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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 1, 2016 in a campaign rally in Dade City, Fla.:
Says Donald Trump "doesn't believe in equal pay."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • November 2, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 31, 2016 in a rally in Cincinnati:
Says of Donald Trump, "He even said, on his very first day in office, he would require every school in America to let people carry guns into our classrooms."
True
By Lauren Carroll • November 1, 2016
Priorities USA Action
Priorities USA Action
stated on September 28, 2016 in a TV ad:
Says Donald Trump wants to deport "our Dreamers."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • November 1, 2016
DCCC
DCCC
stated on October 4, 2016 in in a campaign TV advertisement:
"When Trump wanted to turn a taxpayer-owned building into an $800 a night hotel, (Congressman Jeff Denham, R-CA) helped broker the deal and bragged about it."
False
By Chris Nichols • October 28, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 26, 2016 in a rally in Tampa, Fla.:
"One-half of undocumented workers pay federal income taxes, which means they are paying more federal income taxes than Donald Trump pays."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • October 27, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 25, 2016 in a rally in Florida:
Says Donald Trump "was asked if he would defend our allies. He said well, first he'd want to know if they made any payments to us to defend them."
True
By Miriam Valverde • October 26, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 24, 2016 in a rally in New Hampshire:
Says Donald Trump is "the first person running for president, Republican or Democrat, who refused to say that he would respect the results of this election."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • October 25, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 23, 2016 in a tweet from her campaign:
"Donald Trump says he'd deport 16 million people."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 25, 2016
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
stated on September 4, 2016 in a campaign appearance:
Says he and his running mate "are the only candidates that do believe in free trade."
Half-True
By Cara Lombardo • October 25, 2016
Progress Texas
Progress Texas
stated on September 20, 2016 in a blog post:
"Donald Trump's education plan to dramatically slash funding for public education would fire 49,000 Texas teachers."
Pants on Fire!
By Fauzeya Rahman • October 20, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 19, 2016 in the third 2016 presidential debate:
"There was even a time when (Donald Trump) didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged."
Half-True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • October 20, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 19, 2016 in the third 2016 presidential debate:
Says Donald Trump "said as recently as a few weeks ago in Phoenix that every undocumented person would be subject to deportation."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • October 20, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 20, 2016 in in a debate:
Says Donald Trump "used undocumented labor to build the Trump Tower."
True
By Linda Qiu, Riley Snyder • October 20, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 10, 2016 in a rally in Detroit:
"Back in the Great Recession, when millions of  jobs across America hung in the balance, Donald Trump said rescuing the auto industry didn’t really matter very much. He said, and I quote again, ‘Let it go.’ "  
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • October 18, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 5, 2016 in a speech:
Says Donald Trump’s plan to repeal the estate tax would mean the Walmart Walton family would "get a $53 billion tax break."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • October 17, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2016 in the second presidential debate:
Says Donald Trump’s tax plan gives the wealthy and corporations "more than the Bush tax cuts by at least a factor of two."
True
By Linda Qiu • October 11, 2016
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on October 4, 2016 in a TV interview.:
Donald Trump has said "nuclear proliferation is OK."  
Half-True
By Warren Fiske • October 11, 2016
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 in a debate.:
Donald Trump says "that NATO is obsolete and that we need to get rid of NATO..."  
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • October 10, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2016 in the second 2016 presidential debate:
"You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists' sites and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Miriam Valverde • October 10, 2016
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on October 4, 2016 in the 2016 vice presidential debate:
Says "Donald Trump proposes to deport 16 million people, 11 million who are here without documents, and both Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to get rid of birthright citizenship."  
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • October 7, 2016
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