CNN —
Former Vice President Mike Pence offered some pointed criticism of the president he served under, Donald Trump, during his campaign launch speech on Wednesday.
But hours later, at a CNN town hall in Iowa, Pence echoed some of Trump’s familiar false claims while adding inaccuracies of his own.
Like Trump repeatedly did during his presidency, Pence falsely claimed that the Trump administration had inherited its family separation policy from the Obama administration. Like Trump has continued to do, Pence exaggerated the current inflation situation, offered an assessment of climate change that is widely rejected by climate scientists, and wrongly described former President Barack Obama’s military aid to Ukraine.
Pence also delivered a significant false claim about his history on abortion policy, wrongly saying he had “always” supported exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother.
Here is a fact check of these and some other remarks Pence made at the town hall.
Pence claimed at the town hall that “families are struggling right now with record inflation.” At two other moments, he claimed, in present tense, that inflation is “at a 40-year high.”
Facts First: Pence’s claim that there is “record inflation” is false. His claims that inflation is “at a 40-year high” are, at best, out of date.
The US inflation rate hit a 40-year high in June 2022, 9.1%, but that was not close to the all-time record high of 23.7%, set in 1920. And that 9.1% rate last June...
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