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Latest Fact-Checks On Beto O'Rourke

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Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on June 27, 2022 an Instagram post:
"Under Abbott, Texas leads the nation in rape offenses while the rate of arrests for rape has fallen by nearly half."
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By Nusaiba Mizan • August 9, 2022
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on May 25, 2022 remarks in Uvalde County, Texas:
Texas is "50th in the nation in mental health care access."
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By Ciara O'Rourke • May 25, 2022
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 23, 2022 an Instagram post:
"Under Greg Abbott, property taxes have gone up $20 billion."
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By Nusaiba Mizan • May 19, 2022
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on November 19, 2021 a rally:
"Right now, in the average Texas fourth grade classroom, 7 out of 10 kids cannot read at grade level."
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By Nusaiba Mizan • January 28, 2022
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on November 19, 2021 a rally:
"Expanding Medicaid, which if we had done at the beginning of the Abbott administration, would have brought in $100 billion to this state's economy."
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By Nusaiba Mizan • January 10, 2022
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on July 11, 2019 a public forum:
"We are incarcerating more children than any time ... since we interned Japanese-Americans during World War II"
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By Mica Soellner • July 26, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 29, 2019 climate change plan:
"Race is the No. 1 indicator for where toxic and polluting facilities are today."
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By Miriam Valverde • May 14, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 16, 2019 a speech.:
"Disparities in infant mortality between white America and black America (are) greater today, in 2019,  than in the year 1850..."
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By Warren Fiske • April 23, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on February 8, 2019 a blog post:
When visa holders exit the United States and enter Mexico, "if they leave through a land port of entry we literally have no clue if they are still here or have returned to their country of origin."
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By Miriam Valverde • February 15, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on July 26, 2018 an ad in the Houston Defender:
Says "black Americans have 10 times less wealth than white Americans."
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By W. Gardner Selby • August 23, 2018
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on March 16, 2018 remarks on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":
"Texas is one of the most gerrymandered states in the union."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2018