There were no fact checkers on duty when Democratic running mate Kamala Harris gave her first speech.

Surprised? You shouldn’t be — the lies flowed like Niagara Falls without any effort to judge her veracity. Also not a surprise is that she lied her way through the speech, which took place Wednesday in Wilmington, Delaware.

Since the mainstream fact police couldn’t be bothered — surely too busy applying a microscope to every word uttered by someone who’s already president — National Review’s Kyle Smith filled in adequately.

“The president’s mismanagement of the pandemic has plunged us into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.”

NR: The pandemic and its associated lockdowns [imposed by governors, including Democratic governors], not the president, are responsible for the economic contraction. Donald Trump is not the president of the euro zone, which suffered through an even more dire economic contraction in the second quarter. … And it’s questionable to compare the current crisis to the Great Depression, which was not only deep but lasted more than a decade.

“Just look where [Trump and Mike Pence] have gotten us … Millions of kids who cannot go back to school.”

NR: It is not Donald Trump’s decision whether kids go back to school, because the federal government does not run schools, but he has urged the schools to reopen.

“Six years ago … we had … Ebola. We all remember that pandemic.”

NR: Ebola was an outbreak, not a pandemic, according to the World Health Organization.

“This virus has impacted almost every country … there’s a reason it has hit America worse than any other advanced nation. It’s because of Trump’s failure to take it seriously.”

NR: Several advanced nations have suffered more fatalities per million population than the U.S.: Belgium, the U.K., Spain, Italy, Sweden. Trump is not in charge of any of these countries.

Now, to be fair, both USA Today and Politifact have fact checked Harris in the past (and found her to be a liar). But we’re not sure her fudging on rappers Snoop Dog and the late Tupac Shakur, or her unintended whoppers about things she did and did not do as California’s attorney general, are as important as those told in her effort to gain the second-highest office in the land.

But who’s counting? Not the fact checkers, that’s for sure.