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Rick Santorum

Rick Santorum

Rick Santorum is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He is a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and was a Republican presidential candidate in 2012.

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Latest Fact-Checks By Rick Santorum

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Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on April 13, 2020 on CNN
"The president looks like he was ahead of the curve – as you know, he talks about this all the time – on shutting down travel from China."
Mostly False
By Jessica Calefati • April 14, 2020
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on September 3, 2017 a CNN interview
"We have over a million (legal immigrants) a year, more than at any time in the history of this country. We have the largest percentage of immigrants, almost tied now with the historical high as a percentage of immigrants living in this country."
Half-True
By Manuela Tobias • September 6, 2017
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on March 31, 2017 a conversation on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"
"The EPA director under Obama said the Clean Power Initiative would have no effect on man-made CO2 emissions. That's what she said. Go look it up."
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2017
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on October 31, 2015 a speech at the Republican Party of Iowa's Growth and Opportunity Party in Des Moines
"I am the only person in this field who is against amnesty. Every other person in this field wants to allow people who are here illegally to be able to stay here, in one form or another."
False
By Jason Noble • November 8, 2015
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on August 28, 2015 an interview with Bill Maher
The claim that 97 percent of scientists believe humans are causing climate change has been debunked by the "head" of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "That number was pulled out of thin air."
False
By Linda Qiu • September 2, 2015
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on August 28, 2015 an interview with Bill Maher.
"The most recent survey of climate scientists said about 57 percent don’t agree with the idea that 95 percent of the change in the climate is caused by CO2."
False
By Linda Qiu • September 1, 2015
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on June 7, 2015 comments on "Fox News Sunday"
If Fox News' presidential debate rules had been in place during the 1992 election, "Bill Clinton wouldn't have been on the stage."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • June 7, 2015
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on April 10, 2015 a speech to the NRA
Says Howard Zinn, "an anti-American Marxist," wrote "the most popular textbook that's taught in our high schools in America."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2015
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on April 5, 2015 an interview on "Face the Nation."
"Ninety percent of American workers don't own their own business."
Mostly True
By Katharina Fiedler • April 13, 2015
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on April 5, 2015 an interview on "Face the Nation."
Seventy percent of Americans "don't have a college degree."
True
By Katharina Fiedler • April 8, 2015
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on November 23, 2014 an interview on CNN's "State of the Union"
"There are more people living in this country who were not born here than at anytime in the history of the country."
Half-True
By Lauren Carroll • November 23, 2014
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on July 13, 2014 a "Meet the Press" pundit panel
"We are accepting more legal immigrants than we ever have in the history (of the United States.)"
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • July 16, 2014
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on July 13, 2014 comments on NBC's "Meet the Press"
Children are crossing the border because President Barack Obama said "if you come, you’re going to be able to stay, because we’re not going to enforce the law."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 13, 2014
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on May 11, 2014 comments on CNN's "State of the Union."
The CBO says that if you raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, "half a million people would lose their jobs."
Mostly True
By Julie Kliegman • May 11, 2014
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on August 28, 2012 a speech at the Republican National Convention
President Obama’s education "solution" includes an effort to "nationalize curriculum."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 30, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on August 28, 2012 a speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa
When his grandfather arrived in the United States, "there were no government benefits for immigrants."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 29, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on August 28, 2012 a convention speech
Says President Obama has waived "the work requirement for welfare."
Pants on Fire!
By Molly Moorhead • August 29, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on April 2, 2012 in a speech in Wisconsin
"I think it’s seven or eight of the California system of universities don’t even teach an American history course. It’s not even available to be taught."
False
By Becky Bowers • April 3, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on March 26, 2012 an op-ed in "U.S. News & World Report"
"Polls show Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to Obamacare, especially the individual mandate."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • March 29, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on March 25, 2012 a campaign appearance in Wisconsin
Says Mitt Romney said "we are going to have to live with high gas prices, it's a good thing because it will reduce consumption, we don't want to produce any more gasoline."
Half-True
By Molly Moorhead • March 28, 2012
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Latest Fact-Checks About Rick Santorum

Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on February 28, 2012 a campaign commercial
Says Rick Santorum "opposes right-to-work"
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • March 1, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on February 27, 2012 in a campaign appearance in Nashville.
Says that Rick Santorum "voted for the unions over FedEx."
Half-True
By Bartholomew Sullivan • February 29, 2012
Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on January 13, 2012 a television ad
Says Rick Santorum "voted to let convicted felons vote."
Half-True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 17, 2012
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 2, 2012 a Web ad
"Santorum also voted for a teapot museum in North Carolina."
Half-True
By Jake Berry • January 3, 2012
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 2, 2012 an online video
Says Rick Santorum voted for the Bridge to Nowhere.
Mostly True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 2, 2012
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