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Fact-checking the Dick Cheney-John Kerry faceoff on ‘Morning Joe’

By Louis Jacobson September 4, 2015

On the same day the Iran nuclear deal received the backing from the make-or-break 34th senator, the former vice president and the current secretary of state discussed the agreement in back-to-back interviews. Here we check a claim by each of them.

In Context: What Scott Walker said about a Canada wall

September 3, 2015

Gov. Scott Walker was ridiculed for comments he made about building a wall along the Canadian border. What exactly did he say?

Fact-checking claims on climate change

By Lauren Carroll, Linda Qiu September 3, 2015

President Barack Obama traveled to Alaska this week to highlight the impact of climate change. We look at a few claims about Obama's hypocrisy on the issue and by Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, a noted climate skeptic. 

August High Five: Walker runs the table

By James B. Nelson September 2, 2015

Items focused on Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican candidate for president, dominated the PolitiFact Wisconsin High Five of most-clicked items for August.

The fact-checker’s guide to viral graphics contrasting Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders

By Will Cabaniss September 2, 2015

Pushing back against analysis of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders' similar Senate records, viral charts are cropping up to show how Sanders is the more progressive candidate (even Clickhole got in the game).

PolitiFact Florida’s Top 5 fact-checks for August 2015

By Amy Sherman September 1, 2015

Claims about illegal immigration, abortion and college costs were hot topics in the presidential race.

 

Donald Trump on the Truth-O-Meter, fact-checking the GOP frontrunner

By Aaron Sharockman September 1, 2015

We've fact-checked Donald Trump 28 times since he entered the presidential race. Nineteen claims have been rated False or Pants on Fire.

Fact checking Marco Rubio

By April Hunt August 31, 2015

As we near the the next national GOP debate on Sept. 16, political watchers are keeping an eye on polls to see who in the crowded field will make the stage for CNN's broadcast.

As part of PolitiFact's ongoing series examining statesment from candidates on both sides of the aisle, today we look at claims from one of the standouts of the first debate in August, Marco Rubio, Florida's junior senator.

 

 

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