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Latest Fact-Checks By Paul Specht

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Various media reports 2
Various media reports 2
stated on February 26, 2019 in reports:
Says NC bill would change the grading scale.
False
By Paul Specht • February 28, 2019
North Carolina Republican Party
North Carolina Republican Party
stated on February 12, 2019 in a press release:
Says replacing NC Supreme Court Chief Justice with most experienced justice is a "longstanding, nonpartisan tradition."
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • February 27, 2019
Wiley Nickel
Wiley Nickel
stated on February 20, 2019 in a tweet:
Says a Republican bill "pays for school construction with teacher pay raises."
False
By Paul Specht • February 26, 2019
Chuck McGrady
Chuck McGrady
stated on February 13, 2019 in a press conference:
Says "nearly half" of House Republicans have supported a nonpartisan redistricting bill.
Half-True
By Paul Specht • February 15, 2019
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on January 30, 2019:
Says "30,000 veterans in North Carolina have no health insurance."
Mostly True
By Paul Specht • February 14, 2019
Jacob Wohl
Jacob Wohl
stated on February 7, 2019:
"Racist picture of Democrat North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper emerges just days after he called on Ralph Northam to resign - DAILY MAIL."
Pants on Fire!
By Paul Specht, Rashaan Ayesh • February 9, 2019
Dallas Woodhouse
Dallas Woodhouse
stated on January 17, 2019 in a tweet:
Says the NC elections board received "no calls" after alerting Bladen County voters to possible absentee ballot fraud.
False
By Paul Specht • January 30, 2019
Richard Hudson
Richard Hudson
stated on January 8, 2019 in a tweet:
Says Democrats want to give $54 billion in foreign aid, and Trump is only asking for 10 percent of that "to secure our border and build a wall.
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • January 24, 2019
Ted Budd
Ted Budd
stated on January 9, 2019 in a tweet:
Says there are "2,000 inadmissible migrants arriving every day"
Half-True
By Paul Specht • January 17, 2019
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on December 26, 2018 in a Facebook post:
A bill passed by GOP legislators "makes it harder to prosecute people and groups that violate campaign finance laws."
True
By Paul Specht • January 14, 2019
Phil Berger
Phil Berger
stated on December 19, 2018 in a press release:
Says former North Carolina elections board chairman "tried to drag a cancer-stricken woman out of her hospital bed to testify at her son’s hearing on the first day of early voting over a bogus complaint that the board hadn’t even fully investigated."
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • January 8, 2019
North Carolina Democratic Party
North Carolina Democratic Party
stated on December 27, 2018 in a tweet:
Legislators are "ramming through a provision that’ll make investigations like #NC09 less transparent."
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • January 7, 2019
Dallas Woodhouse
Dallas Woodhouse
stated on December 8, 2018 in a tweet:
Says no elections protest was filed, McCready conceded and "every" county board certified its results from the Mark Harris, Dan McCready race.
Mostly True
By Paul Specht • December 21, 2018
Dan Blue
Dan Blue
stated on December 6, 2018:
"Public trust in our election system is at an all-time low."
False
By Paul Specht • December 18, 2018
Terry Van Duyn
Terry Van Duyn
stated on November 27, 2018 in a speech:
"Over 1,000 people were denied a ballot on Election Day" in the 2016 North Carolina primaries.
Half-True
By Paul Specht • December 11, 2018
North Carolina Republican Party
North Carolina Republican Party
stated on December 2, 2018 in a press release:
"There aren’t enough ballots in question to change the outcome" of the Harris vs. McCready race in NC Congressional District 9.
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • December 4, 2018
Dan McCready
Dan McCready
stated on October 10, 2018 in a debate:
"Mark Harris has said he would cut Social Security and Medicare."
Half-True
By Paul Specht • November 2, 2018
Mark Harris
Mark Harris
stated on October 10, 2018 in a tweet:
"In our debate, Dan McCready doubled down on his support for Pelosi’s liberal agenda of … impeaching our president."
False
By Paul Specht • October 31, 2018
Ted Budd
Ted Budd
stated on October 23, 2018 in a campaign video:
Kathy Manning gave "nearly $1 million to liberals"
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • October 26, 2018
North Carolina Republican Party
North Carolina Republican Party
stated on October 23, 2018 in an ad campaign:
Democrats pledged to "force all North Carolinians into a single-payer health insurance scheme" that would cost $72 billion.
False
By Paul Specht • October 23, 2018
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