Joe Biden: "by far the worst performance of any nation on Earth"

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by far the worst performance of any nation on Earth

Joe Biden · His Democratic National Convention acceptance speech · August 2020 · Race: President of the United States

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Fact-checking Joe Biden at the 2020 Democratic National Convention

PolitiFact · no rating scale · August 21, 2020 · read the check

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The record does not settle it

Checked against No record settles this sentence as worded: "performance" names no measure, and the World Health Organization's COVID-19 data rank countries differently by cases, deaths or deaths per person.

The record: COVID-19 dashboard data

Context

He was describing the United States record on COVID-19 deaths.

Topics: COVID-19.

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late, after 40 countries had already done that

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Sources

Fact-checking Joe Biden at the 2020 Democratic National Convention · PolitiFact · 2020-08-21 · accessed 2026-09-18
COVID-19 dashboard data · World Health Organization · accessed 2026-10-15

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