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Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on July 31, 2019 the Detroit debate
"When the Senate was debating middle-class affordability for child care," then-Sen. Joe Biden "voted against it, the only vote, but what he wrote (in) an op-ed was that he believed that women working outside the home would, quote, ‘create the deterioration of family.’ He also said that women who were working outside the home were, quote, ‘avoiding responsibility.’"  
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 2, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 31, 2019 a Democratic presidential primary debate
Says Kamala Harris oversaw a police department that was "abusing people’s rights" and that she did not "disclose to defense attorneys" when there was exculpatory evidence: "She didn't do that. She never did it. And so, what happened? Along came a federal judge and said enough, enough, and he freed 1,000 of these people."
Mostly True
By Bill McCarthy • August 2, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on July 30, 2019 in a debate
Says "we lose nearly 40,000 people in this country to gun violence, a number that no other country comes even close to."
Mostly False
By Madlin Mekelburg • August 2, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
stated on July 31, 2019 a debate
Says that under President Donald Trump, "not only have we not gone after al-Qaida ... our president is supporting al-Qaida."
False
By Tom Kertscher • August 2, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 12, 2019 an interview
U.S. farmers are receiving $16 billion "out of the tariffs that we’ve gotten from China."
False
By Eric Litke • August 2, 2019
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on July 31, 2019 a press conference
 "You look at the homelessness situation. Take a city like Tokyo, which has more people than New York City. There's no homelessness there."
Mostly True
By John Kruzel • August 1, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 31, 2019 a re-election campaign ad
Says the Democratic presidential candidates "support giving illegal immigrants free health care at our expense."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • August 1, 2019
Jeanne Ives
Jeanne Ives
stated on July 26, 2019 a TV interview
Says ex-Lt. Gov. Evelyn Sanguinetti "publicly did not stand in opposition to" former Gov. Bruce Rauner’s decision to sign a bill that expanded the public funding of abortions in Illinois.
False
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • August 1, 2019
Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson
stated on July 28, 2019 an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation"
"We are the only advanced industrialized nation that bases our educational funding on property taxes."
Half-True
By Bill McCarthy • July 31, 2019
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on July 15, 2019 a hearing
"Studies show at the minimum wage, you can’t rent a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the United States...a modest, two-bedroom apartment."  
True
By Warren Fiske • July 30, 2019
X posts
X posts
stated on July 23, 2019 a tweet
"Reagan took the deficit from $70 billion to $175 billion. Bush 41 took it to $300 billion. Clinton got it to zero. Bush 43 took it from zero to $1.2 trillion. Obama halved it to $600 billion. Trump’s got it back to a trillion."
Mostly True
By Daniel Funke • July 29, 2019
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 26, 2019 a Facebook post
Says the names of CNN anchors Chris Cuomo, Brian Stelter and Jake Tapper were on the flight logs of Jeffrey Epstein’s private plane.  
Pants on Fire!
By Samantha Putterman • July 29, 2019
Viral image
Viral image
stated on July 24, 2019 a Facebook post
Says a photo showing thousands on a ship next to a crowded dock are "Europeans trying to get to North Africa during World War II."
False
By Samantha Putterman • July 29, 2019
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on July 11, 2019 a speech
Says President Trump "has ended up attracting larger numbers of people coming to the United States presenting themselves for asylum status at our border than we’ve ever seen."
Half-True
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 28, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on July 9, 2019 a campaign event
A transaction tax in countries like the UK "didn't affect their financial markets at all." 
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • July 26, 2019
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Viral image
stated on July 20, 2019 a Facebook post
Says Werner Herzog said, "Dear America: You are waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that 1/3 of your people would kill another 1/3, while 1/3 watches."
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 26, 2019
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Viral image
stated on July 22, 2019 a Facebook post
Says Abraham Lincoln said, "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we lose our freedoms it will be because we have destroyed ourselves from within."
Mostly False
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 26, 2019
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Viral image
stated on July 22, 2019 a Facebook post
Says Whoopi Goldberg kept her job and was applauded by ABC after calling Jeanine Pirro a racist slur.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 26, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on July 11, 2019 a public forum
"We are incarcerating more children than any time ... since we interned Japanese-Americans during World War II"
Mostly True
By Mica Soellner • July 26, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on July 15, 2019 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
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