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Matthew Dowd
stated on September 6, 2015 in a panel discussion on ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos":

"Any Republican that has led for two months and led every state has won the GOP nomination."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • September 10, 2015

Jorge Ramos
stated on September 2, 2015 in an interview on "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News:

"Almost 40 percent of all (undocumented) immigrants come by plane and they overstay their visas."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • September 8, 2015

Dick Cheney
stated on September 2, 2015 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":

Under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty "enrichment has been limited to basically the weapons states."

False

By Jon Greenberg • September 3, 2015

Eric Bolling
stated on August 27, 2015 in a broadcast of "The Five" on Fox News:

"In countries where there are higher, more strict gun laws, there is more gun violence."

False

By Jon Greenberg • September 1, 2015

Curt Schilling
stated on August 25, 2015 in a tweet:

"In 1940, only 7 percent of Germans were Nazis."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • August 28, 2015

Occupy Democrats
stated on April 25, 2015 in a meme first posted on Facebook:

Says "Bush Jr. handed Obama a $1.4 trillion deficit" and Obama "reduced Bush Jr.’s deficit to just $492 billion."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • August 27, 2015

Occupy Democrats
stated on August 23, 2015 in a Facebook post:

Says Bobby Jindal’s parents "used his birthright citizenship to become Americans, making him an anchor baby."

Pants on Fire!

By Jon Greenberg • August 25, 2015

Matt Wuerker
stated on August 4, 2015 in a political cartoon on Politico:

"The U.S. has now spent more on reconstructing Afghanistan than was spent on the Marshall Plan and the reconstruction of Europe."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • August 20, 2015

Tom Tancredo
stated on August 8, 2015 in a Breitbart article:

Between 2008 and 2014, "criminal aliens accounted for 38 percent of all murder convictions in the five states of California, Texas, Arizona, Florida and New York."

False

By Jon Greenberg • August 17, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on August 6, 2015 in the first Republican presidential debate:

Says Donald Trump has "changed his mind" on abortion.

True

By Jon Greenberg • August 11, 2015

John Kasich
stated on August 9, 2015 in an interview with "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos:

Says he was "one of the chief architects" of balancing the federal budget.

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • August 9, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on August 6, 2015 in the first Republican debate:

"Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them."

False

By Jon Greenberg • August 7, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on August 6, 2015 in the first Republican debate:

Illegal immigration "wasn’t a subject that was on anybody’s mind until I brought it up at my announcement."

False

By Jon Greenberg • August 7, 2015

Rachel Maddow
stated on August 4, 2015 in a segment on her MSNBC show:

"Fox changed around their poll eligibility criteria on the day they announced who is in and out of their debate."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • August 6, 2015

NumbersUSA
stated on July 22, 2015 in a Facebook meme:

"More than half of all drivers' licenses issued in California this year have gone to illegal aliens."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • July 28, 2015

Chuck Baldwin
stated on July 9, 2015 in a blog post:

When President Abraham Lincoln signed his Emancipation Proclamation, "there were over 300,000 slaveholders who were fighting in the Union army."

Pants on Fire!

By Jon Greenberg • July 27, 2015

Erick Erickson
stated on July 21, 2015 in a column on Redstate.com:

Says Donald Trump "has supported a Canadian-style universal health care system."

True

By Jon Greenberg • July 24, 2015

Ron Dermer
stated on July 13, 2015 in a speech to a pro-Israel Christian group:

"In a few months, this deal would give Iran $150 billion" for its $300 billion to $400 billion economy, which is "like $8 trillion flowing into the United States treasury."

Mostly False

By Jon Greenberg • July 17, 2015

Hans von Spakovsky
stated on July 9, 2015 in an article on the Heritage Foundation website:

"134,000 (criminal) aliens have been released by the (Obama) administration in just the past two years."

Half-True

By Jon Greenberg • July 16, 2015

Larry O'Connor
stated on July 7, 2015 in an interview on "The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson" on Fox News:

"25 percent of federal inmates are noncitizens."

Mostly True

By Jon Greenberg • July 10, 2015

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