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McAuliffe falsely claims he inherited $2.4 billion debt left by GOP
By Warren Fiske June 25, 2019

 "Five years ago, when I took office, our state was mired in debt - a $2.4 billion debt left over by Republicans."  

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Fuzzy math fuels Sanders’ claim that cost barriers to health care kill 30,000 a year
By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra June 24, 2019

"30,000 Americans a year die waiting for health care because of the cost." 

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PANTS ON FIRE: Trump’s latest California voter fraud claim as baseless as past allegations
By Chris Nichols June 24, 2019

California "admitted" there were "a million" illegal votes in the 2016 presidential election. 

No, those posts about infected needles being hidden in gas pump handles are part of an old hoax
By Samantha Putterman June 24, 2019

People are attaching HIV-infected needles to gas station pump handles.

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Donald Trump twists story on Central Park Five
By Jon Greenberg June 24, 2019

Says the Central Park Five "admitted their guilt."  

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Beto O’Rourke on target about scale of Democratic surge in Texas in 2018
By Louis Jacobson June 24, 2019

In 2018, when he ran for senator, "young voter turnout in early voting was up 500%. We won more votes than any Democrat has in…

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Fact-checking Brady’s muddled attack on Pritzker’s tax plan
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller June 23, 2019

Says that after "the last income tax increase in the state of Illinois, we saw the largest exodus of middle-income families."

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Gillibrand claims legislative victories in Trump era
By Jill Terreri Ramos June 21, 2019

"Even in the last Congress, President Trump signed 18 of my bills."

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Donald Trump, again, falsely says Obama had family separation policy
By Miriam Valverde June 21, 2019

"When I became president, President Obama had a separation policy. I didn’t have it. He had it."

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Fact-checking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s comments on Amazon, “starvation wages” and food stamps
By Bill McCarthy June 21, 2019

Says Amazon is "paying full-time employees so little that they require gov food assistance."

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Fact-checking John Cornyn on drug trafficking, drug overdoses
By Madlin Mekelburg June 21, 2019

"Texas remains one of the most severely impacted states from drug trafficking. Nearly 3,000 Texans died from drug related deaths in 2017 – with half…

No, the only reason to oppose voter ID laws isn’t because ‘you plan to cheat’
By Sophie Austin June 21, 2019

Says the "only valid reason to oppose voter ID is that you plan to cheat," and "every Democrat in Congress opposes voter ID."

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