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PolitiFact’s guide to the third presidential debate

October 19, 2016

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face-off for the last time at 9 p.m. ET Wednesday from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.

Live fact-checking the third Trump, Clinton presidential debate

October 19, 2016

PolitiFact has 20 staffers working Wednesday's third and final presidential debate. Follow their live coverage here.

The allegations about Donald Trump and Miss Teen USA contestants

October 18, 2016

Whether he walked in on naked teens hasn't been established.

Marco and Patrick handshake at debate

Fact-checking the U.S. Senate debate between Marco Rubio and Patrick Murphy

October 18, 2016

The Republican incumbent and his Democratic rival from Congress fight it out in their first debate.

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10 misleading Trump attack lines from the WikiLeaks email dump

October 17, 2016

WikiLeaks’ release of thousands of internal emails from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has provided Donald Trump a new line of attack in the presidential campaign.

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Errónea asociación de Hillary Clinton entre recortes fiscales y la Gran Recesión

October 17, 2016

Hillary Clinton dijo que la Gran Recesión emergió "en gran parte a las políticas fiscales que recortaron los impuestos a los ricos, fallaron en invertir en la clase media, dejaron de vigilar a Wall Street y crearon la tormenta perfecta".

 

Fact checking the first Ron Johnson-Russ Feingold U.S. Senate debate

October 15, 2016

Each candidate makes claims we've previously examined.

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Taking a closer look at Donald Trump’s promises in new ad

October 14, 2016

A Donald Trump ad makes four promises. How many are true?

Senate debate primer: Ron Johnson vs Russ Feingold

October 14, 2016

Claims the candidates have made against each other have marked the U.S. Senate rematch.  

PolitiFact Ohio previews the first Ohio Senate debate

October 13, 2016

They’ve weathered months of campaigning and a fusillade of attack ads. Now, the candidates for U.S. Senate in Ohio will square off face-to-face in their first debate Friday.

Here’s a guide to some of Ted Strickland’s and Rob Portman's favorite talking points.

Weekly Checkup - Week 2

PolitiFact’s video rewind for Oct. 14

October 13, 2016

Every Friday we'll highlight some of the fact-checks from the presidential campaign trail.

Fact-checking claims about California’s ballot measures

October 13, 2016

PolitiFact California has fact-checked claims about many of the state’s most controversial ballot measures, from Prop 64’s effort to legalize marijuana to Prop 62’s proposal to abolish the death penalty to Prop 60’s condom requirement in adult films.

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