Latest Fact-Checks In North Carolina

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Mark Walker
Mark Walker
stated on January 9, 2019 a tweet
"The debate on securing our border can't be measured in partisan jabs. It has to be measured in the human toll caused by porous borders: 1/3 migrant women are sexually assaulted;  7/10 migrants are victims of violence; 20k migrant children were illegally smuggled last month."
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • January 21, 2019
Ted Budd
Ted Budd
stated on January 9, 2019 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
Mark Harris
Mark Harris
stated on November 22, 2018
"Liberal Democrats" who back Dan McCready "cut $716 BILLION from Medicare to fund their healthcare scheme: Obamacare."
Mostly False
By Rashaan Ayesh • November 3, 2018
Jeff Tarte
Jeff Tarte
stated on June 14, 2018
On whether he supports tolls on I-77
Full Flop
By Rashaan Ayesh • November 2, 2018
Dan McCready
Dan McCready
stated on October 10, 2018 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 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
Linda Coleman
Linda Coleman
stated on October 26, 2018 a town hall
"Seniors can be charged five times what anybody else is charged for health care for pre-existing conditions" under the Republican health care bill.
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • October 30, 2018
FreedomWorks
FreedomWorks
stated on October 24, 2018 a Facebook ad
Says "Dan McCready wants to repeal tax cuts that saves (sic) you $1,300" per year.
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • October 29, 2018
Linda Coleman
Linda Coleman
stated on October 23, 2018
"George Holding has voted 13 times to deny Kevin, and the 300,000 people like him in the 2nd Congressional District, coverage" for their pre-existing conditions.
Mostly True
By Rashaan Ayesh • October 29, 2018
Kathy Manning
Kathy Manning
stated on October 23, 2018 a debate
"I'm not taking any corporate PAC money."
Half-True
By Will Doran • October 28, 2018
George Holding
George Holding
stated on October 22, 2018 a debate
"Obamacare raised premiums by 100 percent and after that 91 percent of the people were covered, but we’re all paying 100 percent more."
False
By Bill McCarthy • October 26, 2018
Ted Budd
Ted Budd
stated on October 23, 2018 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 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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