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Spin Control

Fact-checking Tuesday’s debate

What's a presidential debate without a little -- or a lot -- of fact-checking? No one knows anymore, because as the old song says, you can't have one without the other.

Here are links to some fact-checking exercises on Tuesday's Republican Presidential Debates. Take your pick or marinate in the media.

FOX News sponsored the debate, but offered the AP fact check. Click here.

CNN's analysis comes complete with metered graphics. Click here.

The PBS Newshour also broke down some claims. Click here.

Politifact, which specializes in analyzing claims, took a look at both debates, and was still working on some Wednesday morning. Click here.

The New York Times had one of the easiest to skim layouts for its fact-check. Click here.

The Washington Post analysis comes with some video clips. Click here.

USA Today had an analysis that is characteristically bullet-pointed. Click here.



Jim Camden

Jim Camden joined The Spokesman-Review in 1981 and retired in 2021. He is currently the political and state government correspondent covering Washington state.

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