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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 28, 2023 a speech in Chicago:
Says that under his presidency, the unemployment rate has “been below 4% for the longest stretch in 50 years in American history.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2023
Nick LaLota
Nick LaLota
stated on March 29, 2023 a press release:
“For every dollar in federal taxes my constituents pay, we get a mere 93 cents back.”
Mostly True
By Cameron Carr • June 19, 2023
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on June 12, 2023 a TV interview:
"Per capita, more Floridians move to California than Californians moving to Florida.”
Mostly True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 19, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 10, 2023 a speech:
In the U.S., “a person can be married in the morning and thrown out of a restaurant for being gay in the afternoon.”
Mostly True
By Grace Abels, Nuria Diaz Muñoz • June 16, 2023
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on June 6, 2023 campaign announcement speech:
Donald Trump “never changed one immigration law.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 12, 2023
Pramila Jayapal
Pramila Jayapal
stated on May 28, 2023 in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union”:
The average amount of assistance for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is $6 a day.
Mostly True
By Sevana Wenn • June 6, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on May 25, 2023 a radio interview:
Donald Trump "wanted to amnesty 2 million illegal aliens in 2018 when he was president."
Mostly True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 5, 2023
Al Franken
Al Franken
stated on May 17, 2023 a tweet:
"Americans will get $1.1 B in rebates from health insurance companies this year cuz of a provision I wrote in the ACA.”
Mostly True
By Julie Appleby • June 5, 2023
Kathy Hochul
Kathy Hochul
stated on May 9, 2023 a news conference:
The New York state budget covers 96% of eligible preschoolers
Mostly True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • May 18, 2023
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on April 21, 2023 an interview with Noticias Telemundo:
"Latino small businesses are 1 in 4 new businesses, but only 1% of venture capital funding goes to Latino businesses."
Mostly True
By Marta Campabadal Graus • May 16, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on May 5, 2023 an interview with Newsmax:
“Donald Trump himself wrote a book where he was talking about the need to increase the age of eligibility for Social Security to 70.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 12, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy
Vivek Ramaswamy
stated on April 30, 2023 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed “a last-minute exception into an anti-discrimination law for anyone who also operates a theme park more than 25 acres in Florida,” benefiting Walt Disney Co.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Matthew Crowley • May 4, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 2, 2023 a Facebook post:
“Texas Republicans just voted to give a Republican appointee the power to single-handedly CANCEL election results in the state’s largest Democratic county.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 4, 2023
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on April 5, 2023 a tweet:
“Fentanyl is the leading cause of death for Americans 18-45.”
Mostly True
By Aarón Torres • April 24, 2023
X posts
X posts
stated on April 18, 2023 a Tweet:
Missouri’s attorney general has a website “where people can report trans individuals and the people who help them.”
Mostly True
By Grace Abels • April 20, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 13, 2023 a speech:
Florida has “the second lowest tax burden per capita in the United States.”
Mostly True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • April 19, 2023
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on April 14, 2023 a speech to the National Action Network:
“One in 5 Americans has lost a family member to gun violence.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Madison Czopek • April 18, 2023
Joaquin Castro
Joaquin Castro
stated on April 28, 2023 a tweet:
“Title 42 and other Trump-era holdovers are forcing migrants into dangerous, overcrowded conditions in Mexico.”
Mostly True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • April 5, 2023
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on March 10, 2023 a news release:
Sullivan County “has the highest opioid death rate in all of New York state” yet “it’s the only county in the Hudson Valley not included in the federal High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” program.
Mostly True
By Conor Amendola • April 4, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 29, 2023 an Instagram post:
“The UK has had ZERO school shootings since” it changed its gun laws after a 1996 school shooting.
Mostly True
By Madison Czopek • March 31, 2023
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