Fact Check Posts – Page 78

Hillary Clinton says history shows she can win over Bernie Sanders supporters

By Louis Jacobson

April 21, 2016

"When I withdrew in June of 2008, polls were showing that at least 40 percent of my supporters said, oh, they weren't going to support…

Bernie Sanders says Hillary Clinton had ‘one line on the Palestinian people’ in key speech on Israel

By Louis Jacobson

April 20, 2016

Says that in her speech to the pro-Israel group AIPAC, Hillary Clinton "had one line on the Palestinian people."

Sanders largely off-base in saying he wins when voter turnout is high and loses when it’s low

By Louis Jacobson

April 19, 2016

"We win when voter turnout is high, we lose when it is low."

Clinton exaggerates Republicans’ plans to ‘privatize’ Social Security

By Louis Jacobson

April 15, 2016

The Republicans "still want to privatize (Social Security). In fact, their whole idea is to turn over the Social Security trust fund to Wall Street."

Bernie Sanders says he’s ‘one of the poorer members of the United States Senate’

By Louis Jacobson

April 15, 2016

"I remain one of the poorer members of the United States Senate."

Donald Trump wrong about 1980 Ronald Reagan race against Jimmy Carter

By Louis Jacobson

April 14, 2016

"My numbers are better right now than Ronald Reagan's numbers were with Jimmy Carter."

A look at Hillary Clinton’s claim about Vermont’s gun pipeline to New York

By Louis Jacobson

April 12, 2016

"The state that has the highest per capita number of … guns that end up committing crimes in New York come from Vermont."

Does CBO report suggest U.S. economy faces a decade of ‘protracted economic malaise’?

By Louis Jacobson

April 11, 2016

Says the Congressional Budget Office "is expecting a protracted economic malaise for at least the next decade under current policies."

In bid to restructure Medicaid, does Rep. Tom Price get conclusions of an academic paper right?

By Louis Jacobson

April 8, 2016

A study "from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, and Dartmouth concluded that Medicaid’s value to its beneficiaries is significantly lower than the actual cost…

Rick Scott correct that Florida created 1 million jobs on his watch

By Louis Jacobson

April 6, 2016

"We got a million jobs."

Bernie Sanders has released few tax returns compared with past and present candidates

By Louis Jacobson

April 6, 2016

Says his campaign has released his past tax returns.

Barack Obama jumps the gun on U.S. uninsured rate, then reverses course

By Louis Jacobson

April 5, 2016

The "rate of uninsured Americans (is) 8.8 percent."

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Hillary Clinton says history shows she can win over Bernie Sanders supporters

Bernie Sanders says Hillary Clinton had ‘one line on the Palestinian people’ in key speech on Israel

Sanders largely off-base in saying he wins when voter turnout is high and loses when it’s low

Clinton exaggerates Republicans’ plans to ‘privatize’ Social Security

Bernie Sanders says he’s ‘one of the poorer members of the United States Senate’

Donald Trump wrong about 1980 Ronald Reagan race against Jimmy Carter

A look at Hillary Clinton’s claim about Vermont’s gun pipeline to New York

Does CBO report suggest U.S. economy faces a decade of ‘protracted economic malaise’?

In bid to restructure Medicaid, does Rep. Tom Price get conclusions of an academic paper right?

Rick Scott correct that Florida created 1 million jobs on his watch

Bernie Sanders has released few tax returns compared with past and present candidates

Barack Obama jumps the gun on U.S. uninsured rate, then reverses course