Latest Fact Checks By Louis Jacobson

Jeb Bush says Barack Obama will add more debt than all 43 previous presidents combined

By Louis Jacobson

February 18, 2016

"Barack Obama will somehow manage to add more than $8 trillion to the national debt, which is more debt than the 43 presidents who held…

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Hillary Clinton says she wants to return minimum wage to high of ‘$12 an hour in today’s dollars’

By Louis Jacobson

February 17, 2016

Says she will "work to raise the federal minimum wage back to the highest level it’s ever been — $12 an hour in today’s dollars."

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Did Bernie Sanders call President Barack Obama ‘weak’ and ‘a disappointment’?

By Louis Jacobson

February 12, 2016

Says Sen. Bernie Sanders has called President Barack Obama "weak. He's called him a disappointment."

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Americans really haven’t had a raise in 15 years, as Hillary Clinton says

By Louis Jacobson

February 12, 2016

"Americans haven’t had a raise in 15 years."

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Donald Trump repeats Pants on Fire claim that unemployment rate could be 42 percent

By Louis Jacobson

February 11, 2016

"Don't believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9 and 5 percent unemployment. The number's probably 28, 29, as high as 35. In fact, I…

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Jeb Bush says his two picks for Florida Supreme Court have been ‘its most consistent conservatives’

By Louis Jacobson

February 10, 2016

"My two appointments to the Florida Supreme Court, Raul Cantero and Kenneth Bell, have earned reputations as its most consistent conservatives."

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Carly Fiorina says her campaign has more cash on hand than John Kasich and Chris Christie combined

By Louis Jacobson

February 8, 2016

Says she "is 6th in hard dollars raised and has more cash on hand than Governors (John) Kasich and (Chris) Christie combined."

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Donald Trump calls U.S. ‘the highest taxed country in the world’

By Joshua Gillin , Louis Jacobson

February 7, 2016

"Right now we’re the highest taxed country in the world."

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Bernie Sanders mistaken about whether his campaign’s ad had cited a nonexistent endorsement

By Clay Wirestone , Louis Jacobson

February 5, 2016

Says a Sanders campaign ad "never said ... a newspaper endorsed us that did not."

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Marco Rubio says China is ‘practicing how to blow up our satellites’

By Louis Jacobson

February 5, 2016

China is "practicing how to blow up our satellites."

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Ted Cruz off on claim that median African-American income rose $5,000 under Reagan

By Louis Jacobson

February 3, 2016

"During eight years under Ronald Reagan, African-American median income rose by about $5,000."

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Jeb Bush wrong to claim national debt never a debate topic

By Louis Jacobson

February 2, 2016

The debt "comes up all the time in town meetings ... but it's never asked in the debates. It's really weird. It hasn't been brought…

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