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Michael Morell
Michael Morell
stated on September 19, 2016 an open letter to Donald Trump:
Says Donald Trump has outlined "policies that read like a Kremlin wish list."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 22, 2016
Eric Greitens
Eric Greitens
stated on August 11, 2016 an interview on Fox & Friends:
"We had the Democratic Governors Association and the Obama political machine come into a Republican primary to try and rig the election by spending $1 million against me in the last couple of days."
Mostly True
By Ellen Cagle • September 21, 2016
LIBRE Initiative
LIBRE Initiative
stated on September 13, 2016 a digital ad:
"Latinos in Nevada support Educational Savings Accounts, helping more than 450,000 students access better schools. But Catherine Cortez Masto is against it."
Mostly True
By Riley Snyder • September 19, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2016 a speech in Arizona:
"Within just a few years, immigration as a share of national population is set to break all historical records."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • September 19, 2016
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on September 18, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press.":
Says Hillary Clinton and millennials have the same positions on climate change, abortion rights, immigration reform, gay rights and college affordability. "Donald Trump doesn't."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Linda Qiu • September 18, 2016
Robert Duffy
Robert Duffy
stated on August 19, 2016 an op-ed in the Rochester Business Journal:
If upstate New York split from downstate "the economic indicators of upstate New York would be among the lowest in the country."
Mostly True
By Dan Clark • September 16, 2016
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on August 22, 2016 a tweet. :
"Over the last 40 years, this country’s prison population has grown by 500 percent."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • September 16, 2016
Tammy Duckworth
Tammy Duckworth
stated on August 18, 2016 in a speech:
Mark Kirk’s claim of national security expertise is "based on his military record which he lied about at least 10 times."
Mostly True
By Matt Dietrich • September 15, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 13, 2016 a TV ad:
Says Patrick "Murphy embellished, according to reports, his University of Miami academic achievement."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • September 15, 2016
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on August 30, 2016 a tweet:
"If Texas were a country our economy would rank # 10...in the WORLD."  
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • September 15, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 12, 2016 an interview on CNN:
"You've got a medical report on me that meets the same standard as Mitt Romney and Barack Obama."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 14, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2016 a press conference in Mexico:
Says U.S.-Mexico border has "1 million legal border crossings each and every day."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • September 14, 2016
Duane Hall
Duane Hall
stated on August 23, 2016 a tweet:
North Carolina’s coast "is possibly the best place in (the) U.S. for an offshore windfarm."
Mostly True
By Will Doran • September 9, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 7, 2016 the NBC Commander-In-Chief Forum :
Says Donald Trump is "on record extensively supporting (the) intervention in Libya."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • September 8, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 7, 2016 the NBC Commander-In-Chief Forum:
"Classified material has a header which says ‘top-secret, secret, confidential.’ Nothing, and I will repeat this and this is verified in the report by the Department of Justice, none of the emails sent or received by me had such a header."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • September 8, 2016
Justin Trudeau
Justin Trudeau
stated on August 25, 2016 a letter:
Young women, "account for a shocking 74% of all new HIV infections among adolescents in Africa."
Mostly True
By Joseph Cariz • September 7, 2016
Catherine Cortez Masto
Catherine Cortez Masto
stated on August 29, 2016 a television ad:
Says "Joe Heck voted 10 times to defund Planned Parenthood ... and Heck opposes a woman's right to choose, even when her health is at risk."
Mostly True
By Riley Snyder • September 6, 2016
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
stated on August 29, 2016 an interview.:
"Undocumented workers crossing the border right now is at a 12-year low."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • September 6, 2016
Patrick Murphy
Patrick Murphy
stated on August 31, 2016 a statement:
"Sen. Rubio has the worst vote attendance record of any Florida senator in nearly 50 years."
Mostly True
By Joshua Gillin • September 2, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2016 a campaign speech in Phoenix:
"There are at least 23 countries that refuse to take their people back after they’ve been ordered to leave the United States, including large numbers of violent criminals."  
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • September 1, 2016
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