CNN’s Senior Reporter Daniel Dale provides a very early glimpse of what Regime Media fact-checking of Vice President Kamala Harris will look like, in the immediate aftermath of her acceptance speech to close out the 2024 Democratic National Convention.
JAKE TAPPER: An historic night here in Chicago. Vice President Kamala Harris capping the Democratic National Convention with a truly historic acceptance speech. Let's bring in CNN Senior Reporter Daniel Dale for a fact check of her remarks. Daniel, what did you find?
DANIEL DALE: Jake, there weren’t a lot of fact-checkable claims tonight, period. But let's look at some comments Vice President Harris made in her big speech. First, this claim about former President Donald Trump and abortion.
KAMALA HARRIS: As a part of his agenda, he and his allies would limit access to birth control, ban medication abortion, and enact a nationwide abortion ban with or without Congress. And get this. Get this. He plans to create a national anti abortion coordinator. And force states to report on women's miscarriages and abortions. Simply put, they are out of their minds.
DALE: This is kind of cleverly flamed- framed, Jake, as a prediction which I cannot definitively fact check, but VP Harris at least left out some important context here. What she did not explain is that Trump has either not taken those positions during this campaign, or explicitly rejected those positions. He has not called for an anti abortion coordinator, he hasn’t called states to report miscarriages and abortions. He has explicitly said he will restrict birth control, he has not taken a clear position on abortion medication, he has said he will not sign a national abortion ban, and he has at least haltingly said he won't enforce an old law called the Comstock Act to ban abortion without Congress. So where is the Vice President getting this stuff? Well, almost all of it is in Project 2025, a conservative think tank’s list of policy proposals for a next Trump term. It’s true, of course, that dozens of former Trump officials were involved in Project 2025, but it is not Trump's own document. Now let's play something Vice President Harris said about the Supreme Court's decision on vice presidential immunity.