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Dorsainvilās fear started during ABCās Sept. 10 presidential debate from Philadelphia, when former President Donald Trump repeated a debunked claim about migrants in this small city about 45 miles west of Columbus, the stateās capital.
The New York Times wrote in 2020 about what it called āThe Long History of āHidden Earpieceā Conspiracy Theories.ā The report described unfounded claims that tend to recur every election cycle about hidden electronic devices used by presidential candidates, dating to 2000 when conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh said Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore used an earpiece to receive coaching on NBCās āMeet the Pressā in 2000.
While Full Fact normally sticks to checking claims made by or about UK politicians, weāve written about a flurry of misinformation involving the two presidential candidates circulating on social media over the last few months.
Trump is likely to mention Harrisā more liberal positions from her 2019 Democratic presidential primary campaign, including her previous opposition to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a practice used to access hard-to-reach oil and gas in rock formations.
"The transgender thing is incredible," Trump told Moms of Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice during the groupās Aug. 30 gathering in Washington, D.C. "Think of it, your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation.
It showed clips of Trump visiting tombstones and meeting families while the adās narration and text criticized how Bidenās administration handled the U.S.ā exit from Afghanistan, when the suicide bombing happened.
āItās a well-constructed survey with weights that are carefully calculated to try to make the results as representative as possible of the types of employers in the United States by size and location,ā Wilcox, a former director of the Federal Reserve Boardās statistics division, told us.
On the campaign trail this summer, former President Donald Trump has routinely cast doubt on climate change by falsely claiming that the oceans will rise just āone-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years.ā Heās previously used the same measurement over a period of 250 years.