.Getty ImagesDonald Trump as well as Kamala Harris went head to head in their very first televised argument in the US vote-casting campaign.In 90 moments of usually fiery exchanges, the Republican politician and also Autonomous presidential applicants traded claims over key vote-casting problems including the economic climate, migration and also abortion.BBC Verify has been checking out them.Are evacuees in Ohio eating pets?CLAIM: Trump: "In Springfield, they're [migrants] eating the canines, individuals that can be found in, they're consuming the cats, they are actually consuming the household pets of folks that reside there". VERDICT: There is no proof that this is happening. Trump's comment observed an ungrounded claim - which was discussed by his vice-presidential applicant JD Vance - that migrants from Haiti that have actually just recently resolved in Springfield, Ohio, have been eating pets.Springfield area representatives said to BBC Verify: "There have been actually no qualified documents or specific insurance claims of household pets being actually damaged, injured or violated by individuals within the immigrant community." You can learn more here.Was Trump-era unemployed awful given that 1930s? CLAIM: Harris: "Donald Trump left us the worst unemployment due to the fact that the Great Hard times". JUDGMENT: This is actually incorrect. In the end of Trump's condition of office in January 2021, the unemployment rate was 6.4%. But it has actually been greater due to the fact that the Great Depression.In Oct 2009, unemployment topped at 10% within of deep-seated economic downturn. It has actually fallen continuously because, besides a sharp peak throughout the Covid pandemic, and in the most recent information for August 2024, joblessness stood at 4.2%. Are millions of individuals entering the United States coming from jails as well as asylums?CLAIM: Trump: "Our company have numerous individuals putting right into our country from prisons and jails, from psychological companies and crazy asylums". VERDICT: There is actually no evidence for these kind of numbers.There have concerned 10 million confrontations along with travelers crossing over the United States perimeter due to the fact that January 2021. There are no publicly offered figures on the number of of them have offered time in prison or even stem from psychological companies yet there is some data on how many possess previous criminal convictions.Of the 1.4 million judgments of individuals traversing the border illegitimately until now this financial year (to September 2024) - and also where the Border Patrol managed to check against police data banks - regarding 14,700 people had previous unlawful convictions.That's equal to roughly 1% of all border savvies within this period and also doesn't amount to the "millions" Trump is claiming.Will Trump authorize a nationwide abortion ban?CLAIM: Harris: "If Donald Trump were to be re-elected, he will certainly authorize a national abortion restriction". DECISION: This is confusing. Trump has refused that he will authorize a national ban if selected head of state. He has mentioned that he will leave limits on abortion get access to up to personal states to decide.Here, Harris additionally spoke about "his Job 2025" - a referral to a paper posted by the conservative Ancestry Base describing a list of policy propositions that they strongly believe a Trump presidency need to implement.It does not suggest a national ban either, but it carries out advise confining abortion access.Trump has outdoed himself coming from the file, pointing out: "I know nothing at all regarding Task 2025. I have no suggestion that is behind it." Several past Trump management representatives are connected with Job 2025. Was actually rising cost of living under Biden worst in US history?CLAIM: Trump: "Awful rising cost of living we have actually ever before had" [was actually under Biden] JUDGMENT: This is actually incorrect. Under President Biden, rising cost of living came to a head at 9.1% in June 2022, at a time when prices were climbing greatly in numerous countries. Rising cost of living was actually last above 9% in 1981, however it has actually been significantly higher than that at many other factors in United States history.Since its own height in mid-2022, inflation has actually dropped to 3.3%, for the year to May 2024. Yet rates are actually still increasing as well as it is a vital concern for numerous voters.Would Trump tariffs cost family members $4,000? CLAIM: Harris: "Economists have actually stated that that Trump sales income tax will really result for mid training class households in about $4,000 additional a year". JUDGMENT: Harris refers to as Trump's recommended tax on imports a purchases tax obligation. Some financial experts have actually estimated that these tariffs could cost loved ones this much. Others have lower price quotes. Trump insists the expense would certainly be actually felt through international nations however financial experts strongly believe there will be actually an economical price for US international merchants and buyers. The $4,000 amount arises from review - due to the left-of-centre think tank the Centre for American Development - of Trump's vow to raise tariffs on all imported products to 10-20% and all products imported from China to 60%. They took the volume the United States purchases in goods coming from abroad each year, found out just how much the brand-new taxes on these products will be and divided this due to the variety of families in the US.It exercises at $4,600 every household, however when you check out "center profit" households you acquire a body of $3,900 a year.Other quotes are actually reduced. The Peterson Institute presumes the effect would certainly be actually closer to $1,700 a year (for tariffs at 10%) or $2,500 (at twenty%). Is actually unlawful act down in Venezuela considering that it's sending offenders to the US?CLAIM: Trump: "Crime in Venezuela ... is way down because they have taken their wrongdoers off the roads as well as provided to her [Harris] to take into our nation". JUDGMENT: There is no proof that Venezuela is actually doing this. Crime degrees are down but professionals say this is actually as a result of the state of the economy. The Venezuelan federal government does not post reputable crime figures, but the private Venezuelan Observatory of Physical violence does.The Observatory's 2023 yearly report said that fierce fatalities that year - like homicides - were down through a fourth compared to 2022. The Observatory told BBC Verify: "Unlawful act is actually minimized in Venezuela by a decrease in criminal activity possibilities: financial institution robberies vanish due to the fact that there is no loan to steal kidnappings are actually lessened given that there is no money to spend ransom money." It mentioned it had observed no evidence that the Venezuelan federal government was sending out offenders to the US.Reporting by Lucy Gilder, Merlyn Thomas, Daniele Palumbo, Gerry Georgieva & Kayleen Devlin.