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After the method for tracking wait times was revised starting in fiscal , the median wait time during the last five years of the Obama administration was That median time has not been trimmed during the Trump years. The median wait time was 46 months in fiscal , 47 months in fiscal and 46 months in As we said, the median wait time in fiscal , the latest year for available data, was 46 months, or 3.

Donald Trump Jr. Job growth actually slowed under Trump. The economy added nearly 8. That fell short of the 3. As recently as and , under George W.

Bush, the economy grew 3. Trump Jr. The expansion as determined by the nonpartisan, independent National Bureau of Economic Research lasted months, topping the previous record expansion of months.

That one began late in George H. Some speakers falsely claimed that Biden wants to defund the police, even though Biden has explicitly said that he does not. The charges are part of a Trump campaign strategy to suggest that a Biden administration would mean an unsafe America with crime out of control and unanswered calls.

Trump has made this false claim many times, as have his campaign ads. But as we have written, Biden has said on a number of occasions that he is opposed to defunding the police, and a Biden spokesman told us the Democratic nominee supports more funding for police for some functions, such as initiatives to strengthen community relationships and for body-worn cameras.

Others advocate shifting some money and functions away from police departments to social service agencies. Scalise, Aug. President Trump stands with those brave men and women. And Biden has rejected the idea pushed by some on the left to defund the police. The better answer is to give police departments the resources they need to implement meaningful reforms, and to condition other federal dollars on completing those reforms. Some speakers, like Donald Trump Jr.

But Rep. Gaetz, Aug. The woketopians will settle for Biden because they will make him an extra in a movie written and produced and directed by others. Despite the fact that it is untrue, it seems clear that the GOP will be pushing this claim deeper into the campaign.

Two speakers went after Democratic policy positions on the environment, but mischaracterized them. Policies that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. Policies like banning fossil fuels. While some Democrats support banning fracking, including Sen. That allows for existing fracking permits to continue on federal lands and does nothing to prohibit fracking on private land. Net-zero means some emissions can occur, as long as those emissions are sequestered, or removed, and there is no net addition to the atmosphere.

In theory, this allows fossil fuels to be used with carbon capture technologies or other sequestration efforts. Not even the Green New Deal called for a complete ban on all fossil fuels. Instead, the nonbinding resolution proposed getting to net-zero emissions within 10 years.

As we have written , Biden has not always been clear when communicating about his climate change policies, but his platform does not include a full ban on either fossil fuels or fracking. In her remarks, McDaniel also incorrectly said that 10 million oil and gas jobs would be lost under Democrats.

According to the American Petroleum Institute, 9. Only 2. The U. Energy and Employment report suggests the number is lower, or just 1. In either case, the number of oil and gas jobs is well below 10 million, and McDaniel also incorrectly assumes that all of the jobs would be lost, even though Democratic policies do not go that far.

Vernon Jones and Scott made misleading claims. He ended — once and for all — the policy of incarceration of Black people, which has decimated our communities, caused by no other than Joe Biden. Biden, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The trend of increasing imprisonment began well before — in the early s — though experts say the law exacerbated the issue.

At the Republican convention, Democratic state Rep. Vernon Jones of Georgia made his case for Trump. Jones, 59, accused Democrats of "pandering" to Black voters and said that when he announced his support for Trump, "all hell broke loose.

Unfortunately, that's consistent with the Democratic Party and how they view independent thinking Black men and women," Jones said. Polls show Biden holds a wide lead over Trump among Black voters. Skip Navigation. Key Points. The Republican National Convention kicked off Monday night.

The evening was filled with zealous, fiery endorsements of Trump that at times painted a near-apocalyptic portrait of what America would become under a Biden presidency. VIDEO Trump campaign fundraiser Kimberly Guilfoyle: This election is a battle for the soul of America. Former U. While Tourism Economics focused solely on the numbers, CSU researchers -- who interviewed media members, delegates, protesters and others -- also interviewed people on the ground.

Visitors told them they arrived with negative impressions of the city "rust belt," "dull," "boring" and "dangerous' they left with a more positive view "friendly," "nice," "clean" and "safe. Why did the host committee commission two studies? Host committee officials say they disagreed with aspects of the methodology used in the CSU study, which largely was completed in April. The number CSU came up with was dramatically lower than other similar studies done for recent political conventions, although organizers say that wasn't why they sought a second opinion.

The host committee hired Tourism Economics because it did similar research for the Democratic National Conventions in and Gilbert said using a firm with experience in the field allowed the host committee to make a more apples-to-apples comparison with other recent conventions. We didn't go to them because they said we're going to give you a higher number, hire us.

We said, does this look apples-to-apples based on other conventions you've done, and they said no," Gilbert said. What are the major differences between how the two studies were done? The CSU researchers didn't include this in their research at all, saying they believe that money would have been spent in Northeast Ohio anyway. Tourism Economics included this money in their calculations, but at a discounted rate. Roman said that some local companies that donated, such as Eaton Corp. We disagree," Roman said.

CSU got their 44, crowd-size number and resulting spending based on the roughly people they questioned in Downtown Cleveland.