Did the US lose 300,000 manufacturing jobs?published at 03:41 British Summer Time 8 October 2020
Reality Check
Earlier in the debate, Pence and Harris clashed over the state of the US economy with the Democratic senator claiming that the Trump administration's “so-called trade war with China" lost Americans manufacturing jobs.
This figure isn't right.
Manufacturing jobs have dropped under the Trump administration, but only since the coronavirus outbreak.
The latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, external shows that, as of September, there were 179,000 fewer manufacturing jobs than when Trump took office.
Prior to the pandemic, the US added almost half a million during his first three years in office.