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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on September 22, 2015 a tweet
The largest low-wage employer "is not McDonalds or Walmart but the U.S. government."  
Mostly False
By Clayton Youngman • September 29, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on September 27, 2015 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
"We've had examples like in Yuma County, where we've been able to stop 97 percent of the illegal (immigration) flow, and those programs, they abolish."
Mostly False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • September 27, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on September 27, 2015 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
The tax policies of George W. Bush "created a dynamic effect of high growth."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on September 22, 2015 an interview with Fox's "The Kelly File"
There is not "one of the Muslim nations" that doesn't have "discrimination against women, discrimination against gays, subjugation of other religious beliefs."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • September 25, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 21, 2015 an interview with CBS' Stephen Colbert
"When (Ronald) Reagan came in, from 1978 to 1982, economic growth averaged less than 1 percent a year. There’s only one other four-year period where that’s true. That’s true from 2008 to 2012."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 25, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 22, 2015 a tweet
"The birther movement was started by Hillary Clinton in 2008. She was all in!"  
False
By Jon Greenberg • September 23, 2015
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on September 10, 2015 interview with Democracy Now!
Says "the cascading effects" of climate change contributed to the rise of ISIS.
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • September 23, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 19, 2015 remarks at the 2015 New Hampshire Democratic Party State Convention
"Under Republicans, recessions happen four times as frequently as under Democrats."  
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • September 22, 2015
Viral image
Viral image
stated on September 8, 2015 a shareable graphic on the Web
Says Bernie Sanders opposes "requiring all children to have a K-12 education."
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 21, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 16, 2015 the second GOP primary debate
When Carly Fiorina says Hewlett-Packard "revenues went up, that's because she bought Compaq. It was a terrible deal."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • September 21, 2015
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN debate
Says Donald Trump was "forced to file for bankruptcy not once, not twice, four times."
Mostly True
By Clayton Youngman, Lauren Carroll • September 21, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 20, 2015 an interview on "This Week."
"We had a three-hour debate, no discussion about the national debt, very little about the economy."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • September 20, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on September 16, 2015 a presidential debate
"There's never been a direct Supreme Court case on people who were here illegally, whether or not their kids are citizens."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 18, 2015
Town hall audience member
Town hall audience member
stated on September 17, 2015 a town hall held by Donald Trump in Rochester, N.H.
"You know our current president is (Muslim). You know he's not even an American."  
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • September 18, 2015
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN Republican debate
The government "made accommodation to the Fort Hood shooter to let him grow a beard" for religious reasons.  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • September 17, 2015
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN debate
One of the Planned Parenthood videos shows "a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, 'We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.' "
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • September 17, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 16, 2015 the second GOP primary debate.
Says Marco Rubio has "the worst voting record there is today."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • September 17, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 16, 2015 a GOP presidential debate on CNN
Says Mexico doesn't have birthright citizenship, and Americans are the "only ones" to have it.
False
By Katie Sanders • September 17, 2015
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN Republican debate
"The marijuana that kids are smoking today is not the same as the marijuana that Jeb Bush smoked 40 years ago."    
True
By Jon Greenberg • September 17, 2015
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on September 16, 2015 comments on the CNN debate
"We've just now given over $100 billion" to Iran, "the equivalent in U.S. terms is $5 trillion."  
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • September 17, 2015
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