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Latest Fact-Checks On Marco Rubio

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Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 19, 2024 an interview
The number of people in the U.S. illegally is “upwards of 20, 25, maybe 30 million.”
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 11, 2024
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 3, 2024 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
Joe Biden's executive orders meant "for the first time in American history we have a president who will not detain the people who enter this country illegally."
False
By Samantha Putterman • March 8, 2024
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 19, 2022 a campaign ad
Val Demings "called abolishing the police 'thoughtful.'"
False
By Yacob Reyes • July 26, 2022
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on May 25, 2022 an interview on CNN
“There hasn't been a single of these mass shootings that have been purchased at a gun show or on the internet.”
False
By Yacob Reyes • May 27, 2022
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 27, 2021 remarks
"Only in the Third World do you see this habitual use of prosecutions of former leaders.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • January 29, 2021
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 27, 2020 a tweet
Says “Dr. Fauci lied about masks in March.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • December 28, 2020
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 15, 2018 a gathering in West Miami of Ron DeSantis supporters
After Hurricane Hermine in 2016, Tallahassee "didn’t have power for weeks because (Mayor Andrew Gillum) stood in the way of crews being able to come in and restore power, because they weren’t members of the right union or something."
False
By Amy Sherman • October 16, 2018
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on April 9, 2017 an interview on ABC "This Week"
The Obama administration’s 2013 Syria proposal "had no clear objective," while Trump’s Syria strike "had a clear strategic objective."
False
By Lauren Carroll • April 12, 2017
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 26, 2016 a U.S. Senate debate
Says President Obama "was proposing pinprick strikes" for military intervention in Syria.
False
By Joshua Gillin • October 27, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 4, 2016 a Spanish-language campaign ad
Says Patrick Murphy wrongly conveyed Rubio's stance on abortion for women infected by Zika.
False
By Joshua Gillin • October 11, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 7, 2016 a statement by a spokeswoman
Says "Patrick Murphy is the only candidate to have voted against every measure to fund Zika."
False
By Joshua Gillin • September 14, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 14, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press"
"There comes a point in the last year of the president, especially in their second term, where you stop nominating" both Supreme Court justices and Court of Appeals judges.
False
By Linda Qiu • February 14, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 6, 2016 the GOP primary debate in New Hampshire
Says Hillary Clinton "believes that all abortions should be legal, even on the due date of that unborn child."
False
By Linda Qiu • February 10, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 31, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"We have more illegal immigrants here" than we did five years ago.
False
By Lauren Carroll • January 31, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on November 12, 2015 remarks to reporters in South Carolina
Says Ted Cruz "is a supporter of legalizing people that are in this country illegally" and "proposed giving them work permits."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • November 18, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on November 10, 2015 the fourth GOP primary debate.
"Welders make more money than philosophers."
False
By Clayton Youngman • November 11, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 28, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.
Says a question about his financial skills at the CNBC debate included "discredited attacks from Democrats and my political opponents."
False
By Joshua Gillin • October 30, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN GOP presidential debate
Says that President Barack Obama said an attack on Syria "was going to be a pinprick."
False
By Joshua Gillin • September 18, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 22, 2015 an interview on Fox News
The Iran deal says that "if any other country tries to undermine (Iran's) nuclear program, we have to help them defend themselves against Israel, Egypt, Saudis, our own allies."  
False
By Amy Sherman • July 23, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on April 25, 2015 Faith and Freedom Summit in Iowa
The United States "is not modernizing its nuclear weapons."
False
By Amy Sherman • May 5, 2015
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