Latest Fact-Checks By Madlin Mekelburg

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Michael Burgess
Michael Burgess
stated on September 19, 2020 in a tweet:
“In the last 10 years less than half of adults in the U.S. received a flu shot.”
True
By Madlin Mekelburg • September 25, 2020
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on August 18, 2020 in a press conference:
Says crime is on the rise in Austin and a new study showed that it “is the No. 1 city in America in the year-to-year percentage increase in murders, with a percentage increase of more than 64% for the first half of this year.”
Half-True
By Madlin Mekelburg • August 31, 2020
George P. Bush
George P. Bush
stated on August 13, 2020 in a tweet:
Says a video shared to his social media shows vehicles with broken windows in a parking garage used by state agencies in Texas on “the same night the City of Austin voted to cut $150 million” from the police department.”
False
By Madlin Mekelburg • August 24, 2020
Gene Wu
Gene Wu
stated on August 7, 2020 in an interview:
Says in Texas the “average age of the Republican voter is like 20 years older than the average Democrat.”
False
By Madlin Mekelburg • August 14, 2020
M.J. Hegar
M.J. Hegar
stated on July 22, 2020 in a speech:
Says 1 in 5 Texans did not have health insurance coverage before the pandemic, and now “nearly 1 in 3 Texans under the age of 65 don’t have access to health care insurance.”
True
By Madlin Mekelburg • July 30, 2020
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on July 9, 2020 in an interview:
Says “no one under the age of 20 has died of the coronavirus. We still don’t know whether children can get it and transmit it to others.”
False
By Madlin Mekelburg • July 10, 2020
Lloyd Doggett
Lloyd Doggett
stated on June 22, 2020 in a tweet:
Hays County in Central Texas has seen an “incredible 845% increase in (COVID-19) cases since June 7.”
Mostly True
By Madlin Mekelburg • June 26, 2020
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on May 24, 2020 in an interview:
Says a new law adopted in Texas means property tax bills “are no longer really dependent on your values, it is on (local government) revenue growth.”
Mostly False
By Madlin Mekelburg • June 8, 2020
X posts
X posts
stated on May 31, 2020 in a tweet:
Says police officers in Austin, Texas, have been “authorized to use LIVE ROUNDS, and lethal force” against protesters.
Half-True
By Madlin Mekelburg • June 5, 2020
Chip Roy
Chip Roy
stated on May 6, 2020 in an interview:
Says Wisconsin has not had a spike in coronavirus cases that was “statistically significant related to the fact that they had voting.”
Mostly True
By Madlin Mekelburg • May 18, 2020
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on May 3, 2020 in a tweet:
“Texas ranks 3rd highest among states for the number of people who have recovered from” the coronavirus.
Half-True
By Madlin Mekelburg • May 8, 2020
Veronica Escobar
Veronica Escobar
stated on April 22, 2020 in an interview:
Says Texas “either is near the bottom or at the very bottom when it comes to testing per capita.”
True
By Madlin Mekelburg • April 24, 2020
Louie Gohmert
Louie Gohmert
stated on April 7, 2020 in an interview:
Says a powder has been developed that, when mixed with water, “is being used in Germany as a mist. Health care workers go through a misting tent going into the hospital and it kills the coronavirus completely dead not only right then, but any time in the next 14 days that the virus touches anything that’s been sprayed, it is killed.”
Pants on Fire!
By Madlin Mekelburg • April 9, 2020
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on March 31, 2020 in a briefing:
Says for the coronavirus, “the death rate in Texas, per capita of 29 million people, we're one of the lowest in the country."
Mostly True
By Madlin Mekelburg • April 3, 2020
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on March 18, 2020 in a press conference:
“China is to blame because the culture where people eat bats and snakes and dogs and things like that, these viruses are transmitted from the animal to the people and that's why China has been the source of a lot of these viruses like SARS, like MERS, the Swine Flu and now the coronavirus.”
False
By Madlin Mekelburg • March 26, 2020
Dan Crenshaw
Dan Crenshaw
stated on March 13, 2020 in a tweet:
Says longstanding Food and Drug Administration regulations “created barriers to the private industry creating a test quickly” for the coronavirus.
True
By Madlin Mekelburg • March 23, 2020
Conservative-Daily
Conservative-Daily
stated on March 4, 2020 in a post:
Says a video of Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke at a Texas Whataburger shows Biden “looking directly into the camera and promising to take away Americans’ guns if elected.”
Pants on Fire!
By Madlin Mekelburg • March 13, 2020
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 4, 2020 in an interview:
Says at polling places in Texas on Super Tuesday “the Republican side gets 25 machines, the Democratic side gets 5 machines. People were literally standing in line for seven hours.”
Mostly False
By Madlin Mekelburg • March 9, 2020
Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk
stated on February 24, 2020 in a tweet:
“Three Chinese nationals were apprehended trying to cross our Southern border illegally. Each had flu-like symptoms. Border Patrol quickly quarantined them and assessed any threat of coronavirus.”
Mostly True
By Madlin Mekelburg • February 28, 2020
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 24, 2020 in a speech:
Says Democrats are embracing “abortion up until the moment of birth and even, horrifically, after that.”
False
By Madlin Mekelburg • February 27, 2020
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