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Latest Fact-Checks In Polls and Public Opinion

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 28, 2015 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
Public support for abortion "is actually going down a little bit," polls show.
False
By Lauren Carroll • June 28, 2015
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on June 7, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
If Fox News' presidential debate rules had been in place during the 1992 election, "Bill Clinton wouldn't have been on the stage."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 7, 2015
Gretchen Carlson
Gretchen Carlson
stated on June 2, 2015 a "Gretchen's Take" on The Real Story
"Most polls show foreign nations have lower regard for the U.S. now than they did before Obama’s time."
False
By Katie Sanders • June 4, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on June 1, 2015 remarks at the White House
Today, "the United States is the most respected country on Earth."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 3, 2015
John Taylor
John Taylor
stated on April 24, 2015 an interview on WPRI-TV's "Newsmakers."
"The people of Tiverton have historically supported [gambling measures] at a rate higher than the rest of the state."
True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 7, 2015
Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
stated on April 12, 2015 an interview
In recent polling in battleground states, a "majority of the people" said Hillary Clinton "is untrustworthy."
Half-True
April 21, 2015
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on March 17, 2015 a website post
Says Gov. Scott Walker "has been rated America’s most factually-challenged politician."  
Pants on Fire!
March 27, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on March 24, 2015 an interview on the Kelly File
Says according to recent polls, no Republican candidate "is doing better against Hillary Clinton than myself."
Mostly False
By Katharina Fiedler, Lauren Carroll • March 25, 2015
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on January 29, 2015 a tweet on Twitter
"More people have watched ‘Morning Joe’ than CNN and HLN 5 years in a row."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • February 2, 2015
James Crowley
James Crowley
stated on December 6, 2014 a commentary in The Providence Journal
"Surveys of teens in high school reveal that knowing a classmate who sells cannabis is 90 times more common than knowing a classmate who sells alcohol."
Half-True
By Katie Mulvaney • December 21, 2014
Pete Gallego
Pete Gallego
stated on December 10, 2014 his farewell U.S. House speech
"This Congress made history as the least productive, most unpopular Congress in the history of this proud nation."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 18, 2014
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on November 11, 2014 an interview
In "the past four or five" presidential elections, "people who poll high at the beginning are not the people who end up being the nominees."
Mostly False
November 24, 2014
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 19, 2014 an interview on Fox News
In the 2014 elections, "the American people overwhelmingly said we don't want Obamacare … and we don't want amnesty."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 21, 2014
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
Leonard Pitts, Jr.
stated on November 1, 2014 a column in the "Miami Herald"
"America’s least-trusted news sources are also its most popular."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • November 6, 2014
George Will
George Will
stated on October 5, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
"The last time there was a sustained surge of confidence in government's competence was under Ronald Reagan."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 5, 2014
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel
stated on September 21, 2014 a panel on ABC's "This Week"
Americans now "support strikes (against ISIS) but the support for ground troops is not there. The support is very thin."
Half-True
By Steve Contorno • September 21, 2014
Maria Cardona
Maria Cardona
stated on September 11, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
"The Republican Party has the worst reputation in American polling of any political party in history."  
Half-True
By Derek Tsang • September 12, 2014
Juan Williams
Juan Williams
stated on August 3, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
The people who want President Barack Obama impeached "are all white, they're all older, and guess what, they're in the far right wing of the Republican Party."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • August 3, 2014
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on July 22, 2014 comments on his radio show
The United States is the leading nation in the world "with the highest amount of doubt about the conventional wisdom of climate change."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • July 29, 2014
Donna Edwards
Donna Edwards
stated on July 13, 2014 a roundtable discussion on CNN's "State of the Union"
"74 percent of Republicans support the Affordable Care Act."
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 14, 2014
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