Fact Check: Misleading new Trump ad claims Biden plans to 'end fracking'

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Fact Check: Misleading new Trump ad claims Biden plans to 'end fracking'
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Fact check: Less than two weeks before Election Day, a new Trump campaign ad scheduled to air in Pennsylvania misleadingly portrays former Vice President Joe Biden's stance on fracking, a drilling method used to extract oil or natural gas

Washington Less than two weeks before Election Day, a new Trump campaign ad scheduled to air in Pennsylvania misleadingly portrays former Vice President Joe Biden's stance on fracking, a drilling method used to extract oil or natural gas.

Interspersed with a testimonial from a fracking technician, the ad claims Biden will end fracking, and features among others a tightly cut clip of him saying:"No new fracking."Facts First: Biden is not running on a proposal to completely ban fracking and it was never part of his written plan.

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