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Black voters saved Joe Biden’s last disastrous presidential run for office. Biden was losing the Democratic Party’s primary in 2020 and black voters stepped up and changed that narrative, making Mr. Biden a winner. Now, this President actively crisscrosses the nation, detrimentally understating African Americans’ unemployment rates, and the unemployment rates of all American workers, professional, blue collar, union, and working-class Americans, making us poorer.

MSNBC contributor Claire McCaskill said Thursday on "Morning Joe" that The New York Times was "ridiculous" for a story headlined "Fact-Checking Biden's Recent Economic Talking Points," which pointed out some of the president's comments were misleading. | Clips

MSNBC’s Claire McCaskill, a former Democratic senator, threw a tantrum over the New York Times‘ recent fact check of President Joe Biden’s claims about the…

Summary In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Joe Biden got some facts wrong and stretched others, mainly repeated claims we’ve heard before: Biden said he inherited the “worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.” But when he took office, the economy had recovered some from its low point earlier in the pandemic. He repeated the debunked claim that he had “traveled over 17,000 miles” with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Biden referred to the American Jobs...

Fact-Checking Biden’s First Week in Office All but three of 20 claims the president made were accurate, demonstrating his regard for basic facts and his proclivity to err when speaking off the cuff. In the past week, President Biden used the presidential podium mostly to promote his policy priorities.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times Published Jan. 30, 2021Updated Feb. 4, 2021 President Biden, in his first week in office, typically stuck to vetted scripts and verified facts — a ...

The Whoppers of 2020 Summary For the sixth year in a row President Donald Trump has proved he is in a class of his own when it comes to political mendacity. His claims again make up the majority of our top 10 list of the most egregious falsehoods. And in 2020, two of Trump’s whoppers may well be the most outrageous and damaging of his political career: his false attacks on the integrity of the election and his downplaying of the coronavirus pandemic. Democratic President-elect Joe Biden also ...