.Getty ImagesDonald Trump and Kamala Harris went head to head in their first televised discussion in the United States political election campaign.In 90 minutes of often intense exchanges, the Republican politician and also Autonomous presidential candidates traded claims over crucial political election problems including the economic climate, immigration and abortion.BBC Verify has actually been analyzing them.Are migrants in Ohio eating pets?CLAIM: Trump: "In Springfield, they're [immigrants] eating the pet dogs, people that can be found in, they are actually consuming the pet cats, they're consuming the family pets of folks that reside there". VERDICT: There is no documentation that this is actually taking place. Trump's comment complied with an unsupported claim - which was discussed through his vice-presidential prospect JD Vance - that migrants coming from Haiti who have recently settled in Springfield, Ohio, have actually been actually eating pets.Springfield urban area representatives said to BBC Verify: "There have actually been no reliable records or particular cases of animals being actually injured, harmed or even abused by people within the immigrant neighborhood." You can read more here.Was Trump-era unemployment the worst given that 1930s? CASE: Harris: "Donald Trump left our company the most awful joblessness because the Great Hard times". DECISION: This is actually misleading. By the end of Trump's phrase of workplace in January 2021, the lack of employment cost was actually 6.4%. However it has actually been much higher because the Great Depression.In Oct 2009, joblessness topped at 10% within of deep-seated economic downturn. It has actually fallen steadily because, aside from a sharp optimal in the course of the Covid pandemic, and also in the absolute most current records for August 2024, unemployment stood at 4.2%. Are actually millions of folks entering into the United States coming from penitentiaries and asylums?CLAIM: Trump: "Our company have countless individuals putting right into our country from penitentiaries as well as prisons, from psychological establishments as well as insane asylums". VERDICT: There is no proof for these sort of numbers.There have actually concerned 10 million rendezvous with travelers transition the United States boundary considering that January 2021. There are no publicly on call figures on the amount of of them have offered time in prison or originate from psychological companies yet there is some information on the amount of possess previous unlawful convictions.Of the 1.4 million understandings of folks moving across the border illegitimately so far this financial year (to September 2024) - and where the Boundary Patrol was able to check versus police databases - regarding 14,700 people had previous illegal convictions.That's comparable to approximately 1% of all perimeter awareness within this period and also doesn't total up to the "thousands" Trump is actually claiming.Will Trump authorize a nationwide abortion ban?CLAIM: Harris: "If Donald Trump were actually to become re-elected, he will sign a nationwide abortion restriction". JUDGMENT: This is actually deceiving. Trump has rejected that he would certainly authorize a nationwide ban if chosen head of state. He possesses said that he would leave behind limitations on abortion get access to around private conditions to decide.Here, Harris additionally referred to "his Venture 2025" - a recommendation to a document released by the conservative Heritage Groundwork laying out a listing of policy plans that they think a Trump presidency must implement.It does not propose a national ban either, however it carries out recommend limiting abortion access.Trump has outdoed himself from the document, saying: "I recognize nothing at all concerning Venture 2025. I possess no suggestion that is behind it." Several previous Trump management authorities are actually connected with Task 2025. Was actually inflation under Biden worst in United States history?CLAIM: Trump: "Awful rising cost of living our experts've ever possessed" [was under Biden] JUDGMENT: This is untrue. Under Head of state Biden, inflation reached the top at 9.1% in June 2022, each time when costs were actually climbing dramatically in numerous countries. Rising cost of living was final above 9% in 1981, but it has been substantially greater than that at numerous other aspects in United States history.Since its top in mid-2022, inflation has dropped to 3.3%, for the year to May 2024. But rates are still rising and it is actually a vital issue for numerous voters.Would Trump tolls set you back family members $4,000? INSURANCE CLAIM: Harris: "Business analysts have said that that Trump purchases tax will actually lead for center class households in around $4,000 even more a year". JUDGMENT: Harris names Trump's proposed tax on bring ins a sales tax obligation. Some economic experts have actually approximated that these tariffs might set you back households this much. Others possess lesser estimations. Trump firmly insists the price will be thought through foreign countries but economic experts feel there would certainly be an economical cost for US international merchants and also individuals. The $4,000 body stems from review - by the left-of-centre brain trust the Center for American Progression - of Trump's guarantee to increase tolls on all imported goods to 10-20% plus all items imported from China to 60%. They took the volume the United States gets in products coming from abroad each year, figured out just how much the brand new tax obligations on these products would be as well as divided this by the variety of homes in the US.It exercises at $4,600 every family, yet when you check out "center profit" families you acquire a body of $3,900 a year.Other estimations are actually lesser. The Peterson Institute assumes the effect would be actually closer to $1,700 a year (for tariffs at 10%) or even $2,500 (at twenty%). Is actually criminal offense down in Venezuela because it is actually delivering criminals to the US?CLAIM: Trump: "Criminal Offense in Venezuela ... is way down considering that they have taken their offenders off the streets as well as provided to her [Harris] to put into our nation". JUDGMENT: There is actually no documentation that Venezuela is doing this. Crime levels are actually down however professionals say this is due to the state of the economic condition. The Venezuelan federal government carries out not publish trusted criminal offense bodies, however the independent Venezuelan Observatory of Violence does.The Observatory's 2023 yearly file stated that terrible fatalities that year - such as homicides - were down through a quarter matched up to 2022. The Observatory told BBC Verify: "Unlawful act is reduced in Venezuela through a reduction in unlawful act opportunities: banking company break-ins vanish since there is actually no money to steal kidnappings are reduced given that there is no money to pay ransoms." It claimed it had seen no proof that the Venezuelan federal government was actually sending bad guys to the US.Reporting through Lucy Gilder, Merlyn Thomas, Daniele Palumbo, Gerry Georgieva & Kayleen Devlin.