about the economy and COVID-19 treatment, as well as abortion, Trump's "suckers and losers" comment, and Vance's comments about women. Many of the claims made by the DNC speakers regarding Trump and Vance's past comments didn't mention the denials, retractions, and clarifications the candidates had made. Fact-checks about the economy and jobs sometimes lacked the context that certain spikes were, in part, due to the economy bouncing back from the pandemic. 

AllSides found no fact checks from the center as of this writing.