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Latest Fact-Checks In Polls and Public Opinion

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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
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
Joe Biden
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."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • September 12, 2019
Jess McIntosh
Jess McIntosh
stated on June 30, 2019 a TV panel:
"Fifty percent of Republicans are in favor of Medicare for All."
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • July 2, 2019
Michael Moore
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."  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • February 6, 2019
Donald Trump
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."
Mostly False
By Kenna Richards • November 15, 2018
Donald Trump
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."
Mostly False
By John Kruzel • May 7, 2018
Steve Bullock
Steve Bullock
stated on March 7, 2018 an interview in Milwaukee:
"A quarter of our guns are sold outside of the background checks."
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • March 16, 2018
Donald Trump
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."
Mostly False
By Manuela Tobias • February 1, 2018
Donald Trump
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!"
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 2, 2017
Donald Trump
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!"
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders, Louis Jacobson • June 19, 2017
Al Gore
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.
Mostly False
By John Kruzel • June 5, 2017
Restoration PAC
Restoration PAC
stated on March 21, 2017 a video:
Says Tammy Baldwin "supported legislation allowing citizens to withhold funding for our troops."  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • April 5, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 16, 2017 a news conference:
The media has "a lower approval rate than Congress."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • February 16, 2017
Ted Cruz
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."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • April 12, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 7, 2016 an interview on CNN:
"Poll after poll after poll shows me beating Hillary."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 11, 2016
Donald Trump
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."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • December 9, 2015
Carly Fiorina
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."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 10, 2015
Ted Cruz
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.
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • July 1, 2015
Rick Santorum
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."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 7, 2015
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