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Ben Carson
stated on August 6, 2015 the first Republican debate

"Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them."

False

By Jon Greenberg • August 7, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on August 6, 2015 in comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland

"A majority of the candidates on this stage have supported amnesty ... I have never supported amnesty."

Mostly True

By Lauren Carroll • August 7, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on August 6, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Cleveland

"The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over. John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on August 6, 2015 comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland

Says Hillary Clinton has "been in office and in government longer than anybody else running here tonight."

Mostly False

By Lauren Carroll • August 7, 2015

Mike Huckabee
stated on August 6, 2015 the first Republican debate

"$700 billion was robbed (from Medicare) to pay for Obamacare."

Half-True

By Linda Qiu • August 7, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on August 6, 2015 the first Republican debate

Illegal immigration "wasn’t a subject that was on anybody’s mind until I brought it up at my announcement."

False

By Jon Greenberg • August 7, 2015

John Kasich
stated on August 6, 2015 comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland

"I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole … to a $2 billion surplus."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on August 6, 2015 comments at a GOP debate in Cleveland

"The Mexican government ... they send the bad ones over."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on July 28, 2015 a town hall in Nashua, N.H.

"The stock market does better when you have a Democratic president in the White House."

Mostly True

By Louis Jacobson • August 4, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on March 27, 2015 comments on social media.

Say President George W. Bush " ‘borrowed’ $1.37 trillion of Social Security surplus revenue to pay for his tax cuts for the rich and his war in Iraq and never paid it back."

Mostly False

By Linda Qiu • August 3, 2015

Martin O'Malley
stated on July 26, 2015 a New Hampshire interview

"97 percent of the work that Planned Parenthood does is about mammograms and preventative health."

Half-True

By Lauren Carroll • August 3, 2015

Rick Perry
stated on August 2, 2015 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"

Says Donald Trump is for a single-payer health care system.

Half-True

By Linda Qiu • August 2, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on August 2, 2015 an interview on ABC "This Week"

Under President Barack Obama, income levels and unemployment numbers "are worse now than just about ever" for African-Americans.

False

By Louis Jacobson • August 2, 2015

Harry Reid
stated on July 29, 2015 a Senate floor speech

Planned Parenthood is "the only health care that a significant number of women get. About 30 percent of women, that's their health care."

Pants on Fire!

By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2015

Cory Booker
stated on July 27, 2015 a post on Instagram

"We built a new prison every 10 days between 1990 and 2005 to keep up with our mass incarceration explosion of nonviolent offenders."

Mostly True

By Keely Herring • July 31, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on July 26, 2015 a meme on social media

Says Hillary Clinton "refuses to testify before Congress" about the 2012 attack in Benghazi.

False

By Louis Jacobson • July 31, 2015

Bloggers
stated on July 20, 2015 various conservative websites

"Obama Makes Huge Move to BAN Social Security Recipients From Owning Guns"

False

July 30, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on July 21, 2015 an interview with Jon Stewart of "The Daily Show"

"The economy, by every metric, is better than when I came into office."

Mostly False

By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2015

Barack Obama
stated on July 21, 2015 an online interview with "The Daily Show"

Since 2009, "we've cut homelessness (among veterans) by a third."

Mostly True

By Kirby Wilson • July 28, 2015

Rand Paul
stated on July 26, 2015 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"

"(Hillary Clinton's State Department) actually admonished one of her ambassadors because he wasn’t using the proper server."

True

By Linda Qiu • July 26, 2015

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