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Did Ted Cruz gin up Iowa voter histories?

By W. Gardner Selby February 4, 2016

Just before Iowa’s presidential caucuses, Ted Cruz’s campaign poked some Hawkeye State voters with mailers criticized as deceptive by the state’s chief elections official. Could it be too that Cruz concocted personal voting histories for Iowans (and their neighbors) who got the mailers?

 

Here's our detailed look -- including a professor's comparison of personal information in the mailers to 20 voter histories he checked in Iowa state records.

Checking Ted Cruz on the facts in New Hampshire

By Louis Jacobson February 3, 2016

Stumping in New Hampshire today, Ted Cruz aired claims PolitiFact has gauged before.

 

In this report, read what Cruz got right and wrong, courtesy of PolitiFact correspondent Lou Jacobson, on the scene.

High Five: Our most-clicked items for January

By James B. Nelson February 3, 2016

Items from U.S. Reps. Sean Duffy and Reid Ribble, both Republicans from Wisconsin, were in our January High Five.

PolitiFact’s guide to Republican-on-Republican attacks

By Linda Qiu February 2, 2016

The Iowa caucuses are over the GOP race and the rivalries will likely intensify. But which attacks are based in fact and which are baseless accusations? 

Top 5 for PolitiFact Florida in January 2016

By Amy Sherman February 1, 2016

The GOP presidential primary and the Democrats’ debate schedule fueled the Truth-O-Meter.

 

Fact-checking the Jan. 31 Sunday shows

By Lauren Carroll, Linda Qiu January 31, 2016

We look at Ted Cruz's attack on Donald Trump and Marco Rubio's defense of his immigration record, from interviews on Meet the Press

Mailbag: ‘Your article is complete hogwash’

By Louis Jacobson January 29, 2016

Another of our periodic roundups of reader complaints and compliments.

Mano a mano, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio lead the last pre-caucus tangle in Iowa

By W. Gardner Selby January 29, 2016

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz--tangling again over immigration and, perhaps, who's politically pure--ran first and second in speaking time during the last Republican presidential debate a few days  before Iowa's crucial caucuses. (Donald Trump, who declined to attend, spoke elsewhere).

 

PolitiFact in Washington, D.C., is piling up debate fact checks here--starting with a MOSTLY FALSE for Cruz's claim Barack Obama has "degraded" the U.S. military and a MOSTLY FALSE for Cruz's statement he hasn't insulted Trump personally.

 

What did you hear that merits a check?
 

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