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Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on August 5, 2016 a speech:
Says Donald Trump "has a long history of exporting jobs overseas."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • August 17, 2016
Claudia Tenney
Claudia Tenney
stated on July 7, 2016 a press release.:
Kim Myers "voted repeatedly to raise taxes on the people of Broome County, but made millions off of tax savings when her family business relocated its headquarters."
Half-True
By Dan Clark • August 17, 2016
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
stated on August 3, 2016 a town hall meeting:
Legal prescription drugs "statistically kill 100,000 people a year, (but) there are no documented deaths due to marijuana."
Half-True
By Joseph Cariz • August 16, 2016
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on August 4, 2016 a rally:
The Obama administration has been "raising taxes."  
Half-True
By Sean Gorman • August 16, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 5, 2016 a campaign speech :
Says Hillary Clinton once "wanted a wall" on the Mexican border.
Half-True
By Sarah Hauer • August 15, 2016
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on August 4, 2016 a speech:
Says his father-in-law, former Gov. Linwood Holton, "integrated Virginia public schools."
Half-True
By Warren Fiske • August 15, 2016
Paul Manafort
Paul Manafort
stated on August 14, 2016 an interview on "State of the Union":
In Hillary Clinton's tax returns, "you saw a lot of income coming from donors to the Clinton Foundation and people who benefitted from her State Department term as well."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • August 14, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on August 11, 2016 an economic speech in Warren, Mich.:
"I opposed the only multilateral trade deal that came before the Senate while I was there."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 12, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on August 5, 2016 remarks at journalists' convention:
Undocumented immigrants "pay $12 billion a year into Social Security."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • August 10, 2016
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on August 7, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press":
"I haven't switched my position" on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • August 7, 2016
Richard Burr
Richard Burr
stated on August 3, 2016 a press release:
Says Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are "responsible for leading America into a deal that will arm Iran."
Half-True
By Will Doran • August 5, 2016
Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani
stated on July 18, 2016 a speech at the Republican National Convention.:
The Iran nuclear deal is "putting billions of dollars back into a country that’s the world’s largest supporter of terrorism. We are actually giving them the money to fund the terrorists that are killing us and our allies."
Half-True
By Dan Clark • August 5, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on July 18, 2016 a speech:
"The poverty rates in America today aren’t much better than when we started the War on Poverty."
Half-True
By Sarah Hauer • August 5, 2016
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on August 2, 2016 a press conference at the White House:
Thanks to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, "Vietnam is drafting and presenting unprecedented labor reforms, changing their Constitution to recognize worker organizations in Vietnam for the first time."
Half-True
By Allison Graves, Neelesh Moorthy • August 4, 2016
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on August 3, 2016 an op-ed:
After initially agreeing with Republicans on an amount for Zika funding, "Democrats derailed it."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • August 4, 2016
Gwen Graham
Gwen Graham
stated on July 28, 2016 a speech to Florida delegates at the Democratic National Convention:
"We rank 38th in wages. ... (Rick Scott) goes out around the country and advertises that to other states."
Half-True
By Joshua Gillin • August 3, 2016
Cecile Richards
Cecile Richards
stated on July 26, 2016 remarks to the Texas delegation at the Democratic National Convention as webcast by the Texas Tribun:
Barack Obama "ended up getting re-elected by the largest gender gap in the history of American elections."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 29, 2016
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on July 27, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention.:
Says Indiana Gov. Mike Pence "denies that there's such a thing as evolution."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • July 29, 2016
Joaquin Castro
Joaquin Castro
stated on July 28, 2016 a speech at the DNC:
Says "Donald Trump has defended" World War II internment camps.
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • July 29, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on July 29, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention:
"More than 90 percent of the gains have gone to the top 1 percent."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg, Linda Qiu • July 29, 2016
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