While ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis were busy debating former President Donald J. Trump, they failed to fact-check some blatant falsehoods peddled by Kamala Harris during Tuesday night’s presidential debate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Harris made demonstrably false claims on at least nine occasions, with no pushback from the moderators.

The National Pulse has tracked Harris’s statements and checked them against her record, past comments, and government-reported economic data. Below, we’ve provided the truth behind the 2024 Democratic Party presidential nominee’s false claims.

UNEMPLOYMENT.

Kamala Harris opened the debate by claiming that former President Trump handed Joe Biden and herself the worst unemployment rate since the Great Depression. This is easily proven false. According to government data, the unemployment rate in January 2021—when Trump left office—was 6.4 percent. This was a dramatic decrease from the pandemic high of nearly 15 percent in April 2020. The Trump administration quickly reversed COVID-19’s economic damage and set the U.S. toward economic recovery far faster than other nations.

To Harris’s claim, the 6.4 percent unemployment rate she and Biden inherited is far lower than the yearly average in 18 instances since the Great Depression. Government data shows the unemployment rate exceeded 6.4 percent in 1974, 1975, 1976, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1991, 1992, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013.

THE ‘FINE PEOPLE’ HOAX.

One of the most often repeated falsehoods against former President Trump is the ‘fine people’ hoax. Harris repeated the lie, insinuating Trump suggested Neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, were “very fine people.”

In June, the leftist fact-checking website Snopes finally admitted that Trump did not call Neo-Nazis and white supremacists at the ‘Unite the Rally’ in Charlottesville in 2017 “very fine people” and that senior Democrats, including Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer, are lying to this day about what was said.

The fact-checkers note that what Harris says is a misrepresentation because while Trump did say that some of the people protesting the removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee were “fine people,” he was explicit that he was “not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists because they should be condemned totally.”

PROUD BOYS.

Harris claimed that former President Trump ordered the Proud Boys group to “stand back and stand by” – a comment which came during a 2020 presidential debate with Joe Biden. When asked about the Proud Boys and violent incidents they had engaged in, Trump said he’d urge them to “stand back and stand by.” The very next day, Trump further clarified his comments and explicitly condemned the Proud Boys group.

“I’ve said it many times, let me be clear again, I condemn the KKK [Ku Klux Klan]. I condemn all white supremacists. I condemn the Proud Boys,” Trump told Sean Hannity at the time. He added: “I don’t know much about the Proud Boys, almost nothing, but I condemn that.”

JAN 6. 

In another instance, Harris demonstrably lied that law enforcement officers died on January 6 during the U.S. Capitol riots. Not a single police officer died on that day, and no officers died as a direct result of the riot. The only fatalities to occur were among the rioters, with protestor Ashli Babbitt being shot and killed by a U.S. Capitol Police officer despite being unarmed. Rosanne Boyland, a 34-year-old Trump supporter from Georgia, also died in a crush of protesters after police, at the time unprovoked, fired tear gas into the crowd, eventually leading to a surge at pinch points such as doors and archways.

LOVE LETTERS WITH KIM.

Another instance of Kamala Harris spreading falsehoods was an accusation that former President Trump exchanged love letters with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un. While Trump has spoken about his written exchanges with the North Korean dictator, they were to highlight his pride in his achievement of bringing the nuclear-armed power to the negotiating table and beginning a process aimed at normalizing relations with South Korea.

Trump’s rapprochement with North Korea resulted in the nation’s leader, Kim Jong-Un, quietly stopping long-range ballistic missile tests after 2018. North Korea resumed tests less than a year into the Biden-Harris government.

LATE TERM ABORTION. 

Kamala Harris, as well as the ABC News moderators, both falsely claimed that late-term abortions do not happen in any American state. Despite their instance, the former Democrat Governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, was recorded saying that infants born early—but still viable—are allowed to die outside the womb.

Meanwhile, the Department of Health in Minnesota—where Kamala Harris’s running mate Tim Walz serves as governor—has documented at least eight occasions where a baby was born alive after a botched abortion and then left to die.

GUN BUY BACKS.

In one of the more egregious moments, Harris dismissed the accusation she supported gun buybacks—claiming she herself is a firearm owner. However, during the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, Harris openly pushed a gun buyback plan. She unequivocally told MSNBC in 2019: “We have to have a buyback program.”

MEDICARE FOR ALL.

Another major instance of Harris making a false claim was her dodge of Trump’s accusation that she would abolish private health insurance. This lie was so blatant that ABC News’s failure to correct the Democratic nominee is simply malpractice.

During the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary, Kamala Harris visibly raised her hand when NBC News’ Lester Holt asked the field of candidates, “Who would abolish private health insurance in favor of a government-run plan?”

She was only joined by socialist Bernie Sanders.

“Who would abolish private health insurance in favor of a government-run plan?”

*Kamala Harris raises her hand* pic.twitter.com/HhXmUunWRJ

— Marsha Blackburn (@VoteMarsha) September 11, 2024

FRACKING.

Harris, insisting her “values have not changed,” said of her past support for a fracking ban, “I made that very clear in 2020. I will not ban fracking.”

This is untrue. During the Democratic primary contest of 2019-20—in which she won zero delegates—Harris stated unequivocally that there is “no question I’m in favor of banning fracking,” adding she would begin the process on “day one” of a Harris presidency and boasting fracking was “something [she had] taken on in California.”

After crashing out of the primary, Biden appointed her as her running mate. Following this, she said during a debate that “Joe Biden will not end fracking” and “the American people know that Joe Biden will not ban fracking”—but did not by any means make it “very clear” she shared this view.

“There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking.”

— Kamala Harris pic.twitter.com/zdCTAsrYqW

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 29, 2024

Jack Montgomery and Raheem Kassam contributed to this report.