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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 21, 2021 in a town hall in Baltimore:
“We’ve created more jobs in the first eight months of my administration than any president in American history — total number of jobs created.”
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By Louis Jacobson • October 22, 2021
Glenn Youngkin
Glenn Youngkin
stated on September 2, 2021 in a newspaper column.:
“Virginia has the lowest standards for math and reading of all 50 states.”
Half-True
By Warren Fiske • October 20, 2021
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YouTube videos
stated on October 17, 2021 in a Facebook post:
COVID-19 “surges among most vaxxed communities, says Harvard study.”
Half-True
October 19, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 7, 2021 in remarks in Elk Grove Village, Ill.:
People who are vaccinated for the coronavirus “cannot spread it to you."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2021
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Viral image
stated on October 7, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“Roe was the end of women dying from abortions.”
Half-True
October 13, 2021
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TikTok posts
stated on September 5, 2021 in a TikTok post:
“Paris police beat a woman for shopping at a mall with no vaccine passport.”
Half-True
By Gabrielle Settles • October 12, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 4, 2021 in a speech:
“Raising the debt limit is usually a bipartisan undertaking.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • October 6, 2021
Carol Miller
Carol Miller
stated on July 28, 2021 in an article in RealClearEnergy:
“We became a net exporter of natural gas in 2017, and until recently, our exports have exceeded our imports.”
Half-True
By Ava Peroni, Elisa Contreras • October 5, 2021
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 3, 2021 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
"The pharmaceutical industry has 1,400 lobbyists on Capitol Hill right now trying to stop" Medicare drug price negotiation.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2021
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on September 22, 2021 in Twitter:
Says the U.S. National Archives put a ‘harmful content’ warning on our nation’s Founding documents.
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • September 30, 2021
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Viral image
stated on September 18, 2021 in a Facebook post:
“The NAACP wants” the Confederate Memorial Carving “sandblasted off Stone Mountain.”
Half-True
September 27, 2021
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on September 23, 2021 in an Instagram post:
Says Joe Biden said: “If Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean, or rose up 300 feet, it wouldn’t matter a whole lot in terms of our interests.”
Half-True
September 24, 2021
Gary Palmer
Gary Palmer
stated on September 13, 2021 in remarks during a House hearing:
“As a result of the massive decline in natural gas prices, we’re saving 11,000 lives per year in the U.S.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • September 23, 2021
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on September 17, 2021 in a tweet.:
“Time and again Glenn Youngkin has made it clear: He would ban abortion as governor.”
Half-True
By Warren Fiske • September 23, 2021
Jennifer Granholm
Jennifer Granholm
stated on September 8, 2021 in an interview on CNN:
“West Virginia University just came out with a study that showed that there will be almost 20,000 jobs created in clean energy in West Virginia if (President Joe Biden’s) agenda is passed.”
Half-True
By Duncan Slade • September 21, 2021
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on September 3, 2021 in Twitter:
“President Biden has created more jobs in his first 7 months than any POTUS in history.”
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • September 21, 2021
Richard Ojeda
Richard Ojeda
stated on August 15, 2021 in a tweet:
The United States spent “2 trillion dollars to train and equip the Afghan military over the past 20 years. They fell in a week.”
Half-True
By Trenton Straight, Zach DeLuca • September 21, 2021
Richard Hudson
Richard Hudson
stated on September 1, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Says U.S. left 33 Black Hawks to the Taliban, which has more than “85%” of all countries.
Half-True
By Paul Specht • September 20, 2021
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Viral image
stated on September 15, 2021 in an Instagram post:
Says a new Apple update will “scan U.S iPhones for images.”
Half-True
September 16, 2021
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 29, 2021 in a speech:
“It is a result of the $300 per month that working parents are now receiving for their young children that we have reduced childhood poverty in the United States by 50%.”
Half-True
September 15, 2021
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