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Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on July 11, 2019 in a public forum:
"We are incarcerating more children than any time ... since we interned Japanese-Americans during World War II"
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By Mica Soellner • July 26, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on July 15, 2019 in comments made at an AARP-sponsored Democratic presidential primary candidate forum:
"There are, literally, two pharmaceutical lobbyists for every member of Congress."
Mostly True
By Julie Appleby • July 26, 2019
Roland Martin
Roland Martin
stated on July 21, 2019 in a panel on ABC's "This Week":
Republicans "are advancing federal judges who won't even say that Brown vs. Board of Education was properly decided."
Mostly True
By Bill McCarthy • July 25, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
stated on July 11, 2019 in a public forum:
At the same time President Trump talks about supporting veterans, "he is deporting service members who have volunteered to serve this country."  
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By D.L. Davis • July 19, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 12, 2019 in a speech at George Washington University:
"In 2014 ... in McDowell County, W.Va., one of the poorest counties in the nation, life expectancy for men was 64 years. In Fairfax County, Va., a wealthy county, just 350 miles away, life expectancy was nearly 82 years, an 18 year differential. The life expectancy gap for women in the two counties was 12 years."
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By Kristen Uppercue, Patrick Orsagos • July 18, 2019
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on June 30, 2019 in an interview:
Says Section 1325 of U.S. immigration law was "put into place in 1929, by a segregationist."
Mostly True
By Madlin Mekelburg • July 12, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 8, 2019 in a TV interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo:
"We made parity between mental health and physical health. It was a fundamental breakthrough in how we thought about how things should work."
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By Shefali Luthra • July 11, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 28, 2019 in the Democratic presidential debate in Miami, Florida.:
"No, that’s a mischaracterization of my thinking."
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By Kit Norton • July 3, 2019
Kelly E. Hastings
Kelly E. Hastings
stated on June 30, 2019 in On twitter:
Said, "The Seven Years’ War led to near bankruptcy for many countries; Britain’s need to raise taxes fueled the American desire for independence."
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By Elizabeth Thompson • July 3, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on June 27, 2019 in her exchange on busing during the Democratic presidential debate:
Says "I was part of the second class to integrate Berkeley, California, public schools." 
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By Chris Nichols, Stefanie Pousoulides • July 2, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 26, 2019 in a tweet from the Trump campaign:
Says Cory Booker has accepted over $400,000 from the pharmaceutical industry during his political career.  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • July 2, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on June 21, 2019 in a policy proposal to ban private prisons:
"Prison phone companies charge as much as $25 for a 15-minute call."  
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By Jon Greenberg • July 1, 2019
Jon Erpenbach
Jon Erpenbach
stated on June 6, 2019 in a tweet:
"If out-of-state drivers paid gas tax, they would contribute $73 million to fix our roads"
Mostly True
By Mica Soellner • June 28, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 24, 2019 in Press conference in Washington D.C.:
"Forty years ago, a federal Pell Grant paid for nearly 80% of tuition, fees, room and board at a four-year college."
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By Kit Norton, Lola Duffort • June 26, 2019
Creigh Deeds
Creigh Deeds
stated on June 11, 2019 in radio interview.:
Red-flag laws have been "shown to reduce the number of suicides by firearms."  
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By Warren Fiske • June 19, 2019
Dan Bishop
Dan Bishop
stated on May 31, 2019 in in a Facebook post:
Said Dan McCready "got nearly $1 million in support from a Nancy Pelosi aligned dark money org in the 2018 election cycle right after he tweeted, ‘Dark money has no place in our politics’."
Mostly True
By Elizabeth Thompson • June 14, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 11, 2019 in a campaign speech:
"In the Obama-Biden administration, we got China to cut cyber-theft -- it's gotten significantly worse under this administration."
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By Tom Kertscher • June 14, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on June 7, 2019 in a tweet:
"Millions of Americans need mental health care. Yet in Iowa, there are just 64 public mental health care beds. And you see similar numbers across the country."
Mostly True
By Sophie Austin • June 13, 2019
Greg Steube
Greg Steube
stated on May 28, 2019 in a press release:
"It’s estimated that in 2018 alone, dead people received $1 billion in benefits from Medicare, Medicaid, social security payments, and federal pensions."
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By Amy Sherman • June 13, 2019
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on May 29, 2019 in a radio interview.:
"The e-cigarette vaping phenomenon has wiped out all the progress we’ve made on reducing youth smoking."
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By Warren Fiske • June 12, 2019
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