Fact Check Posts – Politifact

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.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 6, 2025

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.”

By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on September 12, 2019 the Democratic debate in Houston

"Over 90% of the American people think we have to get assault weapons off the street — period."

By Amy Sherman • September 12, 2019

Jess McIntosh
stated on June 30, 2019 a TV panel

"Fifty percent of Republicans are in favor of Medicare for All."

By Bill McCarthy • July 2, 2019

Michael Moore
stated on February 1, 2019 an interview

"Seventy percent of the American public agree with" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "on having the top marginal (tax) rate for the rich" at 70 percent, and "that's a Fox News Poll saying that."

February 6, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2018 a rally in Wheeling, W.Va.

"Even in California now, they don’t want to be sanctuary cities anymore. They want out."

By Kenna Richards • November 15, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on May 4, 2018 the NRA convention

"I doubled my African-American poll numbers. We went from 11 to 22 in one week."

By John Kruzel • May 7, 2018

Steve Bullock
stated on March 7, 2018 an interview in Milwaukee

"A quarter of our guns are sold outside of the background checks."

March 16, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on February 1, 2018 a Tweet

"45.6 million people watched (the State of the Union), the highest number in history. @FoxNews beat every other Network, for the first time ever, with 11.7 million people tuning in."

By Manuela Tobias • February 1, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on September 30, 2017 a tweet

In the Alabama Senate runoff, "the candidate I endorsed (Luther Strange) went up MANY points after endorsement!"

By Louis Jacobson • October 2, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on June 18, 2017 a tweet

"The new Rasmussen Poll, one of the most accurate in the 2016 Election, just out with a Trump 50% Approval Rating. That's higher than O's #'s!"

By Katie Sanders, Louis Jacobson • June 19, 2017

Al Gore
stated on June 4, 2017 an interview on ABC "This Week"

"A majority of President Trump's supporters and voters wanted (the United States) to stay in" the Paris Agreement.

By John Kruzel • June 5, 2017

Restoration PAC
stated on March 21, 2017 a video

Says Tammy Baldwin "supported legislation allowing citizens to withhold funding for our troops."

April 5, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on February 16, 2017 a news conference

The media has "a lower approval rate than Congress."

By Jon Greenberg • February 16, 2017

Ted Cruz
stated on April 11, 2016 a campaign speech

"The polling shows over and over again that, unlike Donald Trump, that with me as the nominee, we beat Hillary Clinton."

By Chris Nichols • April 12, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on April 7, 2016 an interview on CNN

"Poll after poll after poll shows me beating Hillary."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 11, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on December 7, 2015 a campaign statement

Says 25 percent of U.S. Muslims "agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad."

By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • December 9, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on August 9, 2015 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"

"If you look at the results of Obamacare, what you see is emergency room visits are up over 50 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • August 10, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on June 29, 2015 an interview on NPR

The Supreme Court’s views "are radically out of step with public opinion" regarding its decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.

By Lauren Carroll • July 1, 2015

Rick Santorum
stated on June 7, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday"

If Fox News' presidential debate rules had been in place during the 1992 election, "Bill Clinton wouldn't have been on the stage."

By Jon Greenberg • June 7, 2015

Stand up for the facts!

I would like to contribute

Latest Fact-Checks In Polls and Public Opinion