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Latest Fact-Checks On Bernie Sanders

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Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 8, 2017 an interview on MSNBC's "All In With Chis Hayes"
The GOP health care plan gives "$275 billion in tax breaks for the top 2 percent, people earning $250,000 a year or more."  
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By Jon Greenberg • March 9, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 13, 2017 an interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes
"Before the Affordable Care Act, (West Virginia’s) uninsured rate for people 64 to 19 was 29 percent. Today, it is 9 percent."
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By Louis Jacobson • February 14, 2017
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 25, 2016 remarks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia
"The top one-tenth of 1 percent now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."
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By Lauren Carroll • July 26, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 25, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention
Says Donald Trump "believes that states should actually have the right to lower the minimum wage below $7.25."
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By Jon Greenberg • July 26, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 26, 2016 a fundraising letter
Says Russ Feingold’s "campaign is powered by small-dollar contributions like ours."
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By Sarah Hauer • June 22, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 29, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
"I believe we should have tax on carbon and deal aggressively with climate change. That is not (Hillary Clinton's) position."
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By Linda Qiu • May 29, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 29, 2016 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
"Right now, in every major poll, national poll and statewide poll done in the last month, six weeks, we are defeating Trump, often by big numbers and always at a larger margin than Secretary Clinton is."
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By Louis Jacobson • May 29, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 1, 2016 an interview on CBS News' "Face the Nation"
Winning enough pledged delegates is "not impossible."
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By Jon Greenberg • May 2, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 24, 2016 a speech
Says an array of statistics show that conditions in some parts of Baltimore rival that of "the West Bank in Palestine," "North Korea," and "distressed cities in Nigeria, India, China and South Africa."
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By Linda Qiu • April 28, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 24, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
In the 2014 election, "80 percent of poor people did not vote."
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By Linda Qiu • April 24, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 26, 2016 a speech
"Under the federal Controlled Substance Act, marijuana is listed in the same Schedule I as heroin," even though "marijuana is not a killer drug like heroin."  
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April 22, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 15, 2016 a Democratic debate in New York
"When this campaign began, I said that we’ve got to end the starvation minimum wage of $7.25, raise it to $15. Secretary Clinton said let's raise it to $12."
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By Lauren Carroll • April 15, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 14, 2016 the Brooklyn presidential debate
"I remain one of the poorer members of the United States Senate."
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By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 10, 2016 in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press
Says Hillary Clinton supported and continues to "support fracking."
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By Linda Qiu • April 13, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 6, 2016 a tweet
"The largest U.S. companies would owe $620 billion in U.S. taxes on the cash they store in tax havens."
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By Jon Greenberg • April 11, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 22, 2016 a campaign speech
"Today, the United States has, sadly, one of the lowest voter turnouts of any major country on earth."
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By Chris Nichols • March 23, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 9, 2016 a Democratic presidential debate in Miami
"If you look at Latino kids between 17 and 20 who graduated high school, 36 percent of them are unemployed or underemployed. … African-American kids are unemployed or underemployed to the tune of 51 percent."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 9, 2016 the Democratic debate at Miami Dade College
When Honduran children came into this country, "Secretary Clinton said send them back."
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By Jon Greenberg • March 10, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 9, 2016 a Democratic debate in Miami
When New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer wanted to "provide driver’s licenses to those who are undocumented. (Hillary Clinton) said don’t do it."  
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By Amy Sherman • March 10, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 a Democratic presidential debate in Flint, Mich.
"Almost every poll has shown that Sanders vs. Trump does a lot better than Clinton vs. Trump … and, that’s true nationally."
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By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2016
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