Keynote at the Republican Midterm Convention, Dallas

JD Vance, Vice President of the United States

Third-party transcript: Rev (transcription service). Retrieved 5 Oct 2026.

No BS Index for this transcript

No questions were put, so answering cannot be measured. Claims that held up: 52% of 27 checked (Bluff 24.1 of 50). Its claims still count towards the overall score.

What we found

Definitions

Accuracy52%

Checked claims that hold up

Partly supported“In Michigan, one Democrat in particular, one candidate has said, and I quote, "F the nuclear family."” Speech, 10 Sep 2026 · CNN · Michigan Advance

Partly supported“Workers' wages fell by three grand.” Speech, 10 Sep 2026 · Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED (average weekly earnings, total private) · Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED (CPI-U)

Supported“Prices rose 20% across the board, the worst inflation in a generation.” Speech, 10 Sep 2026 · Bureau of Labor Statistics via FRED (CPI-U) · Bureau of Labor Statistics

Contradicted by evidence“In just four short years, the cost of a home under Joe Biden doubled.” Speech, 10 Sep 2026 · S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller via FRED · US Census Bureau and HUD via FRED

Contradicted by evidence“competing, not against their fellow Americans for jobs, but against 25 million new illegal immigrants” Speech, 10 Sep 2026 · PBS NewsHour / PolitiFact · PolitiFact

Partly supported“one of the fraud cases that we charged last May were two women, one of them born in Somalia, defrauded Medicaid of $46 million.” Speech, 10 Sep 2026 · US Department of Justice · KSTP-TV

Partly supported“They did it by creating fake autism clinics and then having their friends sign up and pretend to have kids on the spectrum.” Speech, 10 Sep 2026 · US Department of Justice · KSTP-TV

Partly supported“We found $250 billion of fraud just since the president made me the fraud czar.” Speech, 10 Sep 2026 · PolitiFact · TIME

Contradicted by evidence“They refused to prosecute the crime.” Speech, 10 Sep 2026 · US Department of Justice (2022) · PolitiFact

Partly supported“In Manhattan this November, you have Democrat candidates who declare their life goal is, and I quote, "The total eradication of Western civilization."” Speech, 10 Sep 2026 · Fox News · Wikipedia

Supported“In Lansing, you have Democrats who call for, quote, "destroying the American way of life."” Speech, 10 Sep 2026 · Fox News (via Yahoo News) · Michigan Public

Partly supported“he will not shut up about how there are six genders.” Speech, 10 Sep 2026 · PolitiFact · The Texas Tribune

All 27 checked claims, with sources

Answers questionsNot enough data

Questions answered straight

ConsistencyNot checked

No unacknowledged contradictionsshown, not in the score

Contradiction checks start once more of the record is in. Until then this measure is left out, not counted as perfect.

SubstanceNot enough data

Emotion that comes with substanceshown, not in the score

8 emotional passages labelled, 0 flagged as deflecting. Needs 20.

The record

2026 Republican Midterm Convention, night two (Vance keynote). Rev (transcription service), 10 Sep 2026. Open the transcript · hash and fetch details