Fact Check Posts – Page 42

Annette Taddeo
stated on November 24, 2015 in a fundraising email:

Jeb Bush’s plan for Social Security is "disastrous for seniors and raises the retirement age to 70."

By Amy Sherman, Joshua Gillin • November 30, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on November 18, 2015 in a speech at the Citadel:

For NATO exercises, "we don’t have enough of our own hardware and equipment even for training purposes. So the Brits are spotting us choppers."

By Amy Sherman • November 25, 2015

Rick Scott
stated on November 17, 2015 in an interview on Fox:

The federal government is "making the decision, whether we like it or not, to send 425 refugees to our state" from Syria.

By Amy Sherman • November 20, 2015

Courageous Conservatives PAC
stated on November 6, 2015 in a radio ad:

"When Chuck Schumer and Marco Rubio tried to push amnesty, it was Ted Cruz who stopped them."

By Amy Sherman • November 13, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on November 10, 2015 in the Fox Business Network debate:

Says Hillary Clinton told her daughter and a government official that Benghazi "was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video."

By Amy Sherman • November 11, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on October 29, 2015 in an interview on CNN:

"There was never a single shred of evidence presented to anyone" that the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, were "spontaneous, and in fact, the CIA themselves understood that early on."

By Amy Sherman, Clayton Youngman • November 4, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on October 28, 2015 in the CNBC GOP presidential debate:

"In Florida, we have the lowest in-state tuition of any state."

By Amy Sherman • October 30, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on October 28, 2015 in the CNBC GOP presidential debate:

In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama "missed 60 or 70 percent of his votes." In 2004, John Kerry missed "close to 60 to 70 percent" and Bob Graham missed "over 30 percent of his votes."

By Amy Sherman, Linda Qiu • October 29, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on October 14, 2015 in in a town hall in Concord, New Hampshire:

"The top 1 percent pay 45 percent of all taxes in the country."

By Amy Sherman • October 26, 2015

Jennifer Granholm
stated on October 25, 2015 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

Says Marco Rubio opposes abortion "even in the case of rape and incest."

By Aaron Sharockman, Amy Sherman • October 25, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on October 22, 2015 in an op-ed in Breitbart:

"Even after Syrian troops began to shoot protesters in the streets with live ammunition in 2011, Clinton labeled Bashar al-Assad a ‘reformer.' "

By Amy Sherman • October 23, 2015

Marco Rubio
stated on October 16, 2015 in prepared remarks in a written speech:

To abide by Environmental Protection Agency rules when mining or drilling you have "to take caution not to disturb bodies of water barely bigger than a puddle."

By Amy Sherman • October 22, 2015

Bernie Sanders
stated on October 14, 2015 in the CNN Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas:

"Every other major country" has family paid leave.

By Amy Sherman • October 14, 2015

Matt Gaetz
stated on October 6, 2015 in a press conference :

"In the states that allow open carry, violent crime was 23 percent lower."

By Amy Sherman, Joshua Gillin • October 9, 2015

Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on October 2, 2015 in a tweet:

"380 Americans have been killed in 294 mass shootings in 2015 alone."

By Amy Sherman • October 8, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on September 25, 2015 in Values Voter Summit:

When ICE releases illegal immigrants, "a lot of those people are not from Honduras and Mexico. They’re from Iraq and Somalia and Russia."

By Amy Sherman • October 1, 2015

Ben Carson
stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN GOP presidential debate :

Pediatricians have cut down on the number and proximity of vaccines because they recognize there have been "too many in too short a period of time."

By Amy Sherman • September 17, 2015

Jeb Bush
stated on September 16, 2015 in the CNN debate:

"When he (Donald Trump) asked Florida to have casino gambling, we said no."

By Amy Sherman, Linda Qiu • September 17, 2015

Club for Growth
stated on September 15, 2015 in a TV ad in Iowa:

Says Donald Trump supports the Wall Street bailout.

By Amy Sherman • September 15, 2015

Donald Trump
stated on September 3, 2015 in an interview:

Under the Iran deal: "If Israel attacks Iran … we’re supposed to be on Iran’s side."

By Amy Sherman, Warren Fiske • September 4, 2015

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