Fact check: Biden makes false claims about Covid-19, auto prices and other subjects at CNN town hall

7/22/21
 
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from CNN,
7/21/21:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/22/politics/fact-check-biden-cnn-town-hall-july/index.html

President Joe Biden arrived in Ohio on Wednesday mindful the days for actual bipartisan governing in Washington are quickly waning.

Throughout his CNN town hall, he voiced again and again his conviction that Republicans will come along, even though some are poisoned by conspiracies and others, he said, are “lying” on his record.

He was confronted with open skepticism by some of his questioners, particularly on the matter of voting rights. But he plodded ahead, elevating his belief in bipartisanship as nothing less than a quest to prove Democracy can work.

It was a reflection of the place Biden finds himself six months into his presidency. It’s too early for him to give up on his pledge to unite the country. Yet the window for getting something done with Republicans is closing.

Here are five takeaways from the town hall:

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