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MANCHESTER, N.H. — We’ve hit the halfway mark for PolitiFact’s pre-primaryNew Hampshire trip, and I almost can’t believe it.  Friday was a travel day for most of our team, so Senior Correspondent Louis Jacobson and I had a respite from the breakneck pace we’ve kept for the last few days. We visited WMUR-TV in the […]

HENNIKER, N.H. — A key argument former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is making as she runs for the Republican presidential nomination is practical. She says that although polls show that a matchup between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump would be a nail-biter, she would cruise to victory. Haley repeated that argument […]

MANCHESTER, N.H. —If you’ve been following PolitiFact’s journey in New Hampshire, you may have noticed we haven’t covered a rally for former President Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner. That’s because PolitiFact was denied press access to two of his rallies this week. We’ll try again for Trump rally access this weekend as a new PolitiFact […]

Imágenes de miles de personas amontonadas en la frontera sur de los Estados Unidos han sido constantes durante el mandato del Presidente Joe Biden. Los republicanos en el Congreso culpan a Biden por el alto número de cruces ilegales. La Casa Blanca dice que es responsabilidad del Congreso actualizar las leyes migratorias.  Mientras que miembros […]

Editor’s note: We updated this story on Jan. 19 to explain New Hampshire’s same-day registration law and how it fuels myths of voter fraud. MANCHESTER, N.H. — Former President Donald Trump has accused one of his rivals, Nikki Haley, of courting Democrats to vote for her in the Jan. 23 Republican presidential primary in New […]

HAMPTON, N.H. — Hello from New Hampshire! PolitiFact is in the Granite State this week covering the run-up to the state’s presidential primary Jan. 23. We’re collaborating with our partner WMUR-TV to fact-check candidates and talk with voters about their concerns in 2024.  I’m Ellen Hine, PolitiFact’s audience engagement producer, and I’m here in Manchester, […]

HENNIKER, N.H. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis set himself a high bar in a Jan. 16 town hall while campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination. He mentioned three policies he’d like to implement that current Supreme Court jurisprudence frowns upon.  In the town hall aired on CNN at New England College, DeSantis endorsed these policies: […]

Images of thousands of people crowded at the southern U.S. border have permeated President Joe Biden’s time in office. Republicans in Congress blame Biden for the high number of illegal crossings. The White House says it’s Congress’ responsibility to update immigration laws.  As members from separate branches of government point fingers at one another, the […]

It’s one of the spookiest zombie claims out there about voter fraud: Dead people are voting. Former President Donald Trump has said this multiple times, including after losing the 2020 election. In January 2021, Trump told Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that “close to 5,000” dead people voted in the state. But officials found […]

HENNIKER, N.H. — Hello from New Hampshire! PolitiFact is hitting the road this week in the lead up to the New Hampshire primary, which takes place Jan. 23. We’ll team up with our partner, WMUR-TV, to fact-check candidates on the ground and talk with voters about their concerns in 2024.  I wanted to take a second […]

President Joe Biden wasted little time jumping on a remark by former President Donald Trump, in which Trump invoked Herbert Hoover, who was president during the Great Depression’s onset in 1929. Trump told former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs that he was hoping that the economy would crash within the year, while Biden is president.  […]

On the presidential campaign trail, former President Donald Trump is, once again, promising to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act — a nebulous goal that became one of his administration’s splashiest policy failures. “We’re going to fight for much better health care than Obamacare. Obamacare is a catastrophe,” Trump said Jan. 6 at a […]