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Ted Cruz
stated on December 15, 2015 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:

"One of the most troubling aspects of the Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight bill was that it gave President Obama blanket authority to admit refugees, including Syrian refugees, without mandating any background checks whatsoever."

By Joshua Gillin • December 18, 2015

André Carson
stated on December 13, 2015 in an interview on ABC News' "This Week":

"Our larger domestic threat is from racial supremacist groups."

By Jon Greenberg • December 18, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on December 15, 2015 in the Republican debate in Las Vegas:

The 9/11 terrorists' friends, family, girlfriends in the United States "were sent back for the most part to Saudi Arabia. They knew what was going on. They went home, and they wanted to watch their boyfriends on television."

By Jon Greenberg • December 17, 2015

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."

By Filipa Ioannou • December 17, 2015

Chris Larson
stated on November 22, 2015 in a TV interview:

The Milwaukee County bus system has "among the highest fares in the nation."

By Sarah Hauer • December 17, 2015

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."

By Louis Jacobson • December 16, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on December 8, 2015 in an interview with NPR:

"Mike Morell testified and told Congress that the reason Obama has not bombed ISIS' oil fields is they're concerned about global warming."

By Linda Qiu • December 14, 2015

Occupy Democrats
stated on December 2, 2015 in a Facebook post:

"If Trump had just put his father’s money in a mutual fund ... he’d have $8 billion."

By Jon Greenberg • December 9, 2015

Joe Scarborough
stated on December 4, 2015 in on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

In the weekend after the terrorist attacks in Paris, the White House said "this couldn't happen in the United States. ISIS couldn't reach us here."

By Lauren Carroll • December 8, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on November 19, 2015 in an interview with Steven Crowder:

The "federal government is going after school districts, trying to force them to let boys shower with little girls."

By W. Gardner Selby • December 4, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 29, 2015 in an interview on CNN:

"The Family Research Council, according to some government agencies, is a terrorist group."

By Louis Jacobson • December 1, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 22, 2015 in a TV interview.:

Says Thomas Jefferson helped "craft" the Constitution.

By Warren Fiske • November 27, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on November 10, 2015 in a Facebook comment:

"Illegal immigrants mow the grass around the (Texas) Capitol."

By W. Gardner Selby • November 27, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on November 11, 2015 in Atlantic, Iowa, during a campaign event.:

Says President Barack Obama did not invite a Republican senator to dine at the White House until his fifth year in office.

By Jason Noble • November 23, 2015

Arsalan Iftikhar
stated on November 22, 2015 in a roundtable discussion on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"59 percent of Americans today believe that Barack Obama is still a Muslim."

By Louis Jacobson • November 23, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on November 17, 2015 in a campaign stop in Concord, N.H. :

"The vast majority of (Syrian) refugees are young, able-bodied men looking for work."

By Nick Reid • November 20, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on November 12, 2015 in remarks to reporters in South Carolina:

Says Ted Cruz "is a supporter of legalizing people that are in this country illegally" and "proposed giving them work permits."

By W. Gardner Selby • November 18, 2015

Viral media reports
stated on November 9, 2015 in social media and in print:

Drinking champagne could help prevent Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia.

By Nancy Badertscher • November 17, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 10, 2015 in the fourth GOP debate.:

"The Chinese are there" in Syria.

By Linda Qiu • November 15, 2015

Chris Christie
stated on November 10, 2015 in the fourth GOP undercard debate.:

The Democrats plan "to raise your tax rates to 70 or 80 percent."

By Linda Qiu • November 12, 2015

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