Democrats have been making hay out of comments from U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., who has now dropped out of the running for speaker of the House. We wanted to look at exactly what he said about the Select Committee on Benghazi.
PolitiFact fact-checks two presidential candidates, Ben Carson and Jeb Bush.
We look at claims from Republican presidential candidates Ben Carson and Jeb Bush.
Pundits and politicians critique the second GOP debate on CNN, dicussing polls, questioning the questioners and arguing with the fact-checkers.
Pundits and politicians deliver post-game analysis of the second GOP debate on CNN.
We've published more than 10,000 fact-checks over the past eight years. We deserve some cake!
In the week since the GOP debate, we’ve compiled 20 fact-checks of things said at the debate. (Plus two bonus fact-checks of post-debate analysis from Donald Trump.)
Donald Trump is climbing in the polls in the race for the Republican nomination for president. We've fact-checked several of his statements.
As Independence Day approaches, PolitiFact Wisconsin examines a statement often made by Gov. Scott Walker on the campaign trail that the founders were "ordinary people."
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• Ted Cruz critiques PolitiFact, gets things wrong
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PolitiFact has been fact-checking health care since 2007, from ideas on the campaign trail, to the drafting of legislation in 2009, to the 2010 implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the ensuing legal fights.
Donald Trump announced he was running for president in a lengthy speech that included several inaccurate statements.
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