CHARLOTTE—On Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivered a speech partially about Obamacare in Pennsylvania and then a rally speech in Wisconsin. He said eight false things — the fewest in any day we’ve fact-checked since September.

Obamacare speech in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania

1. Falsely said of Obamacare, “Here in Pennsylvania premiums are going to increase more than 60 per cent.” (Pennsylvanians will see major premium hikes, but not that big: “Premiums for Pennsylvanians who buy individual coverage from the Obamacare online marketplace will rise by an average of 33 percent, according to 2017 rates just approved by the Pennsylvania Insurance Department. Premiums for small group plans will rise by 7.1 percent,” PennLive.com reported in late October. According to a federal report later in October, the average benchmark price for a 27-year-old is rising 53 per cent — as vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence noted at the same event.)

2.Falsely said of Obamacare, “In many instances their health care costs are more than their mortgage costs or their rent. Which by the way is a first in American history.” (He repeated this claim at his second event of the day. While some people have higher health care costs than housing costs, this was not true on average in 2015, according to Politifact: “Health care: $4,342. Rent: $10,005. Mortgage interest without principal: $8,169.” It is also incorrect that the U.S. is seeing some sort of historic first, though it is not exactly clear what he was saying, and total health spending has for years exceeded total housing spending.)

3. Falsely said while discussing Obamacare, “Hiring is frozen, totally frozen.” (The U.S. is experiencing steady job growth and has added 15 million jobs since Obamacare passed, Politico health writer Dan Diamond noted on Twitter.)

4. Falsely said of Clinton, “She wants to put the government totally in charge of healthcare in America.” (She is not proposing this.)

Rally in Eau Claire, Wisconsin

5. Falsely said of polls, “We’re sort of way up everywhere.” (He held leads in some key states but trailed in many others.)

6. Falsely said, “We’re the highest-taxed nation in the world.” (The U.S. is not even the highest on corporate taxes, though it is among the highest. When all taxes are considered, it is below average for industrialized countries.)

7. Falsely said, “As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton allowed thousands of the most dangerous and violent criminal aliens to go free because their home countries very intelligently would not take them back. They don’t want to take back murderers, drug lords, gang members. They say no. And let me just tell you something, they would bring them to their country, their country would say ‘no, get ‘em out, bring ‘em back to the United States where your leaders are stupid people.’” (This is false in multiple ways. These immigrants are not actually sent back to countries that refuse to take them; they are eventually released from U.S. prisons. It was not Clinton’s decision to let them go: a 2001 Supreme Court decision requires their eventual release if they can’t be deported.)

8. Falsely said Clinton “is going to raise your taxes substantially.” (This would only be true if Trump were speaking to an audience of rich people. Clinton is only raising taxes on the highest earners. The Tax Policy Center says most residents below the top 1 per cent will receive minor tax cuts under her plan.)

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