( CNN) Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence satisfied Tuesday for the first and only vice presidential debate, and CNN's Reality Check Team expended the evening investigating their claims.
The team of reporters, researchers and editors across CNN listened throughout the debate and selected key statements from both candidates, rating them true; largely true; true, but misleading; false; or it's complicated.
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Reality Check: Penny asserts ISIS has overrun Iraq
By Sonam Vashi, CNN
Pence argued that “Iraq has been overrun by ISIS.”
Really?
In June, a top State department official said that ISIS had lost 47% of the territory it has hitherto controlled in Iraq, and its ranks had been nearly halved from the members it had in 2014.
“Whereas it once promised lavish pay for recruits, and free services in its ‘caliphate, ‘ it is now slashing pay, cannot provide services, and is facing internal resistance, ” Special Presidential Envoy Brett McGurk said in congressional testimony.
In the first half of this year, the IHS Conflict Monitor found that ISI'Ss territory had shrunk by 12%.
