Latest Fact Checks By Samantha Putterman

In Spanish ad, Debbie Mucarsel-Powell misleads on Rick Scott’s position on abortion exceptions

By Samantha Putterman

August 14, 2024

Sen. Rick Scott does not support abortion exceptions.

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Trump’s False crowd comparison with his Jan. 6 speech and the crowd at MLK’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech

By Amy Sherman , Louis Jacobson , Samantha Putterman

August 9, 2024

Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin…

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Yes, more Minnesotans move to Florida than the reverse. The trend predates Tim Walz’s governorship.

By Samantha Putterman

August 8, 2024

“In 2021, Minnesotans were roughly five times more likely to move to Florida than vice versa” because they were “fleeing” the state under Democratic Gov.…

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Donald Trump’s Pants on Fire claim at NABJ about how Kamala Harris ‘became’ Black

By Samantha Putterman

July 31, 2024

Kamala Harris was “Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden, she made a turn and she went, she became a Black person.”

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Kamala Harris has worked to expand the child tax credit, not end it, as JD Vance said

By Samantha Putterman

July 30, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris is “calling for an end to the child tax credit.”

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Fact-checking Kamala Harris on Project 2025 limiting access to IVF, contraception

By Samantha Putterman

July 24, 2024

Project 2025 calls for restricting “access to IVF and contraception.”

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Las afirmaciones de que el intento de asesinato contra Donald Trump fue un montaje carecen pruebas

By Samantha Putterman

July 15, 2024

Donald Trump escenificó el tiroteo en su mitin en Butler, Pensilvania.

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Claims that the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was staged are baseless

By Samantha Putterman

July 14, 2024

Donald Trump staged the shooting at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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Kamala Harris is right: Black women in the US have the highest maternal mortality rate

By Samantha Putterman

July 11, 2024

Black women in the U.S. are “three to four times more likely to die in connection with childbirth than other women."

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No, US hospitals do not code C-sections as abortions

By Samantha Putterman

July 5, 2024

C-sections are coded as abortions in hospitals.

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US-Mexico border crossings are down, as Joe Biden says, but single cause is hard to pinpoint

By Amy Sherman , Samantha Putterman

June 5, 2024

“Due to the arrangements that I've reached with (Mexico) President Obrador, the number of migrants coming … to our shared border unlawfully in recent months…

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Does Trump want to repeal the ACA, as Biden says? Tracking his changing stance over the years

By Samantha Putterman

June 3, 2024

Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act.

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