Latest Fact-Checks In Elections

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Social Media
Social Media
stated on December 1, 2024 X, formerly Twitter
“Trump won 18-to-24-year-olds in Wisconsin."
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By D.L. Davis • January 6, 2025
Viral image
Viral image
stated on October 28, 2024 a Facebook post
A Pennsylvania TV station aired the 2024 presidential election results early.
Half-True
October 30, 2024
Jared Moskowitz
Jared Moskowitz
stated on September 19, 2024 a House hearing
“Project 2025 wants to get rid of NOAA” and the National Weather Service.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • September 26, 2024
Threads posts
Threads posts
stated on September 22, 2024 a Threads post
Florida "put Tom Walz instead of Tim Walz" on its ballots.
Half-True
September 25, 2024
Tim Walz
Tim Walz
stated on September 21, 2024 in Bethlehem, Pa.
“Donald Trump added more to the national debt than any other president, ever.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 25, 2024
Social Media
Social Media
stated on September 22, 2024 in social media posts
“The Montana Secretary of State left Kamala Harris off the ballot.”
Half-True
September 24, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on August 28, 2024 an ad
Project 2025 would defund K-12 schools.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • September 6, 2024
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on August 28, 2024 a post on X
“This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • August 29, 2024
Bryan Steil
Bryan Steil
stated on April 28, 2024 TV interview
Says U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin "believes taxpayer dollars should be used for abortion."
Half-True
By Ricardo Torres • August 26, 2024
Tim Walz
Tim Walz
stated on August 6, 2024 un mitin de campaña en Filadelfia
"El crimen violento aumentó bajo Donald Trump".
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 9, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 16, 2024 News release
"The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn."
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • July 13, 2024
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on June 16, 2024 an interview on CNN's State of the Union
“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, that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had refused to send.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 2, 2024
Pennsylvania Values PAC
Pennsylvania Values PAC
stated on June 21, 2024 an ad
Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Mia Penner • June 26, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 2, 2024 an X post
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • May 14, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 19, 2024 a Facebook post
Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Macy’s, Foot Locker, Gap, Burger King, Regal Cinemas and Kroger have had mass store closures during Joe Biden’s presidency.
Half-True
By Sara Swann • April 24, 2024
Deborah Ross
Deborah Ross
stated on January 25, 2024 a press conference
“North Carolina has the longest voting period in the country … and we have the most ways of voting.”
Half-True
By Paul Specht • February 28, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 8, 2024 a speech
“The racial wealth gap is the smallest it’s been in 20 years.”
Half-True
By Sara Swann • January 12, 2024
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on December 13, 2023 a town hall in Londonderry, New Hampshire
Under the Trump administration's trade deal, “China's only fulfilled one-third of the promises of agricultural products that they were supposed to buy from our farmers.”
Half-True
By Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson • December 19, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on December 6, 2023 the fourth Republican presidential primary debate
Discussing gender-affirming surgical care for minors, said that Sweden “shut it down.”
Half-True
By Grace Abels • December 18, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on October 24, 2023 a town hall in New Hampshire
“The Republicans and Trump funded $400 million in March of 2020 for mail ballots.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • October 31, 2023
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