Fact Checking the Third Democratic Debate
Summary
The Democratic candidates met for the third time, and stretched the facts again:
- Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said 3 percent of her campaign donations “come from people in the finance and investment world.” That’s correct, but the total is 6 percent when including donations to outside groups supporting her candidacy.
- Clinton also claimed she had received “more donations from students and teachers than I do from people associated with Wall Street.” Public records contradict that. Her campaign said it was based on internal data but didn’t immediately send that to us.
- Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley said that Sen. Bernie Sanders voted against funding research into gun-related injuries and deaths. He did, but that was 19 years ago. Sanders now says he supports such funding.
- Clinton said that ISIS is “showing videos of Donald Trump … to recruit more radical jihadists.” There’s no evidence of that, though experts have said it’s likely.
- Clinton said that the Republican presidential candidates “don’t want to raise the minimum wage.” But Rick Santorum has supported an increase.
- O’Malley said that Clinton told the big banks that “you weren’t responsible for the crash” in 2008. But Clinton said in December 2007 that Wall Street “has played a significant role in the current problems, and in particular in the housing crisis.”
- Clinton said that “we lose 33,000 people a year already to gun violence.” To put that in context, 33 percent of those deaths were homicides; 63 percent were suicides.
- O’Malley went too far in accusing Clinton of flip-flopping on federal gun control. She did back off her earlier support for a national gun registry but has consistently supported an assault weapons ban and tightened regulations on sales at gun shows.
Analysis
Read here: http://www.factcheck.org/2015/12/factchecking-the-third-democratic-debate/
[Edited on 12/20/2015 by gondicar]
As in the Republican debate there is nothing big there. Just enough for folks to quibble about.
January 28th is the next debate where Trump will once again receive questions from Megyn Kelly. I'm sure they will both start out nice, but the gloves may come off at some point. I also don't know why Trump picked on Hillary for needing a bathroom break, what should she have done wore depends? We all know what road food does to someone, it really was not her fault if she had to go.
[Edited on 12/23/2015 by gina]
January 28th is the next debate where Trump will once again receive questions from Megyn Kelly. I'm sure they will both start out nice, but the gloves may come off at some point. I also don't know why Trump picked on Hillary for needing a bathroom break, shat should she have done wore depends? We all know what road food does to someone, it really was not her fault if she had to go.
He dissed her because that is who he is. He's running out of people on the the GOP stage to insult...so he wants to expand his horizon...a never ending list of people he has & will continue to insult. He truly lacks class & decency. Deep pockets of $$$$$$$$$$, fancy suits, big cars, & private jets don't correlate to decency & class. One has to earn that. In that regard, Trump is draped in poverty and is truly a poor man.