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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Joe Pitts
Joe Pitts
stated on March 10, 2016 a Medium post
"According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 120 Americans on average die from a drug overdose every day. Overall, drug overdose deaths now outnumber deaths from firearms."
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 15, 2016 a victory speech after the March 15 primaries
"Our campaign depends on small donations for the majority of our support."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2016
Mike Honda
Mike Honda
stated on March 16, 2016 a column posted on Medium
"Six justices" on the U.S. Supreme Court have been "confirmed in presidential election years since 1912."  
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 17, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 13, 2016 an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press"
Says President Barack Obama has "been presiding over our jobs going overseas for seven years."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 17, 2016 a speech posted on Medium
"Gun violence is by far the leading cause of death for young African American men, outstripping the next nine causes of death combined."
True
By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 13, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
Says the man who rushed the stage at him in Dayton, Ohio, "had chatter about ISIS, or with ISIS" in his social media posts.
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 13, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 20, 2016 a Hillary for America ad
"Americans haven’t had a raise in 15 years."
Mostly True
By Jason Noble, Louis Jacobson • March 11, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 9, 2016 a Democratic presidential debate in Miami
In 2006, Bernie Sanders "voted in the House with hard-line Republicans for indefinite detention for undocumented immigrants, and then he sided with those Republicans to stand with vigilantes known as Minutemen who were taking up outposts along the border to hunt down immigrants."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 9, 2016 a Democratic presidential debate in Miami
"If you look at Latino kids between 17 and 20 who graduated high school, 36 percent of them are unemployed or underemployed. … African-American kids are unemployed or underemployed to the tune of 51 percent."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2016
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on February 27, 2016 a television ad
"Twenty million Americans are out of work."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 2016
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger
stated on March 6, 2016 an endorsement speech in Columbus, Ohio.
When John Kasich became governor of Ohio, "there was an $8 billion budget deficit and now there’s a $2 billion surplus."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols, Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 a Democratic presidential debate in Flint, Mich.
"Almost every poll has shown that Sanders vs. Trump does a lot better than Clinton vs. Trump … and, that’s true nationally."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 6, 2016 a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.
"When you're white ... you don't know what it's like to be poor."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 2, 2016 remarks after the Super Tuesday balloting
"The Great Wall of China, built 2,000 years ago, is 13,000 miles (long)."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 7, 2016
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on March 6, 2016 an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press"
On Donald Trump's track record in business
Full Flop
By Louis Jacobson • March 6, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 3, 2016 a Republican presidential debate in Detroit
Says Donald Trump has written 10 checks to Hillary Clinton "and four of those checks were not to her Senate campaign. … It was to her presidential campaign."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 4, 2016
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on March 3, 2016 a Republican presidential debate in Detroit
In head-to-head polls for the general election, "I beat Hillary Clinton by more than anybody, by 11 points."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 4, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 28, 2016 an interview on ABC's "This Week"
Says "Harry Reid, when asked about the Republican field, said the Republican he likes the best is Donald Trump, and he said, because I can work with him. He'll cut deals."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 2, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 28, 2016 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
Says "the New York Times can write a story that they know is false" yet "they can't basically be sued."
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on February 18, 2016 an MSNBC-Telemundo town hall
"You are three times more likely to be able to get a mortgage if you're a white applicant than if you're black or Hispanic, even if you have the same credentials."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2016
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