First up: How each candidate plans to handle COVID-19. @KamalaHarris is first, mentioning both the timeline of discovering the disease and sharply criticizing the Trump administration's response.
Here's one of those claims that our Verify team checked: bit.ly/36GWsgb
"How can you expect Americans to follow the administration safety guidelines to protect themselves from COVID you at the White House have not been doing so?" asks moderator Susan Page to @MikePence.
Here's when President Trump was diagnosed with COVID: bit.ly/2GQvRlJ
But will the coronavirus outbreak among several Republican Senators delay Judge Barrett’s confirmation hearings?
Both candidates in tonight's #VPDebate have been talking about 'court-packing'. Congress can change the number of justices on the court, but it hasn't been done in over 150 years.
Claim from #VPDebate : When Joe Biden was VP, 60M Americans contracted swine flu.
This is an accurate representation of CDC data, BUT the time range is not the same-- there was an estimated 60.8M cases of H1N1 from April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010.