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Keep the Promise 1 PAC
Keep the Promise 1 PAC
stated on February 17, 2016 an attack ad:
Says Donald Trump said the government is going to pay for everybody to have health care.
False
By Jon Greenberg • March 9, 2016
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on February 27, 2016 a television ad:
"Twenty million Americans are out of work."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 a Democratic presidential debate in Flint, Mich.:
"Almost every poll has shown that Sanders vs. Trump does a lot better than Clinton vs. Trump … and, that’s true nationally."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2016
Right to Rise
Right to Rise
stated on March 1, 2016 a television ad.:
Like Marco Rubio, Sen. Barack Obama had "one of the worst attendance records in the Senate."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 8, 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
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:
"When you're white ... you don't know what it's like to be poor."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 6, 2016 the Democratic debate in Flint:
Says Bernie Sanders "was against the auto bailout" and "voted against the money that ended up saving the auto industry."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • March 7, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 the Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:
"NAFTA, supported by the Secretary (Clinton), cost us 800,000 jobs nationwide."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 7, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 6, 2016 the Democratic debate in Flint:
"We have a higher rate of tested lead in people in Cleveland than in Flint."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • March 7, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 6, 2016 a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:
"President Obama took more money from Wall Street in the 2008 campaign than anybody ever had."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 7, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 2, 2016 remarks after the Super Tuesday balloting:
"The Great Wall of China, built 2,000 years ago, is 13,000 miles (long)."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2016
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on March 6, 2016 an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press":
On Donald Trump's track record in business
Full Flop
By Louis Jacobson • March 6, 2016
Tom Daschle
Tom Daschle
stated on February 29, 2016 an op-ed:
U.S. global AIDS spending helped reduce "political instability and violence" by "40 percent" in recipient nations.  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 4, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 3, 2016 a Republican presidential debate in Detroit:
Says Donald Trump has written 10 checks to Hillary Clinton "and four of those checks were not to her Senate campaign. … It was to her presidential campaign."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 4, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 3, 2016 a GOP debate hosted by Fox:
The wives of the 9/11 hijackers "knew exactly what was happening" and went back to Saudi Arabia two days before the attacks to watch their husbands on television flying the planes.
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 4, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 3, 2016 a GOP debate hosted by Fox:
Marco Rubio "has the No. 1 absentee record in the United States" Senate.
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • March 4, 2016
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on March 3, 2016 a Republican presidential debate in Detroit:
In head-to-head polls for the general election, "I beat Hillary Clinton by more than anybody, by 11 points."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 4, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 28, 2016 an Instagram meme:
Says Mahatma Gandhi once said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 4, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 28, 2016 comments on CNN's State of the Union:
"I don't know anything about David Duke."
Pants on Fire!
By Linda Qiu • March 2, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 24, 2016 a news conference:
"Since (welfare reform) was signed into law, the number of families living in extreme poverty has more than doubled."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • March 2, 2016
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