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Lindsey Graham

Lindsey Graham

Lindsey Graham is a U.S. senator from South Carolina. He was a candidate for the Republican nominee for president in 2016.

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Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on August 6, 2024 una publicación en X
El gobernador de Minnesota, Tim Walz, firmó una ley dando educación universitaria gratuita “a los inmigrantes ilegales”.
Mostly True
By Maria Briceño, Maria Ramirez Uribe • August 12, 2024
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on August 6, 2024 an X post
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed “legislation giving free college … to illegal immigrants.”
Mostly True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • August 9, 2024
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on May 8, 2022 an interview on Fox News Sunday
“We’re one of the seven nations in the world that allow abortion on demand at 20 weeks.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • May 13, 2022
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on December 12, 2021 an interview on Fox News Sunday
“The CBO says (the Build Back Better Act) is $3 trillion of deficit spending.”
False
By Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson • December 14, 2021
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on October 13, 2020 in comments during Senate Judiciary Committee hearing
“Under the Affordable Care Act, three states get 35% of the money, folks. Can you name them? I'll help you: California, New York and Massachusetts.”
Half-True
By Phil Galewitz • October 28, 2020
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on September 19, 2020 a tweet
On confirming a Supreme Court justice nominee in a presidential election year.
Full Flop
By Jon Greenberg • September 21, 2020
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on October 24, 2019 a Senate resolution
Says House Democrats leading the impeachment inquiry are "denying President Trump basic fairness and due process accorded every American."
False
By Bill McCarthy • October 28, 2019
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on June 2, 2015 an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper
The USA Freedom Act undercuts privacy because "the phone records will be in the hands of the phone companies with hundreds of people available to look at the records, versus 20 or 30 people in the government."
False
By Lauren Carroll • June 4, 2015
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on March 8, 2015 a speech in Concord, N.H.
"If you took every penny of the 1 percent, including their dog, you wouldn't even begin to balance the budget."
Mostly False
By Clay Wirestone • March 27, 2015
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on March 8, 2015 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
"The labor participation rate is at an all-time low."
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • March 8, 2015
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on October 5, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
Under sequestration, the military was cut "down to the smallest Army since 1940, the smallest Navy since 1915."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • October 5, 2014
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on August 10, 2014 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
Top U.S. intelligence officials have told "every member of Congress, including the president, we’re about to be attacked in a serious way because (of) the threat emanating from Syria and Iraq."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • August 10, 2014
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on July 27, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
Russia "has an economy the size of Italy."  
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • July 27, 2014
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on February 14, 2013 a Senate hearing
South Carolina has a labor shortage, specifically in the meatpacking industry.
Mostly True
By Janel Davis • May 3, 2013
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on July 28, 2010 an interview with Fox News' "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren"
"People come here to have babies. They come here to drop a child. It's called 'drop and leave."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • August 6, 2010
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on March 24, 2010 an appearance on the Fox News show "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren
"The average student will be spending $1,700 to $1,800 more during the life of their loan because of this surcharge."
False
By Catharine Richert • March 30, 2010
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on July 13, 2009 a Senate hearing
"Now, there was a time when someone like Scalia and Ginsburg got 95-plus votes."
True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • July 13, 2009
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on April 26, 2009 a TV interview
"The Geneva Convention did not apply, until 2005, to the war on terror."
Half-True
April 28, 2009
Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
stated on August 31, 2008 an interview on ABC News' This Week
Joe Biden "voted against the first Gulf War. He opposed the surge. He wanted to partition Iraq."
True
By Adriel Bettelheim • September 1, 2008
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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 5, 2015 an appearance at a high school in Las Vegas, Nev.
"Not a single Republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. Not one."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 7, 2015
Dustin Inman Society
Dustin Inman Society
stated on April 15, 2013 a billboard advertisement
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham says South Carolina "has a labor shortage and wants more immigration."
Mostly False
By Janel Davis • May 3, 2013
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on September 8, 2010 postings on Twitter
Lindsey Graham endorsed Charlie Crist for U.S. Senate.
Pants on Fire!
By Aaron Sharockman • September 8, 2010
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