.Getty ImagesDonald Trump as well as Kamala Harris went head to head in their initial televised dispute in the US political election campaign.In 90 moments of often fiery exchanges, the Republican politician and also Democratic governmental applicants traded cases over vital vote-casting issues featuring the economy, immigration and also abortion.BBC Verify has been actually analyzing them.Are travelers in Ohio eating pets?CLAIM: Trump: "In Springfield, they're [migrants] eating the pet dogs, the people that came in, they are actually eating the cats, they are actually eating the pets of people that live there". JUDGMENT: There is actually no evidence that this is actually taking place. Trump's opinion adhered to an unwarranted case - which was actually shared through his vice-presidential candidate JD Vance - that migrants from Haiti who have actually just recently resolved in Springfield, Ohio, have been actually consuming pets.Springfield urban area officials informed BBC Verify: "There have actually been actually no reliable files or even specific cases of family pets being actually hurt, injured or hurt or even misused by people within the immigrant neighborhood." You can learn more here.Was Trump-era unemployment the worst since 1930s? CLAIM: Harris: "Donald Trump left our company awful lack of employment considering that the Great Crash". DECISION: This is actually untrue. At the end of Trump's phrase of office in January 2021, the lack of employment price was actually 6.4%. Yet it has been actually greater considering that the Great Depression.In October 2009, unemployment came to a head at 10% in a period of deep-seated financial downturn. It has actually dropped gradually since, in addition to a stinging optimal during the course of the Covid pandemic, and also in the absolute most recent records for August 2024, lack of employment stood at 4.2%. Are countless folks entering the US from penitentiaries as well as asylums?CLAIM: Trump: "Our experts possess numerous people pouring right into our nation from jails and also prisons, coming from mental companies as well as ridiculous asylums". DECISION: There is actually no documentation for these kind of numbers.There have actually concerned 10 thousand confrontations along with evacuees changeover the US border because January 2021. There are no openly accessible figures on the amount of of them have offered time in prison or come from psychological institutions yet there is some information on the number of possess previous illegal convictions.Of the 1.4 thousand awareness of individuals moving across the boundary unlawfully so far this fiscal year (to September 2024) - and where the Border Watch was able to check out versus law enforcement data banks - about 14,700 folks possessed previous illegal convictions.That's comparable to around 1% of all boundary savvies in this particular period and also doesn't amount to the "thousands" Trump is claiming.Will Trump authorize a national abortion ban?CLAIM: Harris: "If Donald Trump were to be re-elected, he will definitely sign a nationwide abortion ban". VERDICT: This is confusing. Trump has refuted that he would authorize a national ban if chosen head of state. He has claimed that he would certainly leave behind restrictions on abortion gain access to as much as personal conditions to decide.Here, Harris also discussed "his Job 2025" - a reference to a documentation posted due to the right-wing Ancestry Structure describing a listing of policy proposals that they believe a Trump presidency must implement.It doesn't suggest a nationwide ban either, yet it carries out recommend restricting abortion access.Trump has distanced himself from the paper, saying: "I understand nothing about Venture 2025. I have no concept who is behind it." Several former Trump administration representatives are linked with Venture 2025. Was rising cost of living under Biden worst in United States history?CLAIM: Trump: "Awful rising cost of living we have actually ever had" [was under Biden] VERDICT: This is misleading. Under Head of state Biden, inflation came to a head at 9.1% in June 2022, at a time when costs were increasing greatly in many nations. Rising cost of living was actually final over 9% in 1981, however it has been actually substantially higher than that at many other aspects in US history.Since its optimal in mid-2022, rising cost of living has actually fallen to 3.3%, for the year to May 2024. However prices are still increasing and also it is a crucial issue for several voters.Would Trump tolls cost loved ones $4,000? CLAIM: Harris: "Business analysts have actually mentioned that that Trump purchases tax will actually lead for mid lesson family members in approximately $4,000 more a year". VERDICT: Harris calls Trump's suggested income tax on bring ins a purchases tax. Some economic experts have determined that these tariffs could possibly cost families this a lot. Others possess lower quotes. Trump insists the price would certainly be believed by foreign countries however economic experts feel there would certainly be a financial expense for United States international merchants and buyers. The $4,000 number stems from analysis - by the left-of-centre think tank the Center for American Improvement - of Trump's promise to boost tariffs on all imported goods to 10-20% and all products imported from China to 60%. They took the volume the US gets in goods coming from abroad annually, identified just how much the new income taxes on these items would certainly be and also split this by the lot of houses in the US.It works out at $4,600 per home, however when you examine "middle profit" households you acquire an amount of $3,900 a year.Other estimates are actually lower. The Peterson Principle thinks the effect would be closer to $1,700 a year (for tolls at 10%) or $2,500 (at twenty%). Is actually criminal offense down in Venezuela due to the fact that it's delivering crooks to the US?CLAIM: Trump: "Criminal Activity in Venezuela ... is actually way down considering that they have actually taken their criminals off the roads and also given them to her [Harris] to put into our nation". VERDICT: There is actually no evidence that Venezuela is doing this. Crime amounts are down but professionals claim this is due to the condition of the economic condition. The Venezuelan government does certainly not release reputable criminal activity figures, yet the private Venezuelan Observatory of Brutality does.The Observatory's 2023 annual file mentioned that intense fatalities that year - including homicides - were actually down through a fourth compared to 2022. The Observatory told BBC Verify: "Unlawful act is actually decreased in Venezuela by a reduction in unlawful act chances: financial institution burglaries disappear given that there is actually no funds to steal kidnappings are lowered because there is actually no cash money to spend ransoms." It mentioned it had actually seen no documentation that the Venezuelan authorities was actually sending thugs to the US.Reporting by Lucy Gilder, Merlyn Thomas, Daniele Palumbo, Gerry Georgieva & Kayleen Devlin.