Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump faced off in their first debate Tuesday night, trading barbs on foreign policy, abortion and guns.
Trump advanced a number of debunked conspiracy theories related to migration, crime and voting in the combative showdown, while Harris made misleading statements about manufacturing jobs and whether U.S. troops are in combat zones.
Here’s what Harris and Trump got right and wrong on the debate stage in Philadelphia.
Fact check: Trump calls Harris’ dad a Marxist
“Her father’s a Marxist professor in economics, and he taught her well,” Trump said.
That’s not what his students say.
In interviews, three of Professor Donald Harris’ former students, who are now economists themselves, told NBC News that they disagreed that Harris’ father is a Marxist. Donald Harris taught at Stanford University for nearly three decades until he retired in 1998, and while he was there, he…
