Chuck Ross
I'd have gone with "Joe Biden is perfectly fine and fit to serve as president again" as my "Lie of the Year," but that's just me.
PolitiFact
A lie marked a town and its residents in the name of campaign rage. It was absurd. It was consequential. Our Lie of the Year goes to Donald Trump and JD Vance for false claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating pet dogs and cats. https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/dec/17/theyre-eating-the-pets-trump-vance-earn-politifact/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1734437743-1