Fact Check Posts – Page 331

Chris Larson
stated on January 7, 2016 in a Facebook post:

Says Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele "once proposed a plan to end county funding to homeless shelters."

By James B. Nelson • February 9, 2016

John O'Bannon
stated on February 1, 2016 in a constituent survey:

Says "some Planned Parenthood chapters have been selling the body parts of aborted fetuses for profit."

By Warren Fiske • February 8, 2016

John Kasich
stated on January 29, 2016 in comments on Fox News:

Ohio’s credit rating is "as high as you can get, AA+."

By Nadia Pflaum • February 8, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on February 6, 2016 in an ABC Republican debate in New Hampshire:

"Right now we’re the highest taxed country in the world."

By Joshua Gillin, Louis Jacobson • February 7, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on February 6, 2016 in the New Hampshire GOP debate:

Says CNN reported Ben Carson was "taking a break from campaigning" and the Cruz campaign "forwarded that news to our volunteers."

By Linda Qiu • February 7, 2016

Sarah Palin
stated on February 1, 2016 in an interview on CNN:

Says Donald Trump's conversion to pro-life beliefs are akin to Justin Bieber's, who said in the past that abortion "was no big deal to him."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 5, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 4, 2016 in a Democratic presidential debate in Durham, N.H.:

Says a Sanders campaign ad "never said ... a newspaper endorsed us that did not."

By Clay Wirestone, Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 3, 2016 in a campaign ad:

Says he was endorsed by the Valley News newspaper.

By Clay Wirestone • February 4, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on February 2, 2016 in a town hall event in Windham, N.H.:

The 2013 immigration bill "expanded President Obama’s ability to bring Syrian refugees to this country without mandating any meaningful background checks."

By Joshua Gillin, Jon Greenberg • February 3, 2016

Jeb Bush
stated on February 2, 2016 in an appearance at Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, N.H.:

The debt "comes up all the time in town meetings ... but it's never asked in the debates. It's really weird. It hasn't been brought up."

By Louis Jacobson • February 2, 2016

Ed Gillespie
stated on January 13, 2016 in a Facebook post.:

"More businesses are closing than opening in Virginia today."

By Warren Fiske • February 1, 2016

Thomas Garrett Jr.
stated on January 11, 2016 in a radio interview.:

"A (state) trooper with 10 years on the force is getting $500 a year more than a trooper with 10 minutes on the force."

By Sean Gorman • February 1, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on January 31, 2016 in comments on "Meet the Press":

"Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have the identical position on health care, which is they want to put the government in charge of you and your doctor."

By Linda Qiu • January 31, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on January 31, 2016 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"We have more illegal immigrants here" than we did five years ago.

By Lauren Carroll • January 31, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on December 8, 2015 in an editorial board interview with the Concord Monitor:

"We now have more jobs in solar than we do in oil."

By Nick Reid • January 29, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on January 28, 2016 in an interview on CNN:

"I never once asked that (Megyn Kelly) be removed" as a debate moderator.

By Linda Qiu • January 29, 2016

Chris Christie
stated on January 28, 2016 in the Republican debate in Des Moines, Iowa:

Neighbors of the San Bernardino shooters "knew that they were talking about trying to take our country and attack it."

By Jon Greenberg • January 29, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on January 20, 2016 in a speech in Burlington, Iowa:

"I am the only candidate on either side who has laid out a specific plan about what I would do to defeat ISIS."

By Louis Jacobson • January 27, 2016

Dale Kooyenga
stated on January 20, 2016 in a radio interview:

"A lot of student loans are already refinanced by the federal government."

By Tom Kertscher • January 27, 2016

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."

By Amy Sherman • January 26, 2016

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