Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Chuck Todd for Joe Manchin

The founders didn’t put a Senate filibuster into the Constitution

March 8, 2021

“The filibuster was never an idea of the founding fathers.”

Mike Pence at inauguration

Mike Pence is wrong that HR 1 forces states to shift to universal mail balloting

March 4, 2021

The voting bill known as H.R. 1 "would force states to adopt universal mail-in ballots.”

Biden Obrador

Joe Biden wrong about fastest-growing population group in U.S.

March 3, 2021

"The fastest-growing population in the United States is Hispanic."

Becerra confirmation pic

Did HHS nominee Xavier Becerra sue nuns?

February 26, 2021

“I have never sued a nun — any nuns.”

Covid shot in arm

Vaccines are up and infections are down under Biden, but it’s not all his doing

February 23, 2021

“COVID-19 infections down 61% from Trump’s last day. COVID-19 vaccinations up 85% from Trump’s last day. Competence Matters.”

Biden CNN town hall

Joe Biden’s town hall mistake about an inflation-indexed minimum wage

February 18, 2021

"If we kept (the minimum wage) indexed to inflation, people would be making $20 an hour right now.”

Trump tax bill

Social media post misrepresents analysis of Trump tax law

February 5, 2021

Under the 2017 tax law, “people who make under $75,000 will have their taxes raised in 2021 and every 2 years after that until 2027.”

Joe and Hunter Biden leave church

No, the Bidens didn’t invest their family fortune in Ukranian oil and gas

January 28, 2021

“Biden invested the entire family fortune in Ukraine gas and oil. Then shuts down Keystone pipeline. Starting to get the picture.”

Pelosi with gavel

How bipartisan was the vote to impeach Donald Trump, in historical context?

January 13, 2021

The second presidential impeachment of Donald Trump was “the most bipartisan impeachment in American history.”

McConnell Jan 6

Mitch McConnell says, accurately, that Joe Biden’s win wasn’t unusually close

January 8, 2021

"This election actually was not unusually close."

Florida Christmas Service Outdoors

No, a recent study didn’t find that there was “no asymptomatic” spread of COVID-19

December 28, 2020

Says a recent study found no asymptomatic or presymptomatic spread of COVID.

Covid vaccine lab tech

Many Americans say they don’t want a vaccine. Should we be worried?

December 8, 2020

"People have lost faith in the ability of the vaccine to work. Already, the numbers are really staggeringly low."

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