Latest Fact Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Nicole Shanahan VP announcement in Oakland, Calif., 3-26-2024

No, Nicole Shanahan wouldn’t be the youngest vice president in history

March 26, 2024
If elected, “I will be the youngest vice president in American history.”
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Elmo, Mont., polling place, 11-8-2022

Ex-RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel misleads on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ about Montana election law

March 25, 2024
Montana Democrats are "suing to say, ‘You should be allowed to be registered to vote in two states.'”
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Trump sitting in civil court in New York, 1-11-2024

Trump’s $454 million bond for New York fraud case is not unprecedented

March 22, 2024
The $454 million bond is “unprecedented, and practically impossible for ANY Company.”
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Hiring signs in Arlington Heights Ill., 2-26-2024

Have 96% of jobs created over 35 years emerged under Democratic presidents?

March 21, 2024
“Since 1989 and a new age of globalization began, 51 million jobs have been created in America. 49 million, 96%, have been created under Democratic…
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Trump rally in Vandalia, Ohio, 3-16-2024

Donald Trump’s false claim that immigration hurts Social Security

March 20, 2024
"Your Social Security will be destroyed by the people coming in. There's too many of them. It's not sustainable."
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Donald Trump in Rome, Ga., 3-9-2024

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s dubious claim about job losses for native-born Americans

March 12, 2024
"In February alone, nearly 1 million jobs held by native-born Americans disappeared."
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Treasury Building for debt SOTU

Fact-checking Joe Biden on debt accumulated under Donald Trump

March 12, 2024
The Trump administration "added more to the national debt than any presidential term in American history."
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Buttigieg on TV

Fact-checking Pete Buttigieg on the stock market’s rise under different presidents

March 11, 2024
The stock market “hit an all-time high under President Biden and not under President Trump."
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Capitol for SOTU deficit

Joe Biden’s misleading claim about cutting the deficit

March 8, 2024
"We’ve already cut the federal deficit by over $1 trillion."
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Katie Porter Senate campaign election night

Fact-checking Rep. Katie Porter’s claims that billionaires ‘rigged’ California’s Senate primary

March 7, 2024
Billionaires “rigged” the California Senate primary election through “dishonest means.”
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Biden new semiconductor plant meeting workers in Phoenix, 12-6-2022

Fact-checking Joe Biden’s statement about semiconductor investments and CHIPS Act

February 29, 2024
The 2022 CHIPS and Science Act “attracted $640 billion in private companies’ investments.”
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