During the first and only scheduled debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democratic senator claimed the White House removed references to climate science from its website after President Donald Trump took office in 2017. ″Did you know this administration took the words science off their website and then took the phrase climate change off the website? We have seen a pattern with this administration, which is that they don’t believe in science," Harris said during the debate. In the final days of the Obama administration, one of the issues listed on whitehouse.gov was “climate change.”Soon after President Trump was inaugurated, the list of issues changed on the website. Even though climate change or climate science were not on the site when President Trump took over as commander in chief, it’s important to point out that whitehouse.gov started as a blank slate with the new administration.

“Senator, your party spent the last 3 ½ years trying to overturn the results of the last election,” Pence told his opponent, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California. To say the entire Democratic Party was behind an effort to reverse the outcome of the election can be considered misleading. The impeachment followed a formal inquiry in the House, alleging that the president solicited foreign interference in the 2020 election, and did not involve the 2016 race. The News4Jax Trust Index team advises readers to “Be Careful” with this claim. NEWS4JAX SPECIAL SECTIONS: Trust Index | Vote 2020

Vice President Mike Pence brought up the 2009 swine flu pandemic while he was talking about the coronavirus during the vice presidential debate Wednesday evening with Sen. Kamala Harris. First, the News4Jax Trust Index team looked at swine flu numbers. That’s why the News4Jax Trust Index team is rating this as “Be Careful." What is the Trust Index? NEWS4JAX SPECIAL SECTIONS: Trust Index | Vote 2020

The topic of the coronavirus and the Trump administration’s response to it was the first topic discussed during the vice presidential debate Wednesday night between Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris. While Trump did restrict travel from China, his policy was not an actual ban. The News4Jax Trust Index team rates this claim as “Be Careful” because there was no actual ban of all travel from China, starting on Feb. 2. Pence also criticized Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, claiming the former vice president called Trump’s travel restrictions from China to the United States “xenophobic.”While Biden has called the president’s response to the virus “xenophobic,” the comments were never in direct reference to the travel restrictions. https://t.co/nQ5aLVrpyb — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) March 18, 2020The News4Jax Trust Index team is warning readers to “Be Careful” as this claim can be considered misleading.