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Latest Fact-Checks In Polls and Public Opinion

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Social Media
Social Media
stated on December 1, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:
“Trump won 18-to-24-year-olds in Wisconsin."
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • January 6, 2025
Jeffrey Zients
Jeffrey Zients
stated on May 9, 2021 in 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
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 19, 2021 in 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 in 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 in 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
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 2, 2020 in a Tweet:
Michael Bloomberg “did not poll well as mayor in handling crisis!”
Half-True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • March 11, 2020
Erica Smith
Erica Smith
stated on December 6, 2019:
Says she's beating Democratic opponent Cal Cunningham and is also the first black, female US Senate candidate to be beating an incumbent Senator (Thom Tillis) in "every poll out of the gate."
Half-True
By Paul Specht • January 10, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 4, 2019 in a press conference in London:
"I’ve had tremendous Republican support. I have a 90% — 94% approval rating, as of this morning, in the Republican Party. That’s an all-time record."    
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • June 6, 2019
John Cox
John Cox
stated on July 30, 2018 in a Fox Business Network interview:
"Fully half the people — our research is showing half the people — in (California) want to leave."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • September 6, 2018
Kevin Nicholson
Kevin Nicholson
stated on February 18, 2018 in an interview:
"There are more guns in this country than there are people."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 20, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 26, 2018 in a speech in Davos, Switzerland:
"Consumer confidence, business confidence, and manufacturing confidence are the highest they have been in many decades."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 2, 2018
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on December 13, 2017 in an interview:
The 1986 tax reform approved under Ronald Reagan "was polling at about 18 percent right before they passed it."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • December 18, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 22, 2017 in a tweet:
Says "46 percent of people believe major national news organizations fabricate stories about me."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • October 24, 2017
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on August 10, 2017 in a Facebook post:
Says "the latest polls show us tied neck-and-neck" with Sen. Ted Cruz.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 14, 2017
Sid Miller
Sid Miller
stated on August 23, 2017 in an interview on Spectrum Cable's "Capital Tonight":
Says a poll showed 70 percent to 75 percent of people want to see Confederate statues "remain up and not taken down."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 6, 2017
William Weld
William Weld
stated on September 7, 2016 in an Ask Me Anything session on reddit:
Says "76 percent of all voters in the United States say they want Johnson-Weld, by name, in the presidential debates."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 13, 2016
Cecile Richards
Cecile Richards
stated on July 26, 2016 in remarks to the Texas delegation at the Democratic National Convention as webcast by the Texas Tribun:
Barack Obama "ended up getting re-elected by the largest gender gap in the history of American elections."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 29, 2016
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on July 26, 2016 in a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia:
"The approval of the United States was 20 points higher when (Hillary Clinton) left the secretary of state's office than when she took it."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • July 27, 2016
Tim Moore
Tim Moore
stated on May 5, 2016 in a conversation with reporters:
Says 80 percent of North Carolinians support "the concept that men should not be in women’s restrooms, changing rooms, bathrooms, etc."
Half-True
By Will Doran • May 14, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 8, 2015 in comments on "State of the Union":
Says that in polls about 2016 candidate leadership skills, he comes out "two and three and four times higher than anybody else."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • November 8, 2015
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