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SEIU Healthcare Illinois & Indiana
stated on August 25, 2016 a YouTube video

"In an interview with the Chicago Tribune's Editorial Board, Comptroller Leslie Munger says that in order to balance a budget, the state would have to 'cut social services completely.'"

By Kevin Hoffman • September 8, 2016

National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on September 7, 2016 a campaign website

Says Patrick Murphy advocated for "cuts to Social Security and Medicare."

By Joshua Gillin • September 8, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 7, 2016 the NBC Commander-In-Chief Forum

"I was totally against the war in Iraq."

By Jon Greenberg, Lauren Carroll • September 8, 2016

Rudy Giuliani
stated on September 4, 2016 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"

"Food stamps have gone up two-and-a-half times under Barack Obama."

By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 6, 2016 an interview with ABC News

"I released the most extensive financial review of anybody in the history of politics. … You don't learn much in a tax return."

By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on September 4, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"

"Donald Trump’s been completely consistent" about his plan for nonviolent undocumented immigrants.

By Linda Qiu • September 4, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 27, 2016 a speech

"Hillary Clinton wants to shut down family farms" using "radical regulation," by raising business tax "rates as high as nearly 50 percent" and by taxing "family farms again at death by as much as 45 percent."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 31, 2016

Anna Throne-Holst
stated on August 9, 2016 a tweet that linked to the claim in a Newsday article

Lee Zeldin "missed 2/3rds of Veterans Affairs Hearings"

By Dan Clark • August 31, 2016

Viral image
stated on August 29, 2016 an image shared on social media from NaturalNews.com

As the number of vaccines administered to children has increased in the United States, so has the autism rate.

By Nadia Pflaum • August 29, 2016

Gary Johnson
stated on August 22, 2016 media appearances

"None of the polls being conducted right now have us on the top line. None of them. It's always Trump and Clinton and then second question, third question. ... If we were included in the top line, as Johnson/Trump/Clinton, we'd be at 20 percent."

By Adam Thorp • August 29, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 20, 2016 a rally

As governor, Tim Kaine "oversaw a huge increase in illegal immigration, a tremendous increase."

By Sean Gorman • August 29, 2016

Sean Hannity
stated on August 23, 2016 while interviewing Donald Trump in Austin

"All of Texas is conservative, except a little bit of Austin."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 26, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 25, 2016 a speech in Manchester, N.H.

Says Hillary Clinton "wants to raise taxes on African-American owned businesses to as much as nearly 50 percent more than they're paying now."

By Joshua Gillin • August 26, 2016

Robin Schimminger
stated on August 3, 2016 a hearing on economic development in Albany, NY.

On job creation numbers in the latest Start-Up NY report: "This is a significant number of overcounts in the compilation that I’ve looked at."

By Dan Clark • August 26, 2016

Russ Feingold
stated on June 14, 2016 a TV ad

Says Ron Johnson "voted five times for tax breaks that help companies ship Wisconsin jobs overseas."

By Alison Dirr • August 26, 2016

Reince Priebus
stated on August 23, 2016 comments on "The Mike Gallagher Show"

"The fact is" the Clinton Foundation has "got about 80 percent in overhead and 20 percent of the money is actually getting into the places it should."

By Aaron Sharockman • August 25, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 16, 2016 a speech

Says Hillary Clinton is "proposing to print instant work permits for millions of illegal immigrants to come in and take everybody's jobs, including low-income African-Americans."

By Tom Kertscher • August 18, 2016

Rudy Giuliani
stated on August 15, 2016 a speech in Youngstown, Ohio

"Under those eight years before (Barack) Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States" since Sept. 11, 2001.

By Linda Qiu • August 16, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2016 a speech on foreign policy in Youngstown, Ohio

"I had previously said that NATO was obsolete because it failed to deal adequately with terrorism. Since my comments, they have changed their policy and now have a new division focused on terror threats."

By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2016

Sid Miller
stated on July 9, 2016 as quoted in a commentary by Ken Herman of the Austin American-Statesman

Says that since lawmakers acted, "we have 130 new businesses across Texas doing helicopter hog hunts."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 12, 2016

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