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Latest Fact-Checks In Elections

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Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on March 14, 2016 responding to reporters
"The fact is voter fraud is rampant."
Pants on Fire!
By W. Gardner Selby • March 17, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 13, 2016 Donald Trump on Sunday, March 13th, 2016, in an interview on "Meet the Press"
Says a YouTube video shows Thomas DiMassimo, the man who rushed Trump at an Ohio rally, "dragging the American flag on the ground like it was a piece of garbage."    
True
By Jim Tharpe • March 17, 2016
Caleb Rowden
Caleb Rowden
stated on March 4, 2016 a Columbia/Boone County League of Women Voters Town Hall
"Seventy percent of Missourians support voter photo ID legislation."
Mostly True
By Katie Moeller • March 14, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 13, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
Says the man who rushed the stage at him in Dayton, Ohio, "had chatter about ISIS, or with ISIS" in his social media posts.
False
By Louis Jacobson • March 13, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on March 13, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
"More than once, I've actually had a conversation with the protesters on substance."
True
By Linda Qiu • March 13, 2016
stated on March 7, 2016 a radio ad
"Republican Bob Donovan" has "run as a Republican time and again."  
Half-True
March 11, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on March 6, 2016 a Democratic debate in Flint, Mich.
"President Obama took more money from Wall Street in the 2008 campaign than anybody ever had."
Mostly True
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • March 7, 2016
stated on March 6, 2016 comments on "Meet the Press"
"There’s no correlation between primary turnout and wins in the fall in the last 11 elections."
True
By Linda Qiu • March 6, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 17, 2016 a speech
When Mitt Romney chose Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential running mate, "that was the end" of Romney’s chances to win.  
False
February 26, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 21, 2016 an interview on "Meet the Press"
"About 70 percent of Republicans nationwide ... don't think Donald Trump is the right guy" to take on Hillary Clinton in November.
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • February 21, 2016
John Oliver
John Oliver
stated on February 14, 2016 a TV show
In Sauk City, Wisconsin, "the ID office" that provides identification for voting "is only open on the fifth Wednesday of every month" -- a total of four days in 2016.
Mostly True
February 19, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 13, 2016 a Republican debate
"In New Hampshire, I spent $3 million. Jeb Bush spent $44 million. He came in five, and I came in number one."
Mostly True
By Nick Reid • February 19, 2016
Brian Fallon
Brian Fallon
stated on February 9, 2016 a MSNBC interview
Nevada is "still a state that is 80 percent white voters."
False
By Riley Snyder • February 17, 2016
JoAnne Kloppenburg
JoAnne Kloppenburg
stated on February 8, 2016 a TV ad
Says state Supreme Court candidate Joe Donald twice "supported" incumbent Justice Rebecca Bradley.
Mostly True
February 14, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 14, 2016 a Republican debate in South Carolina
Says Jeb Bush "said he would take his pants off and moon everybody ... Nobody reports that."  
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • February 14, 2016
Viral image
Viral image
stated on February 10, 2016 in a post on Facebook
Quotes Mark Cuban as saying, "I worry that millions of millennials are voting Democrat this year because they fact-check everything."
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • February 12, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 4, 2016 a Democratic presidential debate in Durham, N.H.
Says a Sanders campaign ad "never said ... a newspaper endorsed us that did not."
False
By Clay Wirestone, Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 3, 2016 a campaign ad
Says he was endorsed by the Valley News newspaper.
False
By Clay Wirestone • February 4, 2016
John Fetterman
John Fetterman
stated on February 1, 2016 in a Reddit AMA
 "I am the only candidate that has endorsed Bernie Sanders for President. In PA, I've got Bernie's back."  
True
By Cassie Owens • February 4, 2016
Paul Saldaña
Paul Saldaña
stated on January 13, 2016 a civic summit hosted by Austin's KLRU-TV
A Texas law requires every high school to have a voter registrar "and part of their responsibility is to make sure that when children become 18 and become eligible to vote, that they vote."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 29, 2016
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