The eight Republican presidential contenders who clashed on the debate stage Wednesday night in Milwaukee made a variety of misleading or outright false claims.
With former President Donald Trump notably absent, the remaining candidates often found themselves attacking each other rather than the party's front-runner – and sometimes straying from the facts in order to do so.
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Topics included the candidates' records on education, criticism of the state of the economy and concerns about violent crime in the country, with each subject prompting a handful of misleading claims.
Here's where the candidates were off – and on – the mark:
Several false or misleading claims were made about education, ranging from what is – and is not – being taught in classrooms, to one of the cornerstones of the party platform: school choice.
Sen. Tim Scott resurfaced a long-debunked claim that under the current Department of Justice, parents attending school board meetings were called “domestic terrorists.”
That mischaracterizes an exchange that started with a September 2021 letter from an education group asking the federal government to help with threats of violence at school board meetings. The letter from the National School Boards Association claimed that some of those threats “could be the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism....
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