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Latest Fact-Checks On Ted Cruz

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Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 24, 2017 an interview at the Texas Tribune Festival
"In 2017, I've done 17 town halls."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 4, 2017
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 28, 2017 an MSNBC interview
"Two-thirds of the (Hurricane Sandy relief) bill had nothing to do with Sandy."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • August 30, 2017
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 28, 2017 a speech to the National Rifle Association
"The first Congress passed a law mandating that every able-bodied man must own a musket."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • May 19, 2017
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 27, 2016 an interview on ABC's This Week
"In 2015 roughly 10,000 political arrests occurred in Cuba. That is five times as many as occurred in 2010, when there were only about 2,000."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • November 29, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 26, 2016 a rally for a Colorado U.S. Senate nominee
"There is long historical precedent for a Supreme Court with fewer justices."
Mostly False
By Bobby Cervantes • November 23, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 24, 2016 responding to an audience member's question at the Texas Tribune Festival.
Hillary Clinton "supports unlimited abortion on demand up until the moment of birth, including partial-birth abortion, with taxpayer funding."  
False
By W. Gardner Selby • October 9, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 8, 2016 Senate floor remarks
"If Congress fails to act, the Obama administration intends to give away control of the internet to an international body akin to the United Nations."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • September 14, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 14, 2016 his speech at the Republican Party of Texas convention
Barack Obama issued a decree "demanding that every public school now allow grown men and boys into the little girls’ bathroom."  
Mostly False
By Eleanor Dearman • June 26, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 21, 2016 an online campaign ad
Says Donald Trump "has the second-highest disapproval ratings of anyone running for president."
False
By Dylan Baddour • May 27, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 28, 2016 a campaign email
"The Obama administration has even joined Islamist governments in sponsoring a U.N. resolution that would shred our First Amendment by threatening to make discussion of radical Islamism potentially illegal."  
Pants on Fire!
By Emma Hinchliffe • May 9, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 2, 2016 a TV ad
Says Donald Trump "brings in hundreds of foreign workers to replace Americans."  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Joshua Gillin • May 6, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 30, 2016 a speech at the California Republican Party Convention
"Here in California, Donald Trump has given $12,000 to Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris."  
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • May 3, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 1, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
Says Donald Trump’s "only economic agenda is imposing massive taxes on the American people with a 40 percent tax hike of a giant tariff."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • May 1, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 1, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
Says both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton say Planned Parenthood is "terrific and that it should keep taxpayer funding." 
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • May 1, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 22, 2016 an attack ad
Says Donald Trump thinks "a grown man pretending to be a woman (should) be allowed to use the women's restroom."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • April 25, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 25, 2016 remarks in Borden, Ind.
"I earned more votes in the state of Wisconsin than Donald Trump did in New York."
True
By Louis Jacobson • April 25, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 11, 2016 a campaign speech
"The polling shows over and over again that, unlike Donald Trump, that with me as the nominee, we beat Hillary Clinton."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • April 12, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 3, 2016 ad paid for by campaign for Ted Cruz
Says a company that got tax breaks from the state later "laid off 100 Ohioans, even as its CEO cut a half-million-dollar check to Kasich’s super PAC."  
Mostly True
By Nadia Pflaum • April 12, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 7, 2016 an interview on CNN
"Poll after poll after poll shows me beating Hillary."
Mostly False
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 11, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 30, 2016 a CNN town hall in Milwaukee
"The EPA has tried to define a puddle or a drainage ditch on your farm to be navigable waters and thus subject to massive environmental regulations."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 31, 2016
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