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Latest Fact-Checks In Polls and Public Opinion

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 4, 2026 a White House event:
“Consumer confidence is way up."
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 6, 2026
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 22, 2025 a Truth Social post:
“I have just gotten the highest poll numbers of my ‘political career.’”
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 24, 2025
Larry Kudlow
Larry Kudlow
stated on March 4, 2025 on-air remarks:
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is “polling very well. It’s very popular.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 6, 2025
Social Media
Social Media
stated on December 1, 2024 X, formerly Twitter:
“Trump won 18-to-24-year-olds in Wisconsin."
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • January 6, 2025
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on May 19, 2024 TV interview:
Says in his three election campaigns, the early polls were "wildly incorrect, all three times."
Mostly True
By Hope Karnopp • June 5, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 2, 2024 a speech:
“Eighty-two percent of the country understands that (the 2020 election) was a rigged election.”
False
By Paul Specht • March 7, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 31, 2023 an interview with ABC News:
“There are polls that also say I have great approval ratings.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 8, 2023
Chris Coons
Chris Coons
stated on July 30, 2023 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
“Consumer confidence is the highest it’s been in years.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2023
Elise Stefanik
Elise Stefanik
stated on February 9, 2023 a Tweet:
53% of Americans made aware of the Hunter Biden laptop story would have changed their vote in 2020.
False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • February 25, 2023
Dennis Prager
Dennis Prager
stated on November 8, 2021 an interview with Newsmax:
"During the AIDS crisis, can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users … had they been pariahs the way the non-vaccinated are? But it would've been inconceivable."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2021
Terri Bryant
Terri Bryant
stated on September 21, 2021 a radio interview:
“75% of Republicans have been vaccinated” against COVID-19 in Illinois.
False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • October 3, 2021
Jeffrey Zients
Jeffrey Zients
stated on May 9, 2021 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
“The research showed … that confidence overall in the vaccines increased after the pause” to review the safety of Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 14, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 6, 2021 a Facebook post:
"New poll indicates” Joe Biden’s “approval at 11%, the lowest approval rating of any president in American history."
Pants on Fire!
By Tom Kertscher • April 8, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 19, 2021 a speech:
“The vast majority of the American people” support Biden’s $1.9 trillion rescue plan, “including a majority of Republicans.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • February 22, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on December 3, 2020 an interview with CNN:
"People have lost faith in the ability of the vaccine to work. Already, the numbers are really staggeringly low."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2020
NumbersUSA
NumbersUSA
stated on September 13, 2020 a Facebook post:
“Nearly 2 out of 3 Americans want to reduce legal immigration from 1 million per year down to 500,000 or less.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • September 21, 2020
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on June 23, 2020 a Telemundo interview:
“80% of the American people support our Dreamers. Over 70% think they should have a path to citizenship, and that's Democrats, Republicans, independents.”
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • June 26, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 2, 2020 a Tweet:
Michael Bloomberg “did not poll well as mayor in handling crisis!”
Half-True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 11, 2020
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on February 20, 2020 an MSNBC interview:
“The majority of hunters now want universal background checks, the majority of Trump voters.”
True
By Bill McCarthy • February 20, 2020
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on January 9, 2020 public comments:
National polls have “never predicted who will be president from our party. Carter was in the single digits a few months before caucuses. Bill Clinton was. Obama — 20 points behind in the national polls roughly.”
True
By Brooklyn Draisey • February 6, 2020
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