Latest Fact-Checks In Pennsylvania

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Lou Barletta
Lou Barletta
stated on June 7, 2018 an interview
"The city that I was mayor of was 50 percent Latino, and I won with 90 percent of the vote..." 
Mostly False
By Colin Deppen • June 12, 2018
Scott Wagner
Scott Wagner
stated on May 21, 2018 Fundraising email
Gov. Wolf is trying to implement "a severance tax that would be financed by Pennsylvania’s working class"
Mostly False
By Colin Deppen • May 25, 2018
Lou Barletta
Lou Barletta
stated on November 29, 2017 a tweet
"GDP is booming. Let’s spread the prosperity to the middle class with big #TaxCuts. Our #TaxReform package doubles standard deduction, brings $$$ back home, and reduces rates for ALL taxpayers. We will #MAGA."
Mostly False
By Zari Tarazona • December 6, 2017
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on July 21, 2017 In a speech
Preliminary murder rates in Philadelphia "will put the murder rate at the highest of this decade in the city."
Mostly False
By Mark Dent • July 24, 2017
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on July 5, 2017 At a "town hall"
"Sanctuary cities are extremely dangerous."
Mostly False
By Mark Dent • July 8, 2017
Larry Krasner
Larry Krasner
stated on May 1, 2017 the platform section of his campaign website
"Larry Krasner is the only candidate running for District Attorney who explicitly pledges to never seek the death penalty."
Mostly False
By Anna Orso • May 3, 2017
Reps. Keith Rothfus, Mike Kelly and Bill Shuster
Reps. Keith Rothfus, Mike Kelly and Bill Shuster
stated on February 19, 2017 an op-ed in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Obamacare covers 24 million fewer people than it was expected to, and the projected price tag has more than doubled at $2 trillion."
Mostly False
By Anna Orso • February 24, 2017
Joe DeFelice
Joe DeFelice
stated on January 25, 2017
"From the release of a child rapist from the Dominican Republican to that of an Italian drug smuggler, Philadelphians have already been put in direct danger by Mayor Kenney’s policy of blocking local law enforcement from participating with federal immigration authorities."
Mostly False
By Cassie Owens • January 31, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 10, 2016 a Facebook post.
"Stopped by Smiley Cookie to pick up some great cookies for the family, along with Rudy."
Mostly False
By Anna Orso • October 11, 2016
Rob Gleason
Rob Gleason
stated on August 29, 2016 a fundraising email
"As the election tracker FiveThirtyEight has reported, whoever wins Pennsylvania will be our next President."
Mostly False
By Kaylee Tornay • September 2, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 13, 2016 an interview with TV station WJAC
"NAFTA, signed by Bill Clinton, has been a disaster for Pennsylvania."
Mostly False
By Mark Dent • August 18, 2016
Independence USA PAC
Independence USA PAC
stated on August 1, 2016 a television ad
"Toomey crossed party lines… to stop gun sales to suspects on the terror watch list."
Mostly False
By Anna Orso • August 15, 2016
Majority Forward
Majority Forward
stated on July 29, 2016 In a political ad
Says Sen. Pat Toomey "even tried to shut down the federal government in order to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood."
Mostly False
By Mark Dent • August 2, 2016
Tom Marino
Tom Marino
stated on July 18, 2016 a speech to the PA delegation at the RNC.
"[Hillary Clinton]'s not trusted -- virtually at all."
Mostly False
By Anna Orso • July 20, 2016
Jim Kenney
Jim Kenney
stated on June 23, 2016 remarks at the Better Bike Share conference
My administration is "well represented both racially, ethnically and gender-wise."
Mostly False
By Cassie Owens • June 24, 2016
Katie McGinty
Katie McGinty
stated on June 13, 2016 in an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer
"He leant his name to a bill, did little or nothing three years ago to try to get it passed, (and) since then has done absolutely nothing other than disavow any attempt to move on the legislation."
Mostly False
By Anna Orso • June 15, 2016
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on April 15, 2016
Says Merrick Garland "authored an opinion that resulted in the release of 17 Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were part of a group of violent Islamist extremists the State Department had designated as terrorists."
Mostly False
By Cassie Owens • June 7, 2016
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on May 19, 2016 an interview with Chris Stigall on Talk Radio 1210 WPHT
It's entirely possible that the Democratic nominee, [Hillary Clinton], earned more money giving a single speech on Wall Street than I made the six years that I was there back in the 1980s… In fact, it’s quite likely.
Mostly False
By Loghan Thain • May 31, 2016
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on April 7, 2016 during a campaign stop in Philadelphia
"Because of (the 1994 crime bill), we had a 25-year low in crime, a 33-year low in the murder rate, and listen to this, because of that and the background check law, a 46-year low in the deaths of people of gun violence."
Mostly False
By Anna Orso, Cassie Owens • April 8, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on April 6, 2016 a speech to the AFL-CIO Convention
When mentioning Villanova’s buzzer-beating win in the national championships, Hillary Clinton said: "I love those come-from-behind victories."
Mostly False
By Anna Orso, Dan Levy • April 6, 2016
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