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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 13, 2015 the first Democratic presidential debate:
Says Edward Snowden "could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistleblower."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2015
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on September 14, 2015:
Says Missouri Democratic Senate candidate Jason Kander is "attending fancy dinners all over the country."  
Mostly False
By Rachel Brooks • October 2, 2015
Jon Erpenbach
Jon Erpenbach
stated on September 25, 2015 an interview:
Says Scott Walker "said he wouldn't touch" the state civil service system but now supports overhauling it.
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • October 2, 2015
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stated on June 20, 2015 a post shared on Facebook:
Says after leaving the White House, Hillary Clinton "was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House china, furniture and artwork that she had stolen."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 1, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on September 25, 2015 Values Voter Summit:
When ICE releases illegal immigrants, "a lot of those people are not from Honduras and Mexico. They’re from Iraq and Somalia and Russia."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 1, 2015
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on September 27, 2015 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation":
"When I left Washington, we had a $5 trillion surplus."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 29, 2015
Jay Nixon
Jay Nixon
stated on August 20, 2015 comments at the Missouri State Fair:
"Almost nine out of every 10 pennies that would be spent" turning a 200-mile stretch of Interstate 70 into a toll road "would be from folks outside Missouri."
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • September 29, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 22, 2015 a tweet:
The largest low-wage employer "is not McDonalds or Walmart but the U.S. government."  
Mostly False
By Clayton Youngman • September 29, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on September 27, 2015 an interview on ABC's "This Week":
"We've had examples like in Yuma County, where we've been able to stop 97 percent of the illegal (immigration) flow, and those programs, they abolish."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 27, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on September 27, 2015 an interview on "Fox News Sunday":
The tax policies of George W. Bush "created a dynamic effect of high growth."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on September 22, 2015 an interview with Fox's "The Kelly File":
There is not "one of the Muslim nations" that doesn't have "discrimination against women, discrimination against gays, subjugation of other religious beliefs."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • September 25, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 21, 2015 an interview with CBS' Stephen Colbert:
"When (Ronald) Reagan came in, from 1978 to 1982, economic growth averaged less than 1 percent a year. There’s only one other four-year period where that’s true. That’s true from 2008 to 2012."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 25, 2015
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN Republican debate:
The government "made accommodation to the Fort Hood shooter to let him grow a beard" for religious reasons.  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • September 17, 2015
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN debate:
One of the Planned Parenthood videos shows "a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, 'We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.' "
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • September 17, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 14, 2015 a campaign proposal:
Says he will pursue change in federal law to protect employees from "extortion from a union" because "the Supreme Court has ruled that federal prohibitions outlawing extortion usually do not apply to unions."  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • September 17, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN debate:
Says Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker turned a $1 billion surplus into a $2.2 billion budget deficit.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • September 17, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 8, 2015 a tweet:
"Jeb's policies in Florida helped lead to its almost total collapse."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • September 15, 2015
Victoria Cobb
Victoria Cobb
stated on August 22, 2015 a speech.:
"Inspections of abortion centers around Virginia have found multiple violations of parental consent laws … but Gov. Terry McAuliffe and his administration have done nothing."
Mostly False
By Warren Fiske • September 14, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on August 25, 2015 a tweet:
"After Texas defunded Planned Parenthood, both the unintended pregnancy and abortion rates dropped."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 13, 2015
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stated on September 6, 2015 a Facebook post:
"Unions did not create" the eight-hour work day and the 40-hour work week. "Henry Ford did."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 9, 2015
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