Nancy Pelosi fact-checked by Washington Post for claim 'fewer' migrants crossed the border under Biden

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was fact-checked connected Wednesday by the Washington Post for claiming that less migrants came into the U.S. nether President Biden than nether President-elect Trump's archetypal term. 

"I don’t deliberation we were wide capable by saying less radical came successful nether President Joe Biden than came nether Donald Trump," Pelosi told the New York Times during a caller interview. "It’s clarity of the message, and if that’s what Bernie’s talking about, and that’s what Joe Manchin’s talking about, we weren’t wide successful our connection arsenic to what things are, past I hold with that."

The Washington Post published a fact-check connected the assertion connected Wednesday, and noted that it was "documented fact" that "at slightest 4 times arsenic galore migrants entered the United States nether Biden than nether Trump."

An adjutant told the outlet that Pelsoi was referring to deportations during the interrogation and pointed to numbers successful a Reuters report, according to the Post. 

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - OCTOBER 24: Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks during Nancy Pelosi successful speech with Katie Couric astatine 92NY connected October 24, 2024 successful New York City.  (John Lamparski/Getty Images)

"It showed that successful fiscal twelvemonth 2024, Biden was connected gait to transcend the fig of deportations of immoderate azygous twelvemonth nether Trump. But the nonfiction did not accidental that deportations nether Biden would beryllium higher than they were nether Trump — acold from it. Through 4 years, Biden astir surely volition person less deportations than Trump, according to the Reuters count," the Washington Post's study read. 

The outlet reported that Pelosi's assertion "veers adjacent much disconnected course" erstwhile they excavation deeper into the numbers and said the erstwhile House Speaker earned "Four Pinocchio's."   

During the aforesaid New York Times interview, Pelosi suggested Vice President Kamala Harris mightiness person won if Biden dropped retired sooner. 

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Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a concession code aft the 2024 statesmanlike election, connected Wednesday, Nov. 6, connected the field of Howard University successful Washington, D.C. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

"Had the president gotten retired sooner, determination whitethorn person been different candidates successful the race. Kamala, I think, inactive would person won, but she whitethorn person been stronger, having taken her lawsuit to the nationalist sooner," she told the Times.

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MSNBC big Symone Sanders Townsend called retired Pelosi implicit the play for the relation she played successful President Biden exiting the statesmanlike race.

"I’m going to accidental it if she ain’t going to accidental it — Nancy Pelosi, everybody talks astir however the talker emerita, you know, she’s truthful strategic, she tin count, she did each of that erstwhile she was the talker successful Congress, but my question is: Where is your calculator now?" Townsend said. "She played successful statesmanlike authorities this cycle, and she helped orchestrate the precise nationalist demise of the president."