At a CNN town hall, Vice President Kamala Harris faced questions from voters about her political approach.

At the Oct. 23 event in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, voters pressed Harris on why her administration had not acted sooner to curb irregular migration, what she planned to do to curb inflation and U.S. military aid for Israel.

Harris warned voters several times about the danger of former President Donald Trump returning to power, including by publicly expressing the idea that Trump was a fascist.

Host Anderson Cooper asked Harris: “Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist?”

Harris replied, “Yes, I do.”

At one point an audience member asked, “What would you do to ensure that another Palestinian does not die from bombs funded by U.S. taxpayer dollars?”

Harris responded that “far too many innocent Palestinian civilians have been killed.” It is unconscionable.” She added that she saw Israel’s assassination of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, whom Israel viewed as the architect of the October 7 Hamas attack, as “an opportunity” to “end this war, that Bringing hostages home, bringing relief to the Palestinian people and working toward a two-state solution in which Israel and the Palestinians have equal security, in which the Palestinian people have dignity, self-determination and the security that they so rightly deserved.”

Trump, who declined CNN’s invitation to a town hall, rallied supporters at a Turning Point Action event in Duluth, Georgia.

Cooper brought Harris back to some personal reflections, including the grief she felt when her mother died of cancer more than a decade ago and her faith.

Harris recalled that when she heard the news that President Joe Biden would forfeit the Democratic nomination, she “instinctively understood the gravity of the moment” and sought spiritual counsel from her pastor, the Rev. Amos C. Brown of the Third Baptist Church of San, looking for Francisco.

“There’s a part of the Bible that talks about Esther, ‘such a time as this,’ and we talked about that,” she said. “And it was very comforting to me.”

Here you can find fact checks on some of Harris’ statements at the town hall.

Trump called Americans “the enemy within” – “he’s talking about journalists, judges, impartial election officials.”

It is true that Trump has used the language of “enemies within.” In an Oct. 13 interview with Fox News, Trump said he believed “the enemy within” would cause chaos on Election Day and suggested the National Guard or military could be used against them if that was a problem .

Trump was pressed on who he calls “the enemy,” naming leading Democrats and others who disagree with him. On Monday, Trump ended a rally in Pennsylvania by repeating his assessment of viciousness.

“They are so bad and frankly they are evil,” Trump said. “They are evil. They weaponized what they did, they weaponized our elections.”

“The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said (Trump) was ‘a fascist through and through’.”

Harris correctly characterized retired Gen. Mark A. Milley’s comments to author Bob Woodward in his new book, “War.”

Milley, who served as deputy chief of staff under Trump, told Woodward that Trump was “a fascist through and through” and “the most dangerous person for this country.”

Milley’s comments echoed those of another senior Trump administration official, retired U.S. Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly, who served as Trump’s chief of staff.

In an Oct. 22 report, The New York Times quoted Kelly as saying that a definition of fascism “accurately describes Mr. Trump.”

“Part of (Trump’s) plan is to impose a national sales tax of at least 20 percent on everyday and everyday goods, and that would cost you as an American consumer and taxpayer an additional $4,000 a year, according to estimates by independent economists.” .”

Trump has talked about increasing tariffs by 10 to 20 percent across the board, so Harris’s 20 percent figure is at the high end of what Trump has said. Tariffs are also not technically part of the tax code, but their impact on consumers would be similar in that they would cost them more money.

The $4,000 figure cited by Harris is at the high end of independent estimates.

Two estimates we found broadly support Harris’ $4,000 figure. Two others show a smaller – although still significant – effect in the $1,700 to $2,600 range.

“In the United States of America, billionaires pay, on average, a lower percentage of taxes than teachers, firefighters and nurses.”

This argument, often repeated by Harris and other Democrats, is false.

It is estimated that under current law, the top 25 billionaires paid an average tax rate of 16 percent, while the top 1 percent of taxpayers paid an average tax rate of over 25.6 percent.

More than 91 percent of households with annual incomes of $50,000 to $100,000 — the category that includes most teachers, firefighters and nurses — paid effective tax rates of 15 percent or less, often much less.

Texas abortion law imposes “prison and life imprisonment for health care providers,” and some state laws “make no exception, including for rape or incest.”

Harris criticized Trump over the strict abortion laws passed in states across the country since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, saying that laws like the one in Texas threaten health care providers with “life in prison” and that some states are “no exception.” make”. , even for rape or incest”.

That’s right. The penalty for violating Texas’ abortion law, which is an outright ban, could include life in prison, a $100,000 fine and loss of a medical license.

The law in Texas that provides an exception for the life of the pregnant woman is the same in nine U.S. states that do not allow exceptions for rape or incest. The others are Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Tennessee.

“There is no question that the American people are increasingly losing faith in the Supreme Court.”

The most recent Gallup data for September 2024 showed 44 percent approval of the Supreme Court, near an all-time low since Gallup began asking the question in 2000. The rejection rate was 51 percent, which was almost the highest in the year at that time.

The disapproval is caused by the views of the Democrats. The court’s approval rating has fallen sharply among Democrats since the justices overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, and is about 10 points below its previous low.

Republicans currently have a 56 percent favorable rating for the court, higher than the average over the last quarter century.

“How much of this wall did he build? I think the last number I saw is about 2 percent.”

This applies to the construction of a new wall, but does not take into account replacement. The border between the United States and Mexico is approximately 3,200 km (2,000 miles) long. Trump’s administration built 84 km (52 ​​miles) of new primary border barriers – the first obstacle people encounter when trying to cross the southern border with Mexico – where there were none before. This barrier can block pedestrian or vehicle access.

The Trump administration has built 737 km (458 miles) of primary and secondary border barriers, U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows. Most were replacement structures for smaller, dilapidated barriers.

“To date, we have reduced the immigration flow by more than half.”

This is supported by the 2024 fiscal year data. Border Patrol encounters with migrants on the southwest border peaked in December 2023 – at about 250,000. In September, the most recent month available and the end of fiscal year 2024, there were about 54,000 encounters, a 78 percent decline, U.S. Customs and Border Protection data show.

Encounters refer to occasions when immigration officials stop someone at the border; A single person could be stopped more than once and counted more than once, and encounters do not mean the person will be allowed into the United States.