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Matt Gaetz
Matt Gaetz
stated on September 10, 2022 in a Facebook post:
Image shows a Rebekah Jones campaign event.
Mostly False
By Yacob Reyes • September 19, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 14, 2022 in a speech in Detroit:
“Incomes are up.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 16, 2022
Saving Arizona PAC
Saving Arizona PAC
stated on September 8, 2022 in a campaign ad:
“Mark Kelly voted against the Keystone pipeline, which caused higher gas prices.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • September 16, 2022
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on September 6, 2022 in a tweet:
"Val Demings supports abortion up until the moment of birth."
Mostly False
By Yacob Reyes • September 16, 2022
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on August 23, 2022 in Twitter:
"Democrats' radical green energy policies caused record gas prices. "
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • September 16, 2022
Mandela Barnes
Mandela Barnes
stated on August 17, 2022 in Twitter:
“Ron Johnson just came out in favor of a federal abortion ban.”
Mostly False
By Laura Schulte • September 13, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 14, 2022 in a Facebook post:
"FEC charges (Beto O'Rourke's 2018 campaign) Illegal Campaign Contributions."
Mostly False
By Nusaiba Mizan • September 8, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 11, 2022 in Facebook post:
“With the combined salary of the 87,000 new IRS Agents ($81,456 average annual salary), you could put a police officer ($55,117) in every public school in the nation (97,568) and still have 31,007 police officers or $1,709,012,819 left over.”
Mostly False
September 8, 2022
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on September 4, 2022 in an interview:
“Tim Ryan called police the new Jim Crow.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2022
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on August 27, 2022 in an Instagram video:
There’s an unlimited supply of water being generated “deep within the Earth.”
Mostly False
By Andy Nguyen • September 7, 2022
Charlie Crist
Charlie Crist
stated on August 25, 2022 in a tweet:
Gov. Ron DeSantis raised "taxes on the middle class by more than $1.5 billion while giving away $624 million to big corporations."
Mostly False
By Yacob Reyes • September 2, 2022
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on August 31, 2022 in a tweet:
“60% of Alaska voters voted for a Republican, but thanks to a convoluted process and ballot exhaustion — which disenfranchises voters — a Democrat ‘won.’"
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • September 2, 2022
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on August 8, 2022 in News release:
Says “Tim Michels doesn’t think gay people should be out in public.”
Mostly False
By Madeline Heim • September 2, 2022
CatholicVote
CatholicVote
stated on August 17, 2022 in an ad:
Three churches were targeted during arson attacks over the summer “because they protect unborn babies and women in need.”
Mostly False
September 1, 2022
Social Media
Social Media
stated on August 30, 2022 in social media posts:
In New York, you need to show identification to buy whipped cream, but not to vote.
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • September 1, 2022
American Action Network
American Action Network
stated on August 26, 2022 in an ad:
Joe Biden's student debt forgiveness plan is a "bailout for rich kids."
Mostly False
August 31, 2022
Deidre DeJear
Deidre DeJear
stated on August 13, 2022 in remarks at the Iowa State Fair:
“$1.5 billion of your taxpayer money is sitting in an account” that can be used for other purposes.
Mostly False
By Lyle Muller • August 29, 2022
National Republican Senatorial Committee
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on August 10, 2022 in News release:
Says Democratic Senate candidate Mandela Barnes “supports abolishing ICE.”
Mostly False
By Vanessa Swales • August 29, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 16, 2022 in remarks at the White House:
The American Rescue Plan “helped create nearly 10 million new jobs.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 24, 2022
Ben Cline
Ben Cline
stated on August 12, 2022 in a statement.:
A new Democratic law “will make the IRS workforce larger than the Pentagon, FBI, State Department, and Customs and Border Patrol, combined.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe, Sara Swann, Warren Fiske • August 24, 2022
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