Fact Checking Worksheet

Debate Date: 09/26/2016

Location: Hofstra University, NY
Partner Names: Tim and Nathan
Candidate: Donald Trump
1. View your assigned video (take notes here about the video and the context),
and copy down your assigned quote.
"You go to New England, you go to Ohio, Pennsylvania, you go anywhere you want, Secretary
Clinton, and you will see devastation where manufacturing is down 30, 40, sometimes 50
percent."
Companies are leaving our states to move out of the country because manufacturing costs are
cheaper

in CHINA. Trump then goes on to say that because of this, 35% of the jobs have left
those areas he has mentioned.

2. Check out what other fact-checkers have said about this specific statement.
START WITH: P
olitifact-- (Others to check if you want: F
actcheck.org, the
Washington

Posts Fact Checker) -- credit them appropriately!!

Politifact rates this as accurate. This fact was not checked by other mainstream
fact checkers.

3. Do a DETAILED Google search for answers: Search using as many

different combinations as you can. If were writing about something like
climate change, we might search on "climate change," "global warming,"
"carbon emissions," "carbon capture," "electricity," "EPA regulations. List
one source besides the fact check website that can help fact check this
quote. Write a brief analysis on what you found (2-3 sentences).
Copy and pasted the question into google and we found one source that disagreed with Trump,
saying that manufacturing was rising, not falling. The site included several graphs that back up
this claim.
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/9/26/13067930/donald-trump-manufacturing-d
ecline

4. Find an EXPERT OPINION. What does the expert have to say about this
quote? Do you agree with him/her? Why or why not?
Kevin L. Kearns, (why companies shut down) they did it because other companies in their
supply chain had outsourced to other countries.
It seems like a logical explanation.

5. List 2 questions that you still have about this topic that YOU would like to
ask the candidate if you met him/her face to face.
-Is this decline in jobs a nationwide incidence or is it only in the manufacturing sector of these
specific states/areas?
-Will lowering taxes bring back those companies?

**PRINT OUT AND TURN IN ONE COPY PER PARTNER TEAM AFTER
PRESENTING WITH YOUR GROUP.