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Latest Fact-Checks In Elections

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 15, 2024 in a speech after the Iowa caucus:
“This is the third time we’ve won but this is the biggest win” in Iowa caucus.
False
By Amy Sherman • January 16, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 5, 2024 in a speech:
“That’s why they are allowing these people to come in — people that don’t speak our language — they are signing them up to vote.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman • January 12, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 8, 2024 in a speech:
“The racial wealth gap is the smallest it’s been in 20 years.”
Half-True
By Sara Swann • January 12, 2024
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on January 5, 2024 in an Iowa PBS interview:
“We’ve had 8 million” immigrants come to the U.S. illegally under Biden “and they only sent back 142,000.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 11, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on January 10, 2024 in a debate:
“Biden’s let in 8 million people just in four years.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Marta Campabadal Graus • January 11, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 5, 2024 in a Facebook post:
Nikki Haley is ineligible to be president or vice president.
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Jeff Cercone • January 10, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 3, 2024 in a TV ad:
Nikki Haley “opposed Trump’s border wall” and “Trump’s travel ban.”
False
By Maria Briceño, Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 5, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 2, 2024 in a Truth Social post:
"In actuality, there is no evidence Joe Biden won” the 2020 election, citing a report’s allegations from five battleground states.
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Sara Swann • January 5, 2024
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on December 15, 2023 in a TikTok:
“Almost a million people, mostly Democrats, have been kicked off the voter roll here in Florida” because of efforts to place a proposed amendment on abortion access on the state’s 2024 ballot.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • January 5, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on January 2, 2024 in a town hall:
Donald Trump “deported less, believe it or not, than Barack Obama even did."
True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 4, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 16, 2023 in a rally in New Hampshire:
“They want to make our Army tanks all electric.”
False
By Amy Sherman • December 21, 2023
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on December 14, 2023 in a town hall in Atkinson, New Hampshire:
“We’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam wars, combined.”
True
By Grace Abels • December 19, 2023
James Woods
James Woods
stated on December 10, 2023 in an X post:
Joe Biden’s net worth was $41 million in 2022.
False
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • December 19, 2023
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 4, 2023 in a Truth Social post:
The Lincoln Project is “using A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)” in its “television commercials.”
False
By Loreben Tuquero • December 19, 2023
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on December 13, 2023 in a town hall in Londonderry, New Hampshire:
Under the Trump administration's trade deal, “China's only fulfilled one-third of the promises of agricultural products that they were supposed to buy from our farmers.”
Half-True
By Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson • December 19, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on December 6, 2023 in the fourth Republican presidential primary debate:
Discussing gender-affirming surgical care for minors, said that Sweden “shut it down.”
Half-True
By Grace Abels • December 18, 2023
Asa Hutchinson
Asa Hutchinson
stated on December 11, 2023 in comments at Stand with Crypto Alliance at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire:
China is allowed to do crypto mining in the U.S.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Rebecca Catalanello • December 15, 2023
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on December 13, 2023 in a rally in Coralville, Iowa:
“Gasoline prices are now $5, $6, $7 and even $8 a gallon.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • December 15, 2023
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on December 11, 2023 in TV interview:
Democrats have also used alternate slates of electors "repeatedly in all kinds of different states."
False
By Ricardo Torres • December 15, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on December 12, 2023 in a CNN town hall:
Florida “had a year-over-year reduction” in overdose deaths.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • December 14, 2023
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