Arizona

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All Fact-checks for Arizona

X posts
X posts
stated on April 13, 2025 in a post on X:
Arizona Democrats “needed a lawsuit to force them to remove 50,000 noncitizens from voter rolls.”
False
April 18, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 4, 2025 in a Facebook post:
Phoenix’s increased wildfire risk is linked to Bill Gates’ “smart city” plans.
False
By Loreben Tuquero • March 28, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 15, 2024 in Facebook posts:
Residents in states across the U.S. are eligible for a $2,200 holiday stimulus payment.
False
December 20, 2024
Threads posts
Threads posts
stated on November 9, 2024 in a Threads post:
"Arizona officials caught changing ballots, have been arrested.”
False
November 12, 2024
WinSenate
WinSenate
stated on October 24, 2024 in a Facebook ad:
“Kari Lake is threatening Social Security and Medicare.”
Half-True
By Mia Osmonbekov • November 4, 2024
Kari Lake
Kari Lake
stated on October 23, 2024 in a press conference:
"Ruben Gallego wanted to defund the police. He actually co-sponsored legislation to defund the police.”
False
By Mia Osmonbekov • October 25, 2024
Kari Lake
Kari Lake
stated on October 9, 2024 in a Senate debate:
“Arizona was safe” when she moved to the state in 1994, but has become “unsafe.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 11, 2024
Kari Lake
Kari Lake
stated on September 27, 2024 in a TV interview:
Rep. Ruben Gallego is “controlled by the cartels. His own father was a Colombian drug trafficker, and so he’s got links to the cartel.”
Pants on Fire!
By Caleb McCullough • October 3, 2024
Ruben Gallego
Ruben Gallego
stated on August 17, 2024 in a post on X:
“MAGA Republicans like Kari Lake support Project 2025, which would raise the retirement age for 73% of Arizonans.”
Mostly False
By Mia Osmonbekov • September 26, 2024
Kari Lake
Kari Lake
stated on September 13, 2024 in a post on X:
Rep. Ruben Gallego’s “first act in Congress was to propose legislation to BAN the use of the term ‘illegal alien.’”
False
By Mia Osmonbekov • September 19, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on August 11, 2024 in an Instagram post:
Craigslist ad shows “every single person” at Kamala Harris’ Arizona rally was paid.
False
August 13, 2024
Kari Lake
Kari Lake
stated on July 16, 2024 in in a speech at RNC in Milwaukee:
“Just last week, Ruben Gallego voted to let the millions of people who poured into our country illegally cast a ballot in this upcoming election.”
False
By Amy Sherman • July 17, 2024
Stephen King
Stephen King
stated on April 15, 2024 in an X post:
“The 1864 Arizona law forbidding abortions, upheld by the State Supreme Court, also sets the age of consent for females at 10 years.”
Mostly False
April 19, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on April 3, 2024 in Instagram posts:
More than 2 million people registered to vote so far this year without photo ID in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Texas.
False
April 5, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 23, 2024 in a Facebook post:
Video shows a convicted terrorist, Movsum Samadov, coming to the U.S. through the southern border.
False
By Maria Briceño • January 30, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 2, 2024 in a Truth Social post:
"In actuality, there is no evidence Joe Biden won” the 2020 election, citing a report’s allegations from five battleground states.
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Sara Swann • January 5, 2024
Mark Lamb
Mark Lamb
stated on December 5, 2023 in a post on X:
“We have our government giving people who came into this country illegally $5,000 gift cards.”
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • December 19, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on September 29, 2023 in a Facebook post:
“Katie Hobbs no longer governor of Arizona.”
False
October 4, 2023
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on September 24, 2023 in a TikTok video:
Arizona Senate “indicted” Gov. Katie Hobbs.
Pants on Fire!
September 29, 2023
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 19, 2023 in an interview on Fox News:
In 2020 the ballots that were counted "were fake ballots."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • June 22, 2023
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