During the first debate of the 2024 Republican presidential primary, Fox News moderators Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier used attention-grabbing statements and statistics to paint a vivid picture of the state of America. The number of reported shootings was half of what Baier cited, but he was close on the number of people killed or injured in shootings. In March, we rated DeSantis’ 50-year low-crime claim accurate, based on data through 2021 and information that was available then. It showed that overall, crime has increased from 21,375 incidents in 2022 to 21,779 in 2023 — a 1.9% rise. From February 2021 to July 2023, U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows about 5.8 million encounters at the nation’s southern border.

Source: Fox News August 28, 2023 14:06 UTC