Th:e Republican presidential candidates met for their second
debate on Sept. 16, this one hosted by CNN at the Ronald Reagan Presidential
Library and Museum in Csalifornia. We found they strayed from the facts on
numerous issues, including
§ Donald Trump told a
story linking vaccination to autism, but there’s no evidence that recommended
vaccines cause autism. And Sen. Rand Paul suggested that it would be safer to
spread out recommended vaccines, but there’s no evidence of that, either.
§ Former Florida Gov.
Jeb Bush said Trump donated to his gubernatorial campaign to get
him to change his mind on casino gambling in Florida. But Trump denied he
ever wanted to bring casino gambling to the state. A former lobbyist says he
did.
§ Former Arkansas Gov.
Mike Huckabee said that Hillary Clinton was “under investigation by the FBI”
because she “destroyed government records.” Not true. She had the authority to
delete personal emails.
§ Trump said that
“illegal immigration” cost “more than $200 billion a year.” We couldn’t find
any support for that. Actually, it could cost taxpayers $137
billion or more to deport the 11 million immigrants in the country
illegally, as Trump proposes.
§ Trump again wrongly
said that Mexico doesn’t have a birthright citizenship policy like the United
States. It does.
§ Carly
Fiorina said that the Planned Parenthood videos released by an
anti-abortion group showed “a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart
beating, its legs kicking while someone says we have to keep it alive to
harvest its brain.” But that scene isn’t in any of the videos.
§ Fiorina repeated
familiar boasts about her time at Hewlett-Packard, saying the size of the
company “doubled,” without mentioning that was due to a merger with Compaq, and
she cherry-picked other statistics.
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