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Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on December 15, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:
Says carpet bombing means bombing "not a city, but the location of the troops," with "embedded special forces to direct the air power."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on December 15, 2015 a GOP debate on CNN:
"One of the things I would immediately do … is bring back the warrior class -- Petraeus, McChrystal, Mattis, Keane, Flynn. ... Every one was retired early because they told President Obama things that he didn’t want to hear."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • December 16, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on December 15, 2015 in the CNN debate in Las Vegas:
Says Marco Rubio "is the one for an open border."  
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • December 16, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on December 15, 2015 a GOP debate on CNN:
"Two months ago, Donald Trump said that ISIS was not our fight."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on December 15, 2015 a GOP debate on CNN:
"The head of the FBI has told Congress they cannot vet those (Syrian) refugees."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • December 16, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 30, 2015 an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
"We're practically not allowed to use coal any more. What do we do with our coal? We ship it to China and they spew it in the air."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on December 8, 2015 an interview with NPR:
"Mike Morell testified and told Congress that the reason Obama has not bombed ISIS' oil fields is they're concerned about global warming."
False
By Linda Qiu • December 14, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 13, 2015 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"The states have always defined marriage."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • December 13, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 13, 2015 an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press":
"Three or four countries" out of roughly 60 in the anti-ISIS coalition "are providing military force."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2015
Antonin Scalia
Antonin Scalia
stated on December 9, 2015 a Supreme Court hearing:
"Most of the black scientists in this country don't come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin, Lauren Carroll • December 11, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 7, 2015 a campaign statement:
Says 25 percent of U.S. Muslims "agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • December 9, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 13, 2013 multiple posts:
Barack Obama’s Columbia University ID says he was a foreign student and went by "Barry Soetoro."
Pants on Fire!
By Clayton Youngman • December 9, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on December 6, 2015 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press':
"In France, they have a (surveillance) program a thousandfold more invasive" than the United States.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • December 8, 2015
Alan Grayson
Alan Grayson
stated on November 25, 2015 an interview on the "Alan Colmes Show" on Fox News:
"Technically, (Ted Cruz is) not even an American."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • December 8, 2015
Chain email
Chain email
stated on August 26, 2014 In a viral YouTube video:
A Muslim immigrant in Michigan can list his second, third or fourth wives as "extended family" and qualify for welfare.
Mostly False
By Clayton Youngman • December 7, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 6, 2015 an interview with George Stephanopoulos:
The Charleston, S.C., shooter "should have never been given a gun, but the universal background check was not fast enough."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • December 6, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on December 6, 2015 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
"There are over 700,000 Americans on some watch list or another that would all be captured" in a Democratic amendment intended to stop suspected terrorists from buying guns.
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • December 6, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 1, 2015 a post on her campaign website:
"Ted Cruz tried to ban contraception" five times.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 2, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 29, 2015 an interview on "Face the Nation":
"It is already in the law that there is a requirement to screen (refugees) for religion."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • December 1, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 24, 2015 a radio interview in New Hampshire:
Says there are "ample means" to "tell when someone is a Christian in the Middle East ... by name, by where they’re born, their birth certificates."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • December 1, 2015
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