.Getty ImagesDonald Trump and also Kamala Harris went head to head in their very first televised dispute in the US political election campaign.In 90 moments of frequently fiery exchanges, the Republican and also Autonomous governmental prospects traded cases over key election problems featuring the economic situation, migration and also abortion.BBC Verify has actually been actually analyzing them.Are travelers in Ohio consuming pets?CLAIM: Trump: "In Springfield, they are actually [immigrants] consuming the pets, people that can be found in, they're consuming the pet cats, they're eating the family pets of individuals that live there". DECISION: There is actually no evidence that this is actually happening. Trump's review complied with a baseless claim - which was shared by his vice-presidential applicant JD Vance - that immigrants coming from Haiti who have just recently resolved in Springfield, Ohio, have actually been consuming pets.Springfield urban area officials said to BBC Verify: "There have actually been actually no reliable reports or even details cases of animals being actually injured, injured or hurt or abused through individuals within the immigrant area." You can learn more here.Was Trump-era unemployment the worst since 1930s? INSURANCE CLAIM: Harris: "Donald Trump left our company awful lack of employment since the Great Hard times". DECISION: This is incorrect. In the end of Trump's phrase of office in January 2021, the joblessness fee was 6.4%. Yet it has actually been actually higher due to the fact that the Great Depression.In October 2009, joblessness topped at 10% within of deeper financial downturn. It has fallen gradually because, besides a stinging optimal during the course of the Covid pandemic, as well as in the best recent records for August 2024, lack of employment stood up at 4.2%. Are numerous folks coming into the United States coming from prisons and asylums?CLAIM: Trump: "We possess numerous individuals putting right into our nation coming from jails and also jails, from mental companies as well as crazy asylums". JUDGMENT: There is actually no proof for these type of numbers.There have actually had to do with 10 million confrontations with evacuees transition the United States boundary considering that January 2021. There are actually no openly readily available plan the amount of of all of them have provided attend penitentiary or come from psychological institutions yet there is some information on how many have previous criminal convictions.Of the 1.4 million ideas of folks going across the border illegally so far this fiscal year (to September 2024) - and where the Perimeter Watch had the capacity to check versus police data sources - concerning 14,700 people possessed previous unlawful convictions.That's comparable to around 1% of all perimeter judgments in this period as well as does not amount to the "thousands" Trump is actually claiming.Will Trump sign a national abortion ban?CLAIM: Harris: "If Donald Trump were actually to be re-elected, he is going to authorize a nationwide abortion ban". DECISION: This is deceptive. Trump has refuted that he will sign a nationwide restriction if elected president. He has stated that he would leave limitations on abortion access as much as personal states to decide.Here, Harris additionally discussed "his Venture 2025" - a reference to a document posted due to the right-wing Heritage Structure laying out a checklist of plan propositions that they feel a Trump presidency should implement.It doesn't propose a nationwide ban either, yet it does advise confining abortion access.Trump has distanced himself coming from the record, saying: "I recognize nothing regarding Job 2025. I have no suggestion who lags it." A lot of previous Trump management authorities are associated with Venture 2025. Was inflation under Biden worst in United States history?CLAIM: Trump: "The worst rising cost of living we have actually ever possessed" [was under Biden] VERDICT: This is actually inaccurate. Under Head of state Biden, inflation peaked at 9.1% in June 2022, at once when prices were actually rising dramatically in many nations. Rising cost of living was final over 9% in 1981, yet it has been dramatically more than that at many other aspects in United States history.Since its top in mid-2022, rising cost of living has actually fallen to 3.3%, for the year to May 2024. However costs are actually still climbing as well as it is a vital issue for many voters.Would Trump tolls set you back households $4,000? INSURANCE CLAIM: Harris: "Economic experts have actually said that that Trump sales income tax will in fact result for mid class loved ones in about $4,000 even more a year". VERDICT: Harris names Trump's proposed tax obligation on imports a sales tax obligation. Some economists have actually estimated that these tolls can cost households this a lot. Others have lesser quotes. Trump asserts the cost would be actually experienced through overseas countries however business analysts think there would certainly be an economical expense for United States foreign buyers and also individuals. The $4,000 number comes from evaluation - due to the left-of-centre think tank the Center for American Development - of Trump's pledge to boost tariffs on all imported goods to 10-20% plus all items imported coming from China to 60%. They took the quantity the United States acquires in goods from abroad each year, determined just how much the brand-new tax obligations on these products would certainly be actually as well as split this due to the variety of homes in the US.It exercises at $4,600 per household, but when you take a look at "middle revenue" families you get a number of $3,900 a year.Other estimations are lesser. The Peterson Principle believes the effect would certainly be actually closer to $1,700 a year (for tariffs at 10%) or $2,500 (at 20%). Is actually crime down in Venezuela considering that it's sending out offenders to the US?CLAIM: Trump: "Criminal Activity in Venezuela ... is actually way down due to the fact that they have taken their crooks off the streets as well as provided to her [Harris] to put into our country". VERDICT: There is no proof that Venezuela is performing this. Criminal activity amounts are down but professionals state this is actually as a result of the condition of the economic climate. The Venezuelan federal government does certainly not release trustworthy criminal offense amounts, however the independent Venezuelan Observatory of Brutality does.The Observatory's 2023 annual record mentioned that violent fatalities that year - such as murders - were actually down by a quarter contrasted to 2022. The Observatory informed BBC Verify: "Criminal offense is lessened in Venezuela by a reduction in unlawful act possibilities: bank burglaries vanish since there is actually no amount of money to steal kidnappings are reduced because there is actually no money to pay out ransoms." It stated it had found no documentation that the Venezuelan authorities was sending lawbreakers to the US.Reporting through Lucy Gilder, Merlyn Thomas, Daniele Palumbo, Gerry Georgieva & Kayleen Devlin.