Fact Check Posts – Page 18

Tom "Smitty" Smith
stated on April 14, 2016 a commentary published in the Austin American-Statesman:

"Texas has 600,000 registered voters who don’t have the kind of photo ID needed to vote."

By W. Gardner Selby • April 22, 2016

Ben Carson
stated on April 20, 2016 a Fox Business interview:

"Andrew Jackson was the last president who actually balanced the federal budget, where we had no national debt."

By Lauren Carroll • April 21, 2016

John Kasich
stated on March 29, 2016 an interview:

Ten times, no Republican candidate for president had enough delegates to claim the nomination before the party’s convention, and seven of those times "somebody who was not the leader of delegates was selected as the nominee of the party."

By Tom Kertscher • April 15, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 11, 2016 a rally in Rome, N.Y.:

"My numbers are better right now than Ronald Reagan's numbers were with Jimmy Carter."

By Louis Jacobson • April 14, 2016

New Day for America
stated on March 31, 2016 a television ad.:

"Many just call him 'Lyin' Ted.' ... His TV ad about John Kasich? Lie! Stations had to pull it off the air."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 6, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 22, 2016 a speech at Stanford University.:

When it comes to fighting terrorism, "Another thing we know that does not work, based on lots of empirical evidence, is torture."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 30, 2016

Jennifer Horn
stated on March 16, 2016 a press release:

"For more than 80 years, there has not been a nomination and confirmation of a Supreme Court Justice in a presidential election year. This is simply not the time to break with decades of bipartisan practice."

By Clay Wirestone • March 18, 2016

Mike Honda
stated on March 16, 2016 a column posted on Medium:

"Six justices" on the U.S. Supreme Court have been "confirmed in presidential election years since 1912."

By Louis Jacobson, Tom Kertscher • March 17, 2016

Roy Zimmerman
stated on March 13, 2016 a YouTube video:

"Republicans control the U.S. Senate with 54 seats, but those 54 senators were elected by only two-thirds the number of voters who elected the Democrats. In the Senate, the majority party represents a minority of the people."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 17, 2016

Everytown for Gun Safety
stated on March 8, 2016 a Facebook meme:

The rate of U.S. female homicide victims outnumbers 24 other developed countries by more than 2½ to 1.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 14, 2016

Right to Rise
stated on March 1, 2016 a television ad.:

Like Marco Rubio, Sen. Barack Obama had "one of the worst attendance records in the Senate."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 8, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on March 6, 2016 a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.:

"President Obama took more money from Wall Street in the 2008 campaign than anybody ever had."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 7, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 2, 2016 remarks after the Super Tuesday balloting:

"The Great Wall of China, built 2,000 years ago, is 13,000 miles (long)."

By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2016

Paul Ryan
stated on February 23, 2016 an interview:

"There is a precedent" for not nominating someone to the U.S. Supreme Court "in the middle of a presidential election."

By Tom Kertscher • March 4, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 3, 2016 a GOP debate hosted by Fox:

The wives of the 9/11 hijackers "knew exactly what was happening" and went back to Saudi Arabia two days before the attacks to watch their husbands on television flying the planes.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 4, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on February 28, 2016 an Instagram meme:

Says Mahatma Gandhi once said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 4, 2016

Stephanie Schriock
stated on February 1, 2016 as quoted by the Texas Tribune:

"Texas is home to millions of Latinas, but the state has never elected a Latina to Congress."

By Emma Hinchliffe • February 29, 2016

Huey Rey Fischer
stated on February 8, 2016 a press release:

"There isn’t a single (Texas) legislator under the age of 30, even though millennials make up 25 percent of the electorate in Texas."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 27, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on February 19, 2016 a rally in North Charleston, S.C.:

Says that in the Philippines more than a century ago, Gen. John Pershing "took 50 bullets, and he dipped them in pigs’ blood," and shot 49 Muslim rebels. "The 50th person, he said, ‘You go back to your people, and you tell them what happened.’ And for 25 years, there wasn’t a problem."

By Louis Jacobson • February 23, 2016

Bob Goodlatte
stated on February 15, 2016 a TV interview.:

"It’s highly unusual to have a Supreme Court confirmation in a presidential election year. The last one was 1940."

By Sean Gorman • February 22, 2016

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