I really don’t like election season, because no politician seems to get it right all the time. But some things are easy to fact-check; you just have to want to do it.

The two most important issues in the 2024 election are the open border and the economy. Attempts to find annual data on crossings proved difficult. There seems to be no straightforward numbers to be found. I’m still looking, but in the interim, it is easy to find the economic data.

CPI from 1981 to Sep 2024 So if you want to know if you are better off now than after the previous holder of the office, a quick look here will tell you.