Fact Check Posts – Page 62

Mike Pence
stated on July 20, 2016 a speech at the Republican convention:

"We in Indiana have . . . the highest credit rating in the nation."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 21, 2016

Newt Gingrich
stated on July 20, 2016 a speech at the Republican convention:

Says "Hillary (Clinton) wants to increase the number (of Syrian refugees) by 500 percent."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr., Miriam Valverde • July 21, 2016

Newt Gingrich
stated on July 20, 2016 a speech at the Republican National Convention:

"Just 9 percent of Muslims in Pakistan view ISIS favorably. Unfortunately, that 9 percent is 16 million people. And that’s just one country."

By Jon Greenberg • July 21, 2016

Scott Peters
stated on July 12, 2016 a media conference call.:

Donald Trump "rooted for the housing crisis, because he knew he could make money off of it."

By Chris Nichols • July 20, 2016

Ron Johnson
stated on July 19, 2016 the GOP convention in Cleveland:

" ‘What difference, at this point, does it make?' I am the guy that got under her skin and provoked that infamous response from Hillary Clinton by asking a pretty simple question, 'Why didn't you just pick up the phone and call the survivors’ (of the Benghazi attack)?"

By Linda Qiu • July 20, 2016

Harry Reid
stated on July 11, 2016 remarks on the Senate floor:

"(Koch Industries) is among the worst in toxic air pollution in the entire United States ... and churns out more climate-changing greenhouse gases than oil giants Chevron, Shell and Valero."

By Riley Snyder • July 19, 2016

Jeff Sessions
stated on July 18, 2016 a speech at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland:

"We have the lowest percentage of Americans actually holding a job in 40 years."

By Louis Jacobson • July 19, 2016

Rick Saccone
stated on July 13, 2016 floor remarks during a House session:

"Illegal tobacco sales, price driven too high, has been connected to at least several cases of funding terrorism against us in multi-year investigations over the last decade and a half."

By Cassie Owens • July 18, 2016

Andrew Cuomo
stated on June 22, 2016 a press conference and several other recent public appearances.:

Says middle-class New York State residents will have the "lowest tax rate in 70 years."

By Dan Clark • July 15, 2016

Moms Rising
stated on July 13, 2016:

"In North Carolina, paid family leave is more popular than college basketball."

By Will Doran • July 15, 2016

Gary Johnson
stated on July 3, 2016 an interview on CNN:

"(Mexican immigrants) are more law-abiding than U.S. citizens and that is a statistic."

By Miriam Valverde • July 14, 2016

Van Jones
stated on July 7, 2016 a panel discussion on CNN:

African-Americans don't use drugs at a higher level than whites but "wind up going to prison six times more."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 13, 2016

Mark Warner
stated on June 21, 2016 a TV interview.:

Says Donald Trump has "bankrupt four separate businesses."

By Linda Qiu, Sean Gorman • July 11, 2016

Cory Booker
stated on July 10, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press":

The war on drugs led to "a 500 percent increase in incarceration in our country, disproportionately affecting poor and disproportionately affecting minorities."

By Lauren Carroll • July 10, 2016

Charles Ramsey
stated on July 10, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press":

"There are approximately 18,000 (police) departments in the United States."

By Jon Greenberg • July 10, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 5, 2016 a speech in Raleigh, N.C.:

"We got the highest vote count in the history of the Republican Party."

By Will Doran • July 8, 2016

Rodney Ellis
stated on May 19, 2016 a press release in response to a lawsuit:

Harris County, Texas has "some of the highest jailing and incarceration rates in the U.S. and the world."

By Fauzeya Rahman • July 8, 2016

Morten Jerven
stated on June 29, 2016 an article:

For 21 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, "we simply do not have data to say anything about trends in poverty."

By Jon Greenberg • July 7, 2016

Alan Grayson
stated on June 30, 2016 an interview with the "Tampa Bay Times" editorial board:

Says Patrick Murphy has "taken more money from Wall Street than any other member of Congress other than the speaker and the majority leader."

By Allison Graves • July 7, 2016

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on June 18, 2016 a Medium post:

"40% of Americans know someone who has been killed by a gun."

By Taylor Leighton • July 7, 2016

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