Latest Stories By Louis Jacobson

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Ad Watch: Fact-checking Joe Biden’s claim that Bernie Sanders thought about challenging Barack Obama

February 26, 2020

Heading into the South Carolina primary — a crucial contest for former Vice President Joe Biden — his campaign targeted the race’s delegate frontrunner, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. in a television ad.

The fastest-growing, and fastest-declining, jobs in the US

February 21, 2020

What are the fastest-growing and fastest-declining jobs in the United States?

William Barr

Ask PolitiFact: Can the president intervene in a federal criminal case?

February 19, 2020

With so much attention now focused on the Justice Department and its independence from politics, a PolitiFact reader asked us to take a closer look at how much influence the president is permitted to have on prosecutorial decisions at the Justice Department.

PolitiFact answers the Senate’s impeachment questions

January 31, 2020

Senators submitted questions to the House managers and President Donald Trump’s legal team. We took on some of their questions, with the facts in mind.

When PolitiFact hit the road to cover the Iowa caucuses

January 28, 2020

We consider it a crucial part of our mission to give voters information about the statements candidates make about their own biographies, their positions on public policy, and attacks against other politicians. But in January, it was time to get up close and personal.

Fact-checking Pete Buttigieg’s Fox News town hall in Des Moines, Iowa

January 27, 2020

During a Fox News town hall in Des Moines, former Mayor Pete Buttigieg pushed back against criticism that he is too young to be the president and argued that he is the Democrat who is best positioned to reach out to a broad swath of Americans.

Klobuchar speaking in Waterloo

Fact-checking Amy Klobuchar in Waterloo, Iowa

January 27, 2020

Despite polling below the top tier of Iowa caucus hopefuls, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., drew a near-capacity crowd to a ballroom in Waterloo, Iowa, on Jan. 26 to hear her vision for a post-Donald Trump presidency.

Klobuchar with crowd

We fact-checked the Democrats’ closing push in Iowa before the caucuses

January 27, 2020

The Democrats running for president fanned out across Iowa during the penultimate weekend before the state caucuses Feb. 3.

Biden close up in Ankeny

Fact-checking Joe Biden in Ankeny, Iowa

January 26, 2020

Former Vice President Joe Biden attacked the policies and conduct of President Donald Trump during a campaign event in Ankeny, Iowa, on Jan. 25.

Fact-checking Bernie Sanders in Ames, Iowa

January 26, 2020

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders delivered a speech in front of a boisterous, overflow crowd in Ames, energizing many younger Iowa voters with his call for fundamental change.

Fact-checking Andrew Yang in Muscatine, Iowa

January 24, 2020

At a town hall in Iowa, Andrew Yang made statements about manufacturing job losses, Amazon’s domination and life expectancy. Here’s what we found.

Sanders stump speech

The Stump Speech Analyzer: Bernie Sanders

January 23, 2020

Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Independent running for the Demcratic presidential nomination for the second time, has perfected his campaign stump speech: Railing against the establishment and promising dramatic government intervention, Sanders wields dozens of familiar talking points again and again. In a Mason City speech, Sanders offered versions of more than a dozen specific claims we’ve checked before.

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