Latest Fact Checks By Chris Nichols

FACT CHECK: Did Kamala Harris really disagree with Obama’s deportation policy?

By Chris Nichols

June 28, 2019

Says "I disagreed" with President Obama’s Secure Communities deportation program

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PANTS ON FIRE: Trump’s latest California voter fraud claim as baseless as past allegations

By Chris Nichols

June 24, 2019

California "admitted" there were "a million" illegal votes in the 2016 presidential election. 

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Gavin Newsom makes False claim of raising LGBTQ Pride flag ‘for first time’ at California’s Capitol

By Chris Nichols

June 18, 2019

Says "For the first time in our state’s history, the Pride flag has been raised at our State Capitol!!"

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Kamala Harris claims Trump’s tariffs cost $1.4 billion per month. That’s Mostly True

By Chris Nichols

June 10, 2019

President Trump’s tariffs are "taking $1.4 billion out of working people’s pockets every month."

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Did Kamala Harris flip-flop on independent probes of police shootings?

By Chris Nichols

May 23, 2019

On the need for independent investigations of police shootings 

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An unexpected $400 expense would be damaging for many, but Kamala Harris overstates report’s finding

By Chris Nichols

April 19, 2019

"It's clear in our country right now, almost half of American families are a $400 unexpected expense away from complete upheaval."

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Holy Guacamole: Would America really ‘run out of avocados’ if Trump closes the border?

By Chris Nichols

April 3, 2019

Americans "would run out of avocados in three weeks" if imports from Mexico were stopped due to a border closure. 

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Kamala Harris is wrong, Trump isn’t ‘raiding money’ from military pensions

By Chris Nichols

March 28, 2019

Says Trump administration is "raiding money" from military service member pensions to pay for the border wall.

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Kamala Harris gets it mostly right on America’s rapid growth of student loan debt

By Chris Nichols

March 21, 2019

"College debt has increased 170 percent since 2006 and now exceeds $1.5 trillion dollars, which is second only to mortgage debt and surpasses even credit…

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It’s still True: California has ‘largest death row in the Western Hemisphere’

By Chris Nichols

March 13, 2019

California has "the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere, the largest death row in the United States of America — two times the size…

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Kamala Harris tries to ‘rewrite history’ with False claim on San Francisco ICE policy

By Chris Nichols

February 28, 2019

Says handing over arrested undocumented youth to ICE "was an unintended consequence" of a 2008 San Francisco policy that she supported.

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Rep. Tom McClintock distorts number of homicides by undocumented immigrants

By Chris Nichols

February 20, 2019

"In 2017, illegal aliens murdered 1,800 Americans."

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