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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 7, 2016 in 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 in 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."
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By Lauren Carroll • September 8, 2016
Justin Trudeau
Justin Trudeau
stated on August 25, 2016 in a letter:
Young women, "account for a shocking 74% of all new HIV infections among adolescents in Africa."
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By Joseph Cariz • September 7, 2016
Catherine Cortez Masto
Catherine Cortez Masto
stated on August 29, 2016 in 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."
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By Riley Snyder • September 6, 2016
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
stated on August 29, 2016 in an interview.:
"Undocumented workers crossing the border right now is at a 12-year low."
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By Sean Gorman • September 6, 2016
Patrick Murphy
Patrick Murphy
stated on August 31, 2016 in a statement:
"Sen. Rubio has the worst vote attendance record of any Florida senator in nearly 50 years."
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By Joshua Gillin • September 2, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 31, 2016 in 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
Hilary Rosen
Hilary Rosen
stated on August 24, 2016 in "The Diane Rehm Show":
"The Clinton Foundation is a charity where President and Secretary Clinton and their daughter, they take no salary, they get no money from it, they take no personal benefit from it."
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By Lauren Carroll • September 1, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 30, 2016 in an email:
"It has been 269 days since (Hillary) Clinton has held a press conference."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2016
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on August 28, 2016 in an interview during NBC's Meet the Press:
Says Hillary Clinton "is the one that labeled African-American youth as ‘superpredators.’"
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • August 28, 2016
David Plouffe
David Plouffe
stated on August 28, 2016 in an interview on Meet the Press:
Says "Donald Trump himself contributed $100,000" to the Clinton Foundation.
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By Linda Qiu • August 28, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on August 25, 2016 in remarks in Reno:
"Parents and teachers are already worrying about what they call the ‘Trump Effect.’ They report that bullying and harassment are on the rise in our schools, especially targeting students of color, Muslims and immigrants."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • August 26, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 11, 2016 in a tweet:
Says "President Obama’s proposed oil tax would cost consumers 24 cents a gallon."  
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By Tom Kertscher • August 26, 2016
Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel
stated on July 26, 2016 in a press event:
Chicago Public Schools "lead the country in high school graduation of an urban school system," "match the United States of America in kids graduating high school going on to a four-year college," and are "producing eighth-grade leaders in the country in math gains, fourth-grade leaders in reading gains."
Mostly True
By Madeleine Doubek • August 25, 2016
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on August 18, 2016 in a tweet.:
"22 veterans take their own lives each day."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • August 23, 2016
Julie Pace
Julie Pace
stated on August 21, 2016 in a panel on "Fox News Sunday":
"Neither Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump has a plan to address the civil war in Syria."
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By Linda Qiu • August 21, 2016
Scott Rigell
Scott Rigell
stated on August 9, 2016 in a Facebook post:
"At $587 apiece, USA would need to bring home about 33.1 BILLION gold medals to pay off our national debt."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • August 19, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2016 in a speech in Youngstown, Ohio:
"We admit about 100,000 permanent immigrants from the Middle East every year."
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By Miriam Valverde • August 19, 2016
Joaquin Castro
Joaquin Castro
stated on August 10, 2016 in a tweet about Carol Everett of the Heidi Group:
Says the director of an anti-abortion group receiving a Texas grant to provide women’s health services "believes HIV can be spread through the sewer system."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 17, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on August 12, 2016 in a campaign ad:
Says "Marco Rubio wrote and passed bipartisan legislation allowing the VA to fire negligent workers."
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • August 17, 2016
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