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Fact check: Biden’s midterms message includes false and misleading claims
CNN ^ | November 5, 2022 | Daniel Dale

Posted on 11/07/2022 11:24:19 AM PST by karpov

President Joe Biden has been back on the campaign trail, traveling in October and early November to deliver his pitch for electing Democrats in the midterm elections on Tuesday.

Biden’s pitch has included claims that are false, misleading or lacking important context. (As always, we take no position on the accuracy of his subjective arguments.) Here is a fact-check look at nine of his recent statements.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment for this article.

Social Security, part 1

Biden said at a Democratic fundraiser in Pennsylvania last week: “On our watch, for the first time in 10 years, seniors are going to get the biggest increase in their Social Security checks they’ve gotten.” He has also touted the 2023 increase in Social Security payments at other recent events.

But Biden’s boasts leave out such critical context that they are highly misleading. He hasn’t explained that the increase in Social Security payments for 2023, 8.7%, is unusually big simply because the inflation rate has been unusually big. A law passed in the 1970s says that Social Security payments must be increased by the same percentage that a certain measure of inflation has increased. It’s called a cost-of-living adjustment.

The White House deleted a Tuesday tweet that delivered an especially triumphant version of Biden’s boast, and press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre acknowledged Wednesday that the tweet was lacking “context.” You can read a more detailed fact check here.

Social Security, part 2

Biden said at a Democratic rally in Florida on Tuesday: “And on my watch, for the first time in 10 years, seniors are getting an increase in their Social Security checks.”

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2022election; 2024election; biden; bidenlies; bidenvoters; cnn; election2022; election2024; lyinbiden
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1 posted on 11/07/2022 11:24:19 AM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

Et tu, CNN?


2 posted on 11/07/2022 11:26:16 AM PST by Spok (Homelessness will not be solved by incentivizing it; it must be made harder, not easier.)
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To: karpov

It is a shock that cnn is fact checking him at all.
Makes me wonder what the gameplan for the left is in this.


3 posted on 11/07/2022 11:27:00 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: karpov

Nothing worse than an accomplice turned enemy to save themselves.


4 posted on 11/07/2022 11:27:35 AM PST by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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To: karpov

I remember when those were called lies.


5 posted on 11/07/2022 11:27:48 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: karpov

When BidenIdiot going to get censored for misinformation and straight up lying? /s


6 posted on 11/07/2022 11:28:02 AM PST by cranked
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To: Darksheare

They’re playin’ us.


7 posted on 11/07/2022 11:30:55 AM PST by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: karpov

Ya thank?


8 posted on 11/07/2022 11:31:35 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: cranked

Setting up blame for midterm debacle ?


9 posted on 11/07/2022 11:31:43 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Yes, but there’s a goal beyond that.


10 posted on 11/07/2022 11:31:57 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: karpov
He and his manipulators to whom he obeys, wanr us to be so numbed by his falsehoods as to never take him seriously.

And with him holding the big stick, that would be a great, great error.

11 posted on 11/07/2022 11:32:14 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux ["Let there be Light, God's Light"])
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To: TribalPrincess2U
"They’re playin’ us."

Yep. Just like the establishment of both parties. Then throw in the Beltway bureaucrats and it's a game rigged at every serve or pitch.

12 posted on 11/07/2022 11:33:56 AM PST by blackdog (The head, hands, and heart, serve even further than the purse. )
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To: karpov

“But Biden’s boasts leave out such critical context that they are highly misleading. He hasn’t explained that the increase in Social Security payments for 2023, 8.7%, is unusually big simply because the inflation rate has been unusually big. A law passed in the 1970s says that Social Security payments must be increased by the same percentage that a certain measure of inflation has increased. It’s called a cost-of-living adjustment.”

Don’t ask Biden. He’s just reading the Q cards and is way too brain dead to lie. And even though he is part of the responsibility of the huge increase, it isn’t their doing, it’s their fault. And according to a survey by Focus Economics inflation is supposed to average 8.0% this year. What increase?

wy69


13 posted on 11/07/2022 11:35:50 AM PST by whitney69
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To: karpov

Biden has been a stone cold pathological liar his whole life.


14 posted on 11/07/2022 11:36:19 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: karpov

In other words. Biden and his handlers and his speech writers continue to lie even when they have been informed that what they are saying is a lie. The propaganda media is very happy to continue to repeat these lies by saying …. according to the president,… even when everyone knows the claim is false. It is not false that Biden said it, so the media feels like it is covered legally

This is why many people voted for the positive caricature of Biden that the disinformation media put out and voted against the negative caricature of Trump that the same media put out. Often neither had any relevance to the truth.


15 posted on 11/07/2022 11:37:46 AM PST by Freee-dame
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Question of the day? What do Democrats, Barack Obama & Joe Biden have in common? They both are losers, They cannot get their supporters to attend their failing campaign rallies!!! They both hate America, the Nation Republic, and it’s people!!! They both love themselves and no one else!!! Shame on any American that votes for these failures and their evil, cohort, failures in their Democrat Party that hates the American nation and it’s people!! Yep.......you Americans that vote for them or their party will soon be speaking Chinese. Why? We have no military weapons, no recruits, Biden has killed our military. The Chinese are now much stronger the the USA. Yes...foolish Americans you have done in yourselves, your families and your future!!!

Americans that love our nation Republic get out by the millions tomorrow, Mid-Term Election Day and vote to politically destroy the entire evil, traitor, turncoat,Democrat Party!!! Case Closed!!!


16 posted on 11/07/2022 11:38:05 AM PST by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: Darksheare

They’re gearing up to throw Brandon under the bus, either through the 25th amendment or in 2024.

Just think of them as Deocrat operatives with bylines and it all makes sense.


17 posted on 11/07/2022 11:50:30 AM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: karpov

It’s a CYA move, IMHO. CNN wants to get street cred for criticizing Joe Biden, even if it’s too little and too late to change any votes.


18 posted on 11/07/2022 11:58:01 AM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: karpov

Don’t know about everyone else, but the weekly essential,s that I buy have doubled.


19 posted on 11/07/2022 12:04:53 PM PST by MAAG (for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal)
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Don’t know about everyone else, but the weekly essential,s that I buy have doubled.

Yeah, same here.

20 posted on 11/07/2022 12:25:58 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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