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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 5, 2015 an interview on CNN
"We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth."
Mostly False
July 8, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on June 23, 2015 an op-ed on Breitbart
On support for Trade Promotion Authority, called fast-track 
Full Flop
By Keely Herring • July 8, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 6, 2015 a meme on social media
Says Hillary Clinton’s top 10 donors are mainly "banks, corporations and media," while Bernie Sanders’ top 10 donors are labor unions.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 1, 2015 an interview on Fox Business Network
"Hundreds of thousands of (illegal immigrants are) going to state and federal penitentiaries."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • July 6, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 1, 2015 remarks on CNN.
Says his book, The Art of the Deal, is "the No. 1 selling business book of all time."
False
By Linda Qiu • July 6, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 29, 2015 social media posts.
"The House of Representatives just voted 300-131 to remove ‘country-of-origin labeling’ on chicken, pork, and beef sold in the U.S."
True
By Linda Qiu • July 2, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on June 29, 2015 an interview on NPR
The Supreme Court’s views "are radically out of step with public opinion" regarding its decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • July 1, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 25, 2015 a speech about the Affordable Care Act.
"By one leading measure, what business owners pay out in wages and salaries is now finally growing faster than what they spend on health insurance" for the first time in 17 years.
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • June 30, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 28, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week"
"We are the only major country on Earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • June 29, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 28, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
Public support for abortion "is actually going down a little bit," polls show.
False
By Lauren Carroll • June 28, 2015
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 25, 2015 posts on the Internet
"Lincoln was fervently making plans to send all freed slaves to the jungles of Central America once the (Civil War) was over. … The only thing that kept this from happening was his assassination."
False
By Louis Jacobson • June 26, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 23, 2015 a speech in Florissant, Mo.
American schools are "more segregated than they were in the 1960s."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • June 25, 2015
Cornell William Brooks
Cornell William Brooks
stated on June 21, 2015 comments on Face the Nation
"We have at least 200,000 to 300,000 hate crimes in a given year."
Mostly True
June 25, 2015
Chain email
Chain email
stated on June 24, 2015 a chain email
"Under the Affordable Care Act, anyone on Medicare who is admitted to a hospital for observation will be responsible for the bill. Medicare won't pay a cent."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • June 25, 2015
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on June 7, 2015 an interview on CBS' Face the Nation
On Common Core. 
Full Flop
By Keely Herring • June 24, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on June 15, 2015 a speech launching his 2016 campaign
"The party in the White House" is responsible for "a massive tax increase on the middle class."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • June 23, 2015
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on June 14, 2015 comments on CNN's State of the Union
Says Hillary Clinton "was completely exonerated, when I was in the White House" by an official inquiry on Whitewater.
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • June 23, 2015
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on June 14, 2015 comments on CNN's State of the Union
After a federal inquiry corroborated Hillary Clinton on Whitewater, "the next day, there was nothing in the media about it."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • June 23, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 20, 2015 a tweet
"Here are the stats: Per population, we kill each other with guns at a rate 297x more than Japan, 49x more than France, 33x more than Israel."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 18, 2015 remarks at the White House
"This type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency."
Mostly False
By Keely Herring, Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2015
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