7 People 24520 Fact-checks 7808 Articles People (7) JD Vance Vance Smith JD Wooten Wisconsin Election Committee, Inc . Election Integrity Project California Friends of Voter Owned Elections Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials Fact-checks (24520) JD Vance stated on October 16, 2024 in a campaign event: Says former President Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election. By Amy Sherman• October 17, 2024 Social Media stated on September 21, 2024 in a video: Sen. JD Vance admitted he has a ‘rent-a-dog’ from the Trump campaign to make him “seem like a dog person.” By Samantha Putterman• September 22, 2024 JD Vance stated on August 24, 2025 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press": "If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation." By Louis Jacobson• August 26, 2025 Elon Musk stated on February 26, 2024 in an X post: Democrats don’t deport undocumented migrants “because every illegal is a highly likely vote at some point.” By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• March 6, 2024 Kamala Harris stated on July 17, 2024 in a campaign video: "Unlike Mike Pence, (JD) Vance said he would have carried out Trump's plan to overturn the 2020 election." By Amy Sherman• July 18, 2024 JD Vance stated on August 07, 2024 in a speech: “When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, do you know what he did? He dropped out of the Army and allowed his unit to go without him.” By Sara Swann• August 9, 2024 Instagram posts stated on October 14, 2024 in an Instagram post: The Oregon secretary of state “removed” former President Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. JD Vance from “the official state website.” By Ciara O'Rourke• October 22, 2024 Tim Walz stated on August 06, 2024 in a speech: JD Vance “literally wrote the foreword for the architect of the Project 2025 agenda." By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• August 14, 2024 X posts stated on August 28, 2024 in an X post: C-SPAN captions for a JD Vance speech said, “Single person clapping.” By Ciara O'Rourke• August 30, 2024 Tim Ryan stated on July 19, 2022 in an ad: Instead of fighting opioid addiction, a nonprofit founded by J.D. Vance paid his “top political adviser” and funded “political polling.” By Tom Kertscher• July 27, 2022 JD Vance stated on August 07, 2024 in a news conference: Says Tim Walz said he carried weapons in war, but “he has not spent a day in a combat zone.” By Jeff Cercone• August 12, 2024 Threads posts stated on July 23, 2024 in a post: Usha Vance, wife of Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, posted on X that Vice President Kamala Harris was “absolutely a DEI hire.” By Sara Swann• July 24, 2024 Tim Ryan stated on June 15, 2022 in an ad: J.D. Vance "wants to defund law enforcement." By Tom Kertscher• June 30, 2022 X posts stated on March 23, 2025 in a post: Video shows “leaked audio” of Vice President JD Vance criticizing Elon Musk and saying “he's making us look bad.” By Grace Abels• March 24, 2025 Viral image stated on October 06, 2024 in a Facebook post: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz gave a college football crowd “the bird.” By Ciara O'Rourke• October 11, 2024 Instagram posts stated on September 21, 2022 in an Instagram post: “Breaking: Judiciary Democrats just voted to support non-citizens voting in our elections.” By Amy Sherman• September 27, 2022 Pete Buttigieg stated on August 11, 2024 in CNN's State of the Union: JD Vance holds “anti-marriage-equality views.” By Grace Abels• August 16, 2024 Kamala Harris stated on July 27, 2024 in a post on X: Video shows that “JD Vance endorses Project 2025.” By Madison Czopek• July 31, 2024 JD Vance stated on October 26, 2022 in a tweet: Rep. Tim Ryan “wanted to decriminalize fentanyl.” By Amy Sherman• October 31, 2022 Mike Gibbons stated on April 12, 2022 in an ad: “J.D. Vance called for higher taxes.” By Tom Kertscher• April 22, 2022 Articles (7808) JD Vance is Trump’s VP pick. His relationship with Trump, controversies and comments, fact-checked By Samantha Putterman• July 16, 2024 Ohio Senate primary to test Donald Trump’s sway with voters By Jon Greenberg• April 27, 2022 Do you know Vance and Walz’s talking points? Prep for the vice presidential debate with fact-checks By Sara Swann• September 29, 2024 Fact-checking J.D. Vance and Tim Ryan in Ohio Senate debate By Amy Sherman• October 18, 2022 Your guide to facts on key Senate races in 2022 By Josie Hollingsworth• November 8, 2022 In Context: Here’s what JD Vance said about school shootings being a ‘fact of life’ (transcript) By Jeff Cercone• September 9, 2024 Why did JD Vance accuse Kamala Harris of engaging in censorship ‘at an industrial scale’? We explain By Jeff Cercone, Samantha Putterman• October 3, 2024 Trump VP pick JD Vance says media twisted remarks on abortion, domestic violence. We looked closer By Maria Ramirez Uribe• July 16, 2024 The race for the Ohio U.S. Senate seat: A guide By Jon Greenberg• March 8, 2022 It’s a wrap: Read our fact-checks and stories from the 2024 RNC By Jeff Cercone• July 19, 2024 Trump’s baseless ‘manipulated’ data claim in firing BLS chief Erika McEntarfer follows long history By Louis Jacobson• August 1, 2025 Fact-checking J.D. Vance and Tim Ryan in Ohio Senate race By Amy Sherman• November 4, 2022 Fact-checking Biden’s NBC remarks about Vance’s views on abortion, climate and classified documents By Amy Sherman• July 16, 2024 2024 RNC fact-check: What Trump VP pick JD Vance got right, wrong in Milwaukee speech By PolitiFact Staff • July 18, 2024 Verificamos los comentarios de Joe Biden sobre JD Vance e investigación de documentos clasificados By Maria Briceño, Amy Sherman• July 16, 2024 Ask PolitiFact: Did JD Vance benefit from DEI initiatives at Yale Law? By Gideon Hess• February 19, 2025 A history of PolitiFact's Lie of the Year, from 2009 to 2025 By Maria Briceño• December 15, 2025 ‘A defining moment’: Here is PolitiFact readers’ choice for 2024 Lie of the Year By Ellen Hine• December 17, 2024 Readers’ Choice: Vote for the 2024 Lie of the Year! By PolitiFact Staff • December 4, 2024 ¿Qué tan ciertas son las declaraciones de JD Vance, el candidato republicano a la vicepresidencia? By Marta Campabadal Graus• September 30, 2024
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JD Vance stated on October 16, 2024 in a campaign event: Says former President Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 election. By Amy Sherman• October 17, 2024 Social Media stated on September 21, 2024 in a video: Sen. JD Vance admitted he has a ‘rent-a-dog’ from the Trump campaign to make him “seem like a dog person.” By Samantha Putterman• September 22, 2024 JD Vance stated on August 24, 2025 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press": "If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation." By Louis Jacobson• August 26, 2025 Elon Musk stated on February 26, 2024 in an X post: Democrats don’t deport undocumented migrants “because every illegal is a highly likely vote at some point.” By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• March 6, 2024 Kamala Harris stated on July 17, 2024 in a campaign video: "Unlike Mike Pence, (JD) Vance said he would have carried out Trump's plan to overturn the 2020 election." By Amy Sherman• July 18, 2024 JD Vance stated on August 07, 2024 in a speech: “When Tim Walz was asked by his country to go to Iraq, do you know what he did? He dropped out of the Army and allowed his unit to go without him.” By Sara Swann• August 9, 2024 Instagram posts stated on October 14, 2024 in an Instagram post: The Oregon secretary of state “removed” former President Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. JD Vance from “the official state website.” By Ciara O'Rourke• October 22, 2024 Tim Walz stated on August 06, 2024 in a speech: JD Vance “literally wrote the foreword for the architect of the Project 2025 agenda." By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• August 14, 2024 X posts stated on August 28, 2024 in an X post: C-SPAN captions for a JD Vance speech said, “Single person clapping.” By Ciara O'Rourke• August 30, 2024 Tim Ryan stated on July 19, 2022 in an ad: Instead of fighting opioid addiction, a nonprofit founded by J.D. Vance paid his “top political adviser” and funded “political polling.” By Tom Kertscher• July 27, 2022 JD Vance stated on August 07, 2024 in a news conference: Says Tim Walz said he carried weapons in war, but “he has not spent a day in a combat zone.” By Jeff Cercone• August 12, 2024 Threads posts stated on July 23, 2024 in a post: Usha Vance, wife of Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance, posted on X that Vice President Kamala Harris was “absolutely a DEI hire.” By Sara Swann• July 24, 2024 Tim Ryan stated on June 15, 2022 in an ad: J.D. Vance "wants to defund law enforcement." By Tom Kertscher• June 30, 2022 X posts stated on March 23, 2025 in a post: Video shows “leaked audio” of Vice President JD Vance criticizing Elon Musk and saying “he's making us look bad.” By Grace Abels• March 24, 2025 Viral image stated on October 06, 2024 in a Facebook post: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz gave a college football crowd “the bird.” By Ciara O'Rourke• October 11, 2024 Instagram posts stated on September 21, 2022 in an Instagram post: “Breaking: Judiciary Democrats just voted to support non-citizens voting in our elections.” By Amy Sherman• September 27, 2022 Pete Buttigieg stated on August 11, 2024 in CNN's State of the Union: JD Vance holds “anti-marriage-equality views.” By Grace Abels• August 16, 2024 Kamala Harris stated on July 27, 2024 in a post on X: Video shows that “JD Vance endorses Project 2025.” By Madison Czopek• July 31, 2024 JD Vance stated on October 26, 2022 in a tweet: Rep. Tim Ryan “wanted to decriminalize fentanyl.” By Amy Sherman• October 31, 2022 Mike Gibbons stated on April 12, 2022 in an ad: “J.D. Vance called for higher taxes.” By Tom Kertscher• April 22, 2022
JD Vance is Trump’s VP pick. His relationship with Trump, controversies and comments, fact-checked By Samantha Putterman• July 16, 2024 Ohio Senate primary to test Donald Trump’s sway with voters By Jon Greenberg• April 27, 2022 Do you know Vance and Walz’s talking points? Prep for the vice presidential debate with fact-checks By Sara Swann• September 29, 2024 Fact-checking J.D. Vance and Tim Ryan in Ohio Senate debate By Amy Sherman• October 18, 2022 Your guide to facts on key Senate races in 2022 By Josie Hollingsworth• November 8, 2022 In Context: Here’s what JD Vance said about school shootings being a ‘fact of life’ (transcript) By Jeff Cercone• September 9, 2024 Why did JD Vance accuse Kamala Harris of engaging in censorship ‘at an industrial scale’? We explain By Jeff Cercone, Samantha Putterman• October 3, 2024 Trump VP pick JD Vance says media twisted remarks on abortion, domestic violence. We looked closer By Maria Ramirez Uribe• July 16, 2024 The race for the Ohio U.S. Senate seat: A guide By Jon Greenberg• March 8, 2022 It’s a wrap: Read our fact-checks and stories from the 2024 RNC By Jeff Cercone• July 19, 2024 Trump’s baseless ‘manipulated’ data claim in firing BLS chief Erika McEntarfer follows long history By Louis Jacobson• August 1, 2025 Fact-checking J.D. Vance and Tim Ryan in Ohio Senate race By Amy Sherman• November 4, 2022 Fact-checking Biden’s NBC remarks about Vance’s views on abortion, climate and classified documents By Amy Sherman• July 16, 2024 2024 RNC fact-check: What Trump VP pick JD Vance got right, wrong in Milwaukee speech By PolitiFact Staff • July 18, 2024 Verificamos los comentarios de Joe Biden sobre JD Vance e investigación de documentos clasificados By Maria Briceño, Amy Sherman• July 16, 2024 Ask PolitiFact: Did JD Vance benefit from DEI initiatives at Yale Law? By Gideon Hess• February 19, 2025 A history of PolitiFact's Lie of the Year, from 2009 to 2025 By Maria Briceño• December 15, 2025 ‘A defining moment’: Here is PolitiFact readers’ choice for 2024 Lie of the Year By Ellen Hine• December 17, 2024 Readers’ Choice: Vote for the 2024 Lie of the Year! By PolitiFact Staff • December 4, 2024 ¿Qué tan ciertas son las declaraciones de JD Vance, el candidato republicano a la vicepresidencia? By Marta Campabadal Graus• September 30, 2024
