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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 5, 2019 in a speech:
"Last year, we prosecuted a record number of firearms offenses."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • August 5, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 31, 2019 in a Democratic presidential primary debate:
Says Kamala Harris oversaw a police department that was "abusing people’s rights" and that she did not "disclose to defense attorneys" when there was exculpatory evidence: "She didn't do that. She never did it. And so, what happened? Along came a federal judge and said enough, enough, and he freed 1,000 of these people."
Mostly True
By Bill McCarthy • August 2, 2019
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on July 31, 2019 in a press conference:
 "You look at the homelessness situation. Take a city like Tokyo, which has more people than New York City. There's no homelessness there."
Mostly True
By John Kruzel • August 1, 2019
X posts
X posts
stated on July 23, 2019 in a tweet:
"Reagan took the deficit from $70 billion to $175 billion. Bush 41 took it to $300 billion. Clinton got it to zero. Bush 43 took it from zero to $1.2 trillion. Obama halved it to $600 billion. Trump’s got it back to a trillion."
Mostly True
By Daniel Funke • July 29, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on July 11, 2019 in a public forum:
"We are incarcerating more children than any time ... since we interned Japanese-Americans during World War II"
Mostly True
By Mica Soellner • July 26, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on July 15, 2019 in comments made at an AARP-sponsored Democratic presidential primary candidate forum:
"There are, literally, two pharmaceutical lobbyists for every member of Congress."
Mostly True
By Julie Appleby • July 26, 2019
Roland Martin
Roland Martin
stated on July 21, 2019 in a panel on ABC's "This Week":
Republicans "are advancing federal judges who won't even say that Brown vs. Board of Education was properly decided."
Mostly True
By Bill McCarthy • July 25, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
stated on July 11, 2019 in a public forum:
At the same time President Trump talks about supporting veterans, "he is deporting service members who have volunteered to serve this country."  
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • July 19, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 12, 2019 in a speech at George Washington University:
"In 2014 ... in McDowell County, W.Va., one of the poorest counties in the nation, life expectancy for men was 64 years. In Fairfax County, Va., a wealthy county, just 350 miles away, life expectancy was nearly 82 years, an 18 year differential. The life expectancy gap for women in the two counties was 12 years."
Mostly True
By Kristen Uppercue, Patrick Orsagos • July 18, 2019
Julián Castro
Julián Castro
stated on June 30, 2019 in an interview:
Says Section 1325 of U.S. immigration law was "put into place in 1929, by a segregationist."
Mostly True
By Madlin Mekelburg • July 12, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 8, 2019 in a TV interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo:
"We made parity between mental health and physical health. It was a fundamental breakthrough in how we thought about how things should work."
Mostly True
By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • July 11, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 28, 2019 in the Democratic presidential debate in Miami, Florida.:
"No, that’s a mischaracterization of my thinking."
Mostly True
By Kit Norton • July 3, 2019
Kelly E. Hastings
Kelly E. Hastings
stated on June 30, 2019 in On twitter:
Said, "The Seven Years’ War led to near bankruptcy for many countries; Britain’s need to raise taxes fueled the American desire for independence."
Mostly True
By Elizabeth Thompson • July 3, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on June 27, 2019 in her exchange on busing during the Democratic presidential debate:
Says "I was part of the second class to integrate Berkeley, California, public schools." 
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols, Stefanie Pousoulides • July 2, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 26, 2019 in a tweet from the Trump campaign:
Says Cory Booker has accepted over $400,000 from the pharmaceutical industry during his political career.  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • July 2, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on June 21, 2019 in a policy proposal to ban private prisons:
"Prison phone companies charge as much as $25 for a 15-minute call."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • July 1, 2019
Jon Erpenbach
Jon Erpenbach
stated on June 6, 2019 in a tweet:
"If out-of-state drivers paid gas tax, they would contribute $73 million to fix our roads"
Mostly True
By Mica Soellner • June 28, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 24, 2019 in Press conference in Washington D.C.:
"Forty years ago, a federal Pell Grant paid for nearly 80% of tuition, fees, room and board at a four-year college."
Mostly True
By Kit Norton, Lola Duffort • June 26, 2019
Creigh Deeds
Creigh Deeds
stated on June 11, 2019 in radio interview.:
Red-flag laws have been "shown to reduce the number of suicides by firearms."  
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • June 19, 2019
Dan Bishop
Dan Bishop
stated on May 31, 2019 in in a Facebook post:
Said Dan McCready "got nearly $1 million in support from a Nancy Pelosi aligned dark money org in the 2018 election cycle right after he tweeted, ‘Dark money has no place in our politics’."
Mostly True
By Elizabeth Thompson • June 14, 2019
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