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Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders
stated on October 12, 2016 a press release:
A World Health Organization report shows "that more people are dying of TB."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • October 24, 2016
Maggie Hassan
Maggie Hassan
stated on October 3, 2016 a debate:
"With her solution, terrorists can still today — and by the way ISIS knows it, they have been advertising it — buy guns online and at gun shows in the United States of America."
Mostly True
By Allie Morris • October 24, 2016
DCCC
DCCC
stated on October 12, 2016 a campaign ad:
"Just like Donald Trump, David Jolly wants to outlaw a woman's right to choose."
Mostly False
By Allison Graves • October 24, 2016
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on August 5, 2016 an appearance in Milwaukee:
The Democratic Party "is the oldest continuous political party in the world."
Mostly True
By Alison Dirr • October 24, 2016
Joe Morrissey
Joe Morrissey
stated on October 17, 2016 a debate.:
The city of Richmond "built the second richest team in the NFL a $14 million stadium."
Half-True
By Sean Gorman • October 24, 2016
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on October 23, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press":
Says Hillary Clinton takes "tens of millions of dollars from countries that hate women, that disrespect women, that throw gays off of buildings."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • October 23, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 20, 2016 a rally in Delaware, Ohio:
"Ford is moving all of their small-car production to Mexico."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 23, 2016
Jill Stein
Jill Stein
stated on October 17, 2016 a Green Party rally at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin:
"We’re already bombing seven countries."
True
By W. Gardner Selby • October 21, 2016
Al Gore
Al Gore
stated on October 11, 2016 a campaign speech:
Says electric utilities "are trying to fool you into amending your state Constitution in a way that gives them the authority to shut down net metering."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • October 21, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 the third presidential debate:
"Nobody knows about it, nobody talks about it, but under Obama, millions of people have been moved out of this country, they've been deported."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • October 21, 2016
AFSCME
AFSCME
stated on October 12, 2016 In a political ad:
"Because as a Senator Toomey stood up for Wall Street. He wanted to privatize Social Security and invest it in the stock market. Wall Street would make billions in fees even if the stock market crashed. "
Mostly True
By Mark Dent • October 21, 2016
Russ Feingold
Russ Feingold
stated on October 7, 2016 an interview:
Says Saudi Arabia, a U.S. ally, has "paid to export throughout the world" Wahhabism -- "an extreme form of Islam" that basically teaches "Americans are the devil."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • October 21, 2016
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on October 20, 2016 the Ohio Senate debate:
Says Ted Strickland "in this campaign bragged about his A-plus rating with the NRA. ... He has said he has a mixed and spotty record on this issue and that he can be criticized for it. Those are his words, not mine. So I don’t know where he is on this issue."
True
By Nadia Pflaum • October 21, 2016
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on October 20, 2016 the Ohio Senate debate:
Says Rob Portman "said the auto rescue was a lousy deal for Ohio."
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • October 21, 2016
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on October 20, 2016 an Ohio Senate debate in Cleveland:
"The director of the FBI said that we cannot figure out who (Syrian refugees) are, what their intentions are, because we have no information on them, because we don’t have any contact with the Syrian government or any people on the ground to be able to determine that."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 21, 2016
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on October 20, 2016 the U.S. Senate debate in Cleveland:
Says Rob Portman was a registered foreign agent whose "client was Haiti, at a time when the Baby Doc, Duvalier, who was a despot, was killing people."
Mostly False
By Linda Qiu • October 21, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 19, 2016 the third presidential debate:
Russia has "tremendous numbers of nuclear warheads — 1,800, by the way — where they expanded, and we didn't."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • October 20, 2016
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on October 17, 2016 at a debate in Columbus, Ohio:
Says Sen. Rob Portman says Ted Strickland earned $400,000 a year as a lobbyist after leaving Ohio for Washington.  
Half-True
By Nadia Pflaum • October 20, 2016
Catherine Cortez Masto
Catherine Cortez Masto
stated on October 14, 2016 a Nevada U.S. Senate debate.:
Says Joe Heck "voted to shut down the government."
Half-True
By Riley Snyder • October 20, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 19, 2016 in the third presidential debate.:
"What I have put forward does not add a penny to the debt."  
Half-True
By Aaron Sharockman • October 20, 2016
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