Latest Fact-Checks By Paul Specht

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Tim Moore
Tim Moore
stated on October 21, 2024 in a press conference:
“I’ve not gotten a single call from the White House.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • October 31, 2024
Lisa Grafstein
Lisa Grafstein
stated on October 12, 2024 in a campaign mailer:
Scott Lassiter “repeatedly campaigned to promote” North Carolina's “largest-ever” school funding cut, sending public school money to “unaccountable private schools” and ending science education.
False
By Paul Specht • October 25, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 11, 2024 in a Truth Social post:
“It has just come out that Democrats in Washington and the Democrat Governor’s Office of North Carolina (Roy Cooper) were blocking people and money from coming into North Carolina.”
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Paul Specht • October 12, 2024
Terence Everitt
Terence Everitt
stated on October 11, 2024 in a campaign advertisement:
Republican state Senate candidate Ashlee Adams “campaigned for Mark Robinson and his radical agenda.”
False
By Paul Specht • October 12, 2024
House Majority PAC
House Majority PAC
stated on September 9, 2024 in a television ad:
Laurie Buckhout is “trying to get to Congress to pass a national abortion ban, allowing politicians to ban abortions with no exceptions and prosecute women if they get an abortion, treating women right here like criminals.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • October 1, 2024
Republican Governors Association
Republican Governors Association
stated on June 24, 2024 in a campaign advertisement:
“On (Josh) Stein’s watch, rapes in North Carolina are up 53%.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • September 17, 2024
Michele Morrow
Michele Morrow
stated on September 16, 2024 in a social media post:
The plus in LGBTQ+ includes pedophilia.
Pants on Fire!
By Paul Specht • September 17, 2024
Josh Stein
Josh Stein
stated on September 5, 2024 in a press release:
“Mark Robinson skips Board of Education vote on teacher bonuses to hold campaign event.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • September 6, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on August 27, 2024 in a social media post:
The order of candidate names on North Carolina’s ballot shows a “clear attempt at voter manipulation.”
False
By Paul Specht • August 28, 2024
Doug Burgum
Doug Burgum
stated on May 25, 2024 in a speech at the North Carolina Republican Party convention:
Donald Trump “shut down” Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Joe Biden approved it, then Biden shut down U.S. liquified natural gas export capacity.
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • June 17, 2024
Anderson Clayton
Anderson Clayton
stated on May 10, 2024 in a social media post:
“Justice Paul Newby is out here removing judges who were elected to their positions by the voters of North Carolina!!!”
False
By Paul Specht • June 3, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on May 14, 2024 in a social media post:
North Carolina mask bill includes “specific carve outs for entities like the KKK to continue wearing hoods in public.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • May 22, 2024
Kelly Daughtry
Kelly Daughtry
stated on April 1, 2024 in a campaign advertisement:
“Brad Knott was a lawyer for Joe Biden.”
False
By Paul Specht • April 25, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 26, 2024 in a speech:
Says Donald Trump “told Americans all they had to do was inject bleach in themselves. Just take a shot of UV light.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • March 28, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 2, 2024 in a speech:
“Eighty-two percent of the country understands that (the 2020 election) was a rigged election.”
False
By Paul Specht • March 7, 2024
Deborah Ross
Deborah Ross
stated on January 25, 2024 in a press conference:
“North Carolina has the longest voting period in the country … and we have the most ways of voting.”
Half-True
By Paul Specht • February 28, 2024
Thom Tillis
Thom Tillis
stated on January 8, 2024 in a press release:
Police made ‘no arrests’ of protesters who blocked Durham Freeway
False
By Paul Specht • January 19, 2024
Mark Robinson
Mark Robinson
stated on November 9, 2023 in a social media post:
North Carolina Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Josh Stein “supports taxpayer-funded abortion on demand with no restrictions up until birth.”
False
By Paul Specht • December 11, 2023
Eric Ager
Eric Ager
stated on October 24, 2023 in a speech on the house floor:
“This map was drawn entirely in secret by an Ohio consultant … with taxpayer dollars.”
Mostly True
By Paul Specht • November 15, 2023
Tricia Cotham
Tricia Cotham
stated on September 25, 2023 in an interview on WBT-FM:
The North Carolina state budget includes “the largest cut in our personal income tax that we’ve ever seen.”
False
By Paul Specht • October 9, 2023
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