Fact Check Posts – Page 67

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 24, 2016 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

In the 2014 election, "80 percent of poor people did not vote."

By Linda Qiu • April 24, 2016

Tom "Smitty" Smith
stated on April 14, 2016 a commentary published in the Austin American-Statesman:

"Texas has 600,000 registered voters who don’t have the kind of photo ID needed to vote."

By W. Gardner Selby • April 22, 2016

Robby Mook
stated on April 19, 2016 a Medium post:

"In last week’s debate, Bernie questioned Hillary’s commitment to fighting climate change because a whopping 0.2 percent of the money given to our campaign has come from employees of oil and gas companies. Not even 2 percent, mind you: 0.2 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • April 22, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 21, 2016 a campaign rally speech:

"Pennsylvania has lost 35 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001" and "Harrisburg has lost 40 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001."

By Anna Orso • April 22, 2016

Kofi Annan
stated on April 19, 2016 an op-ed in the Huffington Post:

"Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."

By Jon Greenberg • April 22, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 26, 2016 a speech:

"Under the federal Controlled Substance Act, marijuana is listed in the same Schedule I as heroin," even though "marijuana is not a killer drug like heroin."

By Tom Kertscher • April 22, 2016

Ben Carson
stated on April 20, 2016 a Fox Business interview:

"Andrew Jackson was the last president who actually balanced the federal budget, where we had no national debt."

By Lauren Carroll • April 21, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on April 21, 2016 a town hall on ABC's 'Good Morning America':

"When I withdrew in June of 2008, polls were showing that at least 40 percent of my supporters said, oh, they weren't going to support Sen. Obama."

By Louis Jacobson • April 21, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 20, 2016 a tweet:

"Ted Cruz is mathematically out of winning the race."

By Linda Qiu • April 20, 2016

Jerome Buting
stated on April 11, 2016 an interview:

Wisconsin pays criminal defense lawyers who represent the indigent $40 per hour, "the lowest in the country."

By Tom Kertscher • April 20, 2016

John Kasich
stated on March 29, 2016 an interview:

Ten times, no Republican candidate for president had enough delegates to claim the nomination before the party’s convention, and seven of those times "somebody who was not the leader of delegates was selected as the nominee of the party."

By Tom Kertscher • April 15, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 15, 2016 a Democratic debate in New York:

"When this campaign began, I said that we’ve got to end the starvation minimum wage of $7.25, raise it to $15. Secretary Clinton said let's raise it to $12."

By Lauren Carroll • April 15, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 14, 2016 the Brooklyn presidential debate:

"I remain one of the poorer members of the United States Senate."

By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 10, 2016 in an interview on NBC's Meet the Press:

Says Hillary Clinton supported and continues to "support fracking."

By Linda Qiu • April 13, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on April 3, 2016 ad paid for by campaign for Ted Cruz:

Says a company that got tax breaks from the state later "laid off 100 Ohioans, even as its CEO cut a half-million-dollar check to Kasich’s super PAC."

By Nadia Pflaum • April 12, 2016

Bernie Sanders
stated on April 6, 2016 a tweet:

"The largest U.S. companies would owe $620 billion in U.S. taxes on the cash they store in tax havens."

By Jon Greenberg • April 11, 2016

John Kasich
stated on April 3, 2016 an interview:

"There are no rules governing" the 2016 Republican convention, "the rules have not been set."

By Tom Kertscher • April 8, 2016

Rick Scott
stated on April 5, 2016 a confrontation with a customer at a Gainesville, Fla., Starbucks:

"We got a million jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2016

Bill Clinton
stated on April 3, 2016 a campaign speech:

"A college loan is the only loan in the United States that you cannot refinance when interest rates go down."

By Chris Nichols • April 6, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on April 5, 2016 an interview on ABC's "the View":

"I have 2 and a half million more votes than he (Sanders) does."

By Jon Greenberg • April 5, 2016

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