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Latest Fact-Checks By Joshua Gillin

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 10, 2016 a GOP debate in Miami
Common Core is "education through Washington D.C."
False
By Joshua Gillin • March 11, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 7, 2016 a campaign ad
"As a legislator, (Marco Rubio) flipped on a key vote after making a quick $200,000 from selling the house to the mother of the bill's lobbyist."
Mostly False
By Aaron Sharockman, Joshua Gillin • March 11, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.
"(Flint, Mich., is) paying three times more for poison water than I am paying in Burlington, Vt., for clean water."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • March 7, 2016
Charles Van Zant
Charles Van Zant
stated on February 29, 2016 a House Finance and Tax committee meeting
"For every time the state gets paid a dollar in taxes (on gambling), somebody loses $6."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • March 4, 2016
Sierra Club
Sierra Club
stated on February 22, 2016 a letter from Tampa Bay Group chairman Kent Bailey to Hillsborough County commissioners
"Our community (Tampa Bay) is one of the 10 most threatened by the sea level rise in the world."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • February 26, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 25, 2016 comments during the Houston GOP debate
"When they passed Obamacare, they put a bailout fund in Obamacare. … We led the effort and wiped out that bailout fund."
Mostly False
By Joshua Gillin • February 26, 2016
Janet Adkins
Janet Adkins
stated on February 9, 2016 a House Appropriations Committee meeting
"There is great disparity, tremendous disparity, in the (capital) funding on a per-student basis between our traditional public schools and our charter public schools."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • February 22, 2016
Seminole Tribe of Florida
Seminole Tribe of Florida
stated on February 3, 2016 a commercial
The Seminole gambling compact offers "$3 billion in guaranteed revenue, the largest share for any state in history."  
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • February 11, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 7, 2016 comments on Meet the Press
"There really isn’t any kind of foreign policy network that is supporting and advising Sen. Sanders."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • February 7, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 6, 2016 an ABC Republican debate in New Hampshire
"Right now we’re the highest taxed country in the world."
False
By Joshua Gillin, Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2016
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on January 20, 2016 a comment to a Tampa Bay Times reporter
"We've cut taxes 50 times and look what has happened to our revenues. They've grown."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • February 4, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 2, 2016 a town hall event in Windham, N.H.
The 2013 immigration bill "expanded President Obama’s ability to bring Syrian refugees to this country without mandating any meaningful background checks."
False
By Joshua Gillin, Jon Greenberg • February 3, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 28, 2016 a Republican debate in Iowa on Fox News
"I have never supported cap and trade."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • January 29, 2016
John Cortes
John Cortes
stated on January 13, 2016 a House Health Innovation Subcommittee meeting
"Anyone can die of a toothache."
True
By Joshua Gillin • January 26, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 18, 2016 an exchange with voters at an Iowa campaign event
Says his much-discussed boots are "made in Wisconsin."
Pants on Fire!
By Joshua Gillin • January 19, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 17, 2016 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
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 14, 2016 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
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on January 12, 2016 his 2016 State of the State address
"We have completely turned our economy around."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • January 12, 2016
Viral image
Viral image
stated on December 26, 2015 a Facebook post
Says U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho said "African Americans should only be given three-fifths of a vote."
Pants on Fire!
By Joshua Gillin • December 30, 2015
Patrick Murphy
Patrick Murphy
stated on December 8, 2015 a tweet
"91% of suspected terrorists who attempted to buy guns in America walked away with the weapon they wanted."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • December 29, 2015
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