Fact Check Posts – Page 5

Andrew Cuomo
stated on January 29, 2021 in a news conference:

“But we’re below the national average in number of deaths in nursing homes.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • February 9, 2021

Colin Schmitt
stated on January 14, 2021 in a news conference:

“We have scientific data, from all different levels, but particularly from the high school sports levels, from numerous different states that shows that it is safe to play what New York is considering high-risk sports.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 26, 2021

Chris Jacobs
stated on January 7, 2021 in a television interview:

“There were several states where outside actors dramatically changed the rules of the road, so to speak, two weeks out, one week out, on how elections would be run.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 14, 2021

Claudia Tenney
stated on December 8, 2020 in a Tweet:

“Dead people also voted.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • December 22, 2020

Rick Scott
stated on November 16, 2020 in a television interview:

Says Charles Schumer supports “putting everybody on the Medicare system. He wants the Green New Deal … reduce funding for the police.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • December 4, 2020

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on November 7, 2020 in a Tweet:

“Every single swing-seat House Democrat who endorsed #MedicareForAll won re-election or is on track to win re-election. Every. Single. One.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 17, 2020

Chris Jacobs
stated on October 21, 2020 in a debate:

"I am for protecting pre-existing conditions. … I actually co-sponsored legislation to do just that."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • October 30, 2020

Chris Jacobs
stated on October 22, 2020 in campaign mailer:

“While serving as Town Supervisor, Nate McMurray voted to raise taxes on homeowners.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • October 28, 2020

Andrew Cuomo
stated on September 30, 2020 in a press call:

"We're No. 46 out of 50 states... we're 46th in terms of percentage of deaths in nursing homes."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • October 16, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on September 1, 2020 in a television interview:

“There was tremendous cheating in New York”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • September 11, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on August 20, 2020 in a speech:

“Cuomo ended cash bail ... and now the crime rate has gone through the roof.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • August 29, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on July 29, 2020 in a Tweet:

“New York Mail-In voting is in a disastrous state of condition. Votes from many weeks ago are missing - a total mess. They have no idea what is going on. Rigged Election.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • August 15, 2020

Tom Reed
stated on July 9, 2020 in a news conference:

Opening the schools “is a local determination, but it’s not a state determination.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • July 18, 2020

Chris Jacobs
stated on June 17, 2020 in an ad:

“As a lawyer working in Korea, Nate McMurray helped send American jobs to Asia”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 20, 2020

Andrew Cuomo
stated on May 20, 2020 in a news conference:

“Why did the state do that with COVID patients in nursing homes? It’s because the state followed President Trump’s CDC guidance.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 13, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on June 9, 2020 in a tweet:

"Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment ... Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?"

By Bill McCarthy, Jill Terreri Ramos • June 9, 2020

Viral image
stated on June 5, 2020 in a Facebook post:

A man’s injuries from falling after police officers shoved him in Buffalo, N.Y. were staged.

By Bill McCarthy, Jill Terreri Ramos • June 9, 2020

Andy Biggs
stated on May 7, 2020 in a letter:

"States like New York, Illinois and California have been vocal in their demands for funding to bail out their pension systems, which were failing long before the COVID-19 outbreak, and other programs that aren’t related to this crisis."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • May 19, 2020

Andrew Cuomo
stated on April 23, 2020 in a news conference:

“At the end of the year, we put into that federal pot $116 billion more than we take out,” while Kentucky “takes out $148 billion more than they put in.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • May 5, 2020

Andrew Cuomo
stated on April 14, 2020 in a news conference:

“Go look at other countries that went through exactly this, started to reopen, and then they saw the infection rate go back up again.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 20, 2020

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