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Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on February 16, 2016 a campaign event
"The people that perpetrated that travesty in San Bernardino had never been to the Middle East."
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • February 22, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 21, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
With Obamacare, "You have no options .. you can't get competitive bidding."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • February 21, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 21, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
"About 70 percent of Republicans nationwide ... don't think Donald Trump is the right guy" to take on Hillary Clinton in November.
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • February 21, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on January 26, 2016 a column posted on Medium.com
"Two-thirds of our kids can’t read at grade level."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 18, 2016
Richard Blumenthal
Richard Blumenthal
stated on February 15, 2016 an appearance on MSNBC's Hardball
"There's never been a (U.S. Supreme Court) vacancy in the last, I think, 30 years, lasting longer than 237 days."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 18, 2016
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on February 5, 2016 a column posted on Medium.com
"Barack Obama will somehow manage to add more than $8 trillion to the national debt, which is more debt than the 43 presidents who held office before him compiled together."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 18, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 12, 2016 a column posted on Medium.com
Says she will "work to raise the federal minimum wage back to the highest level it’s ever been — $12 an hour in today’s dollars."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 17, 2016
Our Principles PAC
Our Principles PAC
stated on February 14, 2016 a web ad
Says Donald "Trump supported impeachment of President (George W.) Bush."  
True
By Jon Greenberg • February 16, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 14, 2016 on ABC's "This Week"
Says "the one person (Donald Trump) has suggested that would make a good justice is his sister, who is a court of appeals judge appointed by Bill Clinton. She is a hardcore pro-abortion liberal judge."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • February 16, 2016
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on February 13, 2016 the Republican debate in Charleston, S.C.
"When Jeb (Bush) was governor, his first four years as governor, his Medicaid program grew twice as fast as mine."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • February 15, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 14, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press"
"It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don't do this in an election year."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 14, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 14, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press"
"There comes a point in the last year of the president, especially in their second term, where you stop nominating" both Supreme Court justices and Court of Appeals judges.
False
By Linda Qiu • February 14, 2016
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on February 13, 2016 a GOP debate on CBS
Says "Joseph Stalin said if you want to bring America down you, have to undermine three things: our spiritual life, our patriotism and our morality."
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • February 14, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 13, 2016 a Republican presidential debate
On the Iraq war, "I said it loud and clear, 'You'll destabilize the Middle East.' "
False
By Lauren Carroll • February 14, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 11, 2016 comments during the PBS Democratic debate
The United States has "the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on Earth."  
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 12, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 11, 2016 comments during the PBS Democratic debate
Says Sen. Bernie Sanders has called President Barack Obama "weak. He's called him a disappointment."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 12, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 11, 2016 comments during the PBS Democratic debate
"The African-American community lost half of their wealth as a result of the Wall Street collapse."
True
By Linda Qiu • February 12, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 11, 2016 a Democratic presidential debate in Milwaukee
"Americans haven’t had a raise in 15 years."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • February 12, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 11, 2016 a PBS Democratic debate
"In America, we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 12, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 9, 2016 a victory speech after the New Hampshire primary
"Don't believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9 and 5 percent unemployment. The number's probably 28, 29, as high as 35. In fact, I even heard recently 42 percent."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • February 11, 2016
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