Latest Fact-Checks

Clear
Jacky Rosen
Jacky Rosen
stated on July 17, 2024 in a campaign ad:
Sam Brown “said abortion should be banned without any exceptions for rape or incest.”
Half-True
By Seth A. Richardson • August 19, 2024
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on August 11, 2024 in CNN's State of the Union:
JD Vance holds “anti-marriage-equality views.”
Half-True
By Grace Abels • August 16, 2024
Tim Walz
Tim Walz
stated on August 6, 2024 in un mitin de campaña en Filadelfia:
"El crimen violento aumentó bajo Donald Trump".
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 9, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on August 6, 2024 in an X post:
“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. Tim Walz.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • August 8, 2024
Tim Walz
Tim Walz
stated on August 6, 2024 in a rally in Philadelphia:
“Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 7, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 16, 2024 in News release:
"The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn."
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • July 13, 2024
Tom Cotton
Tom Cotton
stated on June 16, 2024 in an interview on CNN's State of the Union:
“The weapons that Ukraine used in the early days of this war to fend off the Russian invasion are the weapons that Donald Trump sent, that Barack Obama and Joe Biden had refused to send.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • July 2, 2024
Pennsylvania Values PAC
Pennsylvania Values PAC
stated on June 21, 2024 in an ad:
Former President Donald Trump is “against mail in voting.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Mia Penner • June 26, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 15, 2024 in remarks in Detroit:
The Trump administration “achieved the lowest African American unemployment rate and the lowest African American poverty rate ever recorded.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 20, 2024
Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee
Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee
stated on June 5, 2024 in News release:
Republican legislatures “have targeted birth control” and in Wisconsin “refused to schedule a vote on a bill that would have codified a right to birth control.”
Half-True
By Hope Karnopp • June 14, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 24, 2024 in a campaign email:
"The last administration oversaw the largest increase in murders ever recorded."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 4, 2024 in an interview with Time magazine:
“Wage increases have exceeded” the cost of inflation.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 19, 2024 in a speech:
Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • June 3, 2024
Tom Tiffany
Tom Tiffany
stated on April 30, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:
“The science is clear — the gray wolf has met and exceeded recovery goals.”
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • May 21, 2024
Jared Polis
Jared Polis
stated on May 15, 2024 in an X post:
Tariffs are a “direct, regressive tax on Americans” and President Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods will “hit every family.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • May 17, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 2, 2024 in an X post:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called voter ID “racist,” calls NRA a “terrorist organization” and supports affirmative action.
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • May 14, 2024
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on April 29, 2024 in an interview with MSNBC:
Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • May 2, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on March 31, 2024 in a post on X:
"The much-trumpeted job growth in the last year was ENTIRELY part-time jobs."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 19, 2024 in a Facebook post:
Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Macy’s, Foot Locker, Gap, Burger King, Regal Cinemas and Kroger have had mass store closures during Joe Biden’s presidency.
Half-True
By Sara Swann • April 24, 2024
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on April 11, 2024 in an interview with Fox News:
“It's very misleading when (President Biden) says (inflation) used to be at 9%. This is compounding. It’s not like it went down from 9% to 3%. This is building month after month. The better way to think about it is that it’s 18%, 19% over the last three years."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 17, 2024
Previous Next