Fact Check Posts – Page 103

Dan Patrick
stated on January 3, 2016 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."

By Linda Qiu • January 3, 2016

Rand Paul
stated on January 3, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"Both Cruz and Rubio are missing the vast majority of their votes."

By Lauren Carroll • January 3, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on December 20, 2015 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press".:

"We didn't go out and take" information from the Hillary Clinton campaign.

By Jon Greenberg • December 22, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on December 5, 2015 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."

By Jason Noble • December 22, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on December 13, 2015 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."

By Amy Sherman • December 22, 2015

Chris Christie
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:

Says the Obama administration invited "Russia into Syria."

By Louis Jacobson • December 21, 2015

Greg Abbott
stated on December 8, 2015 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."

By W. Gardner Selby • December 18, 2015

Sean Duffy
stated on December 9, 2015 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."

By Tom Kertscher • December 18, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on December 15, 2015 the CNN debate in Las Vegas:

Says Ted Cruz supports "legalizing people who are in this country illegally."

By Amy Sherman, W. Gardner Selby • December 16, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on December 15, 2015 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."

By Jon Greenberg • December 16, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on December 15, 2015 a GOP debate on CNN:

"The head of the FBI has told Congress they cannot vet those (Syrian) refugees."

By Linda Qiu • December 16, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on November 30, 2015 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

"We're practically not allowed to use coal any more. What do we do with our coal? We ship it to China and they spew it in the air."

By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015

Bryan Hughes
stated on December 1, 2015 a campaign press release:

"David Simpson actually voted for driver's licenses for illegal immigrants."

By W. Gardner Selby • December 11, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on December 2, 2015 a speech.:

In 2000, "I wrote about Osama bin Laden, ‘We’ve got to take him out.’"

By Warren Fiske • December 11, 2015

American Action Network
stated on December 8, 2015 a newspaper ad:

"Under conservative leadership, Congress has reduced the federal deficit by 60 percent – nearly $800 billion."

By Tom Kertscher • December 11, 2015

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

Chain email
stated on August 26, 2014 In a viral YouTube video:

A Muslim immigrant in Michigan can list his second, third or fourth wives as "extended family" and qualify for welfare.

By Clayton Youngman • December 7, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on December 1, 2015 a tweet:

"Last year, I stopped an Obamacare bailout and saved taxpayers $2.5 billion."

By Joshua Gillin • December 7, 2015

Scott Walker
stated on December 3, 2015 a tweet:

"From 2010-2014, median household income" in Wisconsin "has actually gone up 7.4 percent."

By Kevin Crowe, Tom Kertscher • December 7, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on December 6, 2015 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

"There are over 700,000 Americans on some watch list or another that would all be captured" in a Democratic amendment intended to stop suspected terrorists from buying guns.

By Lauren Carroll • December 6, 2015

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