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Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on November 10, 2015 the fourth GOP debate.
"The Chinese are there" in Syria.
False
By Linda Qiu • November 15, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 30, 2015 remarks during a campaign event in Sioux City, Iowa
North Korea "has over two-dozen nuclear warheads."
Half-True
By Jason Noble • November 14, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on November 10, 2015 the Fox Business Network debate
Says Hillary Clinton told her daughter and a government official that Benghazi "was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • November 11, 2015
Mike Huckabee
Mike Huckabee
stated on November 10, 2015 the fourth undercard GOP debate.
"Only one out of five of the so-called ‘Syrian refugees’ who went into Europe were actually Syrian."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • November 11, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 10, 2015 a debate in Milwaukee, Wis.
"We’re losing now over $500 billion a year in terms of imbalance with China."
Mostly False
By Anna Bruzgulis • November 11, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 29, 2015 an interview on CNN
"There was never a single shred of evidence presented to anyone" that the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, were "spontaneous, and in fact, the CIA themselves understood that early on."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Clayton Youngman • November 4, 2015
Viral image
Viral image
stated on October 23, 2015 posts on the Internet
Unlike Benghazi, there were no investigations of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, none about key aspects of the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq War, and none about embassy attacks under George W. Bush.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 27, 2015
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity
stated on October 19, 2015 a segment of Fox News' "Hannity"
"The president said he’s going to bring in 250,000 (Syrian and Iraqi) refugees into this country."  
Pants on Fire!
By Aaron Sharockman, Jon Greenberg • October 26, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 22, 2015 a House hearing on Benghazi
Says John Kerry "is the first secretary of state to rely primarily on a government account."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 23, 2015
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Viral image
stated on October 22, 2015 a shareable graphic on the Web
Says Denmark’s suicide rate has been about twice as high as the United States’ over the past five decades.
Mostly False
By Clayton Youngman • October 23, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 22, 2015 an op-ed in Breitbart
"Even after Syrian troops began to shoot protesters in the streets with live ammunition in 2011, Clinton labeled Bashar al-Assad a ‘reformer.' "  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • October 23, 2015
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on October 7, 2015 an interview
Some 8.1 million of the estimated 11 million to 12 million people "in this country illegally are working."
Mostly True
October 23, 2015
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas
"Fifteen out of the 20 most polluted cities in the world" are in India and China.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 13, 2015 the first Democratic presidential debate
Says Edward Snowden "could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistleblower."  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on October 8, 2015 an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer
"In the class of 1968 at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, Mahmoud Abbas was one of the members of that class, and so was Ali Khamenei. And that's where they first established relationships with the young Vladimir Putin."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 9, 2015
Michael McCaul
Michael McCaul
stated on September 12, 2015 the Republican weekly radio/TV address
Iran’s "regime is responsible for more than 1,000 American casualties during the Iraq war" and "has plotted a terrorist attack here in our nation's capital."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 5, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 4, 2015 an interview on ABC "This Week"
Among Syrian refugees, "there aren't that many women, there aren't that many children."
False
By Joshua Gillin • October 4, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on August 15, 2015 a radio interview
Israel has seen a "90 percent reduction in terrorist attacks" that it attributes to building a 500-mile fence.
Half-True
By Sarah Hauer • October 2, 2015
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on September 10, 2015 interview with Democracy Now!
Says "the cascading effects" of climate change contributed to the rise of ISIS.
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • September 23, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 16, 2015 the CNN GOP presidential debate
Says that President Barack Obama said an attack on Syria "was going to be a pinprick."
False
By Joshua Gillin • September 18, 2015
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