FactChecking Walz’s Interview on Fox News

Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz repeated some of the same false and misleading talking points that he and his running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, have made before, including in recent debates. Manufacturing jobs: Walz, who on Oct. 6 made his first appearance on Fox News since joining the Democratic ticket, misleadingly said former President “Donald Trump’s policies led to 180,000 manufacturing jobs leaving.” Harris made a similar claim during her Sept. 10 debate with Trump. As we wrote at that time, the U.S. lost 178,000 manufacturing jobs during Trump’s term, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But the vast majority of those job losses were due to the COVID-19 pandemic — not “Trump’s policies,” as Walz claimed. The U.S. added 419,000 manufacturing jobs in Trump’s first three years in office. Unemployment rate: Walz also falsely claimed that when Trump “left office we had more people unemployed percentage-wise than the Great Depression.” Again, Harris made a similar claim during the presidential debate, when she said “Trump left us the worst unemployment since the Great Depression.” When Trump left office in January...