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Jess McIntosh
stated on June 30, 2019 a TV panel:

"Fifty percent of Republicans are in favor of Medicare for All."

Mostly False

By Bill McCarthy • July 2, 2019

Charles Payne
stated on June 17, 2019 a TV appearance:

"When President Obama was elected, the market crashed … Trump was up 9%, President Obama was down 14.8% and President Bush was down almost 4%. There is an instant reaction on Wall Street."

Mostly False

By Bill McCarthy • June 25, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on June 17, 2019 a tweet:

Says Amazon is "paying full-time employees so little that they require gov food assistance."

Half-True

By Bill McCarthy • June 21, 2019

Jimmy Kimmel
stated on June 6, 2019 on "Jimmy Kimmel Live":

"Richard Nixon was the last president to be impeached."

False

By Bill McCarthy • June 13, 2019

Allen Thomas
stated on April 9, 2019 a candidate questionnaire:

"Currently, 23 percent of our military's infrastructure is graded as 'poor' while 9 percent is 'failing.'"

True

By Bill McCarthy • April 23, 2019

John Torbett
stated on April 3, 2019 a tweet:

Says all North Carolina teachers do not currently get a "duty free lunch break."

True

By Bill McCarthy • April 16, 2019

Mark Meadows
stated on March 14, 2019 a congressional hearing:

"The previous administration under President Barack Obama really was the first time that we didn’t ask a citizenship-type question … for the first time in a century, a citizenship question was not included in 2010."

False

By Bill McCarthy • April 4, 2019

Mark Walker
stated on March 7, 2019 an ad video:

"HR 1 is going to take your hard-earned tax dollars and millions more and send them to (a political candidate’s) campaign so (they) can put ads on TV."

Mostly False

By Bill McCarthy • March 26, 2019

Phil Berger
stated on February 25, 2019 a speech:

"Since 2011, the gap in high school graduation rates between African-American students and all students has been cut in half, from 6.4 percent to 3.1 percent."

True

By Bill McCarthy • March 7, 2019

Roy Cooper
stated on February 25, 2019 his State of the State address:

"Right now, four in 10 public schools in our state are at least 50 years old."

Mostly True

By Bill McCarthy • March 5, 2019

David Price
stated on February 14, 2019 a tweet:

Says border "crossings remain at historically low levels."

Mostly True

By Bill McCarthy • February 22, 2019

Darren Jackson
stated on January 30, 2019 a tweet:

"Expanding Medicaid would bring 40,000 jobs to North Carolina."

Mostly True

By Bill McCarthy • February 13, 2019

Civitas Institute
stated on January 28, 2019 a tweet:

"There are almost 60,000 North Carolina children on waiting lists to access a school that works best for them."

Mostly True

By Bill McCarthy • February 5, 2019

Mark Walker
stated on January 9, 2019 a tweet:

"The debate on securing our border can't be measured in partisan jabs. It has to be measured in the human toll caused by porous borders: 1/3 migrant women are sexually assaulted; 7/10 migrants are victims of violence; 20k migrant children were illegally smuggled last month."

Mostly False

By Bill McCarthy • January 21, 2019

Linda Coleman
stated on October 26, 2018 a town hall:

"Seniors can be charged five times what anybody else is charged for health care for pre-existing conditions" under the Republican health care bill.

Mostly False

By Bill McCarthy • October 30, 2018

FreedomWorks
stated on October 24, 2018 a Facebook ad:

Says "Dan McCready wants to repeal tax cuts that saves (sic) you $1,300" per year.

Mostly False

By Bill McCarthy • October 29, 2018

George Holding
stated on October 22, 2018 a debate:

"Obamacare raised premiums by 100 percent and after that 91 percent of the people were covered, but we’re all paying 100 percent more."

False

By Bill McCarthy • October 26, 2018

Kathy Manning
stated on October 9, 2018 a television ad:

Says Ted Budd "voted to gut protections for pre-existing conditions … letting insurance companies deny coverage for (necessary) treatment."

Half-True

By Bill McCarthy • October 22, 2018

Dan McCready
stated on October 17, 2018 a debate:

"Mark Harris has said he would abolish the Department of Education."

True

By Bill McCarthy • October 22, 2018

JD Wooten
stated on September 28, 2018:

"Republicans in the General Assembly cut teacher pay so much when they took over in 2011 that even with recent pay raises, we are still below pre-Recession pay levels."

Mostly False

By Bill McCarthy • October 17, 2018

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