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Latest Fact-Checks In Candidate Biography

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Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on October 6, 2016 a campaign ad
Says Russ Feingold "got paid $8,000 a lecture at Stanford University."
Mostly False
By Alison Dirr • November 2, 2016
Jimmy Flannigan
Jimmy Flannigan
stated on September 12, 2016 an Austin Monitor interview that day plus forums later
Says that he’s responsible for Austin including Anderson Mill Road in the city's proposed transportation bond package.
Mostly False
By Nolan Hicks • November 1, 2016
Joe Heck
Joe Heck
stated on October 25, 2016 a political ad.
Says "Catherine Cortez Masto indicted (Brian Krolicki), who was an innocent man, in order to save Harry Reid's political career"
Half-True
By Riley Snyder • November 1, 2016
Chris Malone
Chris Malone
stated on September 28, 2016
Says Democratic challenger for his N.C. House seat "raised taxes on clothing, school supplies – even baby diapers!"
Pants on Fire!
By Will Doran • October 28, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 26, 2016 a rally in Tampa, Fla.
"One-half of undocumented workers pay federal income taxes, which means they are paying more federal income taxes than Donald Trump pays."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • October 27, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 26, 2016 a U.S. Senate debate
Says President Obama "was proposing pinprick strikes" for military intervention in Syria.
False
By Joshua Gillin • October 27, 2016
Patrick Murphy
Patrick Murphy
stated on October 23, 2016 a TV interview on WFLA
"We have never done business with Donald Trump."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • October 26, 2016
Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold
stated on September 6, 2016 a radio ad
Says Ron Johnson "has essentially done nothing" to fight heroin addiction and opioid abuse.
False
October 26, 2016
Gerald Daugherty
Gerald Daugherty
stated on October 17, 2016 his campaign website
Says he’s "taken an 8% pay decrease in each of the nine years he has been in office."
Half-True
By Rachel Rice • October 24, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 22, 2016 a press conference
"400 bills have my name on them either as a sponsor or a co-sponsor. You don’t get that done unless you work with folks on the other side."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • October 24, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 the third 2016 presidential debate
The stories from women saying he groped or forced himself on them "largely have been debunked."
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 20, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 19, 2016 the third 2016 presidential debate
"There was even a time when (Donald Trump) didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 20, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 the third presidential debate in Las Vegas
Says Hillary Clinton is "wrong" to say he mocked a disabled reporter.
False
By Alan Gathright, Louis Jacobson • October 20, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 19, 2016 the third 2016 presidential debate
Says Donald Trump "said as recently as a few weeks ago in Phoenix that every undocumented person would be subject to deportation."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • October 20, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 20, 2016 in a debate
Says Donald Trump "used undocumented labor to build the Trump Tower."
True
By Linda Qiu, Riley Snyder • October 20, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 the third presidential debate
When Hillary Clinton "ran the State Department, $6 billion was missing. How do you miss $6 billion? You ran the State Department, $6 billion was either stolen — they don't know."
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • October 20, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 the third 2016 presidential debate
Says Hillary Clinton "wanted the wall."
Half-True
October 20, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 10, 2016 a rally in Detroit
"Back in the Great Recession, when millions of  jobs across America hung in the balance, Donald Trump said rescuing the auto industry didn’t really matter very much. He said, and I quote again, ‘Let it go.’ "  
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • October 18, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 17, 2016 a U.S. Senate debate in Orlando
"Not even Tim Kaine is willing" to say he trusts Hillary Clinton. 
Pants on Fire!
By Allison Graves • October 18, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 13, 2016 a speech
Says Hillary Clinton was "let off the hook" for her email scandal while Gen. David Petraeus had his life "destroyed for doing far, far less."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 18, 2016
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