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Rand Paul

Rand Paul, a U.S. senator from Kentucky elected in 2010. He ran for president in 2016 before dropping out to seek re-election to the Senate. Paul is a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist. His father is Ron Paul, a 2008 presidential candidate and a former member of Congress from Texas. 

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Latest Fact-Checks Of Rand Paul

Sen. Rand Paul’s ad was wrong claiming there are no omicron hospitalizations; he took the ad down
By Tom Kertscher
January 7, 2022

“No one has been hospitalized for” the omicron variant of COVID-19.

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By Julie Appleby
March 26, 2021

“Sorry Dr Fauci and other fearmongers, new study shows vaccines and naturally acquired immunity DO effectively neutralize COVID variants.”

Fact-checking Rand Paul’s unsupported claim about fraud in the presidential election
By Miriam Valverde
December 2, 2020

“Trump margin of ‘defeat’ in 4 states occurred in 4 data dumps between 1:34-6:31 AM. Statistical anomaly? Fraud?”

Fact-checking Rand Paul on Joe Biden and support for wars
By Miriam Valverde
August 26, 2020

Says Joe Biden “voted for the Iraq War … He supported war in Serbia, Syria, Libya.”

No, U.S. isn’t expected to borrow heavily from China to pay for COVID-19 stimulus
By Tom Kertscher
May 14, 2020

$3 trillion for federal coronavirus stimulus packages is "being borrowed basically from China."

Rand Paul’s false equivalence about Trump, Biden on Ukraine
By Amy Sherman
November 11, 2019

President Donald Trump's phone call with the Ukrainian president "sounds exactly like what Joe Biden did."

Rand Paul’s claim about taxes went over poorly on The View, but it was pretty accurate
By Louis Jacobson
October 17, 2019

"Most people below $50,000 don’t pay any income tax. The top 1 percent in our country pay 40%."

Rand Paul gets numbers right in speech on federal debt
By Louis Jacobson
February 9, 2018

"George W. Bush doubled the debt from $5 trillion to $10 trillion. President Obama doubled the debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion. Now we're…

Rand Paul said repealing 3 regulations saves millions of dollars, thousands of jobs
By Gabrielle Healy
March 2, 2017

"We've repealed regulations for the first time in 20 years using the Congressional Review Act -- three regulations that were going to cost the economy…

No, 70% of foreign aid is not ‘stolen off the top’
By Jon Greenberg
January 17, 2017

"We give (foreign aid) to developing countries, and 70 percent of it's stolen off the top."  

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