Title: FACT CHECK: Did AARP Endorse Joe Biden For President? | Check Your Fact
Headings: FACT CHECK: Did AARP Endorse Joe Biden For President?
FACT CHECK: Did AARP Endorse Joe Biden For President?
Verdict: False
Fact Check:
Varun Hukeri

Content: “AARP has not endorsed candidates Biden or Trump or anyone else. AARP is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, and we never endorse or donate to candidates,” Jason Young, a spokesperson for AARP, confirmed in an email to Check Your Fact. “ AARP has Board-approved policy against endorsing – or giving the appearance of endorsing – political parties, government officials or candidates for office.” AARP is also designated by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as a 501 (c) (4) social welfare organization. The IRS states that “promoting social welfare does not include direct or indirect participation or intervention in political campaigns on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office.” Check Your Fact did not find any campaign contributions from AARP noted in Federal Election Commission filings. A search of Open Secrets campaign finance data did not find any organization-wide contributions to political campaigns. Open Secrets notes that AARP “itself did not donate, rather the money came from the organization’s individual members or employees or owners, and those individuals’ immediate family members.” AARP interviewed both Biden and President Donald Trump and released a list of the candidates’ positions on a number of issues on Sept. 28. The article later specified that “the candidates’ responses should not be interpreted as an AARP endorsement of any given policy position.”