Presidential elections can turn on trivia. So the fact that Paul Ryan, the Republicans’ vice-presidential candidate, has lied about having run a marathon in under three hours, could be bizarrely important. At last week’s GOP convention, Mr Ryan was introduced as a fearless truth-teller. The Democrats argued that, in fact, his speech contained lies about everything from Medicare to the closure of a car plant.
總統大選的形勢可能因爲瑣事而轉向。因此美國共和黨副總統候選人保羅•瑞安(Paul Ryan)謊稱自己在三小時內跑完馬拉松的事實，可能奇怪地變得重要。在上週的共和黨全國代表大會上，瑞安被介紹爲一個「無畏的講真話者」。民主黨反駁稱，瑞安的演講中實際上包含了形形色色的謊言，從面向老年人的聯邦醫療保險計劃(Medicare)到一家汽車廠的倒閉。
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