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Fact-checking Harris and Trump’s interviews with AARP

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PolitiFact fact-checked some of the candidates' claims after AARP published interviews with Kamala Harris and Donald Trump .

The candidates spoke by phone with Robert Love , editor-in-chief of AARP Publications , in late August .

Trump is wrong to call Biden -era inflation a historic worst, but interest rates under Biden have been higher.

Harris exaggerated how often he tried to kill the act, which passed in 2010 during the Obama administration.

Getting to 60 specific actions under Trump requires counting dozens of attempts from 2010 to 2017 .

As president, Trump cut millions of dollars in federal funding for Affordable Care Act outreach and navigators.

Some Trump policies led to the U.S. meeting some definitions of “energy independence, but not others.

Trump also ignores that Biden , too, has met some benchmarks of energy independence.

Inflation has fallen from its 2022 level by about two-thirds to 2.6 percent year over year .

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