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Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 3, 2016 in a town hall in Henniker, N.H.:
"During eight years under Ronald Reagan, African-American median income rose by about $5,000."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 3, 2016
EMILY's List
EMILY's List
stated on December 31, 2015 in a fundraising email:
As part of legislative fights over abortion rights, "Mike Coffman co-sponsored a bill to redefine rape."
Mostly True
By Alan Gathright • February 3, 2016
B.o.B.
B.o.B.
stated on January 25, 2016 in in a Jan. 25 tweet:
"You've been tremendously deceived" by people who say the Earth is not flat.
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • February 1, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 20, 2016 in a town hall in Norwalk, Iowa:
"When they say Mexico can't pay for the wall, I say of course they can. We have a trade deficit with Mexico that's unbelievably big. ... It's billions and billions of dollars -- far more than what we're talking about for the wall."
False
By Amy Sherman • January 26, 2016
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on January 14, 2016 in a column posted on Medium.com:
"Fifty years ago, the average GM employee could pay for a year of a son or daughter’s college tuition on just two weeks wages."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • January 25, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on January 21, 2016 in a New Hampshire appearance:
"Blue Cross Blue Shield cancelled all their individual (health care) policies in the state of Texas, effective Dec. 31."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • January 22, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on January 17, 2016 in comments during the South Carolina Democratic presidential debate:
"I helped write" the Affordable Care Act.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 18, 2016
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on January 3, 2016 in an interview on Meet the Press:
Every "one of the mass shootings except two in America since 1950 have been" in "gun-free zones."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 13, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 19, 2015 in the Dec. 19 Democratic presidential debate:
ISIS is "going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 20, 2015
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith
stated on December 6, 2015 in Op-ed column in the San Antonio Express-News:
"The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has estimated that the Obama administration’s Power Plan will cause energy costs in Texas to rise as much as 16 percent per year."
False
By Filipa Ioannou • December 17, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on December 15, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:
Says carpet bombing means bombing "not a city, but the location of the troops," with "embedded special forces to direct the air power."
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on November 13, 2013 in multiple posts:
Barack Obama’s Columbia University ID says he was a foreign student and went by "Barry Soetoro."
Pants on Fire!
By Clayton Youngman • December 9, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on December 6, 2015 in an interview with George Stephanopoulos:
The Charleston, S.C., shooter "should have never been given a gun, but the universal background check was not fast enough."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • December 6, 2015
Cynthia Meyer
Cynthia Meyer
stated on November 14, 2015 in a tweet in response to Democratic presidential debate:
"More black babies are aborted in NYC than born."
True
By Lauren Caruba • November 25, 2015
Wendy Davis
Wendy Davis
stated on September 21, 2015 in an appearance on MSNBC’s “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell”:
After the Texas cutoff of aid to women’s health care services including Planned Parenthood clinics, "over 150,000… women lost the only health care they had. Our Medicaid birth rate shot up. It cost taxpayers over $130 million in one year alone in extra Medicaid birth costs."
Mostly False
By Andy East • November 24, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on November 14, 2015 in a debate in Iowa:
"Since we last debated in Las Vegas, nearly 3,000 people have been killed by guns."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • November 17, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 30, 2015 in 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
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on November 1, 2015 in comments on "Meet the Press":
"If you look at the three people on the (debate) stage from the United States Senate, all three of them have a combined two bills that became law that they've sponsored."  
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • November 1, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 28, 2015 in the CNBC GOP presidential debate:
In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama "missed 60 or 70 percent of his votes." In 2004, John Kerry missed "close to 60 to 70 percent" and Bob Graham missed "over 30 percent of his votes."  
True
By Amy Sherman, Linda Qiu • October 29, 2015
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 28, 2015 in the third Republican presidential debate:
"For the first time in 35 years, we have more businesses closing than starting."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • October 29, 2015
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