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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 17, 2016 in comments during the South Carolina Democratic presidential debate:
"Very little of (the defense) budget — less than 10 percent — actually goes into fighting ISIS and international terrorism."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • January 18, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 17, 2016 in comments during the South Carolina Democratic presidential debate:
"I helped write" the Affordable Care Act.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2016
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on December 28, 2015 in remarks at a Florida campaign stop:
"In Houston, Texas, today, there are no homeless veterans."  
Mostly False
By Emma Hinchliffe • January 15, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 14, 2016 in a Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.:
Says Sen. Ted Cruz used to be "in favor of birthright citizenship" but is now against it.
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • January 15, 2016
Conservative Solutions PAC
Conservative Solutions PAC
stated on January 4, 2016 in an attack ad:
Says Chris Christie "instituted an Internet sales tax."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 14, 2016
Chelsea Clinton
Chelsea Clinton
stated on January 12, 2016 in a campaign event for Hillary Clinton:
Says Bernie Sanders’ health care plan would "empower Republican governors to take away Medicaid, to take away health insurance for low-income and middle-income working Americans."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • January 14, 2016
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on December 17, 2015 in a speech.:
"We are taking Virginia’s investment in public education to the highest level in the commonwealth’s history."
Mostly False
By Warren Fiske • January 11, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 10, 2016 in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" in Ottumwa, Iowa:
"We get practically nothing compared to the cost of" keeping U.S. military forces in South Korea.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 10, 2016
Scot Ross
Scot Ross
stated on December 13, 2015 in a television interview:
Under Scott Walker, Wisconsin "moved from 16th to third in percentage of people with student loan debt."
Mostly False
By James B. Nelson • January 8, 2016
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on December 17, 2015 in a column posted on Medium:
"When we held recent economic dialogues with China, we agreed on over 100 different things  —  including wildlife trafficking and volcano research. None of these 100-plus points of agreement addressed cybersecurity."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 7, 2016
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on January 3, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"Everywhere that we have more citizens carrying guns, crime is less. There's a study showing that where states have open carry or concealed carry, but particularly open carry, the crime is down 25 percent."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • January 3, 2016
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on January 3, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"Both Cruz and Rubio are missing the vast majority of their votes."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • January 3, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 20, 2015 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press".:
"We didn't go out and take" information from the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • December 22, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on December 5, 2015 in a speech at the Rising Tide Summit in Cedar Rapids, Iowa:
"The Democrats in the Senate last year introduced a constitutional amendment to repeal the free speech protections of the First Amendment."
Mostly False
By Jason Noble • December 22, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 13, 2015 in an interview on Meet the Press:
The only budget Ted Cruz "ever voted for in his time in the Senate is a budget that cut defense spending by more than Barack Obama proposes we cut it."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • December 22, 2015
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on December 15, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:
Says the Obama administration invited "Russia into Syria."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 21, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on December 8, 2015 in a press conference with Sen. Ted Cruz:
Says President Barack Obama "himself has granted waivers allowing into the United States refugees who provided material support to terrorists."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • December 18, 2015
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on December 9, 2015 in an interview:
Says President Barack Obama’s homeland security budget had "$16 million to fight climate change" but "didn't have a line item to fight violent extremism."  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • December 18, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 15, 2015 in the CNN debate in Las Vegas:
Says Ted Cruz supports "legalizing people who are in this country illegally."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, W. Gardner Selby • December 16, 2015
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on December 15, 2015 in a GOP debate on CNN:
"One of the things I would immediately do … is bring back the warrior class -- Petraeus, McChrystal, Mattis, Keane, Flynn. ... Every one was retired early because they told President Obama things that he didn’t want to hear."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • December 16, 2015
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