Latest Fact Checks By Amy Sherman

Fact-check: Post says there are 9 states where Biden’s name can’t be removed. That’s False.

By Amy Sherman , Ranjan Jindal

July 23, 2024

There are nine states “where Biden’s name can’t be removed and no one can be added. That’s over 130 electoral votes in the toilet.”

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Fact-checking Kamala Harris’ claim that JD Vance said he would have overturned the 2020 election

By Amy Sherman

July 18, 2024

"Unlike Mike Pence, (JD) Vance said he would have carried out Trump's plan to overturn the 2020 election."

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RNC Day 2: Kari Lake’s False claim that Ruben Gallego voted to let illegal immigrants vote

By Amy Sherman

July 17, 2024

“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.”

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Biden said political violence was ‘unheard of’ in US. There’s a long (and recent) history

By Amy Sherman , Louis Jacobson

July 15, 2024

“The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.”

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What Sen. Tom Cotton omits in claim about weapons sent to Ukraine by Obama, Trump, Biden

By Amy Sherman

July 2, 2024

“The weapons that Ukraine used in the early days of this war to fend off the Russian invasion are the weapons that Donald Trump sent,…

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Liberal group’s ad says Trump is ‘against mail in voting.’ That omits his recent comments

By Amy Sherman , Mia Penner

June 26, 2024

Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.”

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The false claim that Trump’s felony conviction bars him from the Texas ballot

By Amy Sherman

June 14, 2024

“Trump can’t be on the Texas ballot because of our state constitution.”

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No evidence for Donald Trump’s claim that Congo is releasing people from jail into the U.S.

By Amy Sherman , Maria Ramirez Uribe

June 12, 2024

“Congo, Africa, just released a lot of people, a lot of people from their prisons and jails and brought them into the United States of…

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Trump’s ridiculous claim that “millions” of immigrants came illegally from jails, mental facilities

By Amy Sherman , Maria Ramirez Uribe

June 6, 2024

Joe Biden “is letting millions of people from jails, from prisons, from insane asylums, from mental institutions, drug dealers pour in.”

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US-Mexico border crossings are down, as Joe Biden says, but single cause is hard to pinpoint

By Amy Sherman , Samantha Putterman

June 5, 2024

“Due to the arrangements that I've reached with (Mexico) President Obrador, the number of migrants coming … to our shared border unlawfully in recent months…

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Trump denied saying, ‘Lock her up.’ He said Hillary Clinton should to go to jail at least 7 times.

By Amy Sherman

June 3, 2024

Speaking about Hillary Clinton: “I didn’t say, ‘Lock her up.’ ”

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Donald Trump is likely able to vote in November despite felony convictions

By Amy Sherman , Maria Ramirez Uribe

May 31, 2024

“Trump can’t vote for himself in the November election.”

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