# claims

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"Flip Flop! After opposing term limits for decades, Adam Putnam adopts Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis’ position."


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Say President Donald Trump "dictated a short but accurate response to the New York Times article" about the Trump Tower meeting with Russians.


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Says "our indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton is back to being the only statewide official in the country under indictment."


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North Korea's history of international negotiations shows "they'll take the concessions, they'll keep them in their pocket and then they won't deliver."


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"The bulk of the problem with the opioid epidemic is the fentanyl and all the synthetic drugs coming across the southern border."


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Says that "when federal bureaucrats wanted to prohibit the use of wooden cheese boards, which help make tens of millions of pounds of cheese a year" she "stepped in, helped eliminate the regulations."


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Says "Rosie O’Donnell apparently committed the same offense five times, five times, when she broke the identical law that Dinesh (D'Souza) was prosecuted for."


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Philadelphia Eagles players stayed "in the Locker Room for the playing of our our National Anthem" or were "kneeling."


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"The bottom line is clear: Under the policies of this unified Republican government, American workers, families, and business owners are achieving economic growth that is unmatched in recent memory. … More than 1 million new jobs have been created just since we passed tax reform last December."


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Says Heidi Heitkamp has "never been interested in" regulatory relief "until all of a sudden I become a candidate for the Senate and put pressure on."


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Says the California state auditor "found (John) Chiang lost track of $31 billion dollars," as state controller.


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"We’ve been down this road before—blanket protectionism is a big part of why America had a Great Depression."


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"Since the end of the financial crisis, we have seen an average of one community bank or credit union disappear every day."


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"We got $6 billion for opioid and getting rid of that scourge that’s taking over our country. And the numbers are way down."


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Says Austin has "been ranked repeatedly as one of the most, if not the most, economically segregated cities in the country."


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"Jim Renacci has been a lobbyist even while in Congress" and "voted to make it easier for lobbyists to hold key government positions and harder to investigate conflicts of interest."


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"The Failing @nytimes quotes ‘a senior White House official,’ who doesn’t exist, as saying ‘even if the meeting were reinstated, holding it on June 12 would be impossible, given the lack of time and the amount of planning needed.’ WRONG AGAIN! Use real people, not phony sources."


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A "horrible law" requires that children be separated from their parents "once they cross the Border into the U.S."


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GOP candidate for California governor Travis Allen "on the floor vote … refused to join Republicans opposing driver licenses for illegal aliens."


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"Democrats mistakenly tweet 2014 pictures from Obama’s term showing children from the Border in steel cages."


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"Gov. Kay Ivey gave nearly $1 million of taxpayers’ money to a liberal activist organization that promotes alternative lifestyles and transgenderism."


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"While Phil Bredesen was in the governor’s office, the number of Tennesseans on unemployment nearly doubled."


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Gov. Wolf is trying to implement "a severance tax that would be financed by Pennsylvania’s working class"


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"Yesterday afternoon the Republicans in the General Assembly used the nuclear option to pass North Carolina's over $20 billion budget."


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Republican candidate for California governor Travis Allen "gave campaign donations to Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom and Barbara Boxer."


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A recent spending bill had at least "$1.6 billion in there ... for schools to give them an opportunity to secure them."


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"Since 2015, the City of Milwaukee has spent more than $22 million on settlements with litigants accusing police of misconduct."


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"Senator Cryin’ Chuck Schumer fought hard against the Bad Iran Deal, even going at it with President Obama, & then Voted AGAINST it! Now he says I should not have terminated the deal"


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"There’s more union jobs growing in Texas, which is a right-to-work state, than in Illinois, and factory workers make more money in Texas than they do in Illinois."


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Says a young Texas rapper charged with capital crimes faces the death penalty but the alleged Santa Fe High School shooter faces prison and then parole after 40 years.


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"El precio de combustible ha aumentado un 25% este año" / "The price of gas has increased 25% this year."


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"Taking into account inflation, the federal minimum wage is actually worth less than what it was worth 50 years ago."


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Perpetrators of school shootings "have been drugged in many cases … many of these young boys have been on Ritalin since they were in kindergarten."


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Says Tammy Baldwin is "more worried about the mastermind of 9/11" than supporting CIA director nominee Gina Haspel.


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Say Maxine Waters told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that her first act as president would be to "impeach Donald Trump."


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"Thanks to the strong charter school reforms put in place while I was Senate President" the online charter school ECOT "was caught and is out of business."


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"Prince William May Not Attend Royal Wedding Leaving Harry Without a Best Man; Princess Diana Would Not Be Happy"


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Says Jim Sensenbrenner "has been in office for 40 years" and "he's led on exactly one bill," the Patriot Act.


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Antonio Villaraigosa's "recklessness (as mayor of Los Angeles)  ... left no funding to test 7,000 rape kits, putting public safety at risk."


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"Religion in America isn’t receding. It’s just the opposite. Faith is gaining new life across America every day."


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"There are some counties in Texas where the first day of hunting, you have to shut down the schools because people are going to go hunting."


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A legal settlement that reined in Chicago police "resulted in approximately 236 additional victims killed and over 1,100 additional shootings in 2016 alone."


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Says Cecile Richards recently said there’s room in "her movement" for people who personally believe abortion is wrong.


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"Each year ICE detains someone, it costs taxpayers over $50,000. For comparison, by the way, that's four times the amount the federal government spends on each child in our public schools."


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"Two-thirds of the people who use Medicaid are poor children, but two-thirds of the money is for long-term care for seniors, whether in a facility or at home."


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A "catch and release" immigration policy "is a Democrat rule, Sherrod Brown, this is a Democrat rule."


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"In San Francisco, we were successful in reducing our street population 40 percent. We got 12,000 people off the street."


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Says the 2018 defense authorization bill includes raises for the military "for the first time in 10 years."


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Says Heidi Heitkamp "cast the deciding vote to kill the Congressional Review Act that would have repealed a BLM flaring rule that was designed just for North Dakota."


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"Democrats go full tyranny: now demand nationwide gun confiscation from law-abiding Americans ... at gunpoint, of course."


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"Welders are coming out of their tech schools at $28 an hour" and "pipefitters are making six figures."


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Says Benito Mussolini "initiated a campaign to 'drenare la palude' ('drain the swamp') by firing more than 35,000 civil servants."


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"Tammy Baldwin cosponsored legislation that wanted to establish the Department of Peace and Nonviolence."


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Says Adam Putnam "opposed bringing troops, putting troops on our southern border using the National Guard."


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Says he was "instrumental to passing two (recent) pieces of legislation that were a huge victory for firefighters across the state."


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President Donald Trump’s budget "threatened to cut $2 trillion from Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid"


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"Kirsten Gillibrand has put forward 331 bills since she's been in Congress. Do you know how many of them have been passed into law? Zero!"


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"President Trump is still supported by almost 85 percent of the Republican Party in the state of Ohio, and that's from recent polling, and still has a 58 percent approval rating in Ohio."


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"Mitch McConnell was one of the few senators that voted after Tiananmen Square not to have punitive actions against China for human rights violations."


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Says "precisely zero terrorists, terrorist groups or terror plots have ever been connected with the U.S.-Mexico border to do harm to people within the United States."


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"All the things Patrick (Morrisey) is saying — (that I supported) Hillary Clinton, cap and trade, Planned Parenthood — PolitiFact went through each and every allegation and said, ‘False, False, False, False.’ "


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Says Beto O’Rourke had a "resolution to legalize all narcotics--including heroin and other deadly opioids."


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"In seven years that (nuclear) deal will have expired, and Iran is free to go ahead and create nuclear weapons."


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Says George Soros has "unloaded a whopping $1 million to install his liberal puppets in positions of power" in Texas this fall.


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Says illegal immigration is "costing us $130 billion a year to house and feed and give benefits to people that shouldn’t be even in the country."


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"I am the only one onstage who has never voted to raise your taxes. These two, each, a billion dollars worth of votes to raise your taxes."


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The nuclear deal gave Iran "$150 billion, giving $1.8 billion in cash — in actual cash carried out in barrels and in boxes from airplanes."


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Says Mitt Romney is using "a million of his presidential campaign dollars to finance his Utah Senate race."


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"We have laws on the books where people can walk right up to our ports of entry, say ‘I have a credible fear of persecution,’ and we bring them in. We don’t send them back."


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Says Austin is the "safest big city in Texas with an unemployment rate under 3% that has been named the best place to live in the entire United States two years running."


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"Kanye (West) looks and he sees black unemployment at the lowest it’s been in the history of our country. He sees Hispanic unemployment at the lowest it’s been in the history of our country. He sees (women’s unemployment) the lowest it’s been in now almost 19 years."


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Says Florida Gov. Rick Scott "just signed a bill that could make most of Florida’s beaches private."


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"I’ve cut a half a billion (dollars) out of the EPA just in the last two years. We’ve cut 3,000 jobs out of the EPA."


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After the minimum wage for tipped workers was raised in Maine, the state "reversed that decision due to restaurant employees organizing en masse against the measure."


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"I am still waiting for someone to produce pieces of the alleged plane" that caused the Twin Towers to collapse.


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"Black and Latino people in NYC are arrested at TEN times the rate of white people for virtually the same rate of marijuana usage."


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Says that as of March 2018 compared with 2017, "there’s been a more than 200 percent increase in the number of people who are apprehended coming across the border. And, I’ll tell you this, there’s been a more than 200 percent increase in apprehension of heroin coming across the border."


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"Apply Now and Win the Canada Diversity Immigration Visa Lottery (DV-2019) Program | Live and Work in Canada."


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Says the 2015 vote on the American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act "was not a vote to deny access to the U.S."


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"In Mobile, it’s something like, 1,700 families generate 80 percent of the crime. We know who those families are."


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"Right now in Ohio 200,000 people are getting opioid treatment because they have insurance under the Affordable Care Act."


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Says that despite a recent increase in school funding, Scott Walker "has taken over a billion dollars from the public schools."


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"A majority of Americans now live in states where they have decided to legalize cannabis," including recreational and medical marijuana.


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"The United States has a massive trade deficit with Japan. It's anywhere from $69 billion to a $100 billion a year."


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In the wake of the Republican-backed tax bill, "more than 100,000 American workers have already been laid off in 2018."


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"Our bold reforms have Wisconsin’s unemployment rate down to an all-time LOW of 2.9 percent, and the number of people working at an all-time HIGH!"


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Studies show "the 2016 shooting and murder rate in Chicago cost us about $9.6 BILLION DOLLARS" and "the entire City budget for 2018 is $8.6 billion dollars. This math does not work, it is financially killing our city."


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"Here are the facts: there is no massive wave of migrants pouring into California. Overall immigrant apprehensions on the border last year were as low as they’ve been in nearly 50 years (and 85 percent of the apprehensions occurred outside of California)."


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"On average, American women only earn 80 cents for every dollar a man earns for doing the same job."


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Says that in the U.S. Capitol, "Stephen F. Austin’s and Sam Houston’s statues" are "the only ones holding a rifle or a sword."


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"Congresswoman Martha McSally voted to let companies sell your internet data to the highest bidder without your consent. Then she got paid $42,000 by the very corporations she allowed to sell your personal info."


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Says that unless the recipient called back about "your tax filings," you "will be taken into custody by the local cops as there are more serious allegations pressed on your name."


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"Hollywood actor Bruce Willis: ‘Trump is the best US president ever, anyone who dislikes him should move to..."


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Says "Eric Holder and his group came in and made" the Wisconsin Supreme Court race "highly partisan."


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Says Buzz Aldrin "passes UFO lie detector test leaving experts convinced that he encountered alien life."


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A recent stomach virus outbreak at the beleaguered Quincy Veterans’ Home shows Gov. Bruce Rauner "is letting persistent health issues jeopardize the wellbeing of our nation’s heroes."


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"When a car is sent to the United States from China, there is a Tariff to be paid of 2 1/2%. When a car is sent to China from the United States, there is a Tariff to be paid of 25%."


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This year’s state budget "continues to direct millions in taxpayer dollars in advertising to the failing Start-Up NY program"


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"The Coast Guard confiscated 200 tons of contraband, heroin, and so forth. At the border they collected 20 tons."


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"This will be the last time — April — that you’re going to (fill out) that old-fashioned, big, lots of pages, complicated tax form. Because next April you’re going to, in many cases, (file) one page, one card. It’s going to be very, very different. Very, very different."


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"In many places, like California, the same person votes many times. You probably heard about that. They always like to say 'oh that's a conspiracy theory.' Not a conspiracy theory, folks. Millions and millions of people."


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"For what it would cost the (National) Guard to make just two arrests at the border, we could give a homeless veteran permanent housing for an entire year."


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The census "for years and years and years, decades, has asked, ‘Are you a citizen of the United States of America?’"


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"Only fools, or worse, are saying that our money losing Post Office makes money with Amazon. THEY LOSE A FORTUNE, and this will be changed."


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Four years after Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised universal pre-K, "79 percent of 4-year olds outside New York City lack full-day pre-K."


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"Emma Gonzalez bullied school shooter, isn’t sorry; then retweets message blaming ‘white boys’ entitlement’ as cause of all school shootings"


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Many March for Our Lives speakers called for "the murder of those who would not turn over their guns to the government."


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A bill in Congress "will ban all semi-automatic weapons, including pistols and shotguns. So, yes, they are coming to take away our guns."


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"The United States is 3rd in murders throughout the world. If you remove Chicago, Detroit, Washington, St. Louis and New Orleans, the United States is then 189th out of 193 countries in the entire world."


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Says Rebecca Dallet is a "hypocrite" because she "took money from attorneys with over 100 cases before her."


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"Homelessness has skyrocketed across California. We have the nation’s highest homelessness rate and the nation’s highest homeless population."


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"A lot" of Sen. Sherrod Brown’s policies "reflect that interest in Marxism" and a fondness for communism.


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Says Emma Gonzalez, a survivor of the Parkland school shooting, ripped up a copy of the U.S. Constitution


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"Since taking office, Andrew Cuomo has given massive tax breaks to corporations and the super rich."


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Says 642,000 crimes were committed against Texans by criminal immigrants in a recent seven-year period.


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"The state is set to recapture an additional $500 million in Robin Hood payments from taxpayers and not one penny of it will go to public education in Texas."


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"In the Senate, (Mike) DeWine voted with Hillary Clinton to let illegal immigrants receive Social Security. And in Ohio, DeWine allowed illegal immigrants to receive driver's licenses."


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"March For Our Lives is backed by radicals with a history of violent threats, language and actions."


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Says Michael Screnock "let a child predator walk without time and let a rapist who preyed on an underage girl go free after only an eight-month sentence."


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"In one day of fundraising I received more small donor (contributions) than Andrew Cuomo received in seven years."


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"It happened under Obama, and it was lauded by the media as being genius. And now under the Trump campaign — it’s the Cambridge Analytica scandal."


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Robert Mueller’s investigative team has "13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans."


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"California is 49th out of 50 in the United States in per capita housing units. Only Utah can lay claim to being lowest in per capita production."


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Says Rebecca Dallet "has talked about her interest in advocating for policies that need to be changed to achieve her political objectives."


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"There are no provisions in here that substantially affect or advantage the big Wall Street bankers."


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The default rate for college students has grown from 40 percent 10 years ago to about 50 percent today, and "perhaps as many as 800,000 young Ohioans are facing default on their student loans."


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A Trump administration proposal for the Interior Department "is the largest investment in our public lands infrastructure in our nation's history."


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Says Democratic obstruction is the reason why "many important positions in government are unfilled."


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"Research shows that 1 percent of licensed dealers supply a whopping 57 percent of the guns that are recovered in crimes."


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In Japan, "they take a bowling ball from 20 feet up in the air and they drop it on the hood of the car. And if the hood dents, then the car doesn't qualify...It's horrible, the way we're treated."


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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public school in the United States "will not teach the tenets of Islam or Sharia Law."


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"We do have a Trade Deficit with Canada, as we do with almost all countries (some of them massive)."


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Says "PTA meetings are now being conducted to help parents tell their kids" that if a guy with an AR-15 walks into their classroom, "you are supposed to create as much chaos as you possibly can. They want you to scream and yell and dance around and throw books and just keep moving."


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Say Sean Hannity said in 2008 that Obama’s willingness to meet with North Korea was "disturbing" while Trump’s "willingness to meet with North Korea is a huge foreign policy win."


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"Singer Miley Cyrus: ‘Trump fans are destroying my career, I can’t stand them and I decided to move to…’"


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Says that during the Supreme Court campaign, Michael Screnock has "vowed to uphold the platform of the NRA."


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Says Richard Cordray directed an Ohio commission to "permit an armed group to have a rally on the statehouse grounds, even taking the extraordinary step of assuming personal responsibility for waiving an insurance requirement in the event of an incident."


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The last private rocket launch "cost $80 million. If the government did it, the same thing would have cost probably 40 or 50 times that amount of money. I mean, literally."


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Says Jennifer Aniston said, "Me and all the Trump supporter celebrities decide to make a company named ‘celebrities for Trump’"


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Says Sen. Tammy Baldwin "claims to support a 'Buy America' philosophy, but her actions speak louder than her empty words."


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"The vast majority of crime that is gun related is committed by people who illegally are possessing that firearm."


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American aluminum and steel "are vital to our national security. ... They are the bedrock of our defense industrial base."


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"Because of #TaxReform, 4 million American workers have received raises and bonuses, and 90% of Americans are seeing bigger paychecks this month."


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"When I was campaigning, I was talking about 18 and 20 years (when) wages effectively went down. Now, for the first time in a long time, they're starting to go up for people."


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"Since 1990, production of metals in the U.S. has held roughly constant, but the number of people employed in the industry has fallen steadily."


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"California won’t let law enforcement officers like you and your people transfer prisoners to ICE custody or even to communicate with ICE that you’re about to release them from your custody — people that ICE is looking for."


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Oklahoma teachers "are the poorest paid teachers in the US, in a state that gives nearly $500 million in tax handouts to energy companies."


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"When @ScottWalker told firefighters we didn’t need to worry about Act 10, we said hell no, we stand with working Wisconsinites everywhere."


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"ALERT: Massive Easter Egg Recall Leaves MILLIONS Of Children In Danger- THROW THEM AWAY- They WILL Kill Your Kids."


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President Donald "Trump’s latest set of sanctions against companies and countries benefiting North Korea includes every nation but one making shipments to (North Korea). The one nation Trump exempted from his punitive ban was . . . wait for it . . . drumroll: Russia."


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"Adolf Hitler confiscated all the weapons — took all the weapons, had a registry of everybody — and then on the night of June 30, 1934, sent out his secret police and murdered all of his political opponents."


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"Kushner And Wife Ivanka Trump Were Tossed Out Of The White House — And Donald Is Cutting Them Out Of His Will!"


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Says Keanu Reeves said, "For me, Trump is the symbol of a successful man and a role model for every young American, something that our nation was looking for for year. I don’t think that America will again have a leader like him."


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"Electrolux, Sweden's largest appliance maker, has just abandoned a $250 million investment in the United States because of the steel tariffs. That is retaliation."


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"Who’s really behind Jeanne Ives’ campaign for governor? Mike Madigan’s corrupt insider machine. They’ve bankrolled her campaign with thousands in shady labor union cash, turning Ives into another Madigan lackey."


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Says abortion is "the leading cause of death for black Americans and kills as many as 1,000 black children every day."


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"You take Pulse nightclub. If you had one person in that room that could carry a gun and knew how to use it, it wouldn’t have happened, or certainly to the extent that it did."


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Says Sen. Bill Nelson "hasn’t done anything on gun safety or school safety, and nothing on gun control."


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"Under N.Y. State ‘Assault Weapon’ ban 1 simple cosmetic change pictured here is difference between legal & banned"


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In comparing mass shootings, "France had a higher casualty rate in one year than the entire two administrations of Barack Obama."


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"It’s now constitutional to ban [assault weapons] in Illinois. Yet, the Illinois General Assembly has failed to allow other cities to have that opportunity."


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"Under the previous administration it was … $100 to fill a car. American energy has delivered. Now it's $60. That’s $40 you have in your pocket … that you wouldn’t have."


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"A law enforcement officer is more likely to commit a crime than a CWP (concealed weapons permit) holder."


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"Last year, I proposed directing more of the education budget to teacher salaries, a move that would have resulted in an average $10,000 raise for teachers."


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Says NRA head Wayne LaPierre said, "We believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America’s schools. Period."


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"Here in Florida, despite 14 school shootings in eight years, we still have some of the weakest gun laws in the nation."


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"Gov. Rick Scott made it illegal for a doctor to ask a patient if they owned a gun, even a mental health professional. This law was so dangerous that a court had to strike it down."


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In most states, you can buy an assault rifle with no proof of ID, but in every state, you need proof of ID to vote.


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Says that "along the southern border of the U.S.," the government apprehends "seven individuals a day who are either known or suspected terrorists."


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"The majority of Georgians incarcerated in local jails have never been convicted of crime. They are simply too poor to pay their bail."


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Says Gov. Rick Scott "ended $20 million in funding for mental health care despite Florida already ranking at the bottom."


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Says "50 percent of venture capital goes to California. Most of the rest of it goes to New York and Massachusetts."


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"I don’t need a lecture from Kirsten Gillibrand or anybody else who protected and defended and harbored a sitting president who had sexual relations in the Oval Office and was impeached for lying."


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"In the rest of the world, there have been 18 school shootings in the last twenty years. In the U.S., there have been 18 school shootings since January 1."


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"Fifty seats have already changed hands from the Republicans to the Democrats since Donald Trump was elected."


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Says Tim Burns and Rebecca Dallet "have openly criticized laws signed by Governor Walker that they disagree with and are campaigning as activists who will implement their policies from the bench."


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"The president has been very clear. All forms of abuse, all forms of battery against women are deplorable and disgusting. ... He’s said that multiple times in the past."


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The "FBI was actively investigating Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server" on Sept. 2, 2016.


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"George W. Bush doubled the debt from $5 trillion to $10 trillion. President Obama doubled the debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion. Now we're on course to exceed $30 trillion in the next seven years or so."


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"Richard Corcoran has a plan to divert even more of our tax dollars to unaccountable private schools."


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"The past president (Barack Obama) brought Al Sharpton into the White House something like 80 times."


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"The Democrats are pushing for Universal HealthCare while thousands of people are marching in the UK because their U system is going broke and not working."


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Many gang members have taken advantage of "glaring loopholes and our laws to enter the country as illegal, unaccompanied, alien minors."


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"Violent crime in Puerto Rico is on the rise as nearly one-third of the island remains without power."


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At the State of the Union address, Democrats, "even on positive news … were like death and un-American. Un-American. Somebody said, ‘treasonous.’ I mean, yeah, I guess, why not? Can we call that treason? Why not?"


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"If the Dow Joans ever falls more than 1000 ‘points’ in a Single Day the sitting president should be 'loaded' into a very big cannon and Shot into the sun at TREMENDOUS SPEED! No excuses!"


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Says Mike DeWine "interfered with and stifled" a sexual harassment investigation and then "eliminated the office that investigated harassment claims within the AG’s office."


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"We invested" in our transportation system "$24 billion over eight years. That’s $3 billion more than what former Governor Jim Doyle spent on transportation over the same period of time."


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Says the Steele dossier "was—according to (James Comey's) June 2017 testimony—'salacious and unverified.' "


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Says that singer Dolly Parton said, "Trump in one year is already better than 16 years of Bush, Obama put together."


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Says the Texas Department of Agriculture didn’t notify over 700 Texas students about a computer hack releasing critical personal information including Social Security numbers until 32 days after the breach.


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Under President Barack Obama: 4 million jobs lost, unemployment rose from 7.8% to 9.9%, the S&P 500 was 1,115.1 and the GDP went down 2.8%.


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"Consumer confidence, business confidence, and manufacturing confidence are the highest they have been in many decades."


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About 1.1 million people legally enter the U.S. each year as permanent residents -- "65 percent of that is some kind of chain migration; 22 percent is diversity lottery, ‘asyling,’ refugees; only about 14, 15 percent has anything to do with work."


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"45.6 million people watched (the State of the Union), the highest number in history. @FoxNews beat every other Network, for the first time ever, with 11.7 million people tuning in."


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"Texas is home to more feral pigs than any other state — an estimated 50 percent to 75 percent of all feral swine in the nation."


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"70 percent of the income tax that the state collects happens to come from Westchester, Nassau, Suffolk and New York City"


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"We have the highest graduation rate of basketball players in the history of the NCAA. We have the highest graduation rate of African-American basketball players in the history of the NCAA in basketball."


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"Apple has just announced it plans to invest a total of $350 billion in America, and hire another 20,000 workers."


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"In the past, we have foolishly released hundreds and hundreds of dangerous terrorists, only to meet them again on the battlefield — including the ISIS leader, al-Baghdadi, who we captured, who we had, who we released."


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Says one year later, "the coalition to defeat ISIS has liberated very close to 100 percent of the territory just recently held by these killers in Iraq and Syria."


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"America is a nation of builders. We built the Empire State Building in just one year. Isn’t it a disgrace that it can now take 10 years just to get a minor permit approved for the building of a simple road?"


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The immigration visa lottery "randomly hands out green cards without any regard for skill, merit, or the safety of American people."


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"Since we passed tax cuts, over 3 million workers have gotten tax cut bonuses — many of them thousands and thousands of dollars."


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"Because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!"


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On taxes, "if you go back and look 50 years ago, individuals paid about 7 percent of the total and corporations paid 5 percent. Fast forward 50 years: individuals still 7 percent, corporations (are) down to 2 percent."


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"The ice caps were going to melt, they were going to be gone by now, but now they’re setting records, so okay, they’re at a record level."


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"We have right now, … in the state of California, 55 percent of all immigrants are on public assistance."


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"Haiti official getting ready to testify against Clinton Foundation corruption next week found dead with gunshot to the head."


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"They found 60 votes in the Senate in 2006 and 2013" for immigration legislation, and "each time the House Republican majority refused to take it up."


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Work requirements "have been proven to help impoverished families move from dependency to self-sufficiency."


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"Road projects across the state are staying on track or getting done sooner thanks to the good work of the team at the Wisconsin Department of Transportation."


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California’s prisons budget in 1970 "was about 3 percent of the general fund. Now, it’s 8.9 percent, about $12 billion."


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"No state generates as much solar power as California, or has as many people whose jobs depend on it."


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Says "22 to 24 people" came into the United States due to family connection with suspect in the October 2017 New York City terror attack.


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Reauthorizing the Children’s Health Insurance Program "for six years saves $1 billion" and doing it for 10 years saves $6 billion.


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Says under her leadership, "Democrats fought to ... make sure the (2011 HOPE) bill ... prevented the use of ACT/SAT testing standards."


claim:
"When we say ‘one vote matters,’ it’s not just a saying – it has proven true 141 times in #Ohio over the last five years."


claim:
"Current immigration policy imposes as much as $300 billion annually in net fiscal costs on U.S. taxpayers."


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Says border fencing finished near El Paso in 2010 dramatically curtailed illegal crossings, local crime and drug smuggling.


claim:
Says Donald Trump's use of the term "fake news" to undermine journalism "seems (to have) inspired dictators and authoritarians."


claim:
Under "his own legislation," Donald Trump's "own family would not have been allowed into the country."


claim:
"In American history since 9/11, we've had 85 major attacks in our country, 73 percent of them have been by white nationalist hate groups."


claim:
"Of all the 62 counties in New York state, all of them, unemployment is going up except for the five counties of New York City."


claim:
Conservative groups have spent $5 million "against" Tammy Baldwin -- five times more than against all other Democratic U.S. Senate incumbents up for election in 2018 combined.


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The Republicans and President Donald Trump "passed a tax bill that gave 80 percent of its benefits to the top 1 percent."


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Says the Obama administration "sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London ... only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars."


claim:
"In Congress, @RonDeSantisFL was the DECIDING vote AGAINST our state's right to protect Florida waters from drilling."


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In 2011 under Scott Walker, Wisconsin for the first time spent "more on our prison system than we did" on the University of Wisconsin System.


claim:
The White House staff risks violating federal ethics rules if they participate in Donald Trump’s "fake news awards."


claim:
"A ‘gerrymander’ is by definition and common understanding, a strange looking ‘monster’ drawing. This map is clearly not that."


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Says a "recent analysis" showed that 91 percent of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients are employed, in school or serving in the military.


claim:
"Come February (2018), Americans will see their paychecks grow at the tune of saving $1,000 or more a year."


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When President Barack Obama "signed the executive order (on DACA, he) actually said he doesn't have the right to do this."


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Democratic lawmakers who voted in favor of short-term spending bills "just voted to deport Dreamers."


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The Dow Jones Industrial Average "jumped 1000 points in last 5 weeks, Record fastest 1000 point move in history."


claim:
"African American unemployment is the lowest ever recorded in our country. The Hispanic unemployment rate dropped a full point in the last year and is close to the lowest in recorded history. Dems did nothing for you but get your vote!"


claim:
"I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for book."


claim:
"White House staff compiled a number of gorilla documentaries into a makeshift gorilla channel" for President Donald Trump.


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Says James Comey suggested and CNN reported that the basis of the wiretapping warrant for Trump adviser Carter Page was "all based on a dossier."


claim:
"Every taxpayer, their taxes are going down, except rich people in Manhattan and San Francisco. Some of them, their taxes may go up."


claim:
"New York state spends more than $8 billion in taxpayer money each year on job-creation programs - more than the combined total of the next three largest states"


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton once said "the average Democrat voter is just plain stupid, they’re easy to manipulate."


claim:
Says Sandra Bullock said to Hillary Clinton, "If you don’t like our president you can leave and never come back again."


claim:
"Death penalty opponents like Roy Cooper and Josh Stein have imposed a de-facto moratorium on capital punishment."


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The Senate seat won in a special election by a Democrat had been "held for more than thirty years by Republicans."


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After enactment of the Republican tax bill, "school teachers can no longer deduct the cost of their classroom supplies on their taxes."


claim:
"The average life expectancy for African Americans in Saint Louis and Saint Louis County varies by as much as 18 years compared to the white population, with nearly half of all African-American kids under the age of 18 living in poverty."


claim:
"Check out the record of #jobs created by #TaxCuts 7.8 million new jobs after Bush’s 2003 tax cuts 12 million new jobs after Kennedy's 1964 tax cuts 14.8 MILLION new jobs after Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts in 1981."


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Wisconsin's state court agency "basically" has rented the same office space across from the Capitol "since 1974."


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Says Texas Department of Public Safety numbers show that 1.6 percent of crime is committed by unauthorized immigrants.


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Says the Texas General Land Office led by George P. Bush has repaired just two homes since Hurricane Harvey.


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On the Republican tax plan: "Unfortunately, the wealthy are, again, not going to do well in this bill"


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"We essentially repealed Obamacare because we got rid of the individual mandate ... and that was a primary source of funding of Obamacare."


claim:
Says of the diversity visa lottery program, "they give us their worst people, they put them in a bin," and "the worst of the worst" are selected.


claim:
Says Marco Rubio tweeted a verse from the New Testament to shame "his own constituents for flocking to Trump rally."


claim:
Says Sen. Mitch McConnell's delay in seating Alabama Sen.-elect Doug Jones "is a flagrant violation of Senate policy, which requires Jones assume office the instant one of them wins the election."


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The 1986 tax reform approved under Ronald Reagan "was polling at about 18 percent right before they passed it."


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Missouri is one of "13 states this year have seen unemployment drop to the lowest levels in the history of their state."


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Missouri "is leading the country when it comes to improving services for mental and behavioral health. Innovation is happening right here."


claim:
Says the Obama administration purged "training courses and information about Islamism, jihad, Sharia, and the Muslim Brotherhood."


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The House tax plan "would provide permanent tax cuts for individuals who are multi-millionaires and billionaires," but "all middle-class families will eventually face a tax increase, since tax relief for them expires."


claim:
"This new gas tax does not increase (road) capacity anywhere in the state. It will build no new lanes of freeways. If Californians didn’t like their traffic before, they’re going to like it even less when they’re stuck in the exact same traffic and paying more for their gas."


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Says there won't be a recount in Alabama because a Democratic judge said "we're going to erase all the computer files ... on Wednesday morning."


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The House tax bill has "a lot more permanent relief for middle-income and even lower-income families" than the Senate bill does.


claim:
"The candidates controlled by Madigan, all of them have said, ‘The answer to our problems is a massive income tax hike.’ "


claim:
"Even with full control of the House, Senate and White House, Republicans have still failed to deliver on their promise of higher wages for working families."


claim:
"Breaking: Trump fires deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, raising questions over Mueller’s fate."


claim:
"Facebook picks sides in Alabama Senate race ... shuts down Gateway Pundit and Breitbart reports on discredited Allred accuser"


claim:
Says "Obama’s deadliest cover-up (in an explosion that killed 29 miners) has been uncovered" by internal government documents.


claim:
"Breaking: woman says she was offered big money by Washington Post to accuse Roy Moore of misconduct."


claim:
Says Russian President Vladimir Putin got a standing ovation from the Duma after he gave a speech saying Muslims are "taking over" other countries but won't take over Russia.


claim:
"Earlier this year, Hurricane Harvey left more than 12 million people in Texas and Louisiana without homes."


claim:
"In the current law, if you report harassment, you're the one that has to go into 20 hours of counseling before you can decide whether you were really harassed."


claim:
Under the House Republican tax plan, in Wisconsin, "the median household of four gets about a $2,000 tax cut, on average."


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Says the concealed carry bill would allow residents of certain states to "travel to your community and walk right into a school zone with a loaded weapon, no matter what local laws say."


claim:
"We’re … getting into the pool of the 100 million people that are not working. That pool is now coming back."


claim:
"In a 2014 case involving a man convicted of abusing two underage girls, Judge Roy Moore disagreed and wrote the dissenting opinion."


claim:
The Jerusalem Embassy Act "passed Congress by an overwhelming bipartisan majority and was reaffirmed by a unanimous vote of the Senate only six months ago."


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Says Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum "wants to make Florida not a sanctuary city but a sanctuary state."


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"GDP is booming. Let’s spread the prosperity to the middle class with big #TaxCuts. Our #TaxReform package doubles standard deduction, brings $$$ back home, and reduces rates for ALL taxpayers. We will #MAGA."


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Wisconsin's Lincoln Hills youth prison has a "66 percent recidivism rate," while "states like Missouri, that have more of a regional model -- 8 percent."


claim:
"Only 20 percent of our current graduates from Texas high schools go ahead and achieve either a national certificate or a community college degree -- or a college degree."


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Says "$3 trillion in offshore money... is coming back into the economy" because of the GOP tax bills.


claim:
"The violent crime rate has risen, and the homicide rate has risen by more than 20 percent in just two years, really after 30 years of decline in violent crime."


claim:
These guys are now pretty much living up to the @BruceRauner standard. And falling dismally short of the @MittRomney standard. Even Romney released his full tax returns.


claim:
Says that "perpetrators of domestic violence accounted for 54% of mass shootings between 2009 and 2016, according to the advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety."


claim:
"Prince Harry says Donald Trump is not welcome at his wedding: ‘Trump is a serious threat to human rights.’ "


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Says the tax bill "is going to cost me a fortune, this thing -- believe me. Believe me, this is not good for me."


claim:
In the House Republican bill, "70 percent of the tax relief goes to those families making less than 200,000."


claim:
"Saudi Arabia to Behead 6 School Girls for Being With Their Male Friends Without Parents or a Guardian"


claim:
Singer Tina Turner: "This Thanksgiving Is The First Time in 8 Years That I am Thankful For Our President, God Bless Him And His Supporters."


claim:
Under the Republican tax bill, President Donald Trump "and his family would walk off with more than a billion dollars personally."


claim:
"Satanists have teamed up with the ACLU and Planned Parenthood in Missouri to roll back the rights of the unborn."


claim:
Says Josh Hawley "broke his promise to create a Public Corruption Unit to crack down on the pay-to-play culture of Jefferson City."


claim:
"Wisconsin's driver licenses and identification (ID) cards are currently the most secure in the nation."


claim:
Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee weren’t "even entitled to bring an expert witness on any aspect of the tax code that affects 100 percent of our economy."


claim:
"The average cost for infant care in GA is almost $7,700/yr – more than average in-state college tuition."


claim:
Says Paul Ryan is leading the effort to "pass a tax bill with divisive conception language by disguising it as a college savings plan" in "another attempt to ban abortion and rob women of their reproductive rights."


claim:
"We’ve cut taxes 75 times, cut $7.5 billion worth in taxes, and as a result we’ve added over 1.3 million jobs."


claim:
"On the personal tax side, middle-income people are getting cuts and rich people are getting very little cuts or, in certain cases, increases" under the Republican tax bills.


claim:
"The elimination of income and sales taxes in New York is equal to 9 percent of taxable income, meaning that if you make $100,000 a year you lose $9,000"


claim:
"BUSTED: NASA Accidentally destroys every climate change advocate by exposing massive truth behind Antarctica."


claim:
"FBI Uniform Crime Report for 2016 shows more than four times as many people were stabbed to death than were killed with rifles of any kind."


claim:
"Earlier this year, Dan Patrick and Republican leadership snatched millions of dollars in benefits from retired teachers."


claim:
Says the Austin school district "enjoys the highest per-student funding of all large Texas districts" even after forwarding tax revenue to the state.


claim:
"When Phoenix dropped its sanctuary city policy in 2008, its murder rate fell 27 percent the following year."


claim:
Under Scott Walker, "average wages, when adjusted for inflation, are lower today than they were under Jim Doyle."


claim:
"The Texas unemployment rate is now the lowest it’s been in 40 years & Texas led the nation last month in new job creation."


claim:
Congressional Republicans "want to take health care from millions of Americans in order to pay for" a tax bill.


claim:
Says a Washington Post reporter is "calling to find out if anyone at this address is a female between the ages of 54 to 57 years old willing to make damaging remarks about candidate Roy Moore" for up to $7,000.


claim:
"When we came into office, we saw that Missouri had 113,000 regulations. That’s more than 7.5 million words; it’s 40 dictionaries worth of regulations."


claim:
"Breaking! Roy Moore’s accuser worked for Democratic leaders and is actively campaigning for Moore’s opponent."


claim:
"Since 2015, Scott Walker has not done a public event where you don't have to pay admission or be on an approved list."


claim:
"There are ‘sore loser’ laws that would bar Luther Strange from pursuing a seat" because he already lost the Alabama Republican Senate runoff to Roy Moore.


claim:
Says a Washington Post reporter who broke news on Judge Roy Moore story has a criminal history of "faking."


claim:
"Hispanic entrepreneurs, those who have immigrated from Spanish-speaking countries, often start three times as many businesses as white males."


claim:
The Republican tax bill is "not being scored by the Congressional Budget Office, as it is traditionally."


claim:
"Ending (Temporary Protected Status) and deporting legal workers would cost the United States ~$164 billion in GDP over a decade."


claim:
Says the Republican tax plan "helps families" like one in which a woman lost her job and then lost her life savings fighting her husband’s cancer.


claim:
"Underreported fact: President @realDonaldTrump raised more in small dollar donations than Obama in 2012 and than Clinton and Bernie combined!"


claim:
"Many firearms experts determined the Las Vegas shooter’s use of a bump stock actually prevented more casualties and (injuries) due to its inconsistency, inaccuracy, and lack of control."


claim:
"In 2010, 48,000 felons and fugitives lied and illegally tried to purchase guns. They [The Obama administration] prosecuted only 44 of them."


claim:
"The Democrats filibustered the legislation that would’ve resulted in this shooter being in federal prison instead of murdering those innocents in that Texas church."


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Malia Obama was "among 10 arrested in racist Antifa attack," and the cop who arrested her was "found dead under suspicious circumstances."


claim:
"Teachers spend $1.6 BILLION per year on school supplies. The Republican tax bill ELIMINATES their ability to deduct those expenses."


claim:
"Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the average American family of four will receive a $1,182 tax cut."


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Under the House Republican tax proposal, "the average family of four earning median income ($59,000/year) will receive an additional $1,182 in their pocket every year."


claim:
Says Evan "Jenkins has the same positions on the issues as Joe Manchin: supporting Hillary (Clinton), supporting cap-and-trade, supporting Planned Parenthood, many tax increases."


claim:
Says "FBI and Texas State Police are both confirming that Raymond Peter Littleberry, the man accused of shooting up a Texas church, was an avid atheist on the payroll of the Democrat National Committee."


claim:
Says Florida "workers are paid $8.10 an hour, and our current governor (Rick Scott) runs ads bragging about it."


claim:
"IDC members also get tons of campaign money from real estate, charter school, and health care lobbyists, some of whom are Republicans with connections to Trump"


claim:
Says special counsel Robert Mueller "has brought in Democrat campaign donors at a very high level" on his team of lawyers.


claim:
"Under Gov. (Rick) Scott’s leadership, Florida has had much success in lowering the rate of uninsured children."


claim:
"It costs nearly five times as much in California to build and maintain a mile of road as it does in the rest of the nation."


claim:
Says actor Morgan Freeman said, "Jailing Hillary" is the best way to "restore public faith in government."


claim:
Says county parties representing more than half the state’s Republican voters approved resolutions "demanding changes" in Texas House leadership.


claim:
"For the last 10 years, our economy has grown at less than 2 percent on average every single year for 10 years. We have not had a decade like that in a century in America."


claim:
The University of Missouri saw "the biggest drop in enrollment of any major university in the country" since the 2015 protests.


claim:
"The six wealthiest people in the world (have) as much wealth as the bottom half of the world’s population, 3.7 billion people."


claim:
Says Paul Manafort’s alleged crimes were "years ago, before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump campaign."


claim:
"Ninety percent of people born in the 1940s ended up doing better financially than their parents. But those born in the 1980s, the much-maligned Millennials, have only a 50-50 chance of doing better (financially) than their parents, despite being the best-educated generation in our history."


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Says West Virginia is "down to around 50 percent of the adult workers who are actually working now because of addiction or conviction."


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What Republicans call the "death tax" is the estate tax "on the ultra wealthy" which, in 2016, was paid by only "two out of every 1,000 people."


claim:
"We have done more in eight months than the previous administration has done in many years" against ISIS.


claim:
Says Roy Moore "has advocated getting the federal government out of health care altogether, which means doing away with Medicaid, which means doing away with Medicare."


claim:
"The Travis County propositions will not raise your taxes! If you are 65 or older, your property taxes are frozen."


claim:
"People who die from a home invasion make up a sad but minuscule .04% of all gun murders in the U.S. And over a third of them are killed by their own gun that the criminal has either stolen or wrestled from them."


claim:
"The city (of St. Louis) is no stranger to violence. There were 5,762 violent crimes in 2015 alone, including 188 homicides. The highest rate per capita in the country, according to FBI crime statistics."


claim:
Says Tampa Bay Lightning hockey player J.T. Brown was "fired after raising fist during national anthem."


claim:
"Seventy-three percent of our veterans are graduating from drug courts. By contrast, I think most of the people in the very good drug court program — the graduation rate’s like 53, 55 percent. The point of that is that drug courts are working for veterans."


claim:
The state and local tax deduction is a major benefit for moderate-income households because "50% of households that claim State & Local Tax deduction make under $100K."


claim:
At a 2015 dedication of an FBI building in Florida, Rep. Frederica Wilson "stood up there ... and talked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding for that building, and how she took care of her constituents because she got the money, and she just called up President Obama, and on that phone call he gave the money -- the $20 million -- to build the building. And she sat down."


claim:
Says "80 percent of the tax breaks in" President Donald Trump’s tax-cut "proposal go to the top 1 percent, that is, people making more than $730,000 a year."


claim:
An undocumented immigrant "was arrested on suspicion of arson in (the) Wine Country fires that have killed at least 40 residents."


claim:
In 2016, there were 5,570 people in Wisconsin "who committed crimes on probation and they were not revoked."


claim:
"And over the last six years, Chicago’s economy has grown faster than the economies of New York City, Washington, D.C., or the national average."


claim:
In the U.S. asylum system, "claims of 'fear to return' have skyrocketed, and the percentage of claims that are genuinely meritorious are down."


claim:
"And I think that his engagement with Congress is something that never happened under President Obama. They were never allowed to debate it. They were never allowed to discuss it. So, now Congress is going to be fully engaged on the threats of Iran."


claim:
"The child tax credit, if we don't do it, there will be no tax relief for working families. How much tax relief working families get under tax reform is entirely dependent on whether or not we put in place an increase to the child tax credit."


claim:
"In the eight years that I was mayor, (there was a) nearly 50 percent drop in violent crime, gang crime — crime went down because we grew our police department, we focused on constitutional community policing, we did some of the most innovative prevention, intervention, job re-entry programs in the nation."


claim:
"Hillary (Clinton) caught on tape laughing about (Hurricane) Irma ‘wiping out all of those Florida hillbillies’."


claim:
"State government spending is at an all-time high. The state is on track to spend more in this fiscal year — more than $17.9 billion — than at any time in state history."


claim:
"The president early on called on NATO member countries to step up their contributions ... and as a result of that countries have stepped up contributions toward their own defense."


claim:
An Ohio ballot issue would address the fact that "we’ve gone from paying about $100 for Epipens to over $600 ... We don’t have a choice but to pay it and the drug companies know it."


claim:
The Republican tax reform proposal is focused on tax breaks for the middle class "and not about people who are really high-income earners getting a tax break."


claim:
The Obama administration "borrowed more than $10 trillion, right? And yet, we picked up $5.2 trillion just in the stock market. ... Maybe in a sense we’re reducing debt."


claim:
A Homeland Security study "showed 120 murders took place that could have been prevented had communities been working with ICE and Homeland Security."


claim:
A viral image shows LeBron James wearing a T-shirt that reads, "We march, y’all mad. We sit down, y’all mad. We speak up, y’all mad. We die, y’all silent."


claim:
Says a proposed $1.05 billion Austin school district bond proposition "will require no tax rate increase."


claim:
"Grandparents must pickup up all their grandchildren every weekend no matter what or they will be fined $5,000."


claim:
"Loopholes in current law prevent ‘Unaccompanied Alien Children’ (UACs) that arrive in the country illegally from being removed."


claim:
"There have been more than 270 mass shootings in the United States in the last year alone. That’s where four or more are killed."


claim:
"I personally am pro-choice. I always have been. And I made no qualms about that when I was elected governor."


claim:
Says Winston Churchill said, "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."


claim:
Says Sen. Dianne Feinstein said "if she had 51 votes in the Senate for 'Mr. and Ms. America, turn in all of your guns,' they would do it."


claim:
"The Republicans are proposing to pay for their giant tax cut to the rich by gutting Medicare and Medicaid."


claim:
In Wisconsin, "we have a bill that would allow hidden, deadly weapons -- every single person to carry one -- no training, no background check, even around schools."


claim:
"It's time to remove any statue of Margaret Sanger who was a white suprematist (sic), spoke at kkk events & supported by democrats. #prolife"


claim:
Says the Dickey Amendment "prevents the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from even researching the relationship between gun violence and public health. ... The government can’t study gun violence but is spending $400,000 analyzing the effects of Swedish massages on rabbits."


claim:
"Celine Dion’s 16-year-old Rene-Charles Angelil’s was among the 58 victims who were killed" in Las Vegas.


claim:
Says that under the Obamacare law, health insurance "premiums have increased by more than 105 percent since" 2013.


claim:
"The crowd (in Las Vegas) fled at the sound of gunshots. Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer ..."


claim:
"I think if you look to Chicago, where you had over 4,000 victims of gun-related crimes last year, they have the strictest gun laws in the country. That certainly hasn’t helped there."


claim:
"San Juan Teamsters didn't show up for work to distribute relief supplies" because they went on strike.


claim:
In the Alabama Senate runoff, "the candidate I endorsed (Luther Strange) went up MANY points after endorsement!"


claim:
"The First Amendment’s the First Amendment. It goes start to finish. We can’t say to one football coach you’re fired if you kneel in silent prayer at the end of the game, but to a player, if you kneel in protest to a game, you’re celebrated."


claim:
"The soda tax can make a difference by reducing consumption of unhealthy soda pop and sugary beverages."


claim:
California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom was "for (high-speed rail), before he’s against it, and then he’s for it again."


claim:
While Mayor Rick Kriseman said he would dip into reserves this year because of Hurricane Irma, he "went into the emergency reserves before Irma ever hit."


claim:
"California, New York and Massachusetts, they represent about 20 percent of the population, they get close to 36 percent of Obamacare funding. It's just simply inequitable."


claim:
"We have one senator who’s a ‘yes’ vote ... but he’s in the hospital. And he’s a ‘yes’ vote. So we can’t do it by Friday. So we have the votes" to pass a health care bill.


claim:
"The current city mayor (Kasim Reed) has been virtually absent in terms of regional cooperation the last eight years."


claim:
"So now they take drugs, literally, and they throw it, a hundred pounds of drugs. They throw it over the wall, they have catapults, but they throw it over the wall, and it lands and it hits somebody on the head."


claim:
"The bill that I carried cutting MO’s income tax for 1st time in over 100 years will start its 1st phase in jan 1 2018. #moleg @Eric_Schmitt"


claim:
"If you pass the so-called Dream Act, it will be the single biggest amnesty in the history of the United States, even bigger than the 1986 amnesty."


claim:
Florida’s coastal and stormwater infrastructure are "two of the most critical areas during a storm, and received D-plus and D ratings, respectively, by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2016."


claim:
"NFL attendance and ratings are WAY DOWN. Boring games yes, but many stay away because they love our country."


claim:
DACA was "a mere memo from the Department of Homeland security under Barack Obama, which violated the laws."


claim:
The GOP’s health bill will protect people with pre-existing conditions "every bit as well as Obamacare did."


claim:
"Roy Moore fought for pay increases for politicians while courts had to shut down because of lack of funding."


claim:
Says the Austin metro region "will lead" the nation "with population growth over 50%" over the next 30 years.


claim:
Under the Graham-Cassidy health insurance bill, in "states like Maine, Virginia, Florida, Missouri, there will be billions more dollars to provide health insurance coverage for those in those states who have been passed by by Obamacare."


claim:
"Private insurance companies in this country spend between 12 and 18 percent on administration costs. The cost of administering the Medicare program, a very popular program that works well for our seniors, is 2 percent. We can save approximately $500 billion a year just in administration costs."


claim:
"Companies are moving back, creating job growth the likes of which our country has not seen in a very long time."


claim:
"Seventy-six percent of the American people support us passing the DREAM Act … with citizenship and legalization as part of it all. … More than 60 percent of Republicans support that."


claim:
Says U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin "wants to use a government jet that costs $25,000 per hour for his honeymoon."


claim:
"African Americans in Missouri are 75 percent more likely to be stopped and searched by law enforcement officers than caucasians."


claim:
"Mass voter fraud just discovered, to the amount that could void Hillary’s victory In New Hampshire."


claim:
"Facts have come to light that indicate that a pivotal, close election was likely changed through voter fraud on November 8, 2016: New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate Seat, and perhaps also New Hampshire’s four Electoral College votes in the presidential election."


claim:
"So the number on DACA is 800,000, but every one person can bring in their entire extended family once they reach a certain status. So it's 3 or 4 million, right?"


claim:
"We've got about $3 trillion in trapped cash overseas that basically can't come back in this country because of our tax laws."


claim:
The mobilization of the military in response to the storms in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands "is the largest ever mobilization of our military in a naval and marine operation" and an Air Force carrier there "was the first-ever as well."


claim:
"Since I’ve been the state treasurer, we’ve increased the building, construction of affordable housing by 80 percent."


claim:
Wisconsin is "guaranteeing Foxconn almost $3 billion, but Foxconn is not contractually guaranteeing how many full-time employees it will hire, for how long and at what pay."


claim:
The new Illinois school funding formula "created a tax shelter for the wealthy and a voucher program…"


claim:
"Just in our first six months in office, Missouri moved up the rankings nine places ... of the best states to do business."


claim:
"Schools in Austin Independent School District are teaching children as young as 4 years old that their gender is fluid – that they’re not a boy or a girl and they can choose whichever gender they want."


claim:
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand "no longer supports the fight to combat the international delegitimization of Israel."


claim:
"President (Ronald) Reagan did a similar thing. George H.W. Bush did a similar order" as former President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.


claim:
"30,000 scientists have come forward confirming that man-made climate change is a hoax perpetuated by the elite in order to make money."


claim:
Says Tony Evers "allowed a middle-school teacher found guilty of spreading pornographic material at school to keep teaching students."


claim:
"We're still doing dumb things like telling the parent of an 11-year-old that it's against the law for them to tell their parents what they were tested on ... That will end when I'm governor."


claim:
"We have over a million (legal immigrants) a year, more than at any time in the history of this country. We have the largest percentage of immigrants, almost tied now with the historical high as a percentage of immigrants living in this country."


claim:
Says a poll showed 70 percent to 75 percent of people want to see Confederate statues "remain up and not taken down."


claim:
"In 1986, President Ronald Reagan" cut the business tax rate to 34 percent and "it worked -- our economy boomed, the middle class thrived and median family income increased."


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Says President Barack Obama’s policy known as DACA "contributed to a surge of minors at the southern border."


claim:
In addition to his compensation as a judge, "Roy Moore and his wife (paid themselves) over $1 million from a charity they ran."


claim:
"My grandparents were proud immigrants to the United States of America, here to Illinois in the late 1800s. My grandparents did not speak English when they were young."


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Hurricane Irma is "predicted to come through Mexico, hit us and everything in between up to Houston."


claim:
Says Manny Pacquiao, Usain Bolt and Princes William and Harry have donated tens of millions of dollars to Hurricane Harvey victims.


claim:
"It is shocking to me that Police Commissioner Richard Ross and Mayor Jim Kenney allowed this illegal occupation to go on for hours without taking any action to enforce the law…"


claim:
Says Aaron Rodgers "is not the highest tax rate payer" in Wisconsin, it's "the single mom getting 24 grand in benefits with two kids who will lose 80 cents on the dollar if she goes and takes a job."


claim:
Says video shows Mike Pence quoting the Bible as justification for "Congress not to fund Katrina relief effort."


claim:
"Our conservative Georgia values are under attack" ... (People) are "calling for the removal of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson statues."


claim:
"As of 2014, illegal aliens made up roughly 3.5 percent of our population, and committed over 10 percent of all murders."


claim:
Says former President Barack Obama "pardoned a traitor who gave U.S. enemies state secrets, he also pardoned a terrorist who killed Americans."


claim:
Under Scott Walker, Wisconsin is "still 16,000 manufacturing jobs lower than we were during the recession."


claim:
"I think what the authors of the (25th) Amendment principally had in mind was some kind of physical incapacitation or serious mental illness or a breakdown, an inability to function in office."


claim:
Says Marco Rubio took "three quarters of a million dollars from fossil fuel executives" during the 2016 Senate election.


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Public schools, colleges and state-funded day care centers "will be made into sanctuaries by Bruce Rauner signing SB 31."


claim:
"I'm the only candidate who has not accepted money from Carl Paladino nor LPCiminelli; two of the biggest developers in the city of Buffalo."


claim:
Says Foxconn didn't keep a promise to build a plant in Pennsylvania because "Pennsylvania changed governors."


claim:
Says Kelli Ward hosted a town hall on "chemtrail conspiracy theories" and is open to sponsoring chemtrails legislation.


claim:
"We’ve got a police station that’s under construction right now, they are actually ahead of schedule and under budget."


claim:
"At the PEAK of slavery in 1860, only 1.4% of Americans owned slaves. What your history books (don't) tell you is that 3,000 blacks owned a total of 20,000 slaves the same year."


claim:
"No president in history has imposed larger personal lifestyle costs on the taxpayer than Donald Trump."


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Gov. Roy Cooper has "filed nearly one lawsuit a month, with every single one of them an attempt to extend his own power."


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Says Sen. Jon Tester "believes that we should have a national registration so that the people of Montana should have to ask permission before they purchase a gun, ask permission from the federal government."


claim:
"White supremacist who killed protester is a Democrat and visited (President Barack) Obama in Oval Office."


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White nationalist protesters in Charlottesville "had a permit. The other group didn’t have a permit."


claim:
"The United States ended slavery around the world, and maybe we should get some credit for that, too."


claim:
"Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!"


claim:
Says Sen. Bill Nelson "has aligned himself with communists and dictators," "went to Venezuela to admire Chávez’s revolution" and "supports murderers."


claim:
"There are communities under Sharia law right now in our country. Up in Illinois. ... There’s Sharia law, as I understand it, in Illinois, Indiana -- up there. I don't know."


claim:
Chicago city officials "have adopted an official policy of protecting criminal aliens who prey on their own residents."


claim:
"The idea of putting up (Confederate) monuments actually didn’t happen right after the Civil War. It happened during the 1960s."


claim:
Wisconsin's $3 billion incentive offer to Foxconn is "the largest gift ever by a state to a foreign company."


claim:
"When Rick Baker heard (racist remarks from another mayoral candidate), he went after Congemi. Rick Kriseman he just looked away. Tolerating bigotry in silence is no virtue; taking it on is."


claim:
Says Jose Felix Diaz supports President Donald Trump's "plan to slash Medicare, charge older Americans an age tax and cut coverage for pre-existing conditions."


claim:
Emails show Democrats, Hillary Clinton and George Soros instigated and orchestrated racial protests in Charlottesville by trying to "control" and keep people "desperate."


claim:
"Every one of the financial bad management practices that I inherited, every one of them, have either been eliminated or cut significantly."


claim:
"Violent crimes where a firearm is used have remained static since 2013 in both New York State and Erie County"


claim:
On Foxconn deal, "3,000 jobs cost #WI taxpayers more than $3 billion in tax giveaways. Break it down: more than $1 million in taxpayer dollars per job."


claim:
"There's no such thing as a lone wolf. ... That was a phrase invented by the last administration to make Americans stupid."


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There are"thousands of Georgia workers that are misclassified as independent contractors," who lose benefits, including health care.


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Says that compared to Rick Baker's time as mayor, Kriseman "had wet weather events that he did not experience" that caused sewage spills. Baker "went through significant periods of drought during his time as mayor."


claim:
"It costs us about $33,000 a year (on average nationally) to lock somebody up. In California it costs about $75,000 a year."


claim:
"At the end of 2016, there were 23 percent fewer federal prosecutions than in 2011, so (prosecutors) looked at this scourge (opioid deaths) and they let it go by."


claim:
Last year, Democrats won nearly 50% of the vote, yet they hold only 38% of the seats in the state House and 30% of the seats in the state Senate.


claim:
"Bill Clinton gave North Korea $5 billion and two nuclear reactors in 1994, essentially giving them nukes."


claim:
"My first order as president was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before."


claim:
"We’re spending 18 percent of our GDP on healthcare while the average among industrialized countries is closer to 8 percent."


claim:
U.S. Sen. John McCain "was singlehandedly responsible for starting a fire on (the) USS Forrestal aircraft carrier."


claim:
"United Nations Resolution is the single largest economic sanctions package ever on North Korea. Over one billion dollars in cost to N.K."


claim:
"You have almost half the counties in America that have one provider or no provider for insurance" on the Obamacare exchanges.


claim:
Untaxed corporate earnings used to be "$2.5 trillion … I guess it’s $5 trillion now. Whatever it is, it’s a lot more. So we have anywhere from 4 (trillion) to 5 or even more trillions of dollars sitting offshore."


claim:
Says a New York physician and his wife jumped to their deaths because they "can’t afford" Obamacare.


claim:
Because of the failure to pass a repeal bill, "Obamacare remains the law of the land ... This means more than 300,000 Georgians below the poverty line will still not have access to the insurance Obamacare promised."


claim:
Says transgender residents make up "about 1-in-300 people, we're all over the place, we're your friends and your neighbors."


claim:
"The border is down 78 percent. Under past administrations, the border didn’t go down -- it went up."


claim:
"The number of complaints against police officers has decreased from an average when Mr. (Rick) Baker was mayor from 78 to 14."


claim:
Says Debbie Wasserman Schultz "going to mental hospital after what she did overnight desperate to escape arrest."


claim:
Says Scott Walker "wants state taxpayers to dole out up to $250 million annually in incentives" to Foxconn "to lure a manufacturing plant to Wisconsin that he claims will generate $181 million in tax revenue."


claim:
As written, the (Illinois school funding) bill includes a bailout of Chicago’s broken teacher pension system.


claim:
Says Donald Trump was seen "looking deliberately over a disabled child's head, ignoring his outstretched hand."


claim:
"In light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept"


claim:
"I’m one of two members of Congress out of 535 that takes no corporate cash, no political action committee money."


claim:
"In order to sell insurance in Florida there are over 40 separate individual conditions that must be covered. ... far beyond the essential health benefits included in Obamacare."


claim:
"We've achieved a historic increase in defense spending to get our troops the support they so richly deserve."


claim:
"The person in charge of the Hillary investigation, Andrew McCabe, got $700,000 from (Hillary Clinton) for wife!"


claim:
"Over $13 million worth of crops have ROTTED in California, all because no one is willing to work jobs vacated by migrants."


claim:
Preliminary murder rates in Philadelphia "will put the murder rate at the highest of this decade in the city."


claim:
"According to a recent study from the University of California Riverside, (sanctuary) cities with these policies have more violent crime on average than those that don’t."


claim:
"We have been able to cut New York’s uninsured rate in half since 2013 from 10 percent to 5 percent of our population."


claim:
Just 6 percent of Americans say Russia is the country’s most important issue, yet the story receives "75 percent of the coverage" in the media.


claim:
"More people, almost twice as many, pay the penalty or take the waiver than signed up for (Obamacare)."


claim:
During the Nixon Watergate investigation, "out of courtesy, the FBI started reporting to the Department of Justice. But there was nothing official."


claim:
Says President Donald Trump "has signed more laws cutting through federal red tape than any president in American history and has already saved businesses and families up to $18 billion in red tape costs every year."


claim:
"We went from zero A elementary schools when I took office to 16 when I left, and our total A and B schools went up by 260 percent."


claim:
"We’ve signed more bills -- and I’m talking about through the legislature -- than any president ever."


claim:
"Elizabeth Warren doesn't think Obamacare goes far enough: ‘The next step is single payer.' Does Sen. Nelson agree? He has in the past ... Sen. Nelson votes with Warren 90 percent of the time."


claim:
"One" Texas school "district alone -- Austin ISD -- is expected to lose more than $530 million in local property taxes to Robin Hood this year."


claim:
"In the ‘40s, 68 cents of every health care dollar was actually paid for by the patient, today it’s only 11 cents."


claim:
"While California’s population has doubled since the 1970s, we haven’t completed a single major (water) storage project in that time."


claim:
"I've gotten rid of the Johnson Amendment … I signed an executive order so that now ... ministers and and preachers and rabbis and whoever it may be, they can speak. You know, you couldn’t speak politically before, now you can."


claim:
"One in three people who’s receiving treatment for (opioid) drug problems gets some help from Medicaid to pay for that."


claim:
Says his job approval poll numbers are "not bad" relative to other presidents at this point in his presidency.


claim:
Russian natural gas company "Gazprom held Europe by the throat -- they were a monopoly, and now the U.S. is breaking into that monopoly with our exports of (liquefied natural gas)."


claim:
In Ohio, due to Medicaid expansion, "nearly 60,000 disabled citizens are stuck on waiting lists ... leaving them without the care they need for months or even years."


claim:
"I helped win one of the biggest private lawsuits against Medicare fraud in history. The government declined to pursue the case, so my firm did, and we recovered $324 million for taxpayers."


claim:
Says "Donald Trump was doing a rally in the state of Florida" the day Trump's son and others met with a Russian lawyer in New York.


claim:
Says former Rep. Michele Bachmann said that "White People Have Suffered More In The Last 8 Years Than Blacks Did During Couple Years Of Slavery."


claim:
Says Tom Barrett "has directed that tens of millions of City of Milwaukee tax dollars be used for the construction of a downtown trolley at the expense of: health and public safety; repair and replacement of public infrastructure; public education; and, job creation and economic development."


claim:
"Despite decades of marijuana being used for smoking in the United States, there have been no reported medical cases of lung cancer" attributed to marijuana.


claim:
Says it’s documented that City of Austin fees for building an apartment complex are nearly 10 times what Dallas levies.


claim:
"It's an absolute fact" that China and North Korea "have consistently over many, many years" meddled in U.S. elections.


claim:
Medicaid "is contributing to 70 percent of our budget deficit right now. It’s the one that is in our lap because of Obamacare."


claim:
Tax cuts approved and those proposed in his state budget "will exceed $8 billion by the time the budget is done."


claim:
Says Paul Ryan said that 22 million Americans "choose to be poor, so it’s their own problem if they can’t afford to be healthy."


claim:
The GOP health care proposal would slash more than $135 million in federal funding available to PA schools.


claim:
Says because of Donald Trump, "the IRS decided to stop enforcing the individual mandate that was the underpinning of the ACA. That has resulted in insurance companies all across the country jacking their rates up, explicitly because they don't believe that healthy people will buy insurance."


claim:
Says Barack Obama found out about Russia "in August. Now, the election was in November. That's a lot of time. He did nothing about it."


claim:
Giving a committee chair’s stipend in the New York State Senate to another member of that committee "has been, in fact, a legislative practice for decades."


claim:
"There are so many data that demonstrate that poor people, surprisingly, are less likely to use drugs than people with means."


claim:
Says that Bill Clinton "basically" told then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch in 2016 that "we killed Vince Foster."


claim:
"Donald Trump plans to step down as President of the United States and resign from office within the next 30 days."


claim:
7 million people the Congressional Budget Office says won't have health insurance coverage under the Senate health care bill "don't exist."


claim:
Since he and Scott Walker took office in 2011, "60,000 new jobs have been created in this state -- 40,000 of them were created in Madison and the Madison area."


claim:
"I have seen crime increase in every major metropolitan area (in California) … Crime is on the rise in every major market."


claim:
Says Scott Walker recently said "he got his bald spot from hitting his head on a cabinet, and it's not a joke, he actually said that his bald spot came because he hit his head on a cabinet."


claim:
The New York State Senate "passed legislation allowing minors to race snowmobiles, get their own hunting licenses, and not be employed gathering or picking rags, cigar stumps, or collecting bones."


claim:
France "wouldn’t buy Texas beef for some reason, yet 76 percent of their energy comes from nuclear power."


claim:
"We are $20 trillion in debt. The Congressional Budget Office projects an additional $129 trillion of accumulated deficits over the next 30 years."


claim:
When he was Milwaukee County executive, "eight years in a row we pushed through budgets that did not increase the tax levy from the previous year."


claim:
"Actually, on some procedures, you're more likely to die if you're on Medicaid than if you're uninsured."


claim:
Under the House health care bill, Medicaid spending "actually goes up 20 percent over the next 10 years."


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Says the CBO said "it's not that people are getting pushed off a plan; it's that people will choose not to buy something they don't like or want."


claim:
"When Obamacare was signed into law, CBO estimated that 23 million people would be covered in Obamacare’s exchanges in 2017. They were off by more than 100 percent. Only 10.3 million people are covered by Obamacare."


claim:
President Trump has signed more bills into law "than any president previously before at this stage in the game."


claim:
"We are seeing poverty being reduced in south St. Pete at a number larger than the national average, the state average, county or Tampa and Jacksonville."


claim:
"When you throw 23 million people off of health insurance -- people with cancer, people with heart disease, people with diabetes -- thousands of people will die. … This is study after study making this point."


claim:
"Remember, Obamacare created a new category of eligibility. Working-age, able-bodied adults with no dependents for the first time became eligible for Medicaid if their income is below 138 percent of the poverty level. We’re going to continue that eligibility. No one loses coverage."


claim:
The Senate bill "hands enormous tax cuts to the rich and to the drug and insurance industries, paid for by cutting health care for everybody else."


claim:
"I can say that the people that have been hired (for the independent Russia investigation) are all Hillary Clinton supporters, some of them worked for Hillary Clinton."


claim:
Says investigators have found remains of missing women in steel barrels buried on Bill and Hillary Clinton’s property.


claim:
"Massive Bumble Bee recall after 2 employees admit cooking a man and mixing him with a batch of tuna."


claim:
"When colleges and universities are added, education spending is the biggest item in the state budget — about 52 percent of all state dollars."


claim:
"Seven years later, (Scott Walker) has not hit his first campaign promise of creating 250,000 jobs."


claim:
Although California has "the sixth largest economy in the world, we also have one of the highest poverty rates" in the nation.


claim:
"Most likely the primary control knob (for the earth’s temperature) is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in."


claim:
Says Barack Obama "acknowledged over 20 times" that his administration’s Deferred Action for Parents of Americans "immigration edict was a violation of law and the separation of powers."


claim:
"A study by the National Economics Research Association showed that the (Paris climate) deal could cost 2.7 million lost jobs in the U.S. by 2025 should our country adhere to the commitments made by the Obama Administration."


claim:
"Docs: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker took $1 million from a pro-Putin Ukrainian businessman—last election cycle."


claim:
"The new Rasmussen Poll, one of the most accurate in the 2016 Election, just out with a Trump 50% Approval Rating. That's higher than O's #'s!"


claim:
"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, whose government has important business and policy before the president of the United States, has already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars at the Trump International Hotel."


claim:
"There are currently 6 million jobs available in this country that are due in part to the skills gap."


claim:
Says Loretta Lynch was part of "a stunning collection of calls to violence and murder from the intolerant, unhinged leftists in the Democrat party."


claim:
A national paid leave program "would potentially put into the economy $21 billion dollars annually."


claim:
Says Senate deliberations on the Affordable Care Act in 2009 and 2010 included hundreds of hours of debate and more than 100 Republican amendments, compared with zero for the American Health Care Act this year.


claim:
Says the Senate Intelligence Committee has held 10 public hearings this year, "more than double that held by the committee in any recent year."


claim:
"It's a longstanding policy of the Department of Justice not to comment on conversations that the attorney general has had with the president of the United States."


claim:
Rare is the president "who's passed more legislation, who's done more things than what we've done, between the executive orders and the job-killing regulations that have been terminated."


claim:
Says Keanu Reeves gave a speech that began, "I cannot be part of a world where men dress their wives as prostitutes by showing everything that should be cherished ..."


claim:
The House Republican health care bill "guts protections against massive price hikes for Georgians with pre-existing conditions."


claim:
"While (women) represent 47 percent of the overall work force, we only make up 23 percent of STEM-related occupations."


claim:
For 22 percent of N.H. Meals on Wheels recipients, the delivery driver is "the only human contact in their life from week to week."


claim:
"We have pay equity. When you think about that wage gap, we all know it's 78 cents to the dollar. Well, in New York state it's 90 cents to the dollar."


claim:
"Every single year that there's an increase (in temperature) it's within the margin of error -- meaning it isn't increasing."


claim:
"The best estimate is that 200,000 people in Wisconsin were either denied or chilled in their efforts to vote" in the 2016 presidential election.


claim:
"Property taxes are lower right now than they were" in December 2010 on a median-valued home in Wisconsin.


claim:
"In 2012, you were discussing how you led the effort to defund breast cancer screenings at Planned Parenthood."


claim:
"Nearly $2 billion in cash was flown over to Iran, money that the Obama administration has admitted is being used for terrorists and to support further activities there."


claim:
"Trump’s Top Scientist Pick: ‘Scientists Are Just Dumb Regular People That Think Dinosaurs Existed And The Earth Is Getting Warmer’"


claim:
"China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plants. So we can’t build the plants, but they can, according to this (Paris) agreement."


claim:
"Since the fourth quarter of last year until most recently, we've added almost 50,000 jobs in the coal sector. In the month of May alone, almost 7,000 jobs."


claim:
"A majority of President Trump's supporters and voters wanted (the United States) to stay in" the Paris Agreement.


claim:
"At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’ "


claim:
Clean energy employs "more than half a million Californians. That’s nearly ten times more the number of coal mining jobs that exist in the entire nation."


claim:
"State economic development dollars were used to support a project where goods were manufactured in China."


claim:
In 2008, "candidate Obama, he's not even president-elect, sends William Miller over to Iran to establish a back channel and let the Iranians know that should he win the election, they will have friendlier terms."


claim:
"When you look at all the state and local taxes we pay in Wisconsin, the wealthiest 1 percent pay the lowest overall tax rate."


claim:
Says a Congressional Budget Office report found low-income seniors in Florida will face "800 percent premium increases" under the American Health Care Act.


claim:
"Syria and Nicaragua are the only nations that didn't sign the Paris Agreement. Nicaragua said it wasn't tough enough."


claim:
Says President Donald "Trump’s budget gives a $100 billion tax break to three of the wealthiest families."


claim:
"You can collude all you want with a foreign government in an election. There's no such statute" (that makes collusion a crime).


claim:
Says Pat Robertson said, "We must impose a rule on the gay population that would require them to wear specially-colored clothes."


claim:
"Many of the countries in question (in Trump’s travel ban) don't even have a U.S. embassy there to help us vet."


claim:
In Wisconsin’s school voucher program, "two-thirds of the money" in the "tax vouchers" went to people "making more than $100,000."


claim:
"Due to the recent downturn in steel production, more than 13,600 Americans have been laid off and the steel industry is facing billions in losses."


claim:
President Donald Trump "announced that he would reinstate a national day of remembrance for fallen officers that the traitor before him had done away with."


claim:
"I think if you look at the entire federal government and the president’s commitment to (fighting opioid addiction), you’ll see that there are actually hundreds of millions of dollars increase on this issue."


claim:
"(James) Comey knew murdered DNC staffer, Seth Rich, was WikiLeaks source & covered it up for Hillary (Clinton)."


claim:
Says David Clarke reduced the number of Milwaukee County sheriff's deputies "from about 700 and something to 300 and something."


claim:
California Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget "cuts funds for local tree mortality efforts from $52.7 million to just $2 million."


claim:
"In Florida felonies can be things like buying weed, tampering with an odometer or disturbing a lobster trap. So basically spring break."


claim:
"You could lose your rights for life over something as simple as driving with a suspended license" in Florida.


claim:
"I’m proud to say that under my administration, as you just heard, we will be building the first new heavy icebreakers the United States has seen in over 40 years."


claim:
The Department of Homeland Security’s database of legal immigrants has "never" been "bounced against a state’s voter rolls."


claim:
"If Donald Trump would stay home from Mar-a-Lago one weekend, it would pay the entire meals on wheels budget for the state of Missouri for almost two years."


claim:
Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich "apparently was assassinated at 4 in the morning, having given WikiLeaks something like 53,000 emails and 17,000 attachments. ... It turns out, it wasn’t the Russians."


claim:
Says Texas tax legislation would "save the average homeowner in Texas $20,000 a year over the next 20 years or so."


claim:
"It was a 100 percent lie that (Donald Trump’s) election unleashed anti-Semitism. … Hundreds of Jewish community centers had bomb threats called in. To the best of our knowledge to this day, 90 percent of them were called in by an American Jewish kid living in Israel, and the other 10 percent were a black radical who was trying to impress his girlfriend."


claim:
California Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed "diverting 30 percent of the funding" from the state’s gas tax increase "to non-road related projects like building parks and job training for felons."


claim:
Before Obamacare, Wisconsin’s "high-risk pool" for health insurance "had eight or nine" plans to choose from, people "could go to any doctor or any hospital they wanted, and their premiums and co-pays were cheaper than they are under Obamacare today."


claim:
"What Trump is alleged to have done is actually no different than what Barack Obama did in April last year when he made it known that he didn’t want Hillary prosecuted."


claim:
"President Obama became the first president since Carter to leave the White House with a smaller federal prison population than when he took office."


claim:
Says Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez "declared that she would not detain known criminals accused of violent crimes."


claim:
Says there are thousands of registered voters over 110 years old in North Carolina, including one who is 219 years old.


claim:
"The minute the president speaks about it to someone, he has the ability to declassify anything at any time without any process."


claim:
"Law firm @POTUS used to show he has no ties to Russia was named Russia Law Firm of the Year for their extensive ties to Russia. Unreal."


claim:
Says the Florida House of Representatives allocated $24 billion, "the greatest investment in education in Florida history!"


claim:
"(Charter schools in Missouri) are actually failing in a greater capacity than the public school systems."


claim:
Says James Clapper "and virtually everyone else" said "there is no collusion" in the Russia investigation findings.


claim:
"Clinton Foundation cargo ship raided at Port of Baltimore" caught smuggling 460 undocumented immigrants.


claim:
"This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story. It's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should've won."


claim:
Says a federal program that collects reported side-effects of vaccinations doesn’t accept possible outcomes extending to road accidents, heart attacks or suicides.


claim:
U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo voted for a health care bill that will let insurance companies "charge five times more for people over 50."


claim:
"We got to a point that our Air Force pilots were going to museums to find spare parts over the last eight years" under Barack Obama.


claim:
A University of Texas "student pulled out a concealed handgun" on a knife-wielding suspect "and made him back down."


claim:
Says if the AHCA replaces Obamacare it will "significantly reduce insurance premiums in" North Carolina.


claim:
District attorneys "have advertised that they will charge a criminal alien with a lesser offense than presumably they would charge a United States citizen, so they won’t be deported."


claim:
"FBI crime statistics have found that labeled ‘sanctuary’ cities experience lower rates of all crime types, including homicides."


claim:
In the House Republican health care bill, "we’re expanding women’s access to health services by redirecting Planned Parenthood dollars to community health centers, which vastly outnumber Planned Parenthood clinics."


claim:
The GOP health bill "would once again allow being a rape or domestic violence victim to be a pre-existing condition."


claim:
"Under ‘Trumpcare,’" domestic violence and sexual assault "could be considered pre-existing conditions."


claim:
In some cases, a sex offender "who appears on the New York State Sex Offender Registry" would be able to drive for Uber or Lyft when ride-hailing is allowed upstate in July


claim:
"We have got 20 million folks out there across this land who have told the federal government, ‘Phooey, nonsense, I’m not going to participate in your program, because it doesn’t do what I need done.’ "


claim:
Says John Quincy Adams said, "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader."


claim:
"When I became mayor of Los Angeles, we had a 44 percent (high school) graduation rate. I said that was unacceptable. I challenged that notion. I said the mayor needs to be involved with our schools. We need to partner together. As I left, after a number of reforms, we grew our graduation rate from 44 percent to 72."


claim:
Says Tammy Baldwin was told by a whistleblower about "overmedicated veterans," she made "deadly mistakes" and "three veterans died" at the Tomah VA hospital.


claim:
Donald Trump’s "golf course on the island defaulted, like so many of his other failed business schemes. The failure left Puerto Rican taxpayers with a nearly $33 million bill."


claim:
Says the Republican plan to replace Obamacare, "absolutely does not eliminate protections for pre-existing conditions."


claim:
"President Trump last month proposed a $6 billion cut in funding to the National Institutes of Health. And thank God our congressmen made a deal last night to not go along with that. They actually increased funding by $2 billion."


claim:
"Larry Krasner is the only candidate running for District Attorney who explicitly pledges to never seek the death penalty."


claim:
Wisconsin politicians get daily expense payments "even if they don’t spend a dime on meals, or lodging or travel," and "no receipts are required for them to get paid."


claim:
"In my 30 year career including dozens of capital cases, not a single client of mine has ever been sentenced to death."


claim:
Regarding the surgery that saved Jimmy Kimmel's son, "Medicaid has stopped providing this kind of service."


claim:
"President Trump has passed more legislation in his first 100 days than any president since Harry Truman."


claim:
"For the first time in the modern political era, we have confirmed a new justice in the first 100 days."


claim:
The estimated price of President Trump’s border wall is the same as the cost of "one and a half aircraft carriers."


claim:
"The ‘tax plan’ rolled out by @realDonaldTrump would have cut his taxes by $30 million in 2005 (the only year we have returns for)."


claim:
"Before NAFTA, trade between the US and Mexico was around $50 billion. Now it stands at more than $500 billion."


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In Congress, "on the Democratic side of the room, you’ve got men and women of all different races; on the other side, you’ve got a bunch of white men in dark suits, all over 55 or so."


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"The U.S. recorded its slowest economic growth in five years (2016). GDP up only 1.6%. Trade deficits hurt the economy very badly."


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Treasury Department's inspector general found "there's $4 billion a year in excess payments" going to people that shouldn’t get them. "These are mostly Mexicans."


claim:
Says Texas House rules authorized by the Texas Constitution supersede the state law permitting anyone to record a public government meeting.


claim:
Trump has "worked with Congress to pass more legislation in his first 100 days than any president since Truman."


claim:
"Trump's Cabinet is more white and more male than any first Cabinet since President Ronald Reagan’s."


claim:
"In the first two years and a couple months (as California treasurer), I have saved taxpayers and ratepayers over $5.2 billion."


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Says Eric Trump said, "My father’s tax return is irrelevant because we’re going to cancel taxes for WEALTHY people anyway."


claim:
"More than 260,000 Americans are employed by the domestic solar industry — three times as many workers as employed by the entire coal mining industry."


claim:
"After prohibition ended, police deaths didn't reach 200 a year again until the year Nixon declared war on drugs."


claim:
"The pace of missile development between (Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un) has increased the testing about twenty-fold."


claim:
"They voted for (a border wall) in 2006. Then-Senator Obama voted for it. Sen. Schumer voted for it. Sen. Clinton voted for it."


claim:
"Missouri is actually the only state that has been forced to borrow money from the federal government to pay for unemployment benefits during each of the last five economic downturns."


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The conservative proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act "lowers premiums by giving New York the freedom to end Obamacare’s costly and ridiculous rules."


claim:
"Fox News Sandra Smith: ‘Everybody could see from the United Airlines passenger’s behavior that he was not a genuine American.’ "


claim:
"Trump looking to open up E Coast & new areas for offshore oil drilling when Congress has passed no new safety standards since BP"


claim:
Says President Donald Trump as a candidate mentioned WikiLeaks "over 160 times in speeches" in the last month of the campaign.


claim:
Images show the turnout for President Donald Trump's 2017 ceremony with the New England Patriots was smaller than the team’s turnout with President Barack Obama in 2015.


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Says the T.R.U.M.P. Act, which would force presidential candidates to release their tax returns to run in North Carolina, "has a lot of support – by a majority of North Carolinians and members of both parties."


claim:
Says the University of South Florida invests in oil companies like BP, tobacco companies, weapons manufacturers and private prisons.


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In America, "more people die from" prescription narcotic painkillers "than from heroin and cocaine combined."


claim:
"A trip to Mar-a-Lago costs taxpayers approximately $3.6 million, according to a Government Accountability Office report."


claim:
"The weak illegal immigration policies of the Obama Admin. allowed bad MS 13 gangs to form in cities across U.S. We are removing them fast!"


claim:
"Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel has said the app is for rich people, don't want to expand in poor countries like India and Spain."


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Says Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. has said Black Lives Matter "is a terrorist movement, a hate group and calls it, Black LIES Matter."


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A United Airlines passenger forcibly removed from an airplane "was in his seat, he has every right to stay there."


claim:
"As chairman of the Fulton board of commissioners, I turned a $100 million deficit into a balanced budget."


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Says a Texas Senate committee considering "private school voucher" legislation randomly called people to testify regardless of when the people submitted requests to testify.


claim:
"Here are some of the things that are more popular than Congress: hemorrhoids, Nickelback, traffic jams, cockroaches, root canals, colonoscopies, herpes. Even herpes, they couldn’t beat herpes in the polls."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama "tax audit exposes MILLIONS in offshore accounts stolen from taxpayers."


claim:
Says Al Jazeera, "a mouthpiece for terrorists, has been paying Jon Ossoff thousands of dollars. ... What is he hiding?"


claim:
Said Vin Diesel declared his love of Rockford, Ill., after locals provided him car help and hospitality.


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Says Ohio Gov. John Kasich said, "If a woman is not intelligent enough to keep her legs closed, how can we entrust the abortion decision to her?"


claim:
"For too long, Obamacare has caused high premiums and dismal coverage. ... Under Obamacare premiums in job-based coverage have increased by $3,775"


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The Obama administration’s 2013 Syria proposal "had no clear objective," while Trump’s Syria strike "had a clear strategic objective."


claim:
"In 2014, Mexico alone received over $24 billion in remittances sent from the U.S., while other South and Central American countries received over 15 percent of their (gross domestic product) in the form of remittances."


claim:
Says small businesses "make up 98.9 percent of all businesses in the state and employ nearly half of the state's private sector workforce" and "almost never receive a penny of government money."


claim:
Says Adolf Hitler "didn't even sink to the level of using chemical weapons. ... He was not using the gas on his own people the same way that (Bashar al-)Assad is doing."


claim:
"Data shows that vehicle break-in is the No. 1 crime in the city, but also the No. 1 crime in the South Side Flats, and it’s closely followed by assault."


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California will have the "highest gas tax in the nation" once its 12 cent gas tax hike goes into effect.


claim:
"We’ve seen more filibusters on judicial nominees by the Republicans under President Obama than we saw in the whole history of the United States Senate."


claim:
"Seven out of ten doctors are not taking any new Medicaid patients as lower reimbursement rates make it cost-prohibitive."


claim:
"Since 2012," city of Austin "property taxes have gone up almost 30 percent while incomes have only risen 4 percent."


claim:
"It is unusual" for a White House official like former National Security Adviser Susan Rice to make unmasking requests.


claim:
"The EPA director under Obama said the Clean Power Initiative would have no effect on man-made CO2 emissions. That's what she said. Go look it up."


claim:
"Over the past 25 years, job growth in right-to-work states has been twice as high as in non-right-to-work states. ... The facts are just so clear that this is going to lead to more jobs and higher pay for the people of Missouri."


claim:
"There are no federal or state laws that say prosecutors must seek death sentences. And the United States Supreme Court has banned all state laws that make executions mandatory for murders."


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Says President Donald Trump "had a different opinion" in 2013 than he does now about whether (Barack) Obama should have intervened in Syria after Obama's red line was crossed.


claim:
"The United States Department of Education has introduced an Islamic indoctrination program for the public schools, called ‘Access Islam.’ "


claim:
"Finally, I will continue to fight against Republicans like Martina White, who like Trump, wants to deport all of our hard working immigrant brothers and sisters and white wash America."


claim:
"There was a very large infrastructure bill that was approved during the Obama administration, a trillion dollars. Nobody ever saw anything being built."


claim:
Says North Carolina's replacement for HB2 "orders NC cities to discriminate against LGBT people until at least 2020 and unfair ‘bathroom bans’ remain."


claim:
"When you look for a job, you can't find it and you give up. You are now considered statistically employed."


claim:
"Afghanistan has more hectares (of opium poppies) planted today than they had before we started this war."


claim:
"Apprehension rates at the southern border have plummeted since the 1980s, and apprehensions of Mexicans specifically have reached their lowest point in nearly half a century."


claim:
Of "30,000 individuals arrested a year for crimes that are 16 or 17, over 95 percent of them do not result in a criminal conviction. Only 1.5 percent of them ultimately go to state prison."


claim:
Says "Georgia becomes first state to ban Muslim culture in historic move to restore Western values."


claim:
"The Notebook is finally getting a sequel. Producers of the upcoming film confirmed .... that filming will begin in Jacksonville, North Carolina this summer."


claim:
"A New York man has allegedly infected 240 people with the HIV virus by sleeping with men and women."


claim:
"There are about as many members of the Armed Forces marching bands as there are American diplomats."


claim:
"...the earth moves closer to the sun every year – you know the rotation of the earth. We’re moving closer to the sun."


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A study of where teachers apply to work found that "less than 5 percent wanted to work in rural Wisconsin."


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In New York state, "you cannot charge an older person even one dollar more than a younger person" for health insurance.


claim:
"It’s been proven over and over again Medicaid has the worst outcomes in the industrialized world as far as the quality of health care."


claim:
"215 members of Congress just voted to let your ISP spy on what type of underwear you buy and sell that data to advertisers."


claim:
"Governor Rauner has called every year for eliminating funding for afterschool programs for at-risk youth, homeless prevention services and programs that help autistic children."


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About a third of Wisconsin’s high schools "are missing the mark of graduating young adults who are college ready," a "pass rate of 66.6%."


claim:
"Just last May, the Department of Justice inspector general found that these (‘sanctuary city’) policies also violate federal law."


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Says if a Florida bill (HB 697) punishing sanctuary cities becomes law "it will be the only law of its kind in the nation."


claim:
"K-12 education is getting more money this year than they did last year. ... It is a total increase of 4.1 percent."


claim:
"In fact, if you add up the net wealth of his cabinet, it has more wealth than a third of the American people total -- close to 100 million people."


claim:
"Somebody observed this week that you have to go back to the very founding of the government to the first administration of George Washington to find a time when it’s taken longer to put a Cabinet in place."


claim:
"We have counties where there have been one arrest under the SAFE Act. It indicates there's not a whole lot of interest in enforcing this in our upstate counties."


claim:
"We offer a tremendous amount of low calorie, no calorie options, like waters, unsweetened products, low calorie diet items. All of which unfortunately are taxed by this tax."


claim:
"Under the Republican health care repeal proposal North Carolina faces the 2nd highest premium increase in the nation. North Carolina residents will face an average cost increase of over $7,500."


claim:
"Since China joined — that’s another beauty — the WTO in 2001, the U.S. has lost many more than 60,000 factories."


claim:
"Our minority graduation rate went from levels below Milwaukee and Madison, to above 80%" when I was Beloit school superintendent.


claim:
The GOP’s Obamacare replacement would reduce subsidies that help lower-income people buy health insurance, but also "expand the entitlement" by giving subsidies to higher-income people "that Obamacare never helped."


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Says President Donald Trump’s proposal to allow Americans to buy health insurance across state lines would make it the same as "the way you buy car insurance" today.


claim:
"Since the day of my election, we've already cut illegal immigration at the southern border by 61 percent."


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Wealthy foreigners can obtain visas through a special program, but only a small number "invest in true high-unemployment areas. Almost every other EB-5 project uses gerrymandering to qualify as distressed."


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Under "Trumpcare," the Republican replacement for Obamacare, "$600 billion worth of tax breaks will go to the wealthiest in this country."


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Says U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said, "It’s better for our budget if cancer patients die more quickly."


claim:
"There's no demonstrable evidence they (after-school programs that feed kids) are helping kids do better at school."


claim:
"USAID put $8 billion up and attracted more than $45 billion in a public-private partnership called Power Africa."


claim:
"In recent years ... the Obama administration was committed to the notion, against all evidence, that we could reset relations with Putin."


claim:
"Roughly one-fourth of rural Missourians are unable to purchase high-speed internet, which puts them at a disadvantage in everything from education to entertainment to health care."


claim:
"I remember years ago looking at a CBO report that in 1964 predicted that Medicare would cost $9 billion 10 years later. And I think it was already over $100 billion at that point."


claim:
"Germany owes ... vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany!"


claim:
"The average margin of victory in the House of Representatives was 37%" for Democrats and Republicans in the 2016 election.


claim:
Wisconsin is "the most -- if not Number 1, number 2 -- gerrymandered state in the country" for state legislative boundaries.


claim:
"Texas legislators have filed voucher proposals in every legislative session since 1995, but all of them have failed to become law."


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Says Republican legislators in North Carolina raised the average teacher's pay "by more than 15 percent in just three years."


claim:
"Experts estimate that 40 percent of gun sales occur in no-questions-asked transactions that often take place at gun shows or on the Internet."


claim:
"There’s not one public study, and by public study I mean a study available to the public, that has looked at using the product Kaput to poison feral hogs."


claim:
"The past (Obama) administration was the first administration that never had a whole year of 3 percent growth."


claim:
"What has happened since 2005? We’ve seen violent crime continuously go down" due to Florida's "stand your ground" law.


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On whether or not the Philadelphia DA's office will recommend the possibility of parole for all juvenile lifers.


claim:
Blue Cross Blue Shield ended "2016 open enrollment with 1 million members in the Florida marketplace."


claim:
"A woman working full-time is paid 79 to 80 cents for every dollar a man is paid, and it's even less for women of color, and on average $11,000 per year is lost simply because she isn't a man."


claim:
"Currently, half a million Floridians have Alzheimer’s disease, and in less than 10 years, a 40 percent growth rate means that another 200,000 Floridians will develop this devastating illness."


claim:
"In the first full month of my administration following the issuance of my executive orders, illegal immigration on our southern border fell by an unprecedented 40 percent."


claim:
A report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office "confirms that the American Health Care Act will lower premiums."


claim:
He’s only there for one purpose and one purpose only, and that is to run a shadow government that is gonna totally upset the new agenda.


claim:
"According to the FBI, Mexican drug cartels are working with 100,000 street gang members in Chicago alone."


claim:
"One-third of the counties — think of it, one-third — only have one insurer left" on the Affordable Care Act exchanges.


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Says President Donald Trump's travel ban could ban Somalis "from getting relief (from famine) through coming to the United States."


claim:
"The number of individuals who actually got coverage through the exchange who didn't have coverage before, or who weren't eligible for Medicaid before is relatively small. So we've turned things upside down completely for 3 million, or 4 million, or 5 million individuals."


claim:
"If the CBO was right about Obamacare to begin with, there'd be 8 million more people on Obamacare today than there actually are. … Sometimes we ask them to do stuff that they're not capable of doing."


claim:
"And this would be the first year, if everything holds true, we will spend over $10 billion of our state budget on Medicaid out of the $28 billion budget."


claim:
The Obama administration said "they were going to be able to drive folks away from one of the most expensive areas for the provision of health care, and that is the emergency rooms. In fact, they did just the opposite."


claim:
"Cost of iPhone: $399
- Cost of healthcare for 1 year: $10,345
- Hearing @jasoninthehouse compare the 2 as if they are the same: priceless"


claim:
"Wisconsin’s graduation rates have grown to over 90 percent" since Tony Evers became state school superintendent.


claim:
The GOP health care plan gives "$275 billion in tax breaks for the top 2 percent, people earning $250,000 a year or more."


claim:
Under the Affordable Care Act, "some people were gaming the system" by paying "for nine months of insurance, get 12 -- the other three for free."


claim:
"We raised the minimum wage to $15 first in city government. Now, working together with people in Albany, it's the law of the state."


claim:
Says 70 percent of benefits in Donald Trump’s proposal for child care "go to the people making over $100,000 a year."


claim:
"Most U.S. foreign assistance ... is given to U.S. companies and nonprofits in the form of contracts and grants."


claim:
"The son-in-law of the president met with Russian officials at the Trump Tower after having them come in the back door."


claim:
"It's important to pay attention to the Russian spy drama, but let's not ignore the fact that the following (10) bills have been introduced" in the House.


claim:
"122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield."


claim:
Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson "threatens citizens with arrest if they continue asking for a town hall."


claim:
"Since the passage of Proposition 47 by voters in 2014 and the signing of AB 109 in 2011, violent crime has been on the rise in California, up 12 percent in 2015 statewide according to the FBI."


claim:
"Everybody acts like President Trump is the one that came up with this idea. ... There are multiple news outlets that have reported" former President Barack Obama ordered wiretapping on Trump.


claim:
"Just last year, over 5,000 refugees came to New York state, and 94 percent settled outside of New York City."


claim:
"Three of the 11 most violent cities in the U.S. are in Missouri — St. Louis, Kansas City, and Springfield."


claim:
Every dollar of foreign aid for agricultural research "will bring $4 in trade with the countries and the United States ... generating employment back in the U.S."


claim:
Wisconsin children are crossing "condemned bridges in the middle of the winter to get to the school bus."


claim:
"We've repealed regulations for the first time in 20 years using the Congressional Review Act -- three regulations that were going to cost the economy hundreds of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs."


claim:
"I’ve been on the Armed Services (Committee) for 10 years. No call or meeting w/ Russian ambassador. Ever."


claim:
"The various offices of state government have purchased more than $11 million in vehicles, not counting leases, for use from the Governor on down during the last two years."


claim:
Says White House adviser Steve Bannon said, "Nobody can blame you for beating your wife if it’s out of love."


claim:
Says the proposed Texas Privacy Act "is very different from" North Carolina’s law "in that theirs covers a whole list of things that the Texas Privacy Act does not."


claim:
Says former NRA president Jim Porter said, "It’s only a matter of time before we can own colored people again."


claim:
"According to data provided by the Department of Justice, the vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offenses since 9/11 came here from outside of our country."


claim:
"Currently, when we ship products out of America, many other countries make us pay very high tariffs and taxes — but when foreign companies ship their products into America, we charge them nothing or almost nothing."


claim:
Says "people who come to" their dissent actions "get a ‘cease and desist’ letter" from Ron Johnson's office.


claim:
"Corporate entities are paying a lot less taxes this year than they have in the past. Part of that is from a loophole in a bill that was passed in 2015."


claim:
Says his budget "calls for one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history."


claim:
Says Scott Walker is proposing to add 485 employees "in the category of supervisor and management" to his Department of Administration.


claim:
During his campaign for president, Donald Trump "committed to honoring states' rights when it comes to marijuana legalization."


claim:
Inner-city students "fall back and don’t succeed, whereas if there was a less intensive track, they would."


claim:
"Obamacare covers 24 million fewer people than it was expected to, and the projected price tag has more than doubled at $2 trillion."


claim:
"Studies have shown Latinos are more than 40 percent less likely to call 911 when they have been a victim of a crime."


claim:
"You can almost pinpoint half of the gun violence deaths to two or three specific sections in the city. They are just areas of devastation, economically and otherwise."


claim:
"Local authorities in 43 states refused to honor more than 16,000 detainer requests from ICE from October 2013 to December 2015. Only in Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Vermont and Wyoming did local officials honor all requests, and detainers are relatively rare in those states."


claim:
There were "50 percent more murders" in Orlando and Orange County, Fla., last year "than in all of Sweden."


claim:
"This year, 97 Missouri counties have only one insurer participating in the Obamacare exchanges. Last year, every Missouri county had at least two insurance options. In addition, most Missourians will see an increase in their premiums, with some facing an increase upward of 40 percent"


claim:
"The sanctions that we put on (Russia) for the Crimea annexation and meddling in Ukraine ... have absolutely crushed the ruble by 50 percent. And GDP from 2014 to 2016 is 50 percent down in Russia, as well."


claim:
"Most of these mass shootings take place in (areas) where you're not allowed to have a concealed weapons permit."


claim:
"Look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They’re having problems like they never thought possible."


claim:
Recent immigration raids "are not business as usual. The raids are being done indiscriminately. They’re not focused simply on criminal aliens."


claim:
"Your politicians in Tallahassee today are saying, in your area, that they don't need any more jobs. That is exactly what Rep. Paul Renner said."


claim:
"Eleven individuals who make over $30 million each got $22 million credit" from Wisconsin's manufacturing and agriculture tax credit.


claim:
The status quo led the General Assembly to reduce pension payments four straight years starting in 2005, costing billions of dollars as the delay in contributions essentially borrowed from pension funds at a very high interest rate.


claim:
"If Governor Cooper's proposed bill for repealing HB2 becomes law, it will create a state-sanctioned 'Look But Don't Touch' policy in our bathrooms."


claim:
"The stock market has hit record numbers, as you know. And there has been a tremendous surge of optimism in the business world."


claim:
"The Oroville dam failure was entirely avoidable: California passed a $7.5 Billion water bond in 2014 but Jerry Brown didn't spend $1 on new water storage or improvements to existing infrastructure like Oroville."


claim:
In the "past few weeks," President Donald Trump pointed out "Iranian violations on ballistic missile tests. By the way, these ballistic missiles are inscribed in Hebrew, ‘Israel must be destroyed.’ "


claim:
Says Bill Gates tweeted, "I think Donald Trump will go down to history as one of the greatest presidents, just like Reagan."


claim:
Says a Republican U.S. House member from Texas, Rob McCaskill, tweeted that he "can’t wait for the next 9/11."


claim:
"Before the Affordable Care Act, (West Virginia’s) uninsured rate for people 64 to 19 was 29 percent. Today, it is 9 percent."


claim:
"I'm calling into question the accuracy of the ruling. The district judge in Seattle said there was no indication of terrorism from these seven countries in our country."


claim:
Of 1 million green cards issued a year, "almost none of those green cards are based on job skills or demonstrated economic needs."


claim:
Israel cut its illegal immigration rate by "99 percent" by constructing a 143-mile fence along its southern border.


claim:
Says "72% of refugees admitted into U.S. (2/3 -2/11) during COURT BREAKDOWN are from 7 countries: SYRIA, IRAQ, SOMALIA, IRAN, SUDAN, LIBYA & YEMEN."


claim:
"This issue of busing voters in to New Hampshire is widely known by anyone who’s worked in New Hampshire politics. It’s very real, it’s very serious."


claim:
"While on FAKE NEWS @CNN, Bernie Sanders was cut off for using the term fake news to describe the network. They said technical difficulties!"


claim:
The United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit is "the most overturned court in the country."


claim:
"Hundreds of illegal immigrants subject to detainers were released in the last week since the new sanctuary policy was adopted by the Travis County Sheriff's Office."


claim:
Graduation rates in Buffalo’s school district, which were "around 48 percent are now up to 64 percent" since Say Yes Buffalo launched.


claim:
Says Secretary of State Rex Tillerson got a "government service golden parachute" payment of $180 million "from Exxon Mobil that he would have to forfeit had he taken a job elsewhere."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama’s nominees met a standard of 60 votes, "a standard that was met by Elena Kagan as well as Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama's choices."


claim:
"Spending more taxpayer money on VISIT FL (or less) has not demonstrated a direct impact on tourism."


claim:
Says CNN’s Chris Cuomo "never asked" Sen. Richard Blumenthal about Blumenthal's misstatements on his own service in Vietnam.


claim:
Says Melania Trump’s security detail at Trump Tower costs more than the annual budget for the National Endowment for the Arts.


claim:
"Back when Ted Cruz called Mitch McConnell a liar on the floor of the Senate floor, nobody invoked Rule 19 to censor him."


claim:
Says ExxonMobil "fought to kill" a rule requiring oil and mining companies to disclose payments made to foreign governments.


claim:
"ISIS is already using the rhetoric from the Trump administration, the text of this executive order, to incite attacks against us and to recruit more terrorists to their side."


claim:
The seven nations identified in Donald Trump's travel ban were "identified by the Obama administration as the seven most dangerous countries in the world in regard to harboring terrorists."


claim:
Terrorism and terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe have "gotten to a point where it's not even being reported."


claim:
Says "109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travelers" were affected by the immigration executive order.


claim:
"We've dropped from a top 10 state in elementary reading to 30th in the nation" under State Schools Superintendent Tony Evers’ watch.


claim:
Says a study indicates up to $8.5 billion in lost GDP and up to 185,000 lost jobs if Texas lawmakers approve a measure limiting transgender bathroom choices.


claim:
Refugee "vetting was very haphazard," under the Obama Administration. "In many cases, we simply accepted the word of applicants."


claim:
"Two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre. … It didn't get covered"


claim:
"This is longest that the nation has gone without a secretary of the Treasury, at least in modern times. If it's not the longest, it's darn close to it."


claim:
"About three-quarters of (Syrian refugees) are women and children. A full third of them are kids under 12 years old."


claim:
Says North Carolina gives taxpayer dollars to private schools, but "we really don’t know what these schools are doing or how they are performing."


claim:
Says Mike Pence said that "allowing rape victims to have abortions will lead to women trying to get raped."


claim:
Says Donald Trump's abortion rule "puts at risk 15 times more funding and millions more women and families ... than previous similar policies by Republican presidents."


claim:
The Obama administration issued an "11th-hour rule that entrenches federal family planning funding for Planned Parenthood."


claim:
The language that's part of the president's National Security Council memo "is identical to the language" used by President George W. Bush in 2001 and President Barack Obama in 2009.


claim:
Says the Department of Homeland Security didn't request any hours of aerial surveillance for the U.S.-Mexico border from the Department of Defense for 2017.


claim:
Says former President Barack Obama "took similar action against Cuban refugees" as President Donald Trump did in his executive order.


claim:
"From the release of a child rapist from the Dominican Republican to that of an Italian drug smuggler, Philadelphians have already been put in direct danger by Mayor Kenney’s policy of blocking local law enforcement from participating with federal immigration authorities."


claim:
"The overwhelming majority of America’s elite universities, they no longer require history majors to take a single course in American history."


claim:
"Here's the fact: The No. 1 source of income into Mexico are Mexicans working here and sending the money back."


claim:
"My policy is similar to what President Obama did in 2011 when he banned visas for refugees from Iraq for six months."


claim:
"The various people who have, in fact, committed terrorist acts in this country, from 9/11 on, none of them came from any of the seven countries that are the subject of the president's executive order."


claim:
North Carolina could save "literally tens of millions of dollars" if it stopped prosecuting 16-year-olds as adults.


claim:
Says Barack "Obama orders life-sized bronze statue of himself to be permanently installed in White House."


claim:
Imitation dairy products often differ nutritionally from those they mimic, and labeling them "milk" or "cheese" or "yogurt" is "against the law."


claim:
"Not one dime of the tax cut that they are going to enact with the repeal of Obamacare will go to people who make under $200,000."


claim:
"One hundred and ninety-four countries signed the Paris Agreement to control greenhouse gases. Our own voluntary agreement to accomplish the same goal — the Under2  MOU — has 165 signatories, representing a billion people."


claim:
"About 30 percent of terrorists at Guantanamo Bay went back into battle. We know that a dozen or so killed Americans."


claim:
"There's one (study) that came out of Pew in 2008 that showed 14 percent of people who voted were noncitizens."


claim:
Says Betsy DeVos and her family "have donated extensively to groups which promote the idea that students who identify as LGBT must undergo 'conversion' therapy."


claim:
"In 2015, homicides increased by 17 percent in America’s 50 largest cities. That’s the largest increase in 25 years."


claim:
Miami-Dade is "the first community in the world to break the cycle of local transmission of the Zika virus."


claim:
"The White House removed its climate change web page. And the healthcare, civil rights and LGBT sections."


claim:
"We've made other countries rich while the wealth ... of our country has dissipated over the horizon."


claim:
California has "the highest poverty rate in the nation" when considering the U.S. Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure.


claim:
"Businesses are leaving Illinois. I think, statistically, that can be proven to be false through the Bureau of Labor Statistics. No net businesses left Illinois."


claim:
Says North Carolinians are "already paying for" Medicaid expansion, even though the state hasn’t expanded Medicaid.


claim:
"[The Foundation for Individual Rights] is the recipient of donations from [DeVos] totaling about 25,000 bucks over four years."


claim:
Thirteen Democratic senators "voted against cheaper medicines" and took millions from "big pharma since 2011."


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"I would imagine that there's probably a gun in the school (in Wapiti, Wyo.) to protect from potential grizzlies."


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"House Bill 6627 also requires the applicant to attest to their eligibility to vote, as is required by the National Voter Registration Act and used by all other states that have (automatic voter registration)."


claim:
"By funding the authorization that’s already happened a decade ago (in the Secure Fence Act of 2006), we could start the process of meeting Mr. Trump’s campaign pledge to secure the border."


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The federal government is prohibited "from negotiating lower prescription drug prices for our senior citizens."


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Says Georgia’s 5th congressional district, represented by John Lewis, is "in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested)."


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"The vast majority of people that got insurance under President Obama's Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, got it through Medicaid."


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"Paying for a hotel room is not a gift or a present and it has nothing to do with an office. It's not an emolument."


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Says "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is resigning from the post of associate justice of the Supreme Court."


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Wisconsin property taxes, as a percentage of personal income, "are the lowest that they've been since the end of World War II."


claim:
"House GOP rules package bars CBO from counting spikes in deficit spending spurred by an ACA repeal."


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"I have never lobbied against sanctions personally... to my knowledge, Exxon never directly lobbied against sanctions.


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"The same 3 senators who have spent the last 3 years s------- themselves over ‘Benghazi!’ just introduced a bill to reduce embassy security by 50 percent."


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The Russians "tried to hack the Republican National Committee, and they were unable to break through."


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Of Sen. Jeff Sessions, "you've objected to immigrants volunteering to serve in our armed forces, saying, 'In terms of who's going to be most likely to be a spy, somebody from Cullman, Ala., or somebody from Kenya?'"


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Says Donald Trump campaigned on not cutting Medicare and Social Security, but his nominee for the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, "made his career on cutting Medicare and Medicaid."


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Say first grandma Marian Robinson will get a $160,000 annual pension for life when President Barack Obama leaves office.


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"In 2009, Mitch McConnell was the person that’s saying, 'Hey, we should get all the ethics information in before we do the hearings.' "


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"We don't get any of that information" from the federal government on who refugees are, where they come from and how long they are likely to stay.


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Says Kate Cloonen "needs that extra $68,000" lawmaker salary on top of the "$8.5 million in state contracts for her construction company."


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"An estimated 8 million children worldwide live in orphanages or residential institutions. Shockingly, 80 percent of these children are not orphans."


claim:
"General Motors is sending Mexican made model of Chevy Cruze to U.S. car dealers-tax free across border."


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Says Donald Trump's first 17 Cabinet appointments "have a net worth of more than a third of America."


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ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson "will have to divest his holdings, that’s a requirement" to serve as Secretary of State.


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[Chicago is the] only city in the United States, you get a B average in high school, community college is free.


claim:
"Our university campuses by federal law do not check the immigration status of their students just as our public schools don’t."


claim:
"While many urban areas across the country saw a sharp increase in crime over the last year, the Philadelphia Police Department successfully lowered part one crimes."


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Because of its higher minimum wage, New York State is "already showing signs of various companies picking up and leaving."


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Says an arms control treaty supported by Barack Obama "could give the U.N. some authority to regulate guns."


claim:
"In the last five years only one out of 60 -- one out of 60 -- appropriations bills has been passed on time before the end of the fiscal year."


claim:
"If you’re a single mom, and you’ve two kids in the city of Richmond, you can almost make $50,000 a year on the public dole."


claim:
The 2016 and 2017 Missouri budget includes more funding for the University of Missouri than any time in the last 15 years.


claim:
"On Oct. 7, the Access Hollywood tape comes out. One hour later, WikiLeaks starts dropping my emails."


claim:
"In Austin, Texas, the average homeowner is paying about $1,300 to $1,400 just for recapture," meaning funds spent in non-Austin school districts.


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Social Security "was basically invented" at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; "that's where Franklin Roosevelt got the idea."


claim:
"Germany managed to increase its use of renewables and its output of carbon dioxide at the same time -- because it resorted to cheap coal to keep the lights on at a price its people could afford."


claim:
"If Russia, or some other entity, was hacking, why did the White House wait so long to act? Why did they only complain after Hillary lost?"


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Says "tens of thousands of children" were rushed across the southwest border "because they fear the wall."


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"California is once again the sixth-largest economy in the world. If you add the GDP’s of Washington and Oregon, California would surpass the United Kingdom to become the fifth-largest economy in the world."


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Says U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi said, "Employers cutting hours is a good thing. It then gives that person time to pursue their dreams and passions."


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More than two months ago President Barack Obama signed a bill for more than $1 billion in Zika funding, but "the federal government has still only committed $7 million" to help Florida.


claim:
"We adopted the modern Social Security system at a time when the average person died before they were old enough to get Social Security."


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Wisconsin has only one county, Dane, "that's hand counting the votes" in the 2016 presidential recount.


claim:
A recent study found "that cities where Uber operates have 3.6%-5.6% fewer drunk driving deaths than cities without access to ridesharing."


claim:
Alison Alter "has exploited a campaign finance loophole to obtain over $64,000 in public dollars to fund her campaign."


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"More than two-thirds of the aliens the Obama administration has brought to the United States under the president's Central American Minors program weren’t actually minors at all."


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Says actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson wore a T-shirt stating: "We Stand for the flag, we kneel for the fallen."


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In Wisconsin, "300,000 voters were turned away by the state’s strict voter ID law" in the 2016 presidential election.


claim:
"Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion. Cancel order!"


claim:
Even "though men comprise 49% of the population, they hold 80% of the lawmaking power in the Legislature (144 of 181 seats)."


claim:
"NAFTA allows a lot of trucks from Mexico, for example, to leave there and ... drive straight through without even being inspected."


claim:
Latina who enthusiastically supported Donald Trump on stage in Las Vegas in October 2015 has been deported.


claim:
"We would be just like North Carolina with HB2-like (transgender bathroom) legislation. It actually passed our chamber and I vetoed it."


claim:
Alison Alter "got an F in attendance in 2016" as an Austin parks board member "and was removed by a unanimous vote of the Austin City Council."


claim:
"We spend less than 2 percent more every year. That is the lowest increase in spending since they have been keeping numbers."


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Says Indiana Gov. Mike Pence "advocated diverting taxpayer dollars to so-called conversion therapy."


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"Black Lives Matter, who are attacking law enforcement officers" -- Barack Obama "had them to the White House."


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On Donald Trump’s plan to cut federal funding to sanctuary cities, "because of a decision by the Supreme Court, no president's in a position to cut off funding across the board. It has to be very specific to the matter at hand."


claim:
"President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (was) a fancy name for almost a trillion-dollar spending bill. The ARRA was supposed to fix our crumbling roads and bridges," but now, "we have absolutely nothing to show for it."


claim:
"In 2015 roughly 10,000 political arrests occurred in Cuba. That is five times as many as occurred in 2010, when there were only about 2,000."


claim:
"Study after study have shown that sanctuary cities do not lead to an increase in crime because of the presence of people that are undocumented."


claim:
"We have trade agreements with 20 countries, and we have trade surpluses with each one of those 20."


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Says climate scientist James Hansen says "we have until perhaps 50 years from now," or maybe a little longer "and at that point, we are looking at 10, 20, 30 feet of sea-level rise."


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Says that when San Francisco banned plastic grocery bags, "you saw the number of instances of people going to the ER with things like salmonella and other related illnesses" spike.


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Says Donald Trump said he intends "to open up additional areas off the coast to oil drilling" during the campaign.


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Since the salary for state lawmakers was raised to $79,500, "that purchasing power has now been reduced to $53,000."


claim:
"President-elect Trump's immigration policies are very similar to policies that are sitting right in the Senate and the House today to temporarily suspend immigration from countries that harbor terrorism, to temporarily suspend immigration from Syria until we get better vetting."


claim:
Says Scott Walker left college "under an ethical cloud for having tried to fix" the election for student body president.


claim:
Says John Bolton supported the Iraq War and said last year that "I still think the decision to overthrow Saddam was correct."


claim:
Texas A&M University - Commerce "offers counseling, safe spaces for students who are afraid of President-elect Trump."


claim:
"Thirty-one percent of school districts are still receiving less funding per pupil than they did prior to the dramatic budget cuts of 2011."


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Financial conflict-of-interest "laws don't apply to the president, right? So, the president doesn't have to have a blind trust."


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Newt Gingrich has been a proponent of selecting a president by popular vote instead of the Electoral College.


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Says there are "probably 2 million, it could be even 3 million" criminal immigrants in the country illegally.


claim:
"The @nytimes states today that DJT believes ‘more countries should acquire nuclear weapons.’ How dishonest are they. I never said this!"


claim:
Margaret Sanger "wanted a black Christian leader to be like a Judas goat and lead the blacks to genocide. Remember that? And they picked Martin Luther King as their spokesman."


claim:
"Two years ago, the longest serving leader of the California republic, Jerry Brown, boldly declared in China that California is a separate nation."


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Says "thousands" at a Manhattan rally for Donald Trump were chanting "We hate Muslims, we hate blacks, we want our great country back."


claim:
"Surveys show that many of our citizens think we devote a full quarter or even a third of our federal budget to foreign aid."


claim:
"Beyonce and Jay Z, I like them, I like them ... I get bigger crowds than they do. It's true. I get far bigger crowds."


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The list of voters that North Carolina Republicans "tried to purge was two-thirds black and Democratic."


claim:
"It's just been announced that the residents of Florida are going to experience a massive, double-digit premium hike."


claim:
"Casey Weinstein: No faith in our military" ... "When some of our cadets wanted to watch a religious film, Casey Weinstein sued the U.S. military. Sued our soldiers?"


claim:
"There’s a section in the Constitution called the Emoluments Clause that says no one, nor their spouses, can take money from foreigners. (Hillary Clinton) has to be guilty of 70 or 100 counts just on that one charge."


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Says that at a campaign rally President Barack Obama "spent so much time screaming at a protester, and frankly it was a disgrace."


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Democrat Stephen Webber "voted to allow sex offenders to be within 500 feet of childcare centers and playgrounds, and even voted to allow sex offenders to be coaches."


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Republican gubernatorial candidate Eric Greitens "spent another $600,000 on image consultants" to rebrand his charity, The Mission Continues.


claim:
"The Democrats are very sly. … (in New Hampshire) we have same day voter registration, and to be honest, when Massachusetts elections are not very close, they’re busing them in all over the place."


claim:
"(Deborah) Ross defends those who want to burn the American flag, and even called efforts to ban flag-burning ‘ridiculous,’ yet refused to help a disabled veteran fly the flag."


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Says Richard Burr "was one of only three senators who voted against a ban on insider trading for members of Congress. And he called that vote brave."


claim:
"The photonics bill that was sponsored in Congress and written, was written by Congressman Tom Reed, not Congresswoman Louise Slaughter."


claim:
Says Mike Coffman said two different things: "stop the deportations" in a Spanish-language debate and "you're going to be deported" in an English-language TV interview.


claim:
Says Russ Feingold said that with Obamacare, "we could keep our doctors and our plans, it was rated as the Lie of the Year."


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Says Nevadans will have a "double-digit hike in their Obamacare premiums for the year" and "10 of Nevada’s 16 counties will only have one Obamacare...exchange insurer"


claim:
"Prior to Obamacare here in Wisconsin, 95 percent of Wisconsinites were covered by insurance. After Obamacare, 95 percent of Wisconsinites were covered by insurance. It hasn’t had an impact."


claim:
"Students at the University of Texas in Austin have been advised not to wear cowboy boots or cowboy hats on Halloween."


claim:
In Chicago, which has the toughest gun laws in the United States, probably you could say by far, they have more gun violence than any other city.


claim:
Says Chris Koster "opposes right-to-work efforts because he has taken $8 million from ‘union bosses.’"


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Says Russ Feingold "voted to raise taxes on Social Security benefits for seniors, he even tried to give Social Security benefits to illegal immigrants."


claim:
Says Donald Trump and Ron Johnson "oppose a woman's right to choose and Johnson voted against the Violence Against Women Act."


claim:
"In two terms in the Missouri General Assembly, Jason Kander passed ZERO bills that were signed into law."


claim:
"In many instances, (people's) health care costs are more than their mortgage costs or their rent, which, by the way, is a first in American history."


claim:
"Wisconsin is one of several states where you can change your early ballot if you think you've made a mistake."


claim:
"Twitter, Google and Facebook are burying the FBI criminal investigation of Clinton. Very dishonest media!"


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Chris Koster "opposed protecting the women of Missouri" because he "was one of only four senators to vote against" a bill ending the practice of making rape victims pay for their own rape kits.


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Says Chris Koster "fell silent" as attorney general in pursuing a case against a free classified service accused of promoting prostitution after accepting "over $12,000 in campaign contributions' from people affiliated with the service."


claim:
"Richard Burr voted to protect tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas but voted against a tax break to help working people."


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Says that he’s responsible for Austin including Anderson Mill Road in the city's proposed transportation bond package.


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Says of Donald Trump, "He even said, on his very first day in office, he would require every school in America to let people carry guns into our classrooms."


claim:
"The FBI has reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton ... and discovered another 650,000 emails."


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Says "Morgan Carroll opposed requiring convicted sex offenders to register their online profiles, making it harder to track online sex offenders and child predators."


claim:
Says "Catherine Cortez Masto indicted (Brian Krolicki), who was an innocent man, in order to save Harry Reid's political career"


claim:
When asked about bills in Congress important to the North Country, Derrick responded ‘I just don’t know enough about it.’


claim:
Joe Morrissey "has been a delegate in the General Assembly for eight years with no laws passed to help our black community with education or workforce."


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Says Barack Obama "is the first president in modern history not to have a single year of 3 percent growth."


claim:
"Donald Trump's strategy is pretty simple. They have even said in his campaign it's to get women to stay home, get young people to stay home, get people of color to stay home, and get a lot smart, intelligent men to stay home, too."


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Says Ohio’s I-X Center "used to be a great plant," but "thousands of people of worked here, and they left" when their jobs were moved overseas.


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "wants to let people just pour in. You could have 650 million people pour in and we do nothing about it. Think of it. That’s what could happen. You triple the size of our country in one week."


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Says Hillary Clinton "shows up in Broward County" and had a private meeting with elections supervisor Brenda Snipes.


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"There are Justice Department policies against" FBI Director James Comey discussing details of a federal investigation "so close to an election."


claim:
Says FBI Director James Comey’s letter about new developments in the investigation into her emails "only" went "to Republican members of the House."


claim:
Says Democratic challenger for his N.C. House seat "raised taxes on clothing, school supplies – even baby diapers!"


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Says it’s not possible for some Wisconsin residents to watch Packers games, "they’re forced to watch Viking games," so he "got a law passed to fix" the problem.


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Global warming leads to much quicker spread of the Zika virus because the increased temperature, "makes mosquitoes mature faster,  . . . bite more due to having a higher metabolism, and makes the Zika virus inside of them incubate faster."


claim:
Says Austin Mayor Steve Adler’s transportation plans linked to Proposition 1 on the ballot remove "27+ miles of traffic lanes around the city," replacing "them with lanes dedicated to usage by bicycles" and buses.


claim:
"When Trump wanted to turn a taxpayer-owned building into an $800 a night hotel, (Congressman Jeff Denham, R-CA) helped broker the deal and bragged about it."


claim:
Says an election clerk in Green Bay refused to allow early voting on the UW-Green Bay campus because she "was afraid it would help Democrats," showing "outrageous partisan bias."


claim:
"One-half of undocumented workers pay federal income taxes, which means they are paying more federal income taxes than Donald Trump pays."


claim:
"Paul Ryan’s already spent millions to try and permanently derail Brad (Schneider)’s progressive, energized campaign."


claim:
"The man who was in charge of the investigation of Hillary Clinton accepted essentially from Hillary Clinton $675,000 that went to his wife."


claim:
Says Donald Trump "was asked if he would defend our allies. He said well, first he'd want to know if they made any payments to us to defend them."


claim:
"It's four or five states where the number of insurance options have narrowed" under the Affordable Care Act.


claim:
"We have almost 68,000 Georgia students who are required by law to attend a chronically failing school."


claim:
"Wikileaks also shows how John Podesta rigged the polls by oversampling Democrats, a voter suppression technique."


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Says Donald Trump is "the first person running for president, Republican or Democrat, who refused to say that he would respect the results of this election."


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California’s proposed tobacco tax "diverts 82 percent of the new taxes to line the pockets of wealthy special interests like insurance companies who don't have to help even one more patient."


claim:
As executive director of the Democratic Party of Virginia there were "300 people on my payroll in 2008."


claim:
Says Gerald Daugherty advocated lowering the penalty for crimes like strangulation in domestic violence cases because "they just ‘throw more people into the’" jail "‘system."


claim:
"400 bills have my name on them either as a sponsor or a co-sponsor. You don’t get that done unless you work with folks on the other side."


claim:
In 1928 "school boards sent home letters with children saying that if Al Smith is elected president, you will not be allowed to have or read a Bible."


claim:
"With her solution, terrorists can still today — and by the way ISIS knows it, they have been advertising it — buy guns online and at gun shows in the United States of America."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton takes "tens of millions of dollars from countries that hate women, that disrespect women, that throw gays off of buildings."


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Says electric utilities "are trying to fool you into amending your state Constitution in a way that gives them the authority to shut down net metering."


claim:
"Nobody knows about it, nobody talks about it, but under Obama, millions of people have been moved out of this country, they've been deported."


claim:
"Because as a Senator Toomey stood up for Wall Street. He wanted to privatize Social Security and invest it in the stock market. Wall Street would make billions in fees even if the stock market crashed. "


claim:
Says Saudi Arabia, a U.S. ally, has "paid to export throughout the world" Wahhabism -- "an extreme form of Islam" that basically teaches "Americans are the devil."


claim:
Says Ted Strickland "in this campaign bragged about his A-plus rating with the NRA. ... He has said he has a mixed and spotty record on this issue and that he can be criticized for it. Those are his words, not mine. So I don’t know where he is on this issue."


claim:
"The director of the FBI said that we cannot figure out who (Syrian refugees) are, what their intentions are, because we have no information on them, because we don’t have any contact with the Syrian government or any people on the ground to be able to determine that."


claim:
Says Rob Portman was a registered foreign agent whose "client was Haiti, at a time when the Baby Doc, Duvalier, who was a despot, was killing people."


claim:
Russia has "tremendous numbers of nuclear warheads — 1,800, by the way — where they expanded, and we didn't."


claim:
Says Sen. Rob Portman says Ted Strickland earned $400,000 a year as a lobbyist after leaving Ohio for Washington.


claim:
"Donald Trump's education plan to dramatically slash funding for public education would fire 49,000 Texas teachers."


claim:
"There was even a time when (Donald Trump) didn't get an Emmy for his TV program three years in a row and he started tweeting that the Emmys were rigged."


claim:
Says Donald Trump "said as recently as a few weeks ago in Phoenix that every undocumented person would be subject to deportation."


claim:
When Hillary Clinton "ran the State Department, $6 billion was missing. How do you miss $6 billion? You ran the State Department, $6 billion was either stolen — they don't know."


claim:
"We have 17 intelligence agencies, civilian and military, who have all concluded that these espionage attacks, these cyberattacks, come from the highest levels of the Kremlin, and they are designed to influence our election."


claim:
"What the District of Columbia was trying to do (with its handgun ban) was to protect toddlers from guns."


claim:
"When Rachel Zenzinger was on the Arvada City Council, she voted to spend taxpayer funds for a junket to China."


claim:
"It’s possible that non-citizen voters were responsible for Obama’s 2008 victory in North Carolina."


claim:
"State Department officials actually directed contracts for the Haitian recovery after the earthquake to friends of the Clintons."


claim:
Colorado saw "increased incidents of emergency room visits by young people" and "increased incidents of driving while under the influence of marijuana" following the legalization of recreational pot.


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Says the U.S. Attorney’s Office said "that neither I nor my campaign had any idea what was going on" regarding my father's illegal campaign contributions. "And that’s why they closed this case."


claim:
"Gov. (Pat) McCrory took $500,000 directly out of the disaster relief fund. And you know what it’s for? House Bill 2."


claim:
"During his 18-year Senate career, (Russ Feingold) supported judges who voted to deny your individual Second Amendment right. … (He) promises to protect those rights, but that's not what his record shows."


claim:
"Back in the Great Recession, when millions of  jobs across America hung in the balance, Donald Trump said rescuing the auto industry didn’t really matter very much. He said, and I quote again, ‘Let it go.’ "


claim:
Says that compared to direct sales by manufacturers, consumers "save avg of $500 per car sold through franchised dealer model."


claim:
"Many of (Hillary Clinton's) friends took bigger deductions (than me). Warren Buffett took a massive deduction. (George) Soros, who is a friend of hers, took a massive deduction."


claim:
Says Warren Buffett has publicly said his secretary "should not be paying a higher tax rate" than him.


claim:
"In about three weeks over a half million Floridians are going to lose their coverage again" through Obamacare.


claim:
Says Republican U.S. Rep. Bob Dold "continues to side with his Republican leadership and the NRA in blocking consideration of a bill that would keep firearms out of the hands of people on the terrorist watch list."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton was "let off the hook" for her email scandal while Gen. David Petraeus had his life "destroyed for doing far, far less."


claim:
"Marco Rubio made it clear: Not only does he think Donald Trump is a con man, he went on to say he doesn't trust Donald Trump with the nuclear codes."


claim:
Says Marco Rubio "opposes immigration reform. Worse, Rubio supports Donald Trump. His plan would deport 800,000 children, destroying families."


claim:
"Workers in the United States are making less than they were almost 20 years ago, and yet they are working harder."


claim:
Says allegations that he made unwanted sexual advances on a female sheriff’s deputy "were found by two separate judges to not have merit."


claim:
Says Donald Trump’s plan to repeal the estate tax would mean the Walmart Walton family would "get a $53 billion tax break."


claim:
"In exchange for five minutes with Bill Clinton, the government of Qatar was going to give $1 million to the Clinton Foundation."


claim:
"We know that more than half of Hillary Clinton's meetings while she was secretary of state were given to major contributors to the Clinton Foundation."


claim:
"After how hard you work and how much you pay in taxes, New York City ends up getting the money. I'm Chris Jacobs. I think it's time we have someone in Albany that's making sure our region gets our fair share"


claim:
"Just like Hillary Clinton," Russ Feingold had a "run-in with corruption and scandal by using a personal slush fund -- a.k.a. the Feingold Foundation --  while plotting another run for U.S. Senate."


claim:
Says Colorado congressional candidate Morgan Carroll "voted to allow welfare recipients to use your tax dollars at ATMs at strip clubs and pot dispensaries."


claim:
"Lindsay Parkhurst wants to take away programs like Social Security and Medicare that seniors have earned throughout their lifetimes."


claim:
"Cancer and matters to do with kidney failure kill more people in Kenya today than malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS combined."


claim:
Says "I’ve been proven right" about "Hillary Clinton's radical call for open borders, meaning anyone in the world can enter the United States without any limit at all."


claim:
Says Donald Trump’s tax plan gives the wealthy and corporations "more than the Bush tax cuts by at least a factor of two."


claim:
"I've gotten to see the commercials that they did on you. And I've gotten to see some of the most vicious commercials I've ever seen of Michelle Obama talking about you, Hillary."


claim:
Says Sidney Blumenthal wrote that the Benghazi attack was "almost certainly preventable. Clinton was in charge of the State Department, and it failed to protect U.S. personnel and an American consulate in Libya."


claim:
Says "Hillary Clinton set aside environmental and labor rules to help a South Korean company with a record of violating workers’ rights set up what amounts to a sweatshop in Haiti."


claim:
Says Patrick Murphy "supports a gun ban on commonly owned semi-automatic firearms used for hunting, recreational shooting and self defense."


claim:
Says "Rob Portman voted for the bipartisan bill to affirm climate change is real, humans significantly contribute to it and it needs to be addressed."


claim:
Says after Hillary Clinton helped a man accused of raping a 12-year-old, "she's seen laughing on two separate occasions, laughing at the girl who was raped."


claim:
"You can look at the propaganda on a lot of the terrorists' sites and what Donald Trump says about Muslims is used to recruit fighters."


claim:
Says a tweet he sent out "wasn’t saying, ‘check out a sex tape.’ It was just ‘take a look at" the background of Alicia Machado.


claim:
"Right now we are at 90 percent health insurance covered. That's the highest we've ever been in our country."


claim:
Says he has "a fiduciary responsibility to his business, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required."


claim:
Hillary Clinton "supports unlimited abortion on demand up until the moment of birth, including partial-birth abortion, with taxpayer funding."


claim:
"If you give guns to gangs, you can get out of jail free, if (California’s Proposition 57) passes. If you do a drive-by shooting, you can get out of jail free, if Proposition 57 passes. If you discharge guns on a school yard, you can get out of jail free."


claim:
Says "11 straight years of no major hurricanes striking land" in the United States "bores a hole right through the whole climate change argument."


claim:
Chris Jacobs "has been financed by the same men who are now facing charges in one of Western New York’s largest public corruption schemes"


claim:
Says "Donald Trump proposes to deport 16 million people, 11 million who are here without documents, and both Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to get rid of birthright citizenship."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "promised, running for the Senate years ago, 200,000 jobs for upstate New York. ... Not only didn't they come, but they lost so many jobs."


claim:
"In other states (where illegal immigrants have been allowed to get driver's licenses) their insurance premiums for everybody have gone down."


claim:
"Repeated requests for additional security in Benghazi were routinely denied" by Hillary "Clinton’s State Department."


claim:
Says Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez "has passed one bill in her 20 years in Congress, and that was to rename a post office."


claim:
"It’s bad enough that (Stephen) Silberkraus appeared in a sexual fetish film where women were kidnapped from their homes and forced to live naked in kennels and trained to be pets. But when Silberkraus isn’t acting in films that degrade women, he’s stalking them in his personal time."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "went toe-to-toe with Russia as secretary of state to do the New START agreement to reduce Russia's nuclear stockpile."


claim:
As a result of Chris Sununu’s vote against a Planned Parenthood contract, "nearly 3,000 fewer" women and families statewide accessed health care for birth control, cancer screenings and annual exams.


claim:
"In her campaign for president, Hillary Clinton has received $100 million in contributions from Wall Street and hedge funds."


claim:
Says Donald Trump, in his campaign announcement speech, "also said, ‘And many of them (Mexicans) are good people. You keep leaving that out of your quote."


claim:
Says state Sen. Morgan Carroll's votes made "it easier to sue doctors, small businesses, even nurses. Putting her own shady interests first."


claim:
Mike Madigan made a fortune on tax appeals… Saving his friends millions... It’s an inside game played by people like Merry Marwig, Madigan’s hand-picked candidate. When Marwig thought her property taxes were too high she got them lowered at your expense. Saved so much she did it again. Marwig and Madigan: Profiting from the same corrupt system.


claim:
Says GOP Congressional candidate Scott Jones "wants to build a wall. He wants to round people up and deport folks."


claim:
Says Rep. John Katko "promised he wouldn’t vote to defund Planned Parenthood and since he’s been in office he’s done that four times"


claim:
"When Donald Trump spoke in Phoenix, he looked the audience in the eye and he said ‘no, we're building a wall and we're deporting everybody.’ He said, quote, ‘they will all be gone. They will all be gone.’ This is one of the ones where you can go to the tape on it and see what Donald Trump has said."


claim:
Says that during President Barack Obama’s tenure, the United States has created "15 million new jobs."


claim:
Says "Iraq has been overrun by ISIS because Hillary Clinton failed to renegotiate . . . a status of forces agreement."


claim:
"First, Donald Trump said wages are too high, and both Donald Trump and Mike Pence think we ought to eliminate the federal minimum wage."


claim:
Even our attorney general who is a strong Democrat, she has said that we need causation in our workers’ comp system. That’s the No. 1 thing pushing our manufacturing jobs out of Illinois.


claim:
"The Virginia population increased by just 8 percent from 2005 to 2015, but the per capita spending in the budget increased by a whopping 38 percent."


claim:
"A rural hospital in Missouri closes every 8 months. The legislature’s failure to expand Medicaid has brought crisis to many of Missouri’s rural health care providers."


claim:
On Tim Kaine: "In exchange for campaign contributions, he appointed a radical jihadi to the Virginia Immigration Commission."


claim:
"The 'New York Times' writes this long story" about Donald Trump’s tax returns but "didn't point out there was no wrongdoing" until paragraph 18.


claim:
The Great Recession emerged "in large part because of tax policies that slashed taxes on the wealthy, failed to invest in the middle class, took their eyes off of Wall Street, and created a perfect storm."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton has "taken hundreds of millions from those countries" where "women are stoned, where women are killed for adultery and women can't drive."


claim:
"If you look at any real analysis," the Trans-Pacific Partnership is "going to generate better-paying jobs that are more stable."


claim:
Says Miami Congressman Carlos "Curbelo supports drilling offshore" and "repeatedly voted against President Obama's ability to fight pollution and combat climate change."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "wants to bring in thousands of refugees to America from all around the world without any kind of security screening."


claim:
"These people that we were going to deport for good reason ended up becoming citizens. Ended up becoming citizens. And it was 800. And now it turns out it might be 1,800, and they don't even know."


claim:
"Not one illness has been reported from raw milk in" Texas "in more than four years. A total of six illnesses have occurred in the last 20 years."


claim:
Says most illegal immigrants draw "welfare benefits, they’re sending their kids to school, they’re using the public services."


claim:
Says "Catherine Cortez Masto failed Nevada rape victims. While attorney general, thousands of rape kits were never sent for DNA analysis."


claim:
Says Colorado Democratic congressional candidate Morgan Carroll "racked up $11 billion in new spending" in the state Legislature.


claim:
Says "no, you’re wrong," responding to the assertion that stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York.


claim:
"Republican Mark Kirk is outsourcing his campaign to a Super PAC funded almost exclusively by a bunch of hedge fund billionaires. ... I don’t have a Super PAC."


claim:
Says that except for Donald Trump, "every other major party nominee" for the past 40 years has released their tax returns.


claim:
Says to Hillary Clinton, "You heard what I said about (the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal), and all of a sudden you were against it."


claim:
"NATO is opening up a major terror division. ... I'm sure I'm not going to get credit for it, but that was largely because of what I was saying and my criticism of NATO."


claim:
Says Marco Rubio "voted to slash school funding by billions of dollars and would eliminate the Department of Education."


claim:
Says "Hillary Clinton's plan would bring in 620,000 refugees in her first term, alone, with no effective way to screen or vet them. Her plan would cost $400 billion in terms of lifetime welfare and entitlement costs."


claim:
"The only years that anybody's ever seen" of Donald Trump’s tax returns "showed he didn't pay any federal income tax."


claim:
Says Donald Trump "started his career back in 1973 being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination because he would not rent apartments in one of his developments to African-Americans."


claim:
According to "independent experts," Donald Trump's tax plan "would blow up the debt by over $5 trillion and would in some instances disadvantage middle-class families compared to the wealthy."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton called the Trans-Pacific Partnership "the gold standard. You called it the gold standard of trade deals. You said it’s the finest deal you’ve ever seen."


claim:
"The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African-American men, more than the next nine causes put together."


claim:
"You will learn more about Donald Trump by going down to the Federal Elections" to see the financial disclosure form than by looking at tax returns.


claim:
"I did not — I did not — I do not say that. I do not say that" climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese.


claim:
Says Donald Trump "was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said back in 2006, ‘Gee, I hope it does collapse because then I can go in and buy some and make some money.’ "


claim:
"During her first four years in Washington Sen. Ayotte voted with the Koch brothers nearly 90 percent of the time."


claim:
"Former President Bill Clinton and his Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) distributed ‘watered-down’ HIV/AIDS drugs to patients in sub-Saharan Africa."


claim:
Hillary Clinton said, "with a straight face, that the terrorist attacks this weekend were caused by Donald J. Trump"


claim:
"My opponent… was on both the city of Chicago payroll and the state of Illinois payroll simultaneously, taking full salary, funding her full pension benefits both as a city worker and as a state worker for 10 years."


claim:
"Our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape they've ever been in before. Ever. Ever. Ever."


claim:
Says Marco Rubio voted "against every bill that would have helped keep our families safe. He even voted against a bipartisan measure, introduced by a Republican, to prevent people on the no-fly list from purchasing guns."


claim:
Says New START, passed while Clinton was secretary of state, is a "treaty cutting Russia’s nuclear arms."


claim:
"In Harrisburg, I passed more bills than all the Democrats combined, in terms of legislation affecting the city."


claim:
"We had the Democratic Governors Association and the Obama political machine come into a Republican primary to try and rig the election by spending $1 million against me in the last couple of days."


claim:
Says "Patrick Murphy’s ‘Pay More’ energy agenda means you could pay another $500 a year for your utility bills!"


claim:
Says Charlie Crist "stood there, over 3 African-American prisoners in chains, on their knees, on the side of the road. Saying that it was a great sight. Saying we needed to bring it to Florida. And you did this — whether you know or not — on the eve of Juneteenth, the day the African-American community celebrates the end of slavery."


claim:
"In the mid 1990s, in our state, (Florida was) No. 1 in violent crime in America. ... The only concern I had was for the citizens of Florida, who were subjected to a violent crime every three minutes and 45 seconds."


claim:
Says that Republican Darryl Glenn has described Democrats as "evil" and has said he's "tired of hearing about Republicans reaching across the aisle."


claim:
"Latinos in Nevada support Educational Savings Accounts, helping more than 450,000 students access better schools. But Catherine Cortez Masto is against it."


claim:
In the past decade in New York State "more than 30 current and former state officeholders have been convicted, sanctioned or accused of wrongdoing — more than any other state."


claim:
"Within just a few years, immigration as a share of national population is set to break all historical records."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton and millennials have the same positions on climate change, abortion rights, immigration reform, gay rights and college affordability. "Donald Trump doesn't."


claim:
If upstate New York split from downstate "the economic indicators of upstate New York would be among the lowest in the country."


claim:
Says "Marco Rubio wanted to cut Social Security and Medicare because he said they’re bankrupting our country."


claim:
McGinty previously told a local community newspaper in her native Philadelphia that she 'has found an alarming undercurrent of misinformed people in the 'T' part of the state' outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.


claim:
Says she "would bring 186,740 new jobs to Wisconsin" and "Donald Trump would cost Wisconsin 61,050 jobs."


claim:
Mark Kirk’s claim of national security expertise is "based on his military record which he lied about at least 10 times."


claim:
"The head of the IRS ordered 24,000 emails erased before Congress could review them, making sure the American people will never know the real truth."


claim:
Says Ted Strickland supported giving $150 billion to Iranian regime that persecutes women, Christians and gays.


claim:
Says Patrick "Murphy embellished, according to reports, his University of Miami academic achievement."


claim:
"One extra year of schooling for girls reduces infant mortality rates among their children by up to 10 percent."


claim:
"When Moammar Gadhafi was set to visit the United Nations, and no one would let him stay in New York, Trump allowed Gadhafi to set up an elaborate tent at his Westchester County (New York) estate."


claim:
"Trump Management was charged with discriminating against African-Americans and breaking federal law."


claim:
"If Congress fails to act, the Obama administration intends to give away control of the internet to an international body akin to the United Nations."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton had an "undercover nurse" with her at the Sept. 11 memorial ceremony in New York.


claim:
Says Donald Trump's foundation "took money other people gave to his charity and then bought a six-foot-tall painting of himself."


claim:
"The Germans, the French, countries that opposed us in the (Iraq) war, all believed (Saddam Hussein) had weapons of mass destruction."


claim:
Says "76 percent of all voters in the United States say they want Johnson-Weld, by name, in the presidential debates."


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For immigrants with visa overstays, "we make no effort to hold them accountable to that or uphold the law."


claim:
Say "71 percent of doctors say Hillary's health concerns are 'serious' and 'could be disqualifying.' "


claim:
Barack Obama has "doubled our national debt. Doubled it. It's going to be close to $20 trillion when he leaves."


claim:
"That's legal: If you find out about somebody else's salary even if you're doing exactly the same job, you can be retaliated against, including being fired, in most places."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama "has taken less vacation days than any other president in a generation," while Congress "has taken more vacation days than any other Congress in history."


claim:
"In an interview with the Chicago Tribune's Editorial Board, Comptroller Leslie Munger says that in order to balance a budget, the state would have to 'cut social services completely.'"


claim:
"I cast the deciding vote extending Medicaid health care coverage to 50,000 of our fellow citizens,"


claim:
"Marco Rubio voted against funding health clinics that provide critical care during this public health emergency (Zika)."


claim:
"Classified material has a header which says ‘top-secret, secret, confidential.’ Nothing, and I will repeat this and this is verified in the report by the Department of Justice, none of the emails sent or received by me had such a header."


claim:
Says Donald Trump supports "an agenda out there" to privatize the Veterans Affairs health care system.


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton said the Veterans Affairs scandal is "over-exaggerated." "She said she was satisfied with what was going on."


claim:
"I released the most extensive financial review of anybody in the history of politics. … You don't learn much in a tax return."


claim:
Says Russ Feingold broke his 1992 promise to always get the majority of funding from Wisconsin residents.


claim:
Says "Joe Heck voted 10 times to defund Planned Parenthood ... and Heck opposes a woman's right to choose, even when her health is at risk."


claim:
The Secure Communities Program and 287(g) immigration programs "were programs that worked" but were "recklessly gutted" by the Obama administration.


claim:
"The Clinton Foundation gives less than 10 (percent in direct aid). In 2013, they raised 140 million bucks, gave $9 million to people in direct aid."


claim:
Says "Hillary Clinton has pledged amnesty in her first 100 days, and her plan will provide Obamacare, Social Security, and Medicare for illegal immigrants, breaking the federal budget."


claim:
"Since 2013 alone, the Obama administration has allowed 300,000 criminal aliens to return back into United States communities. These are individuals encountered or identified by (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), but who were not detained or processed for deportation because it wouldn't have been politically correct."


claim:
Tom Reed "has actually voted for every single trade deal that has ever come before him in any form."


claim:
Says that in 2015, "illegal" immigrants accounted for 75 percent of federal drug possession convictions and 5 percent to 30 percent of convictions for murder and kidnapping plus two other crimes.


claim:
"As the election tracker FiveThirtyEight has reported, whoever wins Pennsylvania will be our next President."


claim:
Under the current procedure, if someone "on a terror watch list" tries to buy a gun, authorities are notified.


claim:
California’s Prop 60, which would require condom use in adult films, would put "workers in the adult film industry at risk for lawsuits and harassment."


claim:
"The Dallas Cowboys can’t put a sticker on their helmets for the 5 police officers who were killed."


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Says Alex Jones "said that the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there."


claim:
"There are at least 23 countries that refuse to take their people back after they’ve been ordered to leave the United States, including large numbers of violent criminals."


claim:
"And while (Ted) Strickland proposed cuts for services for children, he wasted over $250,000 remodeling his bathrooms at the governor’s mansion."


claim:
Democrats "are cutting our school funding. Four times in the last 10 years before we came into office."


claim:
"The Clinton Foundation is a charity where President and Secretary Clinton and their daughter, they take no salary, they get no money from it, they take no personal benefit from it."


claim:
The Clinton Foundation "took steps that went above and beyond all legal requirements and, indeed, all standard requirements followed by every other charitable organization."


claim:
Says GOP U.S. Senate candidate Darryl Glenn "wants to eliminate the Department of Education" and jeopardize college funding for 320,000 Coloradans.


claim:
"Hillary Clinton wants to shut down family farms" using "radical regulation," by raising business tax "rates as high as nearly 50 percent" and by taxing "family farms again at death by as much as 45 percent."


claim:
As the number of vaccines administered to children has increased in the United States, so has the autism rate.


claim:
"Her campaign and her supporters in her campaign were the ones that borne out the birther movement."


claim:
"They were going to build the wall a while ago, not so long ago, like in '06. And they couldn't get environmental impact statements."


claim:
"None of the polls being conducted right now have us on the top line. None of them. It's always Trump and Clinton and then second question, third question. ... If we were included in the top line, as Johnson/Trump/Clinton, we'd be at 20 percent."


claim:
Says there are "concrete examples" of University of Texas job applicants or prospective applicants and students as well as invited speakers changing their minds because of handguns being allowed in campus buildings and classrooms.


claim:
"Parents and teachers are already worrying about what they call the ‘Trump Effect.’ They report that bullying and harassment are on the rise in our schools, especially targeting students of color, Muslims and immigrants."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "wants to raise taxes on African-American owned businesses to as much as nearly 50 percent more than they're paying now."


claim:
On job creation numbers in the latest Start-Up NY report: "This is a significant number of overcounts in the compilation that I’ve looked at."


claim:
Says Ron Johnson "voted five times for tax breaks that help companies ship Wisconsin jobs overseas."


claim:
Chicago Public Schools "lead the country in high school graduation of an urban school system," "match the United States of America in kids graduating high school going on to a four-year college," and are "producing eighth-grade leaders in the country in math gains, fourth-grade leaders in reading gains."


claim:
The Hollywood celebrities endorsing Hillary Clinton are "in many cases celebrities that aren’t very hot anymore."


claim:
Says in Washington, D.C., Sen. Richard Burr "took millions from special interests, went there and cashed in, voted to cut (his) own taxes and raise taxes on working folks."


claim:
"Since President Obama came into office, another 2 million Hispanics have joined the ranks of those in poverty. … The number of Hispanic children living in poverty increased by 15 percent in that short period of time."


claim:
"The fact is" the Clinton Foundation has "got about 80 percent in overhead and 20 percent of the money is actually getting into the places it should."


claim:
Says Arizona congressional candidate Christine Jones "called Hillary Clinton ‘a capable and respected leader,’ and an ‘effective’ secretary of state. ... Hillary Clinton effective? Christine Jones thinks so."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "abided by the ethics agreement" between the Clinton Foundation and the Obama administration.


claim:
"...Secret documents reveal that Iran could obtain a nuclear weapon far sooner than we were told. And Tammy Duckworth voted ‘yes’ (on the Iran nuclear deal)."


claim:
Says a CNN anchor said that Hillary Clinton has gotten "a free ride so far from the media. We're the biggest ones supporting her campaign."


claim:
"Almost half a million people are still eligible (for DACA), particularly in the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community."


claim:
"In Congress right now, we're doing the best job we have ever done in women in the federal legislature," but it’s still only "19 percent."


claim:
"At $587 apiece, USA would need to bring home about 33.1 BILLION gold medals to pay off our national debt."


claim:
"Medical-grade marijuana alone will not get that patient ‘high,’ no matter what level of THC, CBD or any other compound is found in the plant."


claim:
Says Arizona congressional candidate Ray Strauss is "a ‘Champion of Big Government’ for his votes to raise taxes while on the local city council."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton is "proposing to print instant work permits for millions of illegal immigrants to come in and take everybody's jobs, including low-income African-Americans."


claim:
"While introducing Donald Trump, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani omitted the September 11, 2001, strikes as a ‘successful’ terrorist attack during the eight years before President Obama’s 2008 election."


claim:
"Gonzales’ losing campaign against me last spring was funded with more than $1 million from supporters and allies of Governor Bruce Rauner."


claim:
Says military commanders have said that if Donald Trump were elected, "they would not follow his orders."


claim:
"I am the only candidate who ran in either the Democratic or the Republican primary who said from the very beginning (that) I will not raise taxes on the middle class."


claim:
Says the director of an anti-abortion group receiving a Texas grant to provide women’s health services "believes HIV can be spread through the sewer system."


claim:
Says "Marco Rubio wrote and passed bipartisan legislation allowing the VA to fire negligent workers."


claim:
Says her campaign platform includes the "biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II."


claim:
Kim Myers "voted repeatedly to raise taxes on the people of Broome County, but made millions off of tax savings when her family business relocated its headquarters."


claim:
"Under those eight years before (Barack) Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States" since Sept. 11, 2001.


claim:
"Because there's no local option to allow communities to ban, limit or restrict the location of pot shops, if Amendment 2 passes you can expect the seedy elements of the pot industry to move in right next door to your neighborhood, your church, your business and even your child's school."


claim:
Legal prescription drugs "statistically kill 100,000 people a year, (but) there are no documented deaths due to marijuana."


claim:
"I had previously said that NATO was obsolete because it failed to deal adequately with terrorism. Since my comments, they have changed their policy and now have a new division focused on terror threats."


claim:
"In Washington, Congressman Joe Heck supports privatizing (Social Security), turning our savings over to Wall Street and risking it on the stock market."


claim:
In Hillary Clinton's tax returns, "you saw a lot of income coming from donors to the Clinton Foundation and people who benefitted from her State Department term as well."


claim:
Says that since lawmakers acted, "we have 130 new businesses across Texas doing helicopter hog hunts."


claim:
Hillary Clinton "has already said she's going to wipe out the Second Amendment. She doesn't believe in the First Amendment. And, she also believes in big government, which flies in the face of the 10th Amendment"


claim:
"Ted Strickland stands in lockstep with Hillary Clinton and the abortion lobby in their desire to force Americans to pay for abortion on demand, up until the moment of birth, with their taxpayer dollars."


claim:
That 59 divisions in Philly had no votes for Romney in 2012 is "(a) mathematical and statistical impossibility."


claim:
Says Donald Trump "has been talking about the option of using a nuclear weapon against our Western European allies."


claim:
"Bruce Rauner is of record that he will fully support the Trump candidacy. It's documented. It’s available."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton tripled the number of people with AIDS whose "lives are being saved .. and it did not cost you any more money."


claim:
"In Catherine Cortez Masto's last term as attorney general, Nevada murder went up 11 percent, robbery went up 28 percent, rape 51 percent. When Cortez Masto left office, Nevada ranked as America's third most dangerous state."


claim:
"(Paul Ryan) has actually proposed three — total, three — bills that have become law in his entire career dating back to 1999."


claim:
Says Gov. Rick Scott "cut nearly $1 million from mosquito control and closed down the state’s mosquito research lab a few years ago."


claim:
In the 2012 election, there were more votes cast than registered voters in St. Lucie County, and Palm Beach County had 141 percent turnout.


claim:
Says in 2012 "Obama won in every state that did not require a photo ID and lost in every state that did require a photo ID in order to vote."


claim:
"We know this now. The banks no longer loan (Donald Trump) money because he's a terrible risk. So he goes to these (Russian) oligarchs and borrows money."


claim:
"Mike Pence voted against expanding the Children’s Health Insurance program, which Hillary helped to start."


claim:
Says Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are "responsible for leading America into a deal that will arm Iran."


claim:
In Buffalo's SolarCity project, "Andrew Cuomo will create maybe 500 jobs if it ever happens at all, at about $1.5 million per job."


claim:
Because of the Trans-Pacific Partnership "we’ve got a country like Malaysia taking really serious efforts to crack down on human trafficking."


claim:
The Iran nuclear deal is "putting billions of dollars back into a country that’s the world’s largest supporter of terrorism. We are actually giving them the money to fund the terrorists that are killing us and our allies."


claim:
Says he saw videotape "of the people taking the money off the plane" to pay ransom to Iran for hostages.


claim:
"The mosquito population in South Florida is larger than it is in many other communities in the country."


claim:
California’s marijuana legalization initiative, Prop. 64 "allows marijuana smoking ads in prime time, on programs with millions of children and teenage viewers."


claim:
Thanks to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, "Vietnam is drafting and presenting unprecedented labor reforms, changing their Constitution to recognize worker organizations in Vietnam for the first time."


claim:
"Illinois suffered 1,652 overdose deaths in 2014 ... of which 40 percent were associated with heroin. Illinois is ranked number one in the nation for a decline in treatment capacity between 2007 and 2012, and is now ranked the third worst in the country for state-funded treatment capacity."


claim:
The Trans-Pacific Partnership "knocks out 18,000 tariffs that other countries place on American products and goods."


claim:
"Then, the Republican leader theatrically introduced new bills with stopgap budget language, declaring that we could stay until midnight and pass this compromise. Except under our constitution, a bill has to be read on 3 different days, so that's not possible."


claim:
Says "Danny Tarkanian … wants to defund Planned Parenthood and would outlaw a woman's right to choose, even in cases of rape or incest."


claim:
"We have a fire marshal that said, 'Oh we can't allow more people’ ...  And the reason they won't let them in is because they don't know what the hell they're doing."


claim:
"It was under Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that changed the rules of engagement that probably cost (Capt. Humayun Khan’s) life."


claim:
"We rank 38th in wages. ... (Rick Scott) goes out around the country and advertises that to other states."


claim:
Says Barack Obama "said black males are two times more likely to be shot by a law enforcement officer than white males" and "that is a lie" because "there is no data."


claim:
Says Sen. Pat Toomey "even tried to shut down the federal government in order to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood."


claim:
"A few weeks ago, (the) education committee in Congress is deciding what’s going to be in your local salad bar."


claim:
"Nobody covered" the remarks of Patricia Smith, the mother of a Benghazi victim, "live, but almost everybody covered Khizr Khan's, Mr. Khan's remarks live."


claim:
Says, regarding the presence of classified information in her email, FBI Director James "Comey said my answers were truthful, and what I've said is consistent with what I have told the American people."


claim:
Says Donald Trump "proposes tax cuts, too -- $3 trillion for millionaires like himself and $2 trillion for corporations like his."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton wrote, "I believe the primary role of the state is to teach, train and raise children. Parents have a secondary role."


claim:
"The DNC hack showed you that the Clinton campaign was working to schedule (primary) debates against (Bernie) Sanders," and the Clinton campaign is continuing this "ploy" against Donald Trump.


claim:
"Bike lanes and sidewalks have been proven to reduce crashes by up to 38 percent on Austin’s streets."


claim:
Barack Obama "ended up getting re-elected by the largest gender gap in the history of American elections."


claim:
"We fixed a loophole in the (gun) background record check system so that we could make our commonwealth safer."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton's Iran nuclear deal "lined the pockets of the world's number one state sponsor of terrorism with your money."


claim:
Says Trump ties are made "in China, not Colorado. Trump suits in Mexico, not Michigan. Trump furniture in Turkey, not Ohio. Trump picture frames in India, not Wisconsin."


claim:
"Our economy is so much stronger than when (Barack Obama and Joe Biden) took office. Nearly 15 million new private-sector jobs."


claim:
Florida retirees and families "lost tens of thousands of dollars" in deposits on failed Trump condo projects, but he "pocketed their money and walked away."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "negotiated the first agreement — ever — where China and India officially committed to reduce their emissions."


claim:
"The Koch network (is) spending more money (in a Senate race) in Ohio than anywhere else in the country."


claim:
In first week as governor, Tim Kaine "proposed a nearly $4 billion tax increase, $4 billion, including a tax increase on people earning as little as $17,000 a year."


claim:
"Just on the issue of immigration alone, it is next to impossible to find a policy difference between (Donald) Trump and Congressman (Joe) Heck."


claim:
"In 2009, his first year as mayor," Julián Castro "received a seven-figure referral fee" that smells like a dirty financial gift "from notorious personal injury lawyer Mikal Watts, a major Obama donor."


claim:
"When LBJ started #WarOnPoverty, 14% of Americans lived in poverty. 50 yrs later, 14% still do. There's a #BetterWay."


claim:
"Almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago when I took office."


claim:
"John McCain’s chief economic adviser during the ’08 race … estimated that Trump’s promises would cause America to lose 3.5 million jobs."


claim:
Independent analysts "found that Trump's tax plan, given to the wealthy and big corporations, would rack up $30 trillion in debt."


claim:
Says Donald Trump "games the U.S. visa system so he can hire temporary foreign workers at low wages."


claim:
"Ninety percent of Americans want our background check system strengthened and expanded to cover more gun sales."


claim:
"We moved 100 times as many people out of poverty as moved out when President (Ronald) Reagan was in office, with 40 percent more jobs."


claim:
Says "Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to gamble with your retirement benefits in the stock market."


claim:
"Immigrants start businesses at a faster rate; they seem to grow those businesses more successfully."


claim:
Says Gov. Mike Pence and Rep. Mike Coffman "take the same positions on a number of things ... Coffman and Pence oppose equal rights for LGBT Americans."


claim:
"Not one American flag on the massive stage at the Democratic National Convention until people started complaining- then a small one. Pathetic."


claim:
Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson "opposes faster broadband internet in small towns" and "got nearly $90,000 in campaign contributions from the telecom special interests."


claim:
"As secretary of state, (Hillary Clinton) worked hard to get strong sanctions against Iran's nuclear program" and "got Russia and China to support them."


claim:
"The approval of the United States was 20 points higher when (Hillary Clinton) left the secretary of state's office than when she took it."


claim:
Says when an interviewer asked Donald Trump if he treats women with respect, Trump replied, "I can't say that."


claim:
Says Donald Trump "cashed in" on Sept. 11,  "collecting $150,000 in federal funds intended to help small businesses recover — even though days after the attack Trump said his properties were not affected."


claim:
"Donald Trump said he was excited for the 2008 housing crash that devastated millions of American families, because he thought it would help him scoop up more real estate on the cheap."


claim:
Speakers at the Democratic National Convention made "zero mentions of the global terrorist threat posed by ISIS."


claim:
Says Donald Trump "believes that states should actually have the right to lower the minimum wage below $7.25."


claim:
Says Trump shirts are made in Bangladesh, Trump suits in Mexico, Trump Vodka in the Netherlands, Trump crystal barware in Slovenia and his cufflinks and ties in China.


claim:
"An analysis showed that Bernie Sanders would have won the Democratic nomination if it were not for the Super Delegates."


claim:
Says Debbie Wasserman Schultz "has voted for huge subsidies for the sugar industry ... as well as for delays in cleanups."


claim:
Unemployment numbers "are artificial numbers. These are numbers that are massaged to make the existing economy look good, to make this administration look good when, in fact, it's a total disaster."


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Says unlike Tim Kaine, who "invested" in education, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence "slashed education funding."


claim:
"I am the only candidate who ran in either primary who said, ‘I will not raise taxes on the middle class.’"


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The U.S. has to go to "plane graveyards" and museums to get parts for its 20-year-old jet fighters while it sells new jets to other countries.


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"We created 800,000 new jobs, we cut the unemployment rate almost in half and today New York State has more private sector jobs than it has ever had in its history"


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Says that as a U.S. senator, Russ Feingold "voted against authorizing our military 11 separate times."


claim:
"Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens."


claim:
"An amendment, pushed by Lyndon Johnson many years ago, threatens religious institutions with a loss of their tax-exempt status if they openly advocate their political views."


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Says Hillary Clinton "supported North American Free Trade Agreement), and she supported China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization…. She supported the job-killing trade deal with South Korea. She supported the Trans-Pacific Partnership."


claim:
"While Hillary Clinton plans a massive, and I mean massive, tax increase, I have proposed the largest tax reduction of any candidate who has run for president this year, Democrat or Republican."


claim:
"America has lost nearly one third of its manufacturing jobs since 1997, following the enactment of disastrous trade deals supported by Bill and Hillary Clinton."


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Says Hillary Clinton "has called for a radical 550 percent increase in Syrian  ... refugees . . .  despite the fact that there’s no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from."


claim:
"The number of new illegal immigrant families who have crossed the border so far this year already exceeds the entire total from 2015."


claim:
"Homicides last year increased by 17 percent in America’s 50 largest cities. That’s the largest increase in 25 years."


claim:
"Two million more Latinos are in poverty today than when President Obama took his oath of office less than eight years ago."


claim:
"Every single strawberry that is served to Members of Congress will have passed through the rough hands of an undocumented immigrant."


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Says Rep. Tammy "Duckworth has been a staunch supporter of expanding the spending, size and reach of the IRS."


claim:
"It was Hillary Clinton who left Americans in harm's way in Benghazi and after four Americans fell said, 'What difference at this point does it make?' "


claim:
"A million Democrats deserted (Howard Dean’s) party and joined my party because of Donald Trump in Ohio this year."


claim:
"Just 9 percent of Muslims in Pakistan view ISIS favorably. Unfortunately, that 9 percent is 16 million people. And that’s just one country."


claim:
" ‘What difference, at this point, does it make?' I am the guy that got under her skin and provoked that infamous response from Hillary Clinton by asking a pretty simple question, 'Why didn't you just pick up the phone and call the survivors’ (of the Benghazi attack)?"


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "said all work-related emails were sent back to the State Department. The FBI director said, that's not true."


claim:
Says "(Clinton) called President Assad a ‘reformer.’ She called Assad a ‘different kind of leader.’ "


claim:
"(Koch Industries) is among the worst in toxic air pollution in the entire United States ... and churns out more climate-changing greenhouse gases than oil giants Chevron, Shell and Valero."


claim:
"The Clinton camp was the first to get it out there and try to say there was something untoward about the speech that Melania Trump gave."


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Says Hillary Clinton "has been a champion of globalist trade agreements. ... Worst of all, they are now pushing the disastrous 5,000-page Obamatrade — the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement."


claim:
"John Faso took money from fossil fuel companies as they tried to take your land by eminent domain for a fracked gas pipeline."


claim:
"Illegal tobacco sales, price driven too high, has been connected to at least several cases of funding terrorism against us in multi-year investigations over the last decade and a half."


claim:
Says no one from the Bush family attended the 2012 Republican National Convention and "there was no President Bush" at the 2008 convention.


claim:
"Granite State shipbuilders . . . built the first ship that sailed into battle under a new American flag."


claim:
"Do you know what the second sport with the most concussions is? Women’s soccer… And the third most dangerous sport? Cheerleading."


claim:
"Just look at what the FBI director said about her (Hillary Clinton) — her misconduct  is a disgrace and embarrassment to our country."


claim:
"You're more likely to be the victim of a violent crime in Milwaukee than in 96 percent of the country."


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Says Mark Kirk "called for the mass arrest of 18,000 African Americans" and "was apparently fine with Trump’s #StillTooRacist call for mass deportation."


claim:
"We flood communities with so many guns that it is easier for a teenager to buy a Glock than get his hands on a computer or even a book."


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Says Hillary Clinton "took 13 hours to send help to Americans under fire" during the terrorist attack in Benghazi.


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"Today, there are more Hoosiers going to work than ever before in the 200-year history of the great state of Indiana."


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Says Sen. John McCain spent the July 4 weekend in Islamabad, Pakistan, selling "F-16s and advanced weapons to the folks who harbored Osama bin Laden."


claim:
Says GOP Senate nominee Darryl Glenn said he wants to see Ted Cruz appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.


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African-Americans don't use drugs at a higher level than whites but "wind up going to prison six times more."


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Says "220,000 New Yorkers would have immediately benefitted had President Obama’s executive action been affirmed. So almost a quarter million of our fellow New Yorkers who are hurting right now whose rights and opportunities were taken away by the Supreme Court."


claim:
"We have lower family incomes in Illinois today than we had 17 years ago in Illinois ... because of the control of (House) Speaker (Michael) Madigan and his Democrats."


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Says Ron Johnson "supported a plan to cut benefits and raise the retirement age" for Social Security.


claim:
"(Big banks) have invested over $300,000 in (Joe Heck), and Heck has sponsored $44 million dollars in tax breaks for banks."


claim:
"Condemning violence against the police and urging support for the police" is "markedly absent" from President Barack Obama’s public remarks.


claim:
In 2016, Dallas, Texas, has fewer "police officer-related shootings than any large city in America."


claim:
California’s Proposition 63 would "CRIMINALIZE the sharing of ammunition between friends who may be hunting or shooting together."


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Says Hillary Clinton has been given tens of millions of dollars by countries that "treat women horribly ... and countries that kill gays."


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The war on drugs led to "a 500 percent increase in incarceration in our country, disproportionately affecting poor and disproportionately affecting minorities."


claim:
Harris County, Texas has "some of the highest jailing and incarceration rates in the U.S. and the world."


claim:
"We’re losing as many people to heroin and opioid overdoses as we lost to the AIDS epidemic at its peak."


claim:
Says Donald Trump made a lot of money from outsourcing jobs thanks to NAFTA "but never, ever raised his voice against it when Congress was considering it."


claim:
"Sanctuary cities such as Philadelphia refuse to cooperate with the federal government in locating suspected terrorists who are in their custody and are in the country illegally."


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Says Attorney General Loretta Lynch "was a member of Bill Clinton's defense team during the 1992 Whitewater corruption probe."


claim:
"Rather than work to secure the border, (Marco Rubio) supported Obama’s amnesty plan for illegal immigrants."


claim:
"Right now, our corrections department charges taxpayers between $30,000 and $40,000 a year per person we lock up," she said. "That’s actually cheap when you compare us to the rest of the country."


claim:
For 21 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, "we simply do not have data to say anything about trends in poverty."


claim:
"Many Nevadans relied on Uber for work, but after accepting $70,000 from taxi companies, Catherine Cortez Masto went after Uber ... (driving) them out of town."


claim:
Says Patrick Murphy has "taken more money from Wall Street than any other member of Congress other than the speaker and the majority leader."


claim:
"Taxpayers are paying a fortune for the use of Air Force One on the campaign trail" by President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.


claim:
Says she "never received nor sent any material that was marked classified" on her private email server while secretary of state.


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "savaged" the dignity of people who accused Bill Clinton of sexual harassment or assault "and shamed them."


claim:
Says Ron Johnson justifies his support of trade agreements by saying the U.S. has the Trade Adjustment Assistance program for displaced workers, but then he "voted to eliminate it."


claim:
"The average time someone used to hold a share of stock back in the ’60s was eight years. Now, the average time is four months."


claim:
"The steel industry is producing as much steel in the United States as it ever was. It’s just (that) it needs one-tenth of the workers that it used to."


claim:
Says "while serving in the city council, Rachel Zenzinger voted to use tax dollars to take a taxpayer-funded junket to China."


claim:
"During my administration, for example, we boosted U.S. exports to Canada and Mexico by about 50 percent. That supports about 2.8 million American jobs."


claim:
Says Donald Trump's position is "to roll back all" of the financial regulations passed after the financial crisis.


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "was literally present when we pressed the reset button with Russia just a few months after Russia had invaded Georgia."


claim:
Proposed NC law for body camera footage gives police "broad authority to keep video footage secret – even from individuals who are filmed."


claim:
"Cincinnati is already one of the biggest cities in the country to run 100 percent on clean energy."


claim:
"As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton laundered money to Bill Clinton through Laureate Education, while Bill Clinton was an honorary chairman of the group."


claim:
Says Donald Trump’s proposed tax treatment of hedge fund managers "makes the current loophole even worse."


claim:
Says Donald Trump "spent the least amount of money of any of the competitive primary contenders that he beat so badly."


claim:
"When he served as governor, Schwarzenegger preserved more land than any other gubernatorial administration in California’s history."


claim:
"During the (Benghazi) attack, a stand-down order was given, and our troops were told to change their clothes four times."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "presided over $6 billion lost at the State Department, sold uranium to the Russians through (her) faux charity, illegally deleted public records, and murdered an ambassador."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton’s State Department "approved the transfer of 20 percent of America’s uranium holdings to Russia, while nine investors in the deal funneled $145 million to the Clinton Foundation."


claim:
Says Gov. Doug Ducey wants to use "taxpayer dollars to increase the salaries of private prison guards."


claim:
"If you are a member of  union, your median weekly income is roughly $200 more than if you are a nonunion member, and that doesn’t include benefits."


claim:
"As Bernie Sanders said, Hillary Clinton ‘voted for virtually every trade agreement that has cost the workers of this country millions, millions of jobs.’ "


claim:
The House Zika bill "limits access to birth control services needed to help curb the spread of the virus" in Puerto Rico.


claim:
"Hillary Clinton surged the trade deficit with China 40% as Secretary of State, costing Americans millions of jobs."


claim:
"Thanks to (North Carolina’s) governor and the legislature, the average teacher salary can barely support a family."


claim:
After Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, "within 24 hours, Americans lost $100 billion from our 401(k)s."


claim:
"Risk analysts listed Donald Trump, a Donald Trump presidency, as one of the top threats facing the global economy, ahead of terrorism."


claim:
Gov. Terry McAuliffe "has made several statements that he would love to be in a Cabinet secretary position with the Clinton administration."


claim:
"Despite the rhetoric from Democrat politicians, more people are employed this year than at any point in the history of Wisconsin."


claim:
"The major immigration issue was about Poles, and Bulgarians, and Romanians," and that they weren’t contributing economically. "The unemployment rate among Poles in Britain is lower than the unemployment rate among Brits."


claim:
Says British voters "under 50, especially millennials, overwhelmingly voted to stay," in the European Union. "It was older voters who voted to leave."


claim:
Barack Obama issued a decree "demanding that every public school now allow grown men and boys into the little girls’ bathroom."


claim:
"You can’t get on an airplane, but more than 2,000 people on that list have been able to buy a gun."


claim:
Says Mark Zandi, who wrote a report criticizing Donald Trump’s economic proposals, is "one of Sen. John McCain's former economic advisers."


claim:
"For every extra year that a girl stays in secondary school, her chance of getting infected with HIV/AIDS decreases by half."


claim:
"We don't know anything about Hillary in terms of religion. Now, she's been in the public eye for years and years, and yet there's no — there's nothing out there."


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Says Hillary Clinton "has even deleted this record of total support (for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) from her book."


claim:
"Attempts to find things like, ‘crime,’ ‘criminal activity,’ ‘indictment,’ have been filtered out by Google" in favor of Hillary Clinton.


claim:
The ammunition used in the Orlando shooting "is banned by Geneva Convention. It enters the body, spins & explodes."


claim:
"Al-Qaida operatives, have said, 'Hey, we want you to use this loophole (for purchasing guns despite being on a watch list) to attack and kill Americans.'"


claim:
"As governor, in the face of partisan attacks, (Charlie Crist) had the courage to save jobs and lead his state into economic recovery."


claim:
"For the amount of money Hillary Clinton would like to spend on refugees, we could rebuild every inner city in America."


claim:
"If Question 1 were to pass here in Nevada, we would have more restrictive gun laws here in Nevada dealing with the transfer of firearms than they do in California."


claim:
Says "Michael Bennet votes for President Obama's agenda 98 percent of the time. Hardly independent, hardly bipartisan."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "said she was under attack (in Bosnia) but the attack turned out to be young girls handing her flowers."


claim:
"I was among the earliest to criticize the rush to war (in Iraq), and yes, even before the war ever started."


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Says Kelly Ayotte "voted again yesterday against a proposal to expand background checks -- (buyers) can continue to simply go online or to gun shows to purchase guns without background checks."


claim:
Says the Clinton Foundation "accepted millions and millions of dollars from governments like Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Oman and the United Arab Emirates," which violated "a ban on all contributions to the Foundation from foreign nations."


claim:
"A gay man who survived #orlando hate crime can STILL show up to work in FL tomorrow and have his boss fire him simply because he is gay."


claim:
Says delegates can't "legally" change the Republican National Convention rules to prevent Donald Trump’s nomination.


claim:
Even among "second and third generation" Muslims in the United States, "there's no real assimilation."


claim:
"Of all the people in federal prison for possession of illegal substances, 77 percent of them are not citizens of the United States."


claim:
The average student debt "coming out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison is something like 28,000 dollars."


claim:
"We've seen more manufacturing jobs created since I've been president than anytime since the 1990s. That's a fact."


claim:
"The Obama administration was actively supporting Al Qaeda in Iraq, the terrorist group that became the Islamic State."


claim:
Last year, "244 suspected terrorists walked into gun shops and attempted to purchase a firearm; 223 were able to get the firearm."


claim:
Says Apple products are currently "90 percent conflict-free," and "Intel is 100 percent conflict-free."


claim:
"He leant his name to a bill, did little or nothing three years ago to try to get it passed, (and) since then has done absolutely nothing other than disavow any attempt to move on the legislation."


claim:
"Nine million people have lower-cost HIV/AIDS medicine because of the work of the Clinton Foundation and my husband."


claim:
"There are tens of thousands of homes right here in California where you turn on the faucet but you can't drink the water."


claim:
"On average, each U.S. military working dog saves the lives of between 150 and 200 servicemen and women over the span of his career."


claim:
"Never mind that no red light camera, no speed camera, nor any radar gun has ever stopped one accident from occurring."


claim:
Says Nevada lawmakers voted to allow teenaged boys to "shower with your teenaged girls in public school locker rooms."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "plans to massively increase admissions (of Middle East refugees) … including a 500 percent increase in Syrian refugees coming into our country."


claim:
"Florida doesn't regulate assault weapons or .50 caliber rifles or large-capacity ammunition magazines. It doesn't require a permit to purchase a gun. It doesn't require any registration, whatsoever."


claim:
"The labor force participation rate -- the share of the potential workforce that is actually working or looking for work-- currently stands below 63%, the lowest level since the 1970s."


claim:
"Tuition-free public universities and colleges are just a pipe dream. False. They were both free up until the Vietnam War."


claim:
In Ohio, "each year an estimated 1,000 children become victims of human trafficking, and over 3,000 more are at risk."


claim:
Says the United States has "treaties with apparently 69 countries where we are obligated to defend their borders. And these were treaties that were executive treaties, not authorized by Congress."


claim:
Since 1978, college "tuition nationwide has gone up something like four times the rate of inflation."


claim:
Polls show Bernie Sanders would do better than Hillary Clinton in a head-to-head battle against Donald Trump.


claim:
"Under (Obamacare), you can’t reward a person for better behavior. You can’t have incentives to be healthier."


claim:
Says Merrick Garland "authored an opinion that resulted in the release of 17 Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were part of a group of violent Islamist extremists the State Department had designated as terrorists."


claim:
"A trade war is something very different (than curbing new trade agreements). We went down that road in the 1930s. It made the Great Depression longer and more painful."


claim:
"The president has said the national security threat facing America, the top one, is global warming."


claim:
"When a bill is sent to the governor’s office, there is no option for changing it. You sign it or you don’t sign it. While there was lots of conversation, there was really no opportunity for any sort of amending."


claim:
"More businesses went out of business last year than were started for the first time in our history."


claim:
Because George Holding doesn’t live in the congressional district he’s running for, he "doesn’t experience the same things that we are all experiencing."


claim:
"Congressman Joe Heck has (voted) 62% of the time with Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats on a variety of important issues."


claim:
Says Donald Trump "says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia."


claim:
"The Chicago Bears have had more starting quarterbacks in the last 10 years than the total number of tenured (UW) faculty fired during the last two decades."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton has spoken "such lies about my foreign policy. They said I want Japan to … get nuclear weapons. Give me a break."


claim:
Florida has "issued more than 3 million conceal carry permits in the past 30 years. Only 168 have been revoked."


claim:
"We're losing thousands of (veterans) waiting on line" because they can't get speedy health care from the Veterans Administration.


claim:
"I wanted to keep it private, because I don't think it's anybody's business if I want to send money to the vets."


claim:
"While Rob Portman relies on his super PAC and a handful of billionaires to do his dirty work, we don’t have a super PAC, and quite frankly, we don’t want one that spends millions to spew out lies and distortions."


claim:
It's entirely possible that the Democratic nominee, [Hillary Clinton], earned more money giving a single speech on Wall Street than I made the six years that I was there back in the 1980s… In fact, it’s quite likely.


claim:
"I believe we should have tax on carbon and deal aggressively with climate change. That is not (Hillary Clinton's) position."


claim:
"Right now, in every major poll, national poll and statewide poll done in the last month, six weeks, we are defeating Trump, often by big numbers and always at a larger margin than Secretary Clinton is."


claim:
"Hypocrisy at the Clinton Foundation: Top male staff made on average $218,029 while top female staff made $153,014 from 2010-2014."


claim:
"During the (housing) crisis, Catherine Cortez Masto gave a sweetheart contract worth millions to a D.C. law firm that then donated thousands to her political campaigns."


claim:
Only 50 percent of students from Milwaukee public high schools "go on to a two-or four-year college."


claim:
"No one in American history has moved from a June 16 announcement to a May 26 winning of a majority. Trump's achievement is remarkable."


claim:
It "is Hillary Clinton's agenda" to "release the violent criminals from jail. She wants them all released."


claim:
Says Will Hurd "cosponsored a bill that would militarize our border and allow 200 miles of new roads to be built in the Big Bend region -- cutting up our beloved park."


claim:
"There are places in America that are among the most dangerous in the world. You go to places like Oakland. Or Ferguson. The crime numbers are worse. Seriously."


claim:
"Look, we are at war with these people and they don't wear uniforms. … This is a war against people that are vicious, violent people, that we have no idea who they are, where they come from. We are allowing tens of thousands of them into our country now."


claim:
Old City in Philadelphia "used to have more than a dozen clubs and that's what we were known for and now we’re down to two."


claim:
"I can tell you that the enhanced interrogation techniques that have since been banned by this administration — specifically waterboarding — work."


claim:
Says North Carolina Rep. Renee Ellmers was the only Republican to vote against "an amendment to prioritize the deportation of sexual criminals who are illegal immigrants."


claim:
"When adjusted for inflation, (Texas) per-student spending has remained relatively flat over the past 16 years. Despite that trend, Texas schools in 2017 will receive $381 less per student than they did in 2003."


claim:
Ohio is "probably top five in the country, sadly, in terms of heroin overdoses. It’s now exceeded car accidents as the No. 1 cause of death in Ohio."


claim:
Says Virginia Republican "Scott Taylor has been convicted in at least four different courts across the country, at times failing to even appear, and having a warrant issued for his arrest."


claim:
"The geography of poverty has changed fundamentally in the last 15 years," with more of it concentrated in fragile and conflict states.


claim:
A three-cents-per-ounce soda tax in Philadelphia "would result in the loss of 2,000 family-sustaining Teamster Union jobs and countless other jobs in the beverage industry."


claim:
Before 2005, "the percentage of" Texas high school "students meeting the college readiness standards of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board stood at 28% in English and 42% in math. Those figures stood at 65% and 66% in 2013."


claim:
"I have had to fill out FEC reports for the past six years now, and they’re much more detailed than a tax return..."


claim:
Under Donald Trump's tax plan, "the top 0.1 percent of taxpayers -- people earning multiple millions of dollars a year, on average --  would get more tax relief than the bottom 60 percent of taxpayers combined."


claim:
"Amendment 2 will put almost 2,000 pot shops in Florida ... more pot shops than Walmart and Walgreens combined."


claim:
Trade deals are negotiated in "secret" and, unlike corporate interests, politicians never invite "the leaders of the AFL-CIO or steelworkers or the mine workers to come in and sit down in these meetings."


claim:
"Puerto Rico’s $70 billion debt is unsustainable and it is unpayable. And the reason why it is unsustainable has everything to do with the greed of Wall Street vulture funds."


claim:
Nevada Democratic Party leaders "hijacked the process on the floor" of the state convention "ignoring the regular procedure and ramming through what they wanted to do."


claim:
Says Patrick Murphy "switched his vote on All Aboard Florida ... because his father tried to get in a bid to build it and was unsuccessful."


claim:
"Every Republican nominee since Richard Nixon, who at one time was under an audit, has released their tax returns."


claim:
Says Demond Means, "turnaround district" superintendent for Milwaukee Public Schools, said the district "needs to be gutted."


claim:
"There are more than twice as many (crisis pregnancy centers) as there are legitimate abortion providers in the United States."


claim:
"The Chinese last year probably stole $360 billion in intellectual property from the United States."


claim:
"Now in half the homes in California, people speak a language other than English in their own homes."


claim:
Says Patrick Murphy is one of "only three Democrats in the House today who voted" to create the Benghazi committee.


claim:
Says Katie McGinty "actually agrees with Hillary Clinton and the most liberal wing of the Democrats on everything."


claim:
Says 80 percent of North Carolinians support "the concept that men should not be in women’s restrooms, changing rooms, bathrooms, etc."


claim:
"Big rooftop solar's plan forces Nevada families who don’t have solar panels to pay higher power bills to subsidize rooftop solar."


claim:
Says Arizona, Missouri and Texas residents have a two-pet limit, so the public must "surrender their third pet to the Humane Society."


claim:
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has "2.8 students per faculty" member, "tied for second-lowest in its history since 1994."


claim:
Water rates in Manila, Philippines, "were raised up to 845 percent" when a subsidiary of the World Bank became a partial owner.


claim:
University of Texas undergraduate student debt "is less than $21,000… probably one of the lowest debts across the nation."


claim:
"For the first time in over 40 years, Republicans don’t hold a single statewide office" in Virginia.


claim:
Says former state Sen. Kelli Ward "wanted to ban our intelligence agencies from operating in Arizona."


claim:
If you don't buy cigarettes at your local supermarket, your grocery bill won't go up a dime. The same is true of the sugary drink tax. If passed, you can avoid paying the tax by not buying sugary drinks.


claim:
The city of Clarkston "can’t decriminalize marijuana. Only state legislators and Congress can do that."


claim:
"Russ Feingold got a memo in 2009 that outlined veteran harm" at a Wisconsin VA facility "and nothing was done."


claim:
"There is a 34 percent increase in violent crime in the state of California. … And that’s just within the last year."


claim:
"The market is making this decision. The market has driven down the cost of coal, so you have companies going bankrupt."


claim:
Says $15-an-hour proposal in Cleveland is "the most aggressive minimum wage increase in the country."


claim:
"The Obama administration has even joined Islamist governments in sponsoring a U.N. resolution that would shred our First Amendment by threatening to make discussion of radical Islamism potentially illegal."


claim:
Before April 22, "we have restored the rights of more than 18,000 individuals, which is more than the past seven governors combined in their four-year terms."


claim:
"You have to be a citizen to vote," but with same-day voter registration, "you have places where people just walk in and vote."


claim:
"We have been focusing so much, especially the Texas Department of Transportation, on that 97 percent of people in single-occupancy vehicles."


claim:
"The overwhelming amount of the money that we're raising is not going to Hillary (Clinton) to run for president. ... It's going to the congressmen and senators to try to take back Congress."


claim:
"Increasing the min. wage to $15 an hour would reduce spending on food stamps, public housing and other programs by over $7.6 billion a year."


claim:
Says Bruce Springsteen "only had 8,000 tickets sold" for a Greensboro show and canceled after "they didn’t get the ticket sales they wanted."


claim:
"This is not a joke: the president wants to house illegal aliens on our nation’s military installations."


claim:
"Seven hundred thousand. That’s how many California jobs will be lost thanks to the politicians raising the minimum wage….Now Florida is adding one million jobs, not losing them."


claim:
Says Ted Cruz’s father "was with Lee Harvey Oswald" before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.


claim:
"There's only three countries in the entire world where there's no paid vacation by law, we happen to be one of them."


claim:
"Here in California, Donald Trump has given $12,000 to Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris."


claim:
"In the history of Republican primaries, I’ve gotten the most votes in the history of the Republican party."


claim:
"After my first year as governor, I was one of the most unpopular governors, maybe the most unpopular governor in the country. ... It changed."


claim:
"In two years, Gov. McAuliffe has vetoed more bills that the previous three governors issued in each of their four-year terms."


claim:
Says Donald Trump’s "only economic agenda is imposing massive taxes on the American people with a 40 percent tax hike of a giant tariff."


claim:
Says both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton say Planned Parenthood is "terrific and that it should keep taxpayer funding."


claim:
"Bernie Sanders voted with Republicans to protect the Minutemen, a hate group that used military tactics against our community."


claim:
If Austin voters reject Proposition 1, a "completely new City-run" criminal background check "process will cost millions in processing fees, additional staff, and bureaucracy" with taxpayers getting "the bill."


claim:
North Carolina has "one of the fastest growing populations as well as the fastest growing economy in the country."


claim:
"You can absolutely get a gun if you have several felonies as long as you buy it on the Internet or at a gun show."


claim:
The decision for the United States to buy heavy water from Iran "will directly subsidize Iran’s nuclear program."


claim:
Says an array of statistics show that conditions in some parts of Baltimore rival that of "the West Bank in Palestine," "North Korea," and "distressed cities in Nigeria, India, China and South Africa."


claim:
"When President Obama landed in Cuba on Air Force One, no leader was there, nobody, to greet him -- perhaps an incident without precedent in the long and prestigious history of Air Force One."


claim:
Says LeBron James "stops paying his Social Security taxes at the beginning of the second quarter of the first game of the season."


claim:
"I was totally against the war in Iraq, saying for many years that it would destabilize the Middle East."


claim:
"We knew Strom Thurmond had proposed" the amendment that blocked Puerto Rico’s use of Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection.


claim:
"A simple review of the Backroom’s health code records will reveal that the restaurant already has a long-standing problem with rodent infestations."


claim:
"Today in America, between 40 and 50 percent of all African-American babies, virtually 1-in-2, are killed before they are born."


claim:
Says he "was the only Republican" to vote against creating a House panel to investigate Planned Parenthood.


claim:
Marijuana is a Schedule I drug, "which you understand means that you can’t do any research about it."


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The Paris Agreement "is by far the largest number of countries ever to sign an international agreement on a single day."


claim:
Says Donald Trump thinks "a grown man pretending to be a woman (should) be allowed to use the women's restroom."


claim:
"A tax on soda and juice drinks would disproportionately increase taxes on low-income families in Philadelphia."


claim:
"Before taking executive action on immigration, President Obama stated 22 times that he does not have the authority to change immigration laws on his own."


claim:
"She is the only candidate who has stood by our community and immigration reform from the beginning."


claim:
"In last week’s debate, Bernie questioned Hillary’s commitment to fighting climate change because a whopping 0.2 percent of the money given to our campaign has come from employees of oil and gas companies. Not even 2 percent, mind you: 0.2 percent."


claim:
"Pennsylvania has lost 35 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001" and "Harrisburg has lost 40 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001."


claim:
"Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."


claim:
Says it’s "absurd" to say there’s enough data to establish a link between playing football and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.


claim:
"Under the federal Controlled Substance Act, marijuana is listed in the same Schedule I as heroin," even though "marijuana is not a killer drug like heroin."


claim:
"Andrew Jackson was the last president who actually balanced the federal budget, where we had no national debt."


claim:
"When I withdrew in June of 2008, polls were showing that at least 40 percent of my supporters said, oh, they weren't going to support Sen. Obama."


claim:
"In 2009 … Hillary Clinton was at the State Department working with U.S. corporations to pressure Haiti not to raise the minimum wage to 61 cents an hour from 24 cents."


claim:
Says that in her speech to the pro-Israel group AIPAC, Hillary Clinton "had one line on the Palestinian people."


claim:
"As a U.S. senator with salary and perks, ‪#‎Bernie‬ is in the top 1 percent, but still paid only 13 percent in taxes last year."


claim:
Wisconsin pays criminal defense lawyers who represent the indigent $40 per hour, "the lowest in the country."


claim:
"The chairman of the party of Florida, who is an avid and outward supporter of Marco Rubio, gets to appoint 30 of those delegates."


claim:
Says Republican presidential candidate and Gov. John Kasich has spent 177 days out of state and used $350,000 in taxpayer money on his "costly campaign."


claim:
Says Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio "had it set so that the winner takes everything, because they wanted to make sure that I didn't get anything" in the Florida primary.


claim:
"While Mayor Kenney personally doesn't support DROP, he can't fault highly qualified city employees for appropriately utilizing a benefit that's available to them."


claim:
"The city of Charlotte passed a bathroom ordinance mandate on every private-sector employer in Charlotte."


claim:
Says New Hampshire’s second congressional district includes two counties where "almost 5 percent if not more" of residents are enrolled in the state’s expanded Medicaid program.


claim:
Austin’s Stop Abuse for Everyone has seen in its offices "sexual assault survivors that report being attacked by their ridesharing drivers, at a rate of one per month."


claim:
Statistics show "you are about nine times more likely to be assaulted by a taxi driver" in Austin than a driver for a ride-hailing service.


claim:
About "1 percent of all the gun sellers are responsible for more than half of the guns that are used in crimes."


claim:
Ten times, no Republican candidate for president had enough delegates to claim the nomination before the party’s convention, and seven of those times "somebody who was not the leader of delegates was selected as the nominee of the party."


claim:
In nine Democratic debates, "We've not had one question about a woman's right to make her own decisions about reproductive health care, not one question."


claim:
The Republicans "still want to privatize (Social Security). In fact, their whole idea is to turn over the Social Security trust fund to Wall Street."


claim:
"When this campaign began, I said that we’ve got to end the starvation minimum wage of $7.25, raise it to $15. Secretary Clinton said let's raise it to $12."


claim:
"We have tougher standards holding toy gun manufacturers and sellers to account than we do for real guns."


claim:
"There are 31 other states and 10,000 other cities that have the same type of policies that we just passed," referring to North Carolina’s House Bill 2.


claim:
If the mayor were really serious about supporting Philly's schoolchildren and handling our city's looming fiscal crisis, he could begin by slashing the size of his own administration, which is already 45 percent larger than his predecessor's and 40 percent more costly.


claim:
In every ethics case that has resulted in a formal sanction, "there's been an investigative subcommittee that's been established first."


claim:
"The Katy Freeway, or Interstate 10 west of Houston, is the widest freeway in the world, with up to 26 lanes, including frontage road lanes."


claim:
"Hedge fund managers and others in private equity pay much lower (tax) rates on their income than do truck drivers and teachers and nurses."


claim:
"The state that has the highest per capita number of … guns that end up committing crimes in New York come from Vermont."


claim:
"The polling shows over and over again that, unlike Donald Trump, that with me as the nominee, we beat Hillary Clinton."


claim:
Says a company that got tax breaks from the state later "laid off 100 Ohioans, even as its CEO cut a half-million-dollar check to Kasich’s super PAC."


claim:
"In Malaysia … many of the workers are indentured servants because their passports are taken away when they come into this country and are working in slave-like conditions."


claim:
Says the Congressional Budget Office "is expecting a protracted economic malaise for at least the next decade under current policies."


claim:
Says there were over 600 reports of Texas votes for Donald Trump in the state’s 2016 Republican primary virtually all getting tallied for Marco Rubio.


claim:
"Team Trump has accused Ted Cruz of fraud" in Iowa, Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Kansas, Maine, Utah and Wisconsin."


claim:
"The largest U.S. companies would owe $620 billion in U.S. taxes on the cash they store in tax havens."


claim:
"For the votes that we got, I think we spent, on average, two bucks a pop. Compared to 42 bucks" for incumbent Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele.


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton voted "for virtually every trade agreement that has cost the workers of this country millions of jobs."


claim:
Charlotte’s anti-discrimination ordinance would have "opened all bathrooms to all sexes at all times" if it hadn’t been overturned.


claim:
"Because of (the 1994 crime bill), we had a 25-year low in crime, a 33-year low in the murder rate, and listen to this, because of that and the background check law, a 46-year low in the deaths of people of gun violence."


claim:
Mexico receives "approximately $24 billion a year in remittances from Mexican nationals working in the United States. The majority of that amount comes from illegal aliens."


claim:
Race to the Top grants "require participating states to adopt the Common Core standards as a condition for receiving federal funding."


claim:
A study "from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard, and Dartmouth concluded that Medicaid’s value to its beneficiaries is significantly lower than the actual cost of the program."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "has been saying lately that she thinks that I am, 'not qualified to be president.' "


claim:
"Last year (the U.S. women’s soccer team) generated $20 million more than the men’s team and were paid almost four times less."


claim:
"Many just call him 'Lyin' Ted.' ... His TV ad about John Kasich? Lie! Stations had to pull it off the air."


claim:
When mentioning Villanova’s buzzer-beating win in the national championships, Hillary Clinton said: "I love those come-from-behind victories."


claim:
"A college loan is the only loan in the United States that you cannot refinance when interest rates go down."


claim:
Says Erv Nelson voted "yes on the pro-amnesty SJR 21, a bill urging Congress to provide citizenship for those residing illegally in our country."


claim:
Says Bernie Sanders "fundamentally changed the lives" of Immokalee farm workers in Florida for the better.


claim:
"Recent reports state that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has apprehended several members of known Islamist terrorist organizations crossing the southern border in recent years."


claim:
China is "in the South China Sea and (building) a military fortress the likes of which perhaps the world has not seen."


claim:
Says his free public university tuition program "is paid for … by a tax on Wall Street's speculation."


claim:
"Twenty-seven out-of-state pharmaceutical companies have raised more campaign dollars (against a drug price control measure) than all other state ballot measures have raised to date, combined."


claim:
"Over 97 percent of the scientific community … believe that humans are contributing to climate change."


claim:
"I'm the only candidate in the Democratic primary, or actually on either side, who Wall Street financiers and hedge fund managers are actually running ads against."


claim:
The 2016 federal omnibus spending bill "funds illegal immigrants coming in and through your border, right through Phoenix."


claim:
North Carolina spent "almost as much as it spends on government rape crisis programs in a year" to convene a special session for HB2.


claim:
"There have not been any public safety issues" in cities that allow transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify as.


claim:
"It was (Rob Portman’s) job to stop China’s illegal dumping of steel. He failed, looked the other way, did nothing."


claim:
Emory University students were provided counseling after someone wrote "Trump 2016" in chalk on campus.


claim:
Despite the passage of HB2, "towns, cities and counties in North Carolina are still allowed to set stricter non-discrimination policies for their own employees if they choose."


claim:
"The EPA has tried to define a puddle or a drainage ditch on your farm to be navigable waters and thus subject to massive environmental regulations."


claim:
Says the GOP is "helping pay for" Justice Rebecca Bradley's campaign and "she recently skipped court to attend an event paid for" by Scott Walker's "lobbyist friends."


claim:
"The barber regulation here in Missouri is 10,000 words long….the book of Revelation is (also) 10,000 words long."


claim:
"We have not taken away any rights that have currently existed in any city in North Carolina" with the passage of HB2.


claim:
Says that when Michelle Fields "found out that there was a security camera, and that they had her on tape, all of a sudden that story changed."


claim:
"There’s a tremendous tax that we pay when we (American businesses) go into China, whereas when China sells to us there’s no tax."


claim:
"After taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks, (Debbie Wasserman Schultz) has voted to prevent the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from regulating payday loans and addressing racial discrimination in car loans."


claim:
When it comes to fighting terrorism, "Another thing we know that does not work, based on lots of empirical evidence, is torture."


claim:
"Big soda has a lot of money. They make a lot of profit off their product and they market in neighborhoods that suffer from these very things that we’re trying to cure."


claim:
"It’s actually easier for the United States to get flight manifests from E.U. nations than it is for E.U. nations to get them from their own neighbors, thanks to an agreement the U.S. negotiated when I was secretary of state."


claim:
"Since 1900, six (U.S. Supreme Court) justices have been confirmed during election years, including Justice Anthony Kennedy, who was confirmed in the final year of the Reagan Administration."


claim:
An image in a Chris Abele TV ad depicts "wealthy citizens" who would benefit from a "lake" created by the controversial Estabrook Dam.


claim:
"Will (HB2) threaten federal funding for public schools under Title IX? No, according to a federal court which has looked at a similar issue."


claim:
Under Hillary Clinton, State Department "officials were sending official thank-yous to people who gave to the Clinton Foundation."


claim:
"During three and a half years of campaigning," Lamar Smith "has never once appeared at a moderated debate to defend his positions on the issues."


claim:
Stephen Zappala is "the only DA in our state to convict an on-duty police officer of criminal homicide."


claim:
Congressman Jeff Denham "has agreed all illegal immigrants should be detained, arrested and deported."


claim:
"This unit is the only one in the state that strives to implement the principles of Mother-Friendly care as outlined by the national Coalition for Improving Maternity Services Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative."


claim:
Says Barack Obama was happily photographed holding a T-shirt with revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara’s face on it.


claim:
Says her representation of an ex-boyfriend "who was then my friend" in a family law case is "something that lawyers do on a regular basis."


claim:
"Virginia now is the number one exporter of (agricultural) products to Cuba. We have now jumped to number one."


claim:
"To this day, (the Cuban government) is a regime that provides safe harbor to terrorists and fugitives."


claim:
(Since 1990) "every continent has seen substantial gains, with individual incomes growing by more than a third in every region of the developing world."


claim:
"When those restrictions expire (in the Iran nuclear deal), Iran will have an industrial-size military nuclear capability ready to go."


claim:
Mitt Romney did not "endorse" Ted Cruz, even though he said he is voting for Cruz and urged others to do likewise.


claim:
"Today, the United States has, sadly, one of the lowest voter turnouts of any major country on earth."


claim:
"Ukraine voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons because the United States of America" said it would "ensure (its) territorial integrity from Russia."


claim:
Says Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg agreed to use a technicality to give a convicted sex offender a new hearing because "he didn’t understand the charge."


claim:
"During the last five years, Iran has perpetrated terror attacks in 25 different countries on five continents."


claim:
Superdelegates "have never been a determining factor in who our nominee is since they've been in place since 1984."


claim:
Says Senate Republicans are "following a longstanding tradition of not filling vacancies on the Supreme Court in the middle of a presidential election year."


claim:
"More people were killed by terrorists in 2015 than in any other year ever, after an 80 percent increase from 2014."


claim:
"We have ten different tax brackets and if you’re making $9,000, you’re already in the top tax bracket."


claim:
"According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 120 Americans on average die from a drug overdose every day. Overall, drug overdose deaths now outnumber deaths from firearms."


claim:
"North Carolina spends $855 less per student than it did before the Great Recession, and we have one of the lowest per pupil spending levels in the nation."


claim:
Says Donald Trump promised "to take care of everybody (through government-run healthcare and) the government's going to pay for it."


claim:
In the primary election, a "right-wing group spent more than $100,000,000 to support" Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley.


claim:
"We do not have an overcrowding problem. As a matter of fact, Rhode Island has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the country."


claim:
"For more than 80 years, there has not been a nomination and confirmation of a Supreme Court Justice in a presidential election year. This is simply not the time to break with decades of bipartisan practice."


claim:
"Given the results of the primary, the vote of one New Hampshire superdelegate is equal to the votes of about 10,000 grassroots activists."


claim:
Says Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland "voted, so the folks know, in Washington, D.C., to keep guns away from private citizens."


claim:
"The right-wing extremists are trying to take this seat so they can push their anti-choice and anti-equality agenda through our State House."


claim:
The Mitchell Park Domes "lose about $1 million-plus every year" and "the number of people going to the Domes has been going down."


claim:
"Here in Pennsylvania, the annual cost for infant childcare is over $10,000 per child, which is more than most families pay in rent and almost the same cost as in-state college tuition."


claim:
"Six justices" on the U.S. Supreme Court have been "confirmed in presidential election years since 1912."


claim:
As a sign of "extraordinary progress," "there are half as many (primary-age) children out of school today as there were 15 years ago."


claim:
"Republicans control the U.S. Senate with 54 seats, but those 54 senators were elected by only two-thirds the number of voters who elected the Democrats. In the Senate, the majority party represents a minority of the people."


claim:
Says when Bernie Sanders was in college, Sanders said "something very similar" to what conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley had written as a college student in the 1990s -- that "women have a legitimate role in date rape."


claim:
Says a YouTube video shows Thomas DiMassimo, the man who rushed Trump at an Ohio rally, "dragging the American flag on the ground like it was a piece of garbage."


claim:
California "cut about $1.3 billion in child care (during the recession). We’ve only reinvested about $300 million."


claim:
"The [Obama] administration’s regulatory assault on coal-fired energy has put thousands of Americans out of work"


claim:
"Gun violence is by far the leading cause of death for young African American men, outstripping the next nine causes of death combined."


claim:
"More lives are lost from violence against women, sex-selective abortion, female infanticide, suicide, egregious maternal mortality, and other sex-linked causes than were lost during all of the wars and civil strife of the 20th century."


claim:
The rate of U.S. female homicide victims outnumbers 24 other developed countries by more than 2½ to 1.


claim:
Susie Lee and her husband "own 17 homes across the country and use their private jet to take vacations," and invest in "companies like Walmart, Halliburton and GEO Group."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton told the Des Moines Register on Aug. 8, 2015: "I will get the NRA shut down for good if I become president. If we can ban handguns, we will do it."


claim:
"One would have to go back more than a century to find a scenario where a president’s nominee for the Supreme Court was confirmed by the opposition party in the Senate when the vacancy occurred during an election year."


claim:
"The Walton family of Walmart ... This one family owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of the American people."


claim:
Says the man who rushed the stage at him in Dayton, Ohio, "had chatter about ISIS, or with ISIS" in his social media posts.


claim:
Says Barack Obama "has the legal authority to let in really however many refugees he wants, from whatever country."


claim:
"As a legislator, (Marco Rubio) flipped on a key vote after making a quick $200,000 from selling the house to the mother of the bill's lobbyist."


claim:
In 2006, Bernie Sanders "voted in the House with hard-line Republicans for indefinite detention for undocumented immigrants, and then he sided with those Republicans to stand with vigilantes known as Minutemen who were taking up outposts along the border to hunt down immigrants."


claim:
"When the City and the Fairmount Park Conservancy invested $5 million in Hunting Park, crime went down 89 percent within a half mile radius of the park over the next three years."


claim:
"If you look at Latino kids between 17 and 20 who graduated high school, 36 percent of them are unemployed or underemployed. … African-American kids are unemployed or underemployed to the tune of 51 percent."


claim:
When New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer wanted to "provide driver’s licenses to those who are undocumented. (Hillary Clinton) said don’t do it."


claim:
"When the auto industry was going under, car parts companies like" Johnson Controls "begged taxpayers for a bailout, and they got one."


claim:
"Over 32,000 people die from #GunViolence every year. Yet, (The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) is banned from researching ways to prevent this."


claim:
When John Kasich became governor of Ohio, "there was an $8 billion budget deficit and now there’s a $2 billion surplus."


claim:
"Almost every poll has shown that Sanders vs. Trump does a lot better than Clinton vs. Trump … and, that’s true nationally."


claim:
Says Michael Bennet wants to close Guantanamo Bay prison and bring terrorists "right here to Colorado."


claim:
"(Flint, Mich., is) paying three times more for poison water than I am paying in Burlington, Vt., for clean water."


claim:
Says Bernie Sanders "was against the auto bailout" and "voted against the money that ended up saving the auto industry."


claim:
"A single mother of two can’t qualify for basic healthcare through Medicaid if she makes more than $3,504 dollars a year."


claim:
"Statistics show 2 to 3 Texas women per week have major complications and 10 women per week seek help at an ER after an abortion."


claim:
"There is a precedent" for not nominating someone to the U.S. Supreme Court "in the middle of a presidential election."


claim:
Says he "tore down hundreds of abandoned homes that served as havens for crime and reduce(d) the value of our neighborhoods."


claim:
U.S. global AIDS spending helped reduce "political instability and violence" by "40 percent" in recipient nations.


claim:
Says Donald Trump has written 10 checks to Hillary Clinton "and four of those checks were not to her Senate campaign. … It was to her presidential campaign."


claim:
The wives of the 9/11 hijackers "knew exactly what was happening" and went back to Saudi Arabia two days before the attacks to watch their husbands on television flying the planes.


claim:
In head-to-head polls for the general election, "I beat Hillary Clinton by more than anybody, by 11 points."


claim:
"Spending on welfare, on prisons, and education, all of those have dropped by hundreds of millions of dollars" because of Arizona’s immigration laws that drove out undocumented immigrants.


claim:
Says Mahatma Gandhi once said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."


claim:
"Every Republican Senate candidate has now announced whether or not they support the Senate taking up the Supreme Court vacancy…except for Congressman Heck."


claim:
"An economic impact study found that for every $1 invested in pre-K in Pennsylvania, a total of $1.79 is generated in total spending within the state."


claim:
"Since (welfare reform) was signed into law, the number of families living in extreme poverty has more than doubled."


claim:
Says "Harry Reid, when asked about the Republican field, said the Republican he likes the best is Donald Trump, and he said, because I can work with him. He'll cut deals."


claim:
"There have been multiple media reports about (Donald Trump's) business dealings with the mob, with the mafia."


claim:
"There is not a single candidate in the Republican primary that thinks we should do anything about climate change."


claim:
Says "the New York Times can write a story that they know is false" yet "they can't basically be sued."


claim:
"There is no evidence to support the claim that Guantanamo is used as a recruiting tool" for terrorists.


claim:
Says Travis County Commissioner Gerald Daugherty "claims to have taken a pay cut, but for 2016, he voted to raise his salary by 19.6 percent."


claim:
"There isn’t a single (Texas) legislator under the age of 30, even though millennials make up 25 percent of the electorate in Texas."


claim:
"It's been since 1888 that a Senate of a different party than the president in the White House confirmed a Supreme Court nominee."


claim:
"You are three times more likely to be able to get a mortgage if you're a white applicant than if you're black or Hispanic, even if you have the same credentials."


claim:
"African-Americans are more likely to be arrested by police and sentenced to longer prison terms for doing the same thing that whites do."


claim:
When Mitt Romney chose Paul Ryan as his vice-presidential running mate, "that was the end" of Romney’s chances to win.


claim:
Says "Barack Obama is apparently not for vetting people and saying just anybody can come" to the United States.


claim:
"A couple of debates ago, (Donald Trump) said if you don’t support socialized health care, you’re heartless."


claim:
Says Donald Trump hired illegal workers "from Poland and he had to pay a million dollars or so in a judgment."


claim:
"When they passed Obamacare, they put a bailout fund in Obamacare. … We led the effort and wiped out that bailout fund."


claim:
Says that in the Philippines more than a century ago, Gen. John Pershing "took 50 bullets, and he dipped them in pigs’ blood," and shot 49 Muslim rebels. "The 50th person, he said, ‘You go back to your people, and you tell them what happened.’ And for 25 years, there wasn’t a problem."


claim:
Says he cured Charlie Sheen and the island of Comoros of HIV with "milk from goats, which had arthritis."


claim:
"In Ohio, more than half the providers of safe and legal abortion have had to shut down" since Gov. John Kasich took office in 2011.


claim:
"There is great disparity, tremendous disparity, in the (capital) funding on a per-student basis between our traditional public schools and our charter public schools."


claim:
"Why are Muslim armies so useless against ISIS? ... There are 20,000 or 30,000 (ISIS fighters). The countries surrounding ISIS have armies totaling 5 million people."


claim:
"It’s highly unusual to have a Supreme Court confirmation in a presidential election year. The last one was 1940."


claim:
"About 70 percent of Republicans nationwide ... don't think Donald Trump is the right guy" to take on Hillary Clinton in November.


claim:
Says Missouri families’ "earning power is about $5,000 less today than it was at the turn of the century."


claim:
Blocking a U.S. Supreme Court nomination during the remaining months of President Obama’s term "would leave the nation’s highest court with an unprecedented year-long vacancy."


claim:
The Arizona State Board of Education’s "failure to report teachers whose certifications have been revoked or suspended ... resulted in the death of a student."


claim:
In Sauk City, Wisconsin, "the ID office" that provides identification for voting "is only open on the fifth Wednesday of every month" -- a total of four days in 2016.


claim:
"In New Hampshire, I spent $3 million. Jeb Bush spent $44 million. He came in five, and I came in number one."


claim:
"There's never been a (U.S. Supreme Court) vacancy in the last, I think, 30 years, lasting longer than 237 days."


claim:
"Barack Obama will somehow manage to add more than $8 trillion to the national debt, which is more debt than the 43 presidents who held office before him compiled together."


claim:
In 2005 and 2007, " Joe Straus received a 100 percent rating by NARAL (the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League)."


claim:
Says Dontre Hamilton, who was killed during a confrontation with a Milwaukee police officer, was "unarmed."


claim:
"People have actually broken down the transcripts for oral arguments and (Antonin Scalia) told more jokes and got more laughs than any of the other justices."


claim:
Says she will "work to raise the federal minimum wage back to the highest level it’s ever been — $12 an hour in today’s dollars."


claim:
Says Marco Rubio "went on Univision, and in Spanish he promised that he would not on the first day in office rescind President Obama's illegal executive action."


claim:
Says "the one person (Donald Trump) has suggested that would make a good justice is his sister, who is a court of appeals judge appointed by Bill Clinton. She is a hardcore pro-abortion liberal judge."


claim:
North Korea’s missiles are "not going to have a capability to reach the United States anytime real soon."


claim:
"The most likely triggering cause of (microcephaly)" is the "DTaP shot, a vaccine that had been recently mandated by the Brazilian government to be injected into pregnant women."


claim:
"When Jeb (Bush) was governor, his first four years as governor, his Medicaid program grew twice as fast as mine."


claim:
Since January 2015, the "majority of our" Austin City Council "meetings have extended past 10 p.m." and "many of our meetings have gone past midnight."


claim:
"Under Virginia law, if you are a non-federally licensed (gun) dealer, you cannot get a background check even if you want one."


claim:
"It has been 80 years since a Supreme Court vacancy was nominated and confirmed in an election year. There is a long tradition that you don't do this in an election year."


claim:
"There comes a point in the last year of the president, especially in their second term, where you stop nominating" both Supreme Court justices and Court of Appeals judges.


claim:
Says "Joseph Stalin said if you want to bring America down you, have to undermine three things: our spiritual life, our patriotism and our morality."


claim:
Quotes Mark Cuban as saying, "I worry that millions of millennials are voting Democrat this year because they fact-check everything."


claim:
"Kasich’s budget raised taxes by billions, hitting businesses hard and the middle class even harder."


claim:
Scott Fisher "tried to expand Obamacare in Texas and even voted for an official resolution to force 1 million Texans into Obamacare."


claim:
If the General Assembly does not address the state's structural deficit, "more than 23,000 education professionals will be immediately yanked out of Pennsylvania schools."


claim:
Says Sen. Bernie Sanders has called President Barack Obama "weak. He's called him a disappointment."


claim:
"Don't believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9 and 5 percent unemployment. The number's probably 28, 29, as high as 35. In fact, I even heard recently 42 percent."


claim:
The Seminole gambling compact offers "$3 billion in guaranteed revenue, the largest share for any state in history."


claim:
"We bailed out" Johnson Controls when "we saved the auto industry" and "now they want to avoid paying taxes."


claim:
"My two appointments to the Florida Supreme Court, Raul Cantero and Kenneth Bell, have earned reputations as its most consistent conservatives."


claim:
"While states used to have regulatory power over fishing, federal law now regulates down to the tenth of the inch the minimum size of fish that anglers can keep."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "believes that all abortions should be legal, even on the due date of that unborn child."


claim:
"We’re spending tremendous amounts of money to educate our kids. In the world, we're No. 1 per pupil by a factor of four."


claim:
Says President John F. Kennedy released a star Green Bay Packer from military reserve duty so that he could play in the 1961 NFL Championship Game.


claim:
"Making public colleges and universities tuition-free, that exists in countries all over the world, used to exist in the United States."


claim:
Says Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele "once proposed a plan to end county funding to homeless shelters."


claim:
Says she "is 6th in hard dollars raised and has more cash on hand than Governors (John) Kasich and (Chris) Christie combined."


claim:
Says Ruben Kihuen "only managed in the minority to get one bill passed out of the eight to 10 he introduced" during the 2015 legislative session.


claim:
Says "some Planned Parenthood chapters have been selling the body parts of aborted fetuses for profit."


claim:
Says Pat Toomey visited Joe Sestak and other veterans in 2002 "and then came home and voted against every veterans appropriations bill."


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In Virginia, "people are going and getting marriage licenses who are 12 and 13, and 14 and 15 years old."


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"Tell me what Madeleine Albright’s position was on the War on Iraq. I wouldn’t be surprised if she supported it."


claim:
"There really isn’t any kind of foreign policy network that is supporting and advising Sen. Sanders."


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"The American people will not support doing anything about people that are in this country illegally until the law is enforced first."


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Regarding the Iraq War, "I was the one that said, ‘Don’t go, don’t do it, you’re going to destabilize the Middle East.’ "


claim:
Says CNN reported Ben Carson was "taking a break from campaigning" and the Cruz campaign "forwarded that news to our volunteers."


claim:
Says Goldman Sachs CEO said Congress would "have to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and give huge tax breaks to the wealthy and the large corporations."


claim:
"Gene Green is the NRA’s favorite Democrat in Congress. ... "It’s no wonder the congressman has a lifetime A rating from the NRA."


claim:
Says Donald Trump's conversion to pro-life beliefs are akin to Justin Bieber's, who said in the past that abortion "was no big deal to him."


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"Faced with $1 million in campaign debt," Scott Walker "is unloading his campaign security costs onto the backs of Wisconsin taxpayers."


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"I waited until (the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) had actually been negotiated" before deciding whether to endorse it.


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Says Bernie Sanders advocated putting "Iranian troops into Syria to try and resolve the conflict there. Putting them right on the doorstep of Israel."


claim:
Americans "are working longer hours for low wages . . . and yet almost all new income and wealth is going to the top 1 percent."


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Arizona is spending "less on a per-capita basis than every single state in this country in higher education."


claim:
"I am the only candidate that has endorsed Bernie Sanders for President. In PA, I've got Bernie's back."


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The 2013 immigration bill "expanded President Obama’s ability to bring Syrian refugees to this country without mandating any meaningful background checks."


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Says Catherine Cortez Masto "was happy to line her own pockets with taxpayer dollars when state employees were slammed with frozen salaries."


claim:
"While our people work longer hours for lower wages, almost all new income goes to the top 1 percent."


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As part of legislative fights over abortion rights, "Mike Coffman co-sponsored a bill to redefine rape."


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The debt "comes up all the time in town meetings ... but it's never asked in the debates. It's really weird. It hasn't been brought up."


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Says Ohio Gov. John Kasich had "the worst rating on spending of any governor in the country, Republican or Democrat."


claim:
"This is the true picture of ‘Milwaukee's Renaissance’ after 12 years of Mayor Tom Barrett's leadership."


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When terrorists killed more than 250 Americans in Lebanon under Ronald Reagan, "the Democrats didn’t make that a partisan issue."


claim:
"A (state) trooper with 10 years on the force is getting $500 a year more than a trooper with 10 minutes on the force."


claim:
"Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have the identical position on health care, which is they want to put the government in charge of you and your doctor."


claim:
"It is rare that a retirement grade determination is conducted for an officer previously retired from the U.S. armed forces."


claim:
"Today Russia holds many of our most precious national security satellites at risk before they ever get off the ground."


claim:
A Texas law requires every high school to have a voter registrar "and part of their responsibility is to make sure that when children become 18 and become eligible to vote, that they vote."


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Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson wants to put 100,000 troops, including 25,000 Americans, "into the area where ISIS is."


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Obamacare "is the biggest job-killer in this country -- millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work."


claim:
When a Gallup poll asked about presidential candidate characteristics, "When they get to the question on, 'Would you vote for a socialist,' it is even less popular than voting for atheists."


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Says Barack Obama's administration has admitted that money from its Iran nuclear deal "would go directly to terrorism."


claim:
"Last year, there were an additional 81,000 pages of government regulations. If you stack that up, it would be a three-story building."


claim:
Neighbors of the San Bernardino shooters "knew that they were talking about trying to take our country and attack it."


claim:
"I am the only candidate on either side who has laid out a specific plan about what I would do to defeat ISIS."


claim:
"When they say Mexico can't pay for the wall, I say of course they can. We have a trade deficit with Mexico that's unbelievably big. ... It's billions and billions of dollars -- far more than what we're talking about for the wall."


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Under Ted Cruz’s tax plan, "businesses will now have to pay 16 percent on the money they make. They will also have to pay 16 percent on the money they pay their employees."


claim:
"Since John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, more Americans have died by gunfire within our own country than American servicemen and women who were killed in all our wars."


claim:
"Almost all of the polls that have come out suggest that I am a much stronger candidate against the Republicans than is Hillary Clinton."


claim:
"Fifty years ago, the average GM employee could pay for a year of a son or daughter’s college tuition on just two weeks wages."


claim:
Says Cresent Hardy agreed with Mitt Romney "about the 47 percent" and said that "people with disabilities are, and I quote him, ‘a drain on society.’ "


claim:
Says a Ted Cruz ad has "got me bull-dozing down a house. I never bulldozed it down. It's false advertising."


claim:
"Blue Cross Blue Shield cancelled all their individual (health care) policies in the state of Texas, effective Dec. 31."


claim:
"According to the most recent report, Wisconsin’s high school graduation rates are also up again -- to third best in the country."


claim:
Says the Democratic Party created a debate schedule "to maximize the opportunity for voters to see our candidates."


claim:
"Every piece of legislation, just about, that I ever introduced (in the U.S. Senate) had a Republican co-sponsor."


claim:
"Very little of (the defense) budget — less than 10 percent — actually goes into fighting ISIS and international terrorism."


claim:
Hostages were released as soon as Ronald Reagan took office because Iran perceived that America was "no longer under the command of someone weak."


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Says Hillary Clinton called Barack Obama "naive" for saying he was would "sit down and talk to the Iranians" during the 2008 Democratic primary.


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Boston is just 60 minutes away and it’s offering subsidies to developers who can charge higher rent than you can get in Providence while construction costs are more or less equal. As a result, the Boston skyline "is completely dominated by the cranes."


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Wisconsin dropped "from second in the country to 41st" among states where more than half the students took the ACT exam.


claim:
"California Senator, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein said if she could say to Mr. America and Mrs. America, 'Give me your guns, I'm rounding 'em up,' she would."


claim:
Says Marco Rubio "knows full well I voted for his amendment to increase military spending to $697 billion."


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Says President Barack Obama "appointed Eric Holder as attorney general. Eric Holder said he viewed his mission as brainwashing the American people against guns."


claim:
Among Syrian refugees and migrants coming into Europe, "there look like very few women. Very few children."


claim:
Says Bernie Sanders’ health care plan would "empower Republican governors to take away Medicaid, to take away health insurance for low-income and middle-income working Americans."


claim:
Until the new Iran deal, China and Russia "have never voted with us at the U.N. on any sanctions on Iran in the past."


claim:
"For the first time ever, we completely funded the critical needs waiting list so persons with unique abilities can get the help they need."


claim:
"As governor of Florida, I used a combination of strategies to help reduce heroin use among youth in Florida by approximately 50 percent."


claim:
"We are taking Virginia’s investment in public education to the highest level in the commonwealth’s history."


claim:
"Let’s start with the premise that Rhode Island already has one of the 10 strictest [gun laws] amongst all the states."


claim:
Under Scott Walker, Wisconsin "moved from 16th to third in percentage of people with student loan debt."


claim:
"When we held recent economic dialogues with China, we agreed on over 100 different things  —  including wildlife trafficking and volcano research. None of these 100-plus points of agreement addressed cybersecurity."


claim:
"Marco Rubio voted against authorizing President Obama to strike Syria after Assad used chemical weapons on his own people."


claim:
Says Missouri needs a voter I.D. law because "there’s over 16 people in the state of Missouri who have been convicted of some type of voter fraud."


claim:
"Everywhere that we have more citizens carrying guns, crime is less. There's a study showing that where states have open carry or concealed carry, but particularly open carry, the crime is down 25 percent."


claim:
"More than 60 percent of people in America support Planned Parenthood and only 11 percent approve of Congress."


claim:
By the end of 2015, more than 1,300 people will have died on Georgia roads. One of out evey four fatalities resulted from drunken driving.


claim:
"91% of suspected terrorists who attempted to buy guns in America walked away with the weapon they wanted."


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Forty percent of illegal immigrants are "people coming legally on visas and overstaying their visas."


claim:
"Here in Wisconsin, we've put in previous budgets more money into mental health services than any governor has in the last 25 years."


claim:
"The Democrats in the Senate last year introduced a constitutional amendment to repeal the free speech protections of the First Amendment."


claim:
The only budget Ted Cruz "ever voted for in his time in the Senate is a budget that cut defense spending by more than Barack Obama proposes we cut it."


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"Only nine" coalition nations with the U.S. "are truly actively involved" in fighting the Islamic State.


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The United States spends "almost three times per capita what they spend in the U.K." on health care and "50 percent more than they pay in France."


claim:
"Secretary Clinton changes her position on (gun issues) every election year, it seems, having one position in 2000 and then campaigning against President Obama and saying we don't need federal standards."


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ISIS is "going to people showing videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists."


claim:
Says the Security Against Foreign Enemies Act of 2015 would not "pause" the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States.


claim:
"One of the most troubling aspects of the Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight bill was that it gave President Obama blanket authority to admit refugees, including Syrian refugees, without mandating any background checks whatsoever."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama "himself has granted waivers allowing into the United States refugees who provided material support to terrorists."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama’s homeland security budget had "$16 million to fight climate change" but "didn't have a line item to fight violent extremism."


claim:
The 9/11 terrorists' friends, family, girlfriends in the United States "were sent back for the most part to Saudi Arabia. They knew what was going on. They went home, and they wanted to watch their boyfriends on television."


claim:
"The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has estimated that the Obama administration’s Power Plan will cause energy costs in Texas to rise as much as 16 percent per year."


claim:
"If you are going to kill the families of terrorists, realize that there's something called the Geneva Convention we're going to have to pull out of."


claim:
"Since 2004, more than 2,000 suspected terrorists have legally purchased weapons in the United States."


claim:
Regarding the USA Freedom Act, "There is nothing we are allowed to do under this bill that we could not do before."


claim:
"Recent news reports indicate DWI crashes in Austin dropped 23 percent since ridesharing entered the market."


claim:
Says carpet bombing means bombing "not a city, but the location of the troops," with "embedded special forces to direct the air power."


claim:
"One of the things I would immediately do … is bring back the warrior class -- Petraeus, McChrystal, Mattis, Keane, Flynn. ... Every one was retired early because they told President Obama things that he didn’t want to hear."


claim:
"We're practically not allowed to use coal any more. What do we do with our coal? We ship it to China and they spew it in the air."


claim:
"Mike Morell testified and told Congress that the reason Obama has not bombed ISIS' oil fields is they're concerned about global warming."


claim:
"Three or four countries" out of roughly 60 in the anti-ISIS coalition "are providing military force."


claim:
"On a single night in January 2015, state and local planning agencies in Rhode Island reported the following estimates of homelessness … 107 veterans were homeless."


claim:
"Under conservative leadership, Congress has reduced the federal deficit by 60 percent – nearly $800 billion."


claim:
"Most of the black scientists in this country don't come from schools like the University of Texas. They come from lesser schools."


claim:
Since 2008, Gwinnett County’s population has grown 15 percent, while the county government staff has increased only 1 percent.


claim:
Says Marco Rubio said "we should be considering internment" of Muslims, and "maybe we should close down cafes and diners where Muslims gather and in fact compared them to the Nazi party."


claim:
"Up until recently, 75 percent of all the sorties that left the base came back without dropping their ordnances, because there was such a concern about making sure that there were no civilian casualties."


claim:
The U.S. "tax rate on successful small businesses is 44.6 percent," while the business tax rate in Canada is 15 percent.


claim:
Says 25 percent of U.S. Muslims "agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad."


claim:
"We lock up close to 2.4 million people in this country. We're locking up more people than China and Russia."


claim:
"In France, they have a (surveillance) program a thousandfold more invasive" than the United States.


claim:
In the weekend after the terrorist attacks in Paris, the White House said "this couldn't happen in the United States. ISIS couldn't reach us here."


claim:
A Muslim immigrant in Michigan can list his second, third or fourth wives as "extended family" and qualify for welfare.


claim:
"In almost every other country in the world, artists and musicians are paid when their music is played on the radio. In fact, the only countries besides the U.S. who do not have a radio-performance right are China, Iran and North Korea."


claim:
The Charleston, S.C., shooter "should have never been given a gun, but the universal background check was not fast enough."


claim:
"There are over 700,000 Americans on some watch list or another that would all be captured" in a Democratic amendment intended to stop suspected terrorists from buying guns.


claim:
The "federal government is going after school districts, trying to force them to let boys shower with little girls."


claim:
"You go down to Miami and when it's flooding at high tide on a sunny day, fish are swimming through the middle of the streets."


claim:
Despite attention on global warming, "fewer Americans carpool today to work than carpooled in 1980" and "SUVs have never been a larger proportion of the vehicles being sold in this country."


claim:
The Milwaukee County executive can sell the public "museum, the airport and the zoo" -- all on his own, without County Board approval


claim:
Says there are "ample means" to "tell when someone is a Christian in the Middle East ... by name, by where they’re born, their birth certificates."


claim:
"Here’s the simple and undeniable fact: The overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats."


claim:
Jeb Bush’s plan for Social Security is "disastrous for seniors and raises the retirement age to 70."


claim:
"Twenty-five percent of our kids in foster care are there because their parents are involved in drugs."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama "will not utter the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ and as matter of policy, nobody in the administration will say the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’"


claim:
Says Russ Feingold "wanted to get money out of politics. Now he's profiting from that same dark money."


claim:
"Ron Johnson said specifically that he hopes the first steps occur to privatize the" Veterans Administration.


claim:
For NATO exercises, "we don’t have enough of our own hardware and equipment even for training purposes. So the Brits are spotting us choppers."


claim:
The United States has "10,000 IRS agents making sure that you don't take an improper charity deduction," but to fight terrorism, it has "less than two dozen people focusing on countering violent extremism at home."


claim:
"Instead of fighting ISIS, (the Saudis) have focused more on a campaign to oust Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen."


claim:
"Road congestion costs rush hour drivers in Austin and Dallas more than $1,000 a year. And in Houston, it’s even more -- almost $1,500 a year."


claim:
After the Texas cutoff of aid to women’s health care services including Planned Parenthood clinics, "over 150,000… women lost the only health care they had. Our Medicaid birth rate shot up. It cost taxpayers over $130 million in one year alone in extra Medicaid birth costs."


claim:
"The actual (construction) contracts that we’ve awarded to date have come in several hundred million dollars below estimates."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama did not invite a Republican senator to dine at the White House until his fifth year in office.


claim:
"29 mass shootings have been committed by concealed carriers since 2007, while during this period only one (1) licensed civilian meaningfully intervened in a mass shooting."


claim:
"The Libyan people have voted twice in free and fair elections for the kind of leadership they want."


claim:
"I spent 18 months putting together the sanctions against Iran so that we could force them to the negotiating table."


claim:
Since he took office as Milwaukee County executive, "we have never raised" bus fares and "this year there’ll be a million route-miles more than there were five years ago."


claim:
"It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia."


claim:
"We now know these firms are unwilling to put up any private money," for California's high-speed rail project.


claim:
"I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering" as the World Trade Center collapsed.


claim:
"This incident of supposed feces depicting a swastika on the wall of a bathrooms in one of the halls ... has been supported by zero fact."


claim:
"@Jorge_Elorza still think your plan is safe? Rescue Captain Kenyon just worked 96 hours straight. 96 hours."


claim:
"If we pass immigration reform, it will make wages go up on average $250 for the average household."


claim:
The federal government is "making the decision, whether we like it or not, to send 425 refugees to our state" from Syria.


claim:
The New York Police Department used to have "surveillance going on in and around mosques in New York City. ... Our mayor totally cut that out."


claim:
Wisconsin’s 6th congressional "district has more manufacturing jobs than almost any other" in the nation.


claim:
Says David Vitter "answered a prostitute’s call minutes after he skipped a vote honoring 28 soldiers who gave their lives in defense of our freedom."


claim:
The federal government is sending refugees to states with governors who are "Republicans, not to the Democrats."


claim:
Says Ted Cruz "is a supporter of legalizing people that are in this country illegally" and "proposed giving them work permits."


claim:
Says a car driving former University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe "ran through the students, hit one of them" at the MU Homecoming Parade.


claim:
"71% of WI’s roads are in poor or mediocre condition and 14% of WI’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete."


claim:
"The United States (is) the largest provider of humanitarian assistance to displaced persons and refugees."


claim:
In Japan, "permanent residency is not given to Muslims," the "propagation of Islam" is banned, "one cannot import a Koran published in the Arabic language," and "Muslims cannot even rent a house."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton and the Democrats "admitted there’s one candidate who scares Hillary Clinton, and that’s Sen. Marco Rubio."


claim:
"When I became governor, I inherited a large deficit. You know what? We just turned that into the largest surplus in Virginia history."


claim:
When President Barack Obama said ISIS, or ISIL, was contained, he "was responding very specifically to the geographic expansion of ISIL in Iraq and Syria."


claim:
Out of the total U.S. military budget, "significantly less than 10 percent of that money is used to fight international terrorism."


claim:
The United States is "the only major country on earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right, not a privilege."


claim:
"In a period of roughly 72 hours, a small group of angry black students managed to force the resignation of the two highest ranking officials at that school."


claim:
The Trans-Pacific Partnership "was designed for China to come in, as they always do, through the back door and totally take advantage of everyone."


claim:
Says Marco Rubio is proposing a new $1 trillion "welfare program" in tax credits and "$1 trillion in new military spending."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton told her daughter and a government official that Benghazi "was a terrorist attack, and then tells everybody else that it was a video."


claim:
"Only one out of five of the so-called ‘Syrian refugees’ who went into Europe were actually Syrian."


claim:
"There’s only one of us who’s actually cut government spending -- not two, there’s one and you’re looking at him."


claim:
Obamacare insurance cooperative failures "should be expected" because they're like any business, and "when you start businesses in America, at the fifth year, half of the businesses have closed."


claim:
"When President Obama was running for re-election … Senator Sanders was trying to find someone to primary him."


claim:
"Marco Rubio spent $400K of your tax dollars remodeling offices, and building a members-only lounge."


claim:
"Go look on the West Point website and you’ll see those specific words, ‘full scholarship to West Point.’ So even though it is, you know, given as a grant for anybody who gets in, those words are used."


claim:
Says that in polls about 2016 candidate leadership skills, he comes out "two and three and four times higher than anybody else."


claim:
"I am the only person in this field who is against amnesty. Every other person in this field wants to allow people who are here illegally to be able to stay here, in one form or another."


claim:
"How many concerts would Taylor Swift have to perform to pay off one day of interest on our national debt? She would have to perform every day for three years."


claim:
Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board "ignored their duties and did not regularly audit" voters to remove felons "for a span of 16 elections.


claim:
The Koch Brothers are "spending more money than either the Democratic or Republican parties" in the 2016 elections.


claim:
"‘Dark money’ spending" in the 2016 election cycle "is 10 times what it was at the same point in the 2012 election cycle," when it topped $308 million.


claim:
"There was never a single shred of evidence presented to anyone" that the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, were "spontaneous, and in fact, the CIA themselves understood that early on."


claim:
"No city in the state, no state in this nation, for that matter the entire world, has adopted (clean energy) targets more ambitious in scale."


claim:
"Smog was invented in Los Angeles. It was. The name was invented. There was a fellow at Caltech and he came up with the idea and they called it smog."


claim:
Says Ohio Gov. John Kasich "got lucky with a thing called fracking," which "is why Ohio is doing well."


claim:
"It has been estimated that nearly 40 percent of all guns sold in America are sold by private, unlicensed sellers either online or through gun shows."


claim:
Electric car sales in Georgia have dropped dramatically since a $5,000 tax credit was eliminated and a $200 annual registration fee was imposed July 1.


claim:
"If you look at the three people on the (debate) stage from the United States Senate, all three of them have a combined two bills that became law that they've sponsored."


claim:
"There have been more than 300 mass shootings in the United States this year – more than any other country in the world."


claim:
A Texas police department bought an ad telling drug dealers, "We can take your competition off the streets for FREE."


claim:
Says a question about his financial skills at the CNBC debate included "discredited attacks from Democrats and my political opponents."


claim:
Among manufacturers with fewer than 50 employees, "the average cost in terms of regulations is $34,000 per employee."


claim:
My campaign "finished the last quarter reporting the most cash on hand of any Republican in the field … $13.8 million in the bank, $3.5 million more than the Jeb Bush campaign."


claim:
In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama "missed 60 or 70 percent of his votes." In 2004, John Kerry missed "close to 60 to 70 percent" and Bob Graham missed "over 30 percent of his votes."


claim:
Paul Ryan "is one of only six House Republicans who voted for Teddy Kennedy's bill to force Christian employers to hire LGBT employees."


claim:
"After today, @GovJayNixon will have been overridden more times than all previous governors in #MO history #moleg"


claim:
Unlike Benghazi, there were no investigations of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, none about key aspects of the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq War, and none about embassy attacks under George W. Bush.


claim:
"German citizens were disarmed by their government in the late 1930s," which allowed the Nazis to "carry out their evil intentions with relatively little resistance."


claim:
"Since 2001, higher education in the state has been cut or allowed to erode ... by 35 or 40 percent."


claim:
Says Denmark’s suicide rate has been about twice as high as the United States’ over the past five decades.


claim:
"Even after Syrian troops began to shoot protesters in the streets with live ammunition in 2011, Clinton labeled Bashar al-Assad a ‘reformer.' "


claim:
Some 8.1 million of the estimated 11 million to 12 million people "in this country illegally are working."


claim:
Two years ago motorists in Ferguson, a city of 20,000 people, "received 31,000 citations. That's at least one citation per person plus 10,000 for visitors. The city is still surviving only on traffic tickets; there's virtually no industry there."


claim:
Planned Parenthood is "nothing more than a referral service. … They don’t do anything except profit from killing babies and then selling body parts of those aborted babies."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "couldn't bring herself to say we need to separate commercial banking and speculative banking, namely reinstating Glass-Steagall."


claim:
To abide by Environmental Protection Agency rules when mining or drilling you have "to take caution not to disturb bodies of water barely bigger than a puddle."


claim:
A Republican bill that would change John Doe criminal investigations is "creating exceptions in the law for politicians."


claim:
"CNN's Crap Polling" is so bad that it shows that "no one under the age of 50 has an opinion of Hillary Clinton."


claim:
Says CIA Director George Tenet told the Bush administration that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack "was coming. So they did have advanced notice."


claim:
"You wonder why you don't see Rand Paul as much; he's still shopping for his billionaire. He's like the only one who hasn't found a billionaire to fund his super PAC."


claim:
Says CNN deleted an online poll showing Bernie Sanders won the first Democratic presidential debate to help out Hillary Clinton.


claim:
In Milwaukee County, juveniles arrested for car theft "get sent immediately home, because under the point system in juvenile court" on holding suspects, "a stolen car gets zero points."


claim:
"I did not play any role in bringing the company to RI as did others in government. I was tasked with handling the legislation affecting the company by my superiors."


claim:
Says Bernie Sanders once said, "Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs."


claim:
The gun industry is "the only business in America that is wholly protected from any kind of liability."


claim:
Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board "wanted to consider Mickey Mouse and Adolf Hitler as valid signatures on recall petitions."


claim:
"Paul Ryan is one of less than a dozen Republican congressmen to have voted for every bailout to come before Congress."


claim:
Says as secretary of state she was reserving judgment about the Trans-Pacific Partnership and "hoped it would be the gold standard."


claim:
President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry agreed "to lift Iran’s economic and arms sanctions without any proof of change in conduct."


claim:
Pollsters say "don't actually believe our own data" and Gallup stopped primary polling "because they don't trust their methodology."


claim:
Dan Gecker voted to "double vehicle registration fees, costing (Chesterfield) county residents over $6 million annually."


claim:
"There have been seven investigations (of Benghazi) led mostly by Republicans in the Congress" that concluded "nobody did anything wrong, but there were changes we could make."


claim:
Says Republican Rep. Charlie Dent wants to kick the Freedom Caucus out of the Republican conference "for voting our conscience."


claim:
"In the class of 1968 at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, Mahmoud Abbas was one of the members of that class, and so was Ali Khamenei. And that's where they first established relationships with the young Vladimir Putin."


claim:
Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson "led the fight to let polluters release unlimited amounts of carbon pollution and took nearly $225,000 from polluters."


claim:
"While 38 percent of (firearms) dealers that were inspected in 2011 were noncompliant with federal law, only 0.05 percent of inspected dealers had their licenses revoked."


claim:
"Millions of dollars are spent by Planned Parenthood to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives and the Senate."


claim:
A state agency wanted to fire an employee who spent four hours per day watching pornography, but the state "employment commission reinstated the person."


claim:
Pope Francis uses a modest compact car to get around, while Creflo Dollar drives an expensive sports car.


claim:
Says Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards was "forced to concede that 86 percent of Planned Parenthood’s revenue is from abortion."


claim:
Planned Parenthood "is an organization that funnels millions of dollars in political contributions to pro-abortion candidates."


claim:
Number of Americans killed by terrorism in the last decade: 24. Number of Americans killed by guns in the last decade: 280,024.


claim:
About "3 percent of murders and crimes are committed with guns from people who actually (legally) purchase those guns."


claim:
Iran’s "regime is responsible for more than 1,000 American casualties during the Iraq war" and "has plotted a terrorist attack here in our nation's capital."


claim:
"It's estimated we leave somewhere north of $350 billion a year - that's billion - a year on the table uncollected because IRS doesn't have the resources."


claim:
"Remember that developers are forced to use the ‘195 land union’ contractors, so tap an extra $10 million into any construction project."


claim:
Says Missouri Democratic Senate candidate Jason Kander is "attending fancy dinners all over the country."


claim:
Says Scott Walker "said he wouldn't touch" the state civil service system but now supports overhauling it.


claim:
"Since 2008, U.S. crude oil output has increased by over 80 percent, an increase of over 4 million barrels a day. That is the fastest increase in U.S. history."


claim:
Israel has seen a "90 percent reduction in terrorist attacks" that it attributes to building a 500-mile fence.


claim:
Says after leaving the White House, Hillary Clinton "was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House china, furniture and artwork that she had stolen."


claim:
In 2006, Planned Parenthood performed more prevention services and cancer screenings than abortions, but in 2013, there were more abortions.


claim:
Alabama’s Crimson Tide will be the underdog in Saturday’s game against the Georgia Bulldogs, the first time in 72 consecutive games that Alabama has not been favored by oddsmakers to win.


claim:
When ICE releases illegal immigrants, "a lot of those people are not from Honduras and Mexico. They’re from Iraq and Somalia and Russia."


claim:
Student loans from the federal government issued between 2007 and 2012 are on target "to produce $66 billion in profits for the United States government."


claim:
Honduras "bans citizens from owning guns" and has the "highest homicide rate in the entire world." Switzerland, with a similar population, "requires citizens to own guns" and has the "lowest homicide rate in the entire world."


claim:
Every general City of Milwaukee employee "pays toward his or her pension, but approximately 88 percent of our police officers and firefighters do not."


claim:
Says "Bernie Sanders was there when it came to (same-sex) marriage 20 years ago. ... He was there when it wasn't popular."


claim:
"Almost nine out of every 10 pennies that would be spent" turning a 200-mile stretch of Interstate 70 into a toll road "would be from folks outside Missouri."


claim:
The racial and ethnic makeup of the Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Office mirrors the community it serves.


claim:
"Twenty-six men named William have been elected to statewide office and only seven women have had the honor."


claim:
Obamacare doesn’t require members of Congress "to abide by the same rules that all of the other Americans do."


claim:
On the main GOP presidential debate: "Not one candidate on the debate stage has military experience … "


claim:
"We've had examples like in Yuma County, where we've been able to stop 97 percent of the illegal (immigration) flow, and those programs, they abolish."


claim:
There is not "one of the Muslim nations" that doesn't have "discrimination against women, discrimination against gays, subjugation of other religious beliefs."


claim:
"#GradInsurance debacle is a DIRECT result of #ObamaCare. #MIZZOU has to break the law to do the right thing."


claim:
A "voucher school that closed after 9 days this year collected $5.4 million in taxpayer subsidies since first opening."


claim:
Says Ronald Reagan "reversed his world’s ‘largest tax cut’ and raised taxes when revenues did not match the expectations."


claim:
"When (Ronald) Reagan came in, from 1978 to 1982, economic growth averaged less than 1 percent a year. There’s only one other four-year period where that’s true. That’s true from 2008 to 2012."


claim:
Salaries of Austin residents who don't work for city government "have not been going up 3 percent a year for the last several years."


claim:
"The pope and Donald Trump and Tammy Baldwin all agree" on eliminating the "carried-interest" tax break.


claim:
"Eighty-three law enforcement officers have died in the line of duty this year. Twenty-four of them were shot and killed in cold blood."


claim:
When Carly Fiorina says Hewlett-Packard "revenues went up, that's because she bought Compaq. It was a terrible deal."


claim:
The Obama administration’s "own Environmental Protection Agency" has said its Clean Power Plan "will have a marginal impact on climate change."


claim:
At this point in 2012, "Rick Perry was ahead at 29.9 percent, and we had seven more leads before it finally settled on Mitt Romney."


claim:
"The cost of fire in Rhode Island is anywhere from 33 percent to 100 percent more expensive than anywhere else we could find."


claim:
"There's never been a direct Supreme Court case on people who were here illegally, whether or not their kids are citizens."


claim:
The government "made accommodation to the Fort Hood shooter to let him grow a beard" for religious reasons.


claim:
Pediatricians have cut down on the number and proximity of vaccines because they recognize there have been "too many in too short a period of time."


claim:
"We're the only major oil-producing nation in the world with a self-imposed ban on exporting our crude oil to other nations."


claim:
One of the Planned Parenthood videos shows "a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says, 'We have to keep it alive to harvest its brain.' "


claim:
Says he will pursue change in federal law to protect employees from "extortion from a union" because "the Supreme Court has ruled that federal prohibitions outlawing extortion usually do not apply to unions."


claim:
"The marijuana that kids are smoking today is not the same as the marijuana that Jeb Bush smoked 40 years ago."


claim:
"A majority of the men and women on this stage have previously and publicly embraced amnesty. I am the only candidate on this stage who has never supported amnesty."


claim:
Says history suggests sports will "quickly subsume a lot of the attention span of the country" in the presidential primary.


claim:
Says Donald Trump’s polling numbers show that he’s "the highest with Hispanics that any Republican has ever been."


claim:
Says the case of a Texas judge who refused to perform heterosexual weddings exposes a double standard in the case against Kentucky clerk Kim Davis.


claim:
"Inspections of abortion centers around Virginia have found multiple violations of parental consent laws … but Gov. Terry McAuliffe and his administration have done nothing."


claim:
"The top man at Yale Law School came out ... with just a raging report" about former HP CEO Carly Fiorina, saying she is "one of the worst executives in his memory in history running the company."


claim:
"I'm the only governor in America ... who signed a law that says there needs to be an independent investigation any time there's a death of someone in police custody."


claim:
"After Texas defunded Planned Parenthood, both the unintended pregnancy and abortion rates dropped."


claim:
As many as six federal department budget bills have been delayed because of opposition to amendments that would ban Confederate battle flag sales at federal building gift shops.


claim:
Atlanta has issued an increasing number of citations - and collected an increasing amount of revenue - since Mayor Kasim Reed took office in 2010.


claim:
Says Scott Walker said "Labor unions don’t deserve to have a national holiday" due to their damage to the economy. And the holiday "should be replaced by Patriots Day, celebrated every year on 9/11."


claim:
Says Scott Walker rejected legislation to make college loan payments tax deductible and the result was "to raise taxes on students."


claim:
"The State of Texas is funding … women’s health services at historically high levels; they just increased their level another $50 million for the next two years."


claim:
"It has been the law since the beginning of the country that the children of American citizens born ... abroad are American citizens by birth."


claim:
Under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty "enrichment has been limited to basically the weapons states."


claim:
The claim that 97 percent of scientists believe humans are causing climate change has been debunked by the "head" of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "That number was pulled out of thin air."


claim:
Says he "turned down a Medicaid expansion under Obamacare," but because of actions he took, for the first time in Wisconsin's history "everyone living in poverty is covered under Medicaid."


claim:
Democratic Sens. Ed Markey, Al Franken and Jeanne Shaheen "took Bribes From Iran … They Back Insane NUKE Deal."


claim:
"The most recent survey of climate scientists said about 57 percent don’t agree with the idea that 95 percent of the change in the climate is caused by CO2."


claim:
The Obama administration is "proposing to mine another 10 billion tons of Wyoming coal, which would unleash three times more carbon pollution than Obama's Clean Power Plan would even save through 2030."


claim:
Says Scott Walker "brags a lot about having an independent agency investigate police shootings. Of course, he didn’t fund it."


claim:
"We have 93 million people out of work. They look for jobs, they give up, and all of a sudden, statistically, they're considered employed."


claim:
"African Americans are twice as likely to be arrested and almost four times as likely to experience the use of force during encounters with the police."


claim:
"In the year 2013, the Obama administration released 104,000 criminal illegal aliens. They released 196 murderers – people with homicide convictions, who are here illegally."


claim:
Gov. Maggie Hassan’s budget proposal "raises taxes on small businesses and increases taxes and fees by $100 million."


claim:
"More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history."


claim:
Says "Bush Jr. handed Obama a $1.4 trillion deficit" and Obama "reduced Bush Jr.’s deficit to just $492 billion."


claim:
Buying the naming rights to the new Falcons stadium is the largest marketing deal in Mercedes-Benz history.


claim:
"To vote in Mexico every eligible Mexican citizen has to have a tamper-proof photo-ID card with a thumbprint and an embossed hologram."


claim:
Says Scott Walker's plan to replace Obamacare "is a new entitlement" program for "every single American human being from the time they are born right up until they grow old and become eligible for Medicare."


claim:
Says Bobby Jindal’s parents "used his birthright citizenship to become Americans, making him an anchor baby."


claim:
"The policy mistakes that ... the Clintons made got us, in large degree, to the situation that we are in today with mass incarceration."


claim:
"Last year, we had zero percent growth in GDP in Virginia ...The only states that did worse than us were Alaska and Mississippi."


claim:
Under Scott Walker, "the Wisconsin middle class is shrinking at a faster rate than any other state in the country."


claim:
Says "there’s 400,000" anchor babies born in the United States a year, which are "individuals coming to our country and having their children so their children can be U.S. citizens."


claim:
"Rhode Island will become just the second state to mandate the vaccine … and the only state to do so by regulatory fiat, without public debate, and without consideration from the elected representatives of the people."


claim:
"The United States is about 100th in voter turnout among the industrialized nations, and Texas is near the bottom in terms of voter registration and voter turnout."


claim:
"The rate in which people are working (in Wisconsin) is almost five points higher than it is nationally."


claim:
"Zero Planned Parenthood facilities are licensed to do mammograms. Planned Parenthood, women don’t need you!"


claim:
"If I had not asked for my emails all to be made public, none of this would have been in the public arena."


claim:
Says Michele Bachmann said, "The Chinese built a Great Wall 5,000 years ago. You don't see any illegal Mexicans in China."


claim:
"The U.S. has now spent more on reconstructing Afghanistan than was spent on the Marshall Plan and the reconstruction of Europe."


claim:
"There's not a single, solitary example that" signing the bill to end Glass-Steagall "had anything to do with the financial crash."


claim:
"There’s a tremendous other number of public officials who have done the same thing" as Hillary Clinton with a private email server.


claim:
"The annual cost of free tax credits alone paid to illegal immigrants quadrupled to $4.2 billion in 2011."


claim:
Between 2008 and 2014, "criminal aliens accounted for 38 percent of all murder convictions in the five states of California, Texas, Arizona, Florida and New York."


claim:
Says 57 percent of federal spending goes to the military and just 1 percent goes to food and agriculture, including food stamps.


claim:
On unemployment rates: "We have counties in Southwest Virginia that are well into double digits and some that are pushing 20 percent."


claim:
"A minor cannot get a tattoo without parental consent but can get an abortion without parental consent."


claim:
"One of the reasons that Social Security is in so much trouble is that the only funding stream comes from people who get a wage. The people who get wages is declining dramatically."


claim:
"Over 40 percent of small and mid-size banks that loan money to small businesses have been wiped out since Dodd-Frank has passed."


claim:
Says Marco Rubio’s "proposed college affordability overhaul would specifically benefit for-profit colleges."


claim:
There is debate among constitutional scholars about whether the First Amendment will continue to protect faith leaders from being forced to perform marriages against their religious beliefs.


claim:
Emails released to the public show Hillary Clinton discussed "the location of Ambassador Stevens, who of course was murdered, in Libya."


claim:
"Prior to 1962, everybody prayed before school started," and "the Bible was the principal textbook in all schools."


claim:
"If you look at the results of Obamacare, what you see is emergency room visits are up over 50 percent."


claim:
"Ukraine was a nuclear-armed state. They gave away their nuclear arms with the understanding that we would protect them."


claim:
"A majority of the candidates on this stage have supported amnesty ... I have never supported amnesty."


claim:
"The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over. John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence."


claim:
"In FY 2014 Planned Parenthood performed 327,653 abortions while receiving $528 million from taxpayers, in violation" of "the Hyde amendment."


claim:
Says Scott Walker's defunding of Planned Parenthood "left women across the state stranded with nowhere else to turn" for cancer screenings, breast exams and birth control.


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton has "been in office and in government longer than anybody else running here tonight."


claim:
Illegal immigration "wasn’t a subject that was on anybody’s mind until I brought it up at my announcement."


claim:
Film and television productions generated a $6 billion economic impact for Georgia’s economy in the most recent fiscal year.


claim:
"This is the most generous country in the world when it comes to immigration. There are a million people a year who legally immigrate to the United States."


claim:
"Fox changed around their poll eligibility criteria on the day they announced who is in and out of their debate."


claim:
"Since I took office, Wisconsin now has the 2nd highest health care quality ranking in the country."


claim:
The Navy "is bringing charges against" a Navy officer who shot at the Chattanooga shooter "for illegally discharging a firearm on federal property."


claim:
Say President George W. Bush " ‘borrowed’ $1.37 trillion of Social Security surplus revenue to pay for his tax cuts for the rich and his war in Iraq and never paid it back."


claim:
"In 1947, when I was born, there were about 450,000 lions. In the mid-70s, when my kids were born, there were about 100,000. Today, there are less than 30,000."


claim:
Since parole abolition, Virginia's "crime rate has fallen to third lowest in the country, our recidivism rate is down 20 percent and that’s the second lowest in the country."


claim:
"In 1960, we spent more than 3 percent of our GDP on infrastructure projects like the Interstate Highway. Today we spend less than 1 percent of our GDP on these vital investments."


claim:
Under President Barack Obama, income levels and unemployment numbers "are worse now than just about ever" for African-Americans.


claim:
Planned Parenthood is "the only health care that a significant number of women get. About 30 percent of women, that's their health care."


claim:
"We built a new prison every 10 days between 1990 and 2005 to keep up with our mass incarceration explosion of nonviolent offenders."


claim:
Says states not directly involved in the gay marriage lawsuits that reached the Supreme Court "are not bound" by the court’s ruling.


claim:
Since Volvo spurned Georgia for South Carolina in early May, some 3,455 jobs promising more than $800 million in investments have come to the Peach State.


claim:
Russia and China "absolutely said pretty clearly" they would not keep economic sanctions on Iran if the United States "walked away from the deal."


claim:
"The law says ... when a police officer stops you, do whatever he says and then deal with it later."


claim:
"House Republicans just passed a bill that makes it legal for single mothers to be fired by their employers."


claim:
"More than half of all drivers' licenses issued in California this year have gone to illegal aliens."


claim:
Under Gov. Scott Walker, Wisconsin "projected a $1 billion (budget) surplus and it turns out to be a deficit of $2.2 billion."


claim:
The National Technical Information Service spends millions of taxpayer dollars to print and sell government documents that are available free in online searches.


claim:
"With the exception of baby formula, the federal government does not require any food to carry an expiration date, and state laws vary widely."


claim:
When President Abraham Lincoln signed his Emancipation Proclamation, "there were over 300,000 slaveholders who were fighting in the Union army."


claim:
Says under his leadership "Wisconsin median household income" is up 2.7%, while it is down 1.3% nationally under President Obama.


claim:
"(Hillary Clinton's State Department) actually admonished one of her ambassadors because he wasn’t using the proper server."


claim:
"I deployed the Texas National Guard" to the Texas-Mexico border. "And the policy worked; apprehensions at the border declined 74 percent."


claim:
"One of the reasons I believe we’re in trouble in Yemen is we lost the population on drone strikes issues. That’s what stirred up the population. That’s what is happening in Yemen."


claim:
The Texas Capitol faces South toward Goliad, in memory of the most horrific battle of the Texas Revolution.


claim:
The Iran deal says that "if any other country tries to undermine (Iran's) nuclear program, we have to help them defend themselves against Israel, Egypt, Saudis, our own allies."


claim:
The United States is "fighting with Iraqis to defeat ISIS along with Iran. But in Yemen we're fighting Iran with Iraqis and Saudis."


claim:
The federal deficit would pay for 40 gallons of "New Hampshire maple syrup" for everyone in the United States.


claim:
President Barack Obama "said at the beginning of the negotiations that the basic approach was to dismantle Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for dismantling the sanctions."


claim:
"Although we have twice the population of Greece, the state of Florida employs three times fewer government employees."


claim:
If women seeking an abortion see their ultrasound, "the odds are pretty high they're going to keep the baby."


claim:
"A law was passed, apparently in the Clinton administration, about whether, in recruiting offices … Marines or other military should be able to have guns. Apparently it is prohibited."


claim:
"By declaring that Pluto was no longer a planet, the (International Astronomical Union) put into place a planetary definition that would have even declassified Earth as a planet if it existed as far from the sun as Pluto does."


claim:
Georgia has more than 700 law enforcement agencies, and fewer than 20 percent of them are state-certified.


claim:
"Texas’ high school graduation rate went from 27th in the country in 2002, to second highest in the country in 2013."


claim:
The Iran deal "violates promises the president made to the American people." ... "It is not an anytime, anywhere inspection process."


claim:
"It’s commercial vehicles, 18 wheelers and above … that cause 90 plus percent of the damages on our highways and bridges."


claim:
"In a few months, this deal would give Iran $150 billion" for its $300 billion to $400 billion economy, which is "like $8 trillion flowing into the United States treasury."


claim:
"Texas still owns all of its public lands. If the federal gov't wants to create a park, they must ask permission!"


claim:
"Obama keeps talking about getting rid of all nuclear weapons. He’s already significantly reduced our capabilities there."


claim:
The California governor "says yes to poisoning more children with mercury and aluminum" in vaccines.


claim:
Muslims "attempted to establish the first Islamic Sharia court inside the United States in the town of Irving, Texas."


claim:
Says Carlos Lopez-Cantera "even voiced enthusiastic support for bringing an Arizona-style immigration law to Florida, calling the measure 'common sense.’"


claim:
Says Scott Walker's views on abortion are more restrictive "than any Republican president in recent times."


claim:
"134,000 (criminal) aliens have been released by the (Obama) administration in just the past two years."


claim:
"Thanks to the Obama administration’s negotiations, Iran’s nuclear program will be under lock, key and camera 24 hours a day, 365 days a year."


claim:
"Sen. Rubio’s (tax plan) would cut taxes for households making around $3 million a year by almost $240,000, which is way more than three times the earnings of a typical family."


claim:
Despite keeping distance from national media interviewers, "I did local press all along, the last three months."


claim:
Despite what Donald Trump claims, "there weren’t 15,000 people who turned out in Phoenix" to see Trump speak.


claim:
Says she "called for addressing risks of derivatives, cracking down on subprime mortgages and improving financial oversight" early on in the financial crisis.


claim:
Says because of his actions, Wisconsin "property taxes today are lower than they were four years ago."


claim:
"In the past two years in Congress, I’ve written more bills, passed more amendments on the floor of the House and enacted more of my bills into law than any other member of the House."


claim:
"We know from ... the federal data, that they only stop or apprehend one out of four illegal people crossing our border."


claim:
Cobb County businesses have already been awarded contracts worth $250 million on construction of a new Braves stadium.


claim:
Says Chris Christie "vetoed equal pay for women 3 times. He only let the bill pass once it became a damaging campaign issue."


claim:
"The United States ranks second worst in income inequality across developed countries," after taxes and transfers.


claim:
"We're destroying more businesses in the United States now than are being created for the first time in our history."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton's "campaign hasn't been clear about when she wiped her server of her work emails."


claim:
Wisconsin’s economy has "tanked" under Gov. Scott Walker and "so far in 2015 over 6,685 people have been laid off, already more than in all of 2014."


claim:
"There’s now been three independent investigations (into the bridge scandal) all of which have said" that Christie did not have prior knowledge of or involvement in the lane closures.


claim:
"Jasper County in Texas raised property taxes by 7 percent in order to pay for one death penalty case."


claim:
In Florida, "the number of voters who now register as ‘other’ has grown by a million in the last 10 years. Compare that with the Democrats, who only grew by 300,000 and the Republicans who grew by just 200,000."


claim:
"President Obama in November of last year wiped away (a program) that allows for shared fingerprinting for those who are behind bars so you know who is here legally and illegally."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton’s top 10 donors are mainly "banks, corporations and media," while Bernie Sanders’ top 10 donors are labor unions.


claim:
Replacing 100,000 old toilets with water-efficient models has saved 2.4 million gallons of water every day.


claim:
"The average age a child is trafficked into the commercial sex trade industry is between 11 and 14 years old."


claim:
"Less than 1 percent of all the education dollars that we spend are spent on private (school) voucher programs."


claim:
"The House of Representatives just voted 300-131 to remove ‘country-of-origin labeling’ on chicken, pork, and beef sold in the U.S."


claim:
The Supreme Court’s views "are radically out of step with public opinion" regarding its decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.


claim:
"By one leading measure, what business owners pay out in wages and salaries is now finally growing faster than what they spend on health insurance" for the first time in 17 years.


claim:
"The United States doesn’t have the highest murder rate among developed countries. You look at Russia, you look at Brazil, those are countries that have 3 to 5 times higher murder rates than what we have here in the United States."


claim:
"We are the only major country on Earth that doesn't guarantee health care to all people as a right."


claim:
Polls indicate that "white people think that black people are less intelligent. They think they’re less trustworthy, less patriotic."


claim:
Says "Hillary Clinton's rejection of efforts to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat not only defies logic, but the will of the majority of Americans."


claim:
A Texas law "will repatriate $1 billion of gold bullion from the Federal Reserve in New York to Texas."


claim:
"Lincoln was fervently making plans to send all freed slaves to the jungles of Central America once the (Civil War) was over. … The only thing that kept this from happening was his assassination."


claim:
"If you want to vote in" Texas, "you can use a concealed-weapon permit as a valid form of identification, but a valid student ID isn’t good enough."


claim:
"Under the Affordable Care Act, anyone on Medicare who is admitted to a hospital for observation will be responsible for the bill. Medicare won't pay a cent."


claim:
Says Barack Obama told the U.S. Coast Guard Academy "that the number one threat to the military and the world today is global warming."


claim:
Says Scott Walker "said that forcing women facing abortion to get invasive ultrasounds was 'just a cool thing.'"


claim:
"After (Jeb) Bush’s two terms in office, Florida’s graduation rate was dead last and remains near the bottom."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "was completely exonerated, when I was in the White House" by an official inquiry on Whitewater.


claim:
After a federal inquiry corroborated Hillary Clinton on Whitewater, "the next day, there was nothing in the media about it."


claim:
"Nationally, the unemployment rate for veterans is far greater than the national unemployment rate," and Wisconsin is "one of those rare examples where unemployment is actually lower for veterans than it is for the population as a whole and certainly lower than it is nationally."


claim:
"Two weeks ago, a man entered the world’s busiest airport in Atlanta, Georgia, carrying a loaded AR-15 automatic weapon with an extended-capacity, 100-round magazine."


claim:
"Here are the stats: Per population, we kill each other with guns at a rate 297x more than Japan, 49x more than France, 33x more than Israel."


claim:
The Confederate battle flag in South Carolina was first flown at the statehouse in 1961. "It was flown as a symbol of massive resistance to racial desegregation."


claim:
"This type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency."


claim:
The Democrats are "responsible" for "the swift, mindless drawdown of a military that was generations in the making."


claim:
My support from young voters -- those 18 to 24 --  in November 2014 was "largely unheard of for a Republican."


claim:
The original compromise for the Confederate battle flag in South Carolina "was to put it on the back side of the statehouse, out of public view so it would not have any appearance of sovereignty."


claim:
The Confederate battle flag at the South Carolina statehouse "must fly at a height of 30 feet. Any changes -- taken down, or even at half-staff, if that can be done -- must be passed by a supermajority of the General Assembly."


claim:
"This March, for the first time in human history, the monthly average carbon dioxide in our atmosphere exceeded 400 parts per million. The range had been 170-300 parts per million for hundreds of thousands of years."


claim:
"Texas now has the second-highest high school graduation rate in the country. And it has the highest graduation rate for African Americans and Hispanics."


claim:
Greg Abbott "activated the state guard to monitor" Jade Helm 15 "in case the troops try to impose martial law, disarm innocent Texans, and detain them in tunnels beneath closed Walmart stores."


claim:
Currently, almost 40 percent of people with HIV are not diagnosed until they already have developed AIDS. And that can be up to 10 years after they first are infected with HIV.


claim:
"For most black people in the history of this country … it was illegal to pass as a white person. You were actually put in jail if you tried to pass."


claim:
"Even our nuclear arsenal doesn't work. It came out recently they have equipment that is 30 years old. They don't know if it worked."


claim:
"The gap between the very rich and everyone else in America is wider today than at any time since the 1920s."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "insists that when the progressive agenda encounters religious beliefs to the contrary, those beliefs ‘have to be changed.’ "


claim:
"The United States still ranks 20th in the world in access to broadband -- over 50 percent below the best nations."


claim:
"The last quarter, it was just announced, our gross domestic product … was below zero. Who ever heard of this? It's never below zero."


claim:
"In just 17 years, spending for Social Security, federal health care and interest on the debt will exceed ALL tax revenue!"


claim:
Says Bill Clinton "gave a speech in 1996 about Iraq having WMDs" and said "we needed a regime change," even though everyone blamed those things on George W. Bush.


claim:
"The top 25 hedge fund managers (are) making more than all of America's kindergarten teachers combined."


claim:
"A black male baby born today, if we do not change the system, stands a one-in-three chance (of) ending up in jail."


claim:
"Twenty-five percent of people in the country have said they changed their email and phone habits because of" the collection of data allowed by the Patriot Act.


claim:
Ninety-seven percent of Americans do not receive subsidies for health care under the Affordable Care Act.


claim:
Says Jeb Bush "happens to be where a majority" of Republican voters are on giving legal status to illegal immigrants.


claim:
"The profit [from automated traffic enforcement cameras] is going to the private corporations, not to the city or state."


claim:
Thanks to the Act 10 collective bargaining law that took effect four years ago, ACT scores in Wisconsin "are now second-best in the country for states where more than half the kids take the exam."


claim:
The film and TV industry supports more than 24,000 direct jobs and pays local workers more than $1.68 billion in wages in Georgia.


claim:
A Republican budget proposal "would have Wisconsin have the weakest standards for who can be a teacher in the classroom in the country."


claim:
The New York Times "had to retract" its story that Hillary Clinton’s email handling had broken certain laws.


claim:
Since Republicans took over after the 2010 election, "the graduation rate in Wisconsin has gone from 86 percent to 88 percent. The black graduation rate has gone from 60 percent to 65 percent. The Latino graduation rate has gone from 65 percent to 71 percent."


claim:
Says Scott Walker "cut back early voting and signed legislation that would make it harder for college students to vote."


claim:
"In Florida, when Jeb Bush was governor, state authorities conducted a deeply flawed purge of voters before the presidential election in 2000" and "in 2004 a plan to purge even more voters was headed off."


claim:
"Former Gov. Rick Perry signed a law that a federal court said was actually written with the purpose of discriminating against minority voters."


claim:
47 percent of Americans "can’t pay for an unexpected $400 expense through savings or credit cards, without selling something or borrowing money."


claim:
"In the last seven years of my tenure, Texas created 1.5 million new jobs. As a matter of fact, without Texas, America would have lost 400,000 jobs."


claim:
If Fox News' presidential debate rules had been in place during the 1992 election, "Bill Clinton wouldn't have been on the stage."


claim:
"Fox News barely covered (the Duggar family) scandal until Megyn Kelly was able to secure this interview."


claim:
"The entirety of North America -- Canada, the United States and Mexico -- there's more known reserves in those three countries than in Russia and Saudi Arabia."


claim:
"You don't have to be as smart as a fifth-grader to know what causes the climate is the sun. The sun.  I have people tell me, ‘Carbon dioxide warms the Earth.’  No, it doesn't.  The sun warms the Earth."


claim:
A measure to repeal the state’s prevailing wage law would "make it easier for state contractors to hire illegal workers for Wisconsin construction jobs" through an "illegal worker loophole in the state budget."


claim:
The USA Freedom Act undercuts privacy because "the phone records will be in the hands of the phone companies with hundreds of people available to look at the records, versus 20 or 30 people in the government."


claim:
The runnerup to Caitlyn Jenner for ESPN’s Arthur Ashe Courage Award was "Army veteran Noah Galloway, who lost an arm and leg to a roadside bomb in Iraq."


claim:
"Sixty million Americans depend on Social Security, and one-third of all the seniors in America depend on Social Security for 90 percent of their income."


claim:
"Most polls show foreign nations have lower regard for the U.S. now than they did before Obama’s time."


claim:
"Two of the top three (rated) public high schools in Wisconsin — Ronald Reagan College Prep and Rufus King International — are MPS schools."


claim:
The Texas Senate "approved a bill to put a special label on the insurance cards of anyone who bought a plan through Obamacare" that includes the letter "S" for subsidy.


claim:
Says that during his eight years as Florida governor, "we created 1.3 million net new jobs -- more jobs created than Texas."


claim:
"Thanks to restrictive and anticompetitive ballot laws," candidates in November 2014 ran unopposed in nearly half of Wisconsin’s state representative races but in Michigan and Minnesota nearly all races had challengers.


claim:
"The CEO of Goldman Sachs let his employees know that he’d be just fine with either Bush or Clinton."


claim:
"Today in America, 70 percent of us are earning the same or less than we were 12 years ago, and this is the first time that that has happened this side of World War II."


claim:
If Milwaukee approves reducing its maximum forfeiture for marijuana possession to $50, the city would have "23 different bicycle violations that have a higher forfeiture."


claim:
Says Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget contained 110 pages of errors -- an unusually high number -- "and millions of dollars’ worth of mistakes" that were corrected with a follow-up document.


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A 50-50 public-private split for paying for a new Milwaukee Bucks arena would "be much better -- in terms of the portion of the public financing -- than most of the other arena projects done around the country."


claim:
"ISIS didn't exist when my brother was president. Al-Qaida in Iraq was wiped out when my brother was president."


claim:
If you count United States airstrikes against ISIS, "75 percent of those combat missions return to base without having fired a weapon."


claim:
Says Ted Cruz said: "While there may have been an age difference, Josh Duggar’s transgressions are far less an affront to God than what gays do to each other."


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Says Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has stated that supporting the "right to health care ... means you believe in slavery."


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Austin school district "teachers are the lowest paid of any urban" Texas district and the "lowest paid of any surrounding school district."


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Says Marco Rubio said that "felons should not have their voting rights restored" but that "convicted felons should be allowed to own guns after they have done their time."


claim:
"The United States is one of only seven nations that allows elective abortions after 20 weeks post-fertilization."


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About 85 percent of hotel guests who will pay the new $5 hotel/motel fee will be from outside Georgia.


claim:
"Accidents are down 50 percent and injury accidents are down 60 percent" in the rebuilt Marquette Interchange in Milwaukee.


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There was "a 57-percent decrease in fireworks-related injuries in 2000 [after Connecticut legalized sparklers] compared to the 14 years prior."


claim:
"During Obama's first five years as president, black unemployment increased 42 percent. During Reagan's presidency, black unemployment dropped 20 percent."


claim:
Says the State Department has "had half a year" to respond to a Benghazi document request, yet "I have not gotten a single, solitary scrap of paper."


claim:
"Every year we spend roughly $500 billion on tax compliance. That is roughly the budget of our entire military, entirely wasted on tax compliance."


claim:
Says Jeb Bush "once held $1 million in family planning grants hostage until the programs receiving the money agreed not to discuss birth control at all."


claim:
"There are more members of the U.S. Senate than the number of WI families who would benefit from GOP estate tax break."


claim:
The average age of planes in the Qatar Airways fleet is about four years while Delta Air Lines flies planes that are 35 years old.


claim:
The lack of an automatic braking system that could have prevented the Philadelphia Amtrak crash "wasn't driven by a lack of funding. It just takes a while. They (Congress) just passed it in the recent past."


claim:
"It is simply a fact that insufficient funding for Amtrak has delayed the installation" of a positive train control safety system. "To deny a connection between the (derailment in Philadelphia) and underfunding Amtrak is to deny reality."


claim:
"Austin is the only city in an arid landscape in the western United States dependent on a single source of water."


claim:
"We had an agreement that the president could have signed that would have kept 10,000 troops" in Iraq.


claim:
The Fair Tax proposal encourages innovation and investment "level the playing field" for American companies to compete globally.


claim:
"The proportion of Rhode Islanders entering substance abuse treatment primarily due to marijuana use has reached its highest point in 20 years."


claim:
"In the last 24 months, 10 rural Texas hospitals have been forced to shut their doors because state leaders" chose not to expand Medicaid.


claim:
Due to "over-incarceration … in 1950, two out of three young black men were in the workforce. Today, it's one out of three black men are in the workforce."


claim:
Proposed fast-track legislation allows presidents to "easily use a future trade deal to override our domestic financial rules."


claim:
More money is dedicated within the Department of Homeland Security to climate change than what's spent combating "Islamist terrorists radicalizing over the Internet in the United States of America."


claim:
Says Mike Huckabee appeared in diabetes infomercials to endorse "cures and treatments that no health agency supports."


claim:
"We have a legal immigration system in America that accepts 1 million people a year, legally. No other country in the world even comes close to that."


claim:
The state budget will include scholarship money for minority students as a concession to Senate Democrats for supporting the GOP-initiated transportation bill.


claim:
"During the Bush administration, you actually had a prominent liberal write a book about how Bush was preparing for a fascist takeover of this country."


claim:
"Once again, a police officer has been killed with an illegal gun from Georgia – a state that last year did the NRA’s bidding and weakened its already lax gun laws."


claim:
"Ben Carson is running for president to ‘eliminate dependency on government.’ But he doesn’t mention that he grew up in public schools, got public housing and food stamps, got free glasses from a government program, was helped by Affirmative Action, and got Pell Grants for college."


claim:
"The families that are covered through the Low Income Pool is a different group of individuals than are covered by Obamacare."


claim:
An audit shows "there are 6.5 million people who have active Social Security numbers who are 112 years of age or older,"


claim:
"On my last trip to New Hampshire, I think I met the guy who founded the first and only bank since Dodd-Frank passed, since the financial crisis. One bank in the country."


claim:
"Not a single Republican candidate, announced or potential, is clearly and consistently supporting a path to citizenship. Not one."


claim:
"The people of Tiverton have historically supported [gambling measures] at a rate higher than the rest of the state."


claim:
"Amendments (Hillary Clinton) supported and voted for in 2006, she no longer supported in 2008," showing she changed positions on an India nuclear deal.


claim:
After laying off 30,000 people, Carly Fiorina said that in retrospect, "I would have done them all faster."


claim:
"There are more young black males involved in the criminal justice system than there are in higher education."


claim:
The United States "is not building the aircraft, the long-range bombers, the additional aircraft carriers, the nuclear submarines."


claim:
I "helped pass what, if enacted, would be the largest tax cut in Texas history through the State Senate."


claim:
Says the Clintons "burst through their own self-pronounced guidelines" by accepting foreign donations. "There is a clip of Bill Clinton saying we're not going to take foreign donations."


claim:
Says the recall elections that aimed to remove him and other Republican officials from office "cost tens of millions of dollars to run."


claim:
Texas agriculture is "at 98 percent efficiency" in water use and "just about maxed out as to what we can do on the conservation end of it."


claim:
The United States is "about to have the smallest Army since before WWII, the smallest Navy since WWI and the smallest Air Force ever."


claim:
The projected revenue from the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight is "larger than the annual GDP of 29 different countries."


claim:
A Penn State University study found that "electronic cigarettes . . . are far less addictive than cigarettes."


claim:
Says the estate tax, "in many cases," forces family farmers and small businesses owners to sell their holdings.


claim:
"The Iranians are now saying that what we're saying the deal is and what they understand it to be are two different things."


claim:
Tyler Perry’s plan to turn a majority of the former Fort McPherson into a film and television studio is expected "to add over 8,000 new jobs to Atlanta."


claim:
"The U.S. representatives that voted to keep militarizing the police received 73 percent more campaign money from the defense industry" than the representatives who voted to stop it.


claim:
"If we choose Obamacare expansion, 600,000 will lose eligibility for their subsidies, of which 257,000 would be forced into Medicaid."


claim:
The man who killed a motorist who fatally struck a 2-year-old was "back on the street" because he had received a 13-year sentence for bank robbery but only "served two years."


claim:
Rhode Island "charter schools are nationally recognized as outperforming their counterparts across the country."


claim:
"Eighty-five percent of every dollar donated to the Clinton Foundation ended up either with the Clintons or with their staff to pay for travel, salaries, and benefits. Fifteen cents of every dollar actually went to some charitable beneficiary."


claim:
"I'm running for office with much more experience and qualifications than Barack Obama had when he ran."


claim:
Minnesota’s "advantage" in economic growth has been having "Republicans in charge of at least one part of government" for all but two years, while Wisconsin Democrats "for many years" before 2011 controlled both legislative chambers and the governorship.


claim:
Algeria "wanted to be taken off of the terror list" at the time it made an unreported donation to the Clinton Foundation.


claim:
Austin has "gone from being the 24th most congested city just about 10 years ago to being the fourth most congested — more congested than NYC."


claim:
Distracted driving such as texting behind the wheel is behind a rise in traffic deaths on Georgia roadways this year.


claim:
"It’s estimated that 40 percent of all the guns that are sold in the United States occur with no background records check."


claim:
"I’m the only member of the House of Representatives who raised most of his campaign funds in the last election from small contributions of less than $200."


claim:
"There's no statistical evidence that" a waiting period for handgun purchases "reduces violence whatsoever."


claim:
The money the Clinton Foundation took from from foreign governments while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state "is clearly illegal. … The Constitution says you can’t take this stuff."


claim:
"Of the 13 (Bill) Clinton speeches that fetched $500,000 or more, only two occurred during the years his wife was not secretary of state."


claim:
"Hillary Clinton’s State Department sent three comedians to India on the ‘Make Chai, Not War’ tour."


claim:
The Castro regime ‘violated international norms’ by secretly shipping weapons to North Korea in violation of a U.N. embargo.


claim:
"The unemployment rate among blacks in Texas is 9.5% -- far more than double white unemployment -- and wages have fallen for black workers in Texas since 2000."


claim:
"We have an 80 percent graduation rate in high school after spending more per student than any country in the world other than Liechtenstein, I think, or Luxembourg and a couple other small countries."


claim:
In recent polling in battleground states, a "majority of the people" said Hillary Clinton "is untrustworthy."


claim:
Says Loretta Lynch’s nomination "has been now sitting there longer than the previous seven attorney general nominees combined."


claim:
"By age 65, the average woman will have lost $431,000 throughout her working career was a result of the pay gap."


claim:
The Hyde Amendment "language was in the (human trafficking) bill. The Democratic sponsor admits it was in the bill, and she voted for it."


claim:
"American families work hard to earn $4,250 a month. Obama is spending $18,972 a month on each illegal immigrant child."


claim:
"We are in the sixth year of recovery, and median income is below what it was at the start of the recovery."


claim:
"When the Constitution was written, (only) 20 to 25 percent of the people in the country could vote."


claim:
Says Howard Zinn, "an anti-American Marxist," wrote "the most popular textbook that's taught in our high schools in America."


claim:
Florida has the most concealed weapon permits in the nation, "nearly double that of the second state, which is Texas."


claim:
In Wisconsin, a "second arrest for carrying pot is a felony," but a second or subsequent arrest "for carrying a gun illegally is a misdemeanor."


claim:
"Legislation being considered in Texas would strip the salaries and pensions of clerks who issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples — even if the Supreme Court strikes down Texas’ marriage ban later this year."


claim:
A $5-a-night hotel/motel tax that’s part of the transportation bill will hurt Georgia’s convention business by adding extra costs for large groups coming to the state.


claim:
Says Rand Paul denied that he "put forward a bill ... to zero out foreign aid and specifically spoke about Israel."


claim:
"The same federal government that offers some money for a program is walking away from another health care program."


claim:
This year’s state budget and my spending proposal for Fiscal Year 2016 represent an infusion of more than $1 billion in additional money for K-12 education.


claim:
Says Bill Clinton signed a law "very similar to," and Barack Obama voted for a law "something like," Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act.


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "erased all of her emails even though they were subject to recall and review by Congress."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "completely ignored" "dozens and dozens of requests for more security" for the Benghazi consulate.


claim:
"In the early 1980s, Sen. Edward Kennedy secretly offered to help Soviet leaders counter the Reagan administration’s position on nuclear disarmament."


claim:
Wisconsin’s attorney general and state treasurer ordered the daughter of Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson not to discuss climate change on state time.


claim:
Facebook has unveiled new rules to stop their users from creating posts related in any way to religion.


claim:
"Wholly domestic communication between you and your wife can go to New York to London and back and get caught up in the (NSA) database."


claim:
Says U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy has "sided with the GOP on key votes twice as often as he sided with Democrats."


claim:
Says Ted Cruz said, "There is no place for gays or atheists in my America. None. Our Constitution makes that clear."


claim:
"Just two weeks ago, Congressman Hurd quit his post on the House Committee on Small Business saying that he was unable to find the time to serve."


claim:
Lawmakers were paid for their off-season efforts to, for the first time, take the lead in drawing borders for two would-be cities.


claim:
"You know how many children in the history of the United States have died in a fire (at school)? Zero."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton will receive her "congressional salary until she dies" and the Secret Service pays her mortgage.


claim:
Virginia House Speaker Bill Howell is "allied to group pushing MIXED SEX BATHROOMS in Stafford Schools."


claim:
"Did you know that the U.S. is one of the very few nations in the world without an official language?"


claim:
An April 7, 2015 referendum would take "the choice of chief justice" of the Wisconsin Supreme Court "away from the people."


claim:
"In this last election in November, ... 63 percent of the American people chose not to vote, ... 80 percent of young people, (and) 75 percent of low-income workers chose not to vote."


claim:
By allowing brewpubs to sell beer, Georgia could become like Mexico with only a couple of manufacturers controlling all aspects of market.


claim:
Despite raising taxes on the wealthy and hiking the minimum wage, Minnesota "is creating jobs at a record pace, unemployment is at a historic low, median income is skyrocketing, and (the) state has a billion-dollar surplus."


claim:
The Affordable Care Act is "a major reason why we’ve seen 50,000 fewer preventable patient deaths in hospitals."


claim:
"Inflation-adjusted defense spending has declined 21 percent since 2010, and even if we discount the drawdowns in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has still declined by a dangerous 12 percent."


claim:
"Since President Obama took office in January 2009, the federal government has issued more than 468,500 pages of regulations."


claim:
Says Barack Obama voted for the "very same language" of Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act when he was in the Illinois state Senate. Sexual orientation "doesn't have anything to do with this law."


claim:
"Rhode Island has the second highest per enrollee (Medicaid) cost of any state in the country, which is 60 percent higher than the national average."


claim:
"If you took every penny of the 1 percent, including their dog, you wouldn't even begin to balance the budget."


claim:
"From 2013-2015, the richest 14 Americans increased their net wealth by more than $157 billion, yet the Republican budget would not require these Americans to contribute one penny to deficit reduction."


claim:
Florida is "one of the few states that has actually had a narrowing of the achievement gap based on income, or based on race or ethnicity."


claim:
Under current conditions, by 2023, the interest payments on the national debt will be $722 billion, larger than the projected defense spending of $696 billion.


claim:
Dallas "African-American and Hispanic students pass AP exams at a higher rate than any other place in America."


claim:
Liberty University students "were mandated" to attend Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential announcement "or they would be fined."


claim:
Says according to recent polls, no Republican candidate "is doing better against Hillary Clinton than myself."


claim:
Says Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed reduction in university spending is "about the size of the one" under Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle, but Democrats didn’t treat Doyle’s cut as so dire.


claim:
"Obama has been sending taxpayer dollars, at least $350,000 to fund anti-Likud, anti-Netanyahu groups in Israel for (the) election."


claim:
U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy "voted to allow members of Congress to receive taxpayer-funded health care for life."


claim:
Recent solar energy policies in Georgia "have resulted in rate hikes and did not result in solar becoming any more economically viable."


claim:
Creflo Dollar needed a $65 million Gulfstream G650 to carry thousands of pounds of food and other supplies -- as well as the Word of God -- worldwide.


claim:
Under New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, homicides are up by 20 percent, and subway delays have soared 45 percent.


claim:
"We've got 40 years of study now that show that, with a good preschool start, you're less likely to be on public dole, you're less likely to be in prison."


claim:
"According to the state of Florida, you are almost twice as likely to be attacked by an alligator than by someone who happens to carry a conceal-and-carry permit."


claim:
"The average faculty member at UW-Madison brings in close to a quarter million dollars a year" in grant money.


claim:
State lawmakers are spending taxpayer money for parking that billionaire Arthur Blank could build while paying some state employees so little they are on food stamps.


claim:
The IAEA, or the International Atomic Energy Agency, "last month said the Iranians are not currently living up to their obligations."


claim:
"In an average grocery store, roughly 75 percent of processed foods contain genetically modified organisms, or GMOs."


claim:
"Many of the alarmists on global warming, they’ve got a problem because the science doesn’t back them up. In particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there’s been zero warming."


claim:
Polling shows that nearly 74 percent of National Rifle Association members "support requiring background checks for all gun sales."


claim:
Says Secretary of State John Kerry, "when he was a senator, flew to Managua and met with a communist dictator there, Daniel Ortega, and accused the Reagan administration of engaging in terrorism."


claim:
The delay in school testing "was not that of a vendor, the problem was not that of the test materials itself, it was the product of a cyber attack."


claim:
Says that "Susan Rice, the president's national security adviser, has already conceded that Iran will have a robust uranium enrichment capability."


claim:
The proposed transportation tax plan revokes a tax-credit for consumers’ electric cars while the state retains similar credits for similar vehicles for businesses.


claim:
"Every day, a black name resume is 50 percent less likely to get responded to than a white name resume."


claim:
"Of the 10,000 Rhode Island children in charter school lotteries for the fall, more than 70 percent are poor .... In addition, a majority of them are students of color."


claim:
Says "Ted Kennedy sent a letter to then Soviet leader Yuri Andropov apologizing for Ronald Reagan and begging the Soviets not to overreact."


claim:
"Here, we have Thanksgiving, we have Christmas, we have the 4th of July. Every year in Iran, they celebrate Death to America day."


claim:
"We've seen the increase of alcohol use for underage kids even though alcohol has been illegal ... for kids under 21."


claim:
Under legislation that has cleared the Georgia House, some children who are "legal refugees" could obtain state scholarships to attend private schools.


claim:
Said former U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Scott Gration "was forced to resign two years ago because of his personal use of emails."


claim:
Eliminating affirmative action in admissions in Florida led to "more African American and Hispanic kids attending our university system" than before.


claim:
If President Barack Obama strikes a nuclear deal with Iran, "the next president could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time."


claim:
Georgia is one of only five states where breweries can’t sell you a pint of beer to drink on premise or sell you a six-pack to go.


claim:
"The Iranian parliament will get to say yes or no on this deal, and I think the United States Congress should have the exact same input into the process."


claim:
Says Hillary Clinton "sent a memo" to all State Department staff that said "you should not do State Department business on personal email."


claim:
U.S. military involvement in Libya "allowed thousands of surface-to-air missiles to fall into the hands of radical Islamists."


claim:
The University of Wisconsin System "will be much more affordable than just about any other campus in America" because "going forward we have a cap on it tied to inflation."


claim:
Every illegal immigrant "can be eligible for up to $36,000 to $38,000 in earned income tax credits without paying a dime in."


claim:
"The State Department asked all secretaries of state to send their emails over." Hillary Clinton's "the only one who’s done it."


claim:
"Contrary to popular belief, we actually don’t have that many public employees…We are well below average in the number of public employees.’’


claim:
"Research performed by economists has shown no consistent, positive impact on jobs, income or tax revenues arising from stadiums or sports franchises."


claim:
A federal judge said President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration is "unconstitutional."


claim:
"There are at least three sectors of the border, one in particular, that are just completely insecure."


claim:
Says "President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country ... with a ban on one of the most-used" assault rifle bullets.


claim:
"At this particular point in time, looking at the field, there’s only one individual that’s ever had the uniform of his country on—and that’s me."


claim:
More than any Republican governor in the 2014 elections, "I took a higher percentage of the Republican vote"and "yet I also carried independents by 12 points."


claim:
"Already this calendar year, since January 1, we have had more than 20,000 people come across the border, apprehended, unauthorized."


claim:
"You had more women getting computer sciences degrees in the '80s by a factor of 2-plus than you do now."


claim:
Six of the nation’s 10 wealthiest counties, "according to median income, are in and around the Washington, D.C. area."


claim:
"Abortions account for 94 percent of the services provided for pregnant women by Planned Parenthood."


claim:
"...Over 30 years, federal spending on education has grown by 375 percent, but test scores remain flat."


claim:
On immigration, "the president said 22 times, 22 times, that he couldn't do what he eventually did."


claim:
More than 1 million Texans live without affordable health care because Rick Perry failed to "partner with the Legislature to find a Texas solution to closing the coverage gap."


claim:
Rhode Island has invested less in tourism, economic development and economic development personnel than four nearby states.


claim:
"In general, it appears" Wisconsin’s right to work bill would "likely apply to" the Green Bay Packers players and their union.


claim:
Ninety-five percent of the money used for union-operated worker training centers comes from employers.


claim:
"The Clintons' foundation took millions from foreign governments" including United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.


claim:
Says she has opposed measures to weaken the Dodd-Frank Wall Street regulatory bill and campaign-finance legislation when they were offered as stand-alone bills.


claim:
Thirty U.S. cities have Triple A baseball teams and "virtually everyone of them [is] playing in government owned ballparks."


claim:
The potential Iran nuclear agreement would limit Iran to the number of centrifuges needed for a weapon but too few for a nuclear power program.


claim:
Says Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce’s "own 2014 survey revealed that just 15 percent of business executive respondents were in favor of Right-To-Work legislation."


claim:
Georgia’s share of money from the Federal Highway Trust Fund declined 12 percent between 2008 and 2013.


claim:
Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas said: ‘Hey, all you wrinkly, white-aged has-beens: It’s time for you to die and let the next generation have your spot on the planet.’


claim:
Homeopathy, acupuncture and aromatherapy "have been given elevated legitimacy under the Affordable Care Act."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama said "that American exceptionalism is no more exceptional than the exceptionalism of any other country."


claim:
"22 times Barack Obama said he did not have the authority to implement this type of" anti-deportation "measure. And then the day after he signed this into law, he said, quote, ‘I just changed the law.’"


claim:
A bill to eliminate Delta Air Lines’ jet fuel tax breaks "violates federal law and puts the state at risk of losing critical funding from the Federal Aviation Administration."


claim:
"When did the decline of coal start? It started when natural gas took off … that started to begin in (President George W.) Bush’s administration."


claim:
"Nine hundred people have been fired since I became secretary (of Veterans Affairs). We’ve got 60 people that we fired who have manipulated wait times."


claim:
UW-Madison "spent down reserves" as it was told to do two years ago and, facing new state budget cuts, has "no more reserves to spend down."


claim:
Say George Washington said that "when government takes away citizens’ right to bear arms it becomes citizens’ duty to take away government’s right to govern."


claim:
The current debate over authorizing military action against the Islamic State "would be the first time Congress would place limits on the commander-in-chief's ability to be commander-in-chief."


claim:
The Department of Homeland Security is "the only federal department not funded for this entire fiscal year" by Congress.


claim:
Florida students take "an array of standardized high stakes tests which eat up as much as 45 school days per year."


claim:
"Monarch butterflies are becoming extinct" because of increased use of crops genetically modified to withstand pesticides.


claim:
Says award-winning Milwaukee Public Schools teacher Megan Sampson was laid off because Gov. Scott Walker cut state aid to education.


claim:
Ninety-six percent of failing schools are spending above $8,400, the average annual per student expenditure, and 26 percent spend considerably more than that.


claim:
The woman named Wisconsin’s 2010 "outstanding teacher of the year" was laid off by the Milwaukee Public Schools that year under "seniority and tenure rules" that were eliminated by his Act 10 changes.


claim:
In states that have private-sale background checks for handguns "49 percent fewer women are shot and killed."


claim:
"By spring 2014, parents of 60,000 students in New York state had refused to let them take the Common Core Tests."


claim:
On climate change, "the temperature readings have been fabricated, and it's all blowing up in their (scientists') faces."


claim:
"Obama has chosen to deny the vicious anti-Semitic motivation of the attack on a kosher Jewish grocery in Paris."


claim:
"When I came into office, our vaccination rate in Texas was 65 percent. When I left two weeks ago, it was 95 percent."


claim:
"Over 200 years ago, the United States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas Jefferson led the charge!"


claim:
Borrowing in my 2015-’17 state budget is less than half that in my  predecessor’s last budget and "the lowest it has been in a decade."


claim:
"The 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that up to half of daily marijuana smokers become addicted -- an estimated 2.7 million people in the U.S."


claim:
DeKalb County has graduated five police academies and three fire academies to help reach its ambitious hiring goals in both departments.


claim:
"If you look at the income of average Americans...they’re absolutely flat in constant dollars since 1979."


claim:
"There are countries in Africa where they have higher vaccination rates than here in the United States."


claim:
Louisiana’s film incentives program is so big "they actually shot an upcoming film initially titled ‘Don’t Mess With Texas’ in New Orleans!"


claim:
The group that organized Texas Muslim Capitol Day in Austin "was recently listed as one of 82 organizations designated as a terrorist group by the United Arab Emirates."


claim:
Fundamental changes made to the language describing the Wisconsin Idea in the University of Wisconsin System's mission statement were the result of a "drafting error."


claim:
"Scott Walker to cut $300 million from universities, spend $500 million on a pro basketball stadium."


claim:
The governor’s budget proposal reduces the state austerity cut to education to under $500 million for 2016.


claim:
The children coming across the southern U.S. border "were never examined after they got here and quarantined if they had a disease. They were just sent out across the country. Many of them had measles ... We now have an outbreak of it all because of our immigration policy."


claim:
"If someone is in a room that has measles and leaves and you walk in two hours later, you could get measles from that person."


claim:
Under Common Core standards, it takes "more than a minute" to teach a student "how to add nine plus six."


claim:
"Every year in the United States between 3,000 and 4,500 severe vaccine reactions are reported to the Centers for Disease Control. Not mild reactions. Severe reactions that land somebody in the hospital, the intensive care unit or cause a permanent disability or death."


claim:
The streetcar project proposed for downtown Milwaukee "would actually take precious revenue away" from the Milwaukee Public Schools.


claim:
Texas has "the lowest crime rate in this state since 1968" because of changes in law regarding nonviolent drug offenders.


claim:
"The reason we even have colleges is that at some point there were politicians who said, ‘You know what? We should start colleges.’ "


claim:
"Since I took office, over 319,000 new private sector jobs have been created in Georgia with nearly 93,000 of those coming in the past 12 months."


claim:
"Amazing fact: Senate has already voted on more amendments in 2015 than Reid allowed ALL YEAR last year."


claim:
"Did you know under President Obama family health care premiums have increased $4,154 on the average?"


claim:
"It used to be that the only children at school who weren't vaccinated were those who had true medical" conditions. "Now there are 19 states that allow personal belief exemptions."


claim:
"When you look at the earned income tax credit, it has about a 25 percent fraud rate. We're looking at $20 billion to $30 billion."


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Says Marco Rubio "was for immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship before he was against it."


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The Affordable Care Act "basically puts a penalty or a tax on employers for every new job they create."


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The Super Bowl has "one of the highest levels of human sex trafficking activity of any event in the country."


claim:
Atmospheric conditions could push a football’s pressure "down approximately one-and-a-half pounds per square inch."


claim:
"Documents released from the Soviet Union" show "the Soviet Union started treating" President Ronald Reagan more seriously after Reagan fired the air traffic controllers.


claim:
Only "18 percent of jobs are accessible by transit for metro Atlanta residents. 33 percent for those living in the city."


claim:
"In Iraq and Syria, American leadership, including our military power, is stopping (the Islamic State’s) advance."


claim:
Assault weapons and handguns are allowed in the state Capitol while bullhorns, trumpets, helium balloons and flags on poles are banned.


claim:
The Republican Party has not won a presidential election without either a Bush or a Nixon on the ticket since 1928.


claim:
The Texas leg of the Keystone pipeline "has already created 4,800 jobs in just the year it's been up and running."


claim:
The merger of Georgia State University and Georgia Perimeter College will make GSU one of the largest universities in the nation, with more than 54,000 students.


claim:
"The auto companies have now repaid taxpayers every dime and more of what my administration invested in."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama is "not paying women equally by his own measures in his own White House."


claim:
Since Rick Perry became governor, "poverty rates in Texas increased from 15.1% to 17.5% — which is higher than the national average."


claim:
Starting in December 2007, "1.4 million jobs were created in Texas. In that same period, the rest of the country lost 400,000 jobs."


claim:
In President Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address, "the words ‘al-Qaida’ were never used, the first time those words have not been used in a State of the Union address since February 2001."


claim:
"Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined."


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The United States is "the only advanced country on Earth" that doesn’t guarantee "paid maternity leave to our workers."


claim:
The religious liberty bill proposed in the Georgia House of Representatives does not specifically exclude corporations, which means they can legally claim a religious exemption.


claim:
"If you ask how many times did Ronald Reagan attend a fundraiser when he ran for re-election in 1984, the answer is eight times. If you say how many times did Barack Obama attend a fundraiser in 2012, the answer is 228 times."


claim:
Federal officials declared that grant funds "could be used only for Milwaukee's streetcar project," meaning it "isn’t possible" to redirect the money to "other modes of public transportation or to our public schools."


claim:
"Supreme Court 15 times over the last 120 years has said marriage is a fundamental right" and never said "it had to be between a man and a woman."


claim:
Says Nikita Khrushchev brought an extra shoe to a United Nations session in 1960, which he banged on the desk in protest.


claim:
President Barack Obama’s policies "have resulted in gas prices being reduced from $3.07 per gallon when he was sworn in in 2009 to $2.30 today."


claim:
"Currently, Florida is one of only five states in the nation that prohibit citizens from buying electricity from companies that will put solar panels on your home or business."


claim:
"There’s nothing in the [RhodeMap RI] plan that takes away local government control and local zoning control."


claim:
"Georgia is now the eighth most populous state in the nation, moving from the number 10 position in just four years."


claim:
Says. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, once said, "Wind is a finite resource and harnessing it would slow the winds down, which would cause the temperature to go up."


claim:
Milwaukee "incarcerates 1.2% of white men" and has "incarcerated over 50% of black men in their 30s."


claim:
"There are actual cities" like Birmingham, England, "that are totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply don’t go in."


claim:
The Obama administration "supported Muslim allies trying to establish a new international blasphemy standard."


claim:
Says Mitch McConnell credits Republicans "for recent economic improvements" even though they took control of the Senate only "days ago."


claim:
Mercedes said high taxes and the cost of doing business in New Jersey worked to Georgia’s advantage in landing the company's USA corporate headquarters.


claim:
"The average family not in the top 10 percent makes less money today than they were making a generation ago."


claim:
"The name Frank has risen in popularity by 20 percent" since the debut of 'House of Cards' on Netflix.


claim:
A private company building a natural gas pipeline into Florida "is being forced to spend months under the review of six federal agencies."


claim:
Administrative employees at colleges and universities have "more than doubled over the last 25 years, outpacing the growth of students by more than 2 to 1."


claim:
State "school funding per pupil is down 16 percent compared to 2009, after adjusting for inflation."


claim:
"After World War II, we tried, convicted, and, in some cases, executed Japanese soldiers for war crimes that included charges of waterboarding."


claim:
"January through November 2014, the year so far, were the hottest first 11 months of any year recorded."


claim:
The "average taxpayer will see the equivalent of a 2 percent pay raise as a result of low fuel prices."


claim:
"There have been some estimates that if you deported everybody who is in Texas illegally," it "would create an economic recession for the state."


claim:
"When Disney was looking to build Disney World, they came to Miami and we told Disney to take a hike."


claim:
"The difference over the (previous) four years between where things were headed and where we brought them to over the last four years is a total of $816 in saved property tax money."


claim:
Agriculture contributes $71 billion to Georgia’s economy annually, making it the state’s largest industry.


claim:
"Since 9/11, right-wing extremists (incl anti-abortion, anti-gov) have killed more Americans than Islamic extremists."


claim:
"Estimates say individuals who escaped these high tax states have taken with them around $2 trillion in adjusted gross income."


claim:
"There have even been Republican congressmen who have said, ‘If you give us more money we don't know where we would even put additional Border Patrol agents.’ "


claim:
Says President Barack Obama has "not proposed one thing that would change" the fact that Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.


claim:
Under the "cromnibus" law, taxpayers must guarantee "incredibly risky" derivatives deals made by the nation's largest banks.


claim:
Only 42 percent of young Georgians have a college certificate or degree, but soon 60 percent of jobs will require some college credential.


claim:
Says President Barack Obama got "a pass" over controversal remarks by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, while a 12-year-old speech by House Majority Whip Steve Scalise has blown up into a national story.


claim:
Says Jeb Bush "not only opposes marriage equality, he’s said he ‘personally’ believes gay couples should be banned from adopting children."


claim:
New tax increases that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2015, "all passed under the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama's own administration has done five environmental impact assessments of the Keystone XL pipeline, "all of which have said it would have a minimum impact on the environment."


claim:
Regarding sexual assault against women, "It’s actually safer not to be in college than it is to be in college."


claim:
Exposure to the electromagnetic fields from power lines "has been associated with childhood leukemia and other diseases."


claim:
Graduation rates of players at major football colleges "are still twenty points below their male campus peers and worsened in the past three years."


claim:
"The President has decided to move forward with executive actions on immigration that he has said on numerous occasions that he didn’t have the constitutional power to take."


claim:
"Texas families have kept more than $10 billion in their family budgets since we successfully fought to restore Texas' sales tax deduction a decade ago."


claim:
Says that in 2008, President Barack Obama said normalization with Cuba would first require "liberation of all political prisoners and some basic steps toward freedom, including freedom of the press, political parties, labor unions."


claim:
The United States "decided waterboarding was torture back when we court-martialed American soldiers for waterboarding Philippine insurgents in the Philippine revolution."


claim:
"We have a system now where in 40 states, the highest-paid public employee is the state university’s head football or basketball coach."


claim:
Since the United States began negotiations with Iran, "that's probably the first year and a half in which Iran has not advanced its nuclear program in the last decade."


claim:
"Surveys of teens in high school reveal that knowing a classmate who sells cannabis is 90 times more common than knowing a classmate who sells alcohol."


claim:
"The reason why Cubans don't have access to 21st century telecommunications — like smart phones, like access to the Internet — is because it is illegal in Cuba."


claim:
Georgia has had 12 school shootings in the two years since the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School, more than any other state.


claim:
In the U.S. agreement with the Cuban government, "no commitment was made to allowing the establishment of political parties or to even begin the semblance of a transition to a democracy."


claim:
Says 3,000 Americans "died of gunfire" between the time of the Ebola scare in Dallas and the midterm elections.


claim:
"This Congress made history as the least productive, most unpopular Congress in the history of this proud nation."


claim:
"My property taxes went down largely because my technical college portion went down 35.5% because of the money we put in at state."


claim:
"Congress is a very special group of people. More than 80 percent of them never left the United States."


claim:
The wealth gap between blacks and whites in the United States is "greater than the black-white wealth gap was in apartheid South Africa."


claim:
The home-mortgage deduction is widely thought to be "a middle-class benefit. It's not -- 73 percent of it goes to people making a quarter-million dollars or more a year."


claim:
"Site selectors who decide where businesses expand or relocate shun closed shop states like Wisconsin in favor of Right to Work states like Iowa, Indiana and Michigan."


claim:
A bill from U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho attempts to restrict the administration's ability to conduct national security and criminal background checks on undocumented immigrants.


claim:
"It has been many years, if ever, since an inmate has completed his or her high school diploma while incarcerated in a state correctional facility for adults."


claim:
The federal budget bill "reauthorizes the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, which provides taxpayer dollars so that the Four Seasons hotel can build a resort in Turkey."


claim:
The U.S. has "5 percent of the world’s population, 25 percent of the world’s known prison population."


claim:
"Bill Howell has been the consistent force behind every major tax increase in Virginia in the last decade."


claim:
When Colorado  eased its medical marijuana laws, fatal accidents involving pot-using drivers soared while overall traffic fatalities decreased.


claim:
Terrorist detainees "were not covered by the Geneva Convention. They were unlawful combatants. And under those circumstances, they were not entitled to the normal kinds of courtesies and treatment."


claim:
"According to HUD, it is patently unfair and socially unjust that wealthy people can live in an exclusive neighborhood."


claim:
"A single parent with a couple kids can easily get $35,000 a year" in public assistance in Wisconsin.


claim:
"The United States right now incarcerates more African-Americans as a percentage than apartheid South Africa did."


claim:
"The city of San Antonio reuses almost 40 percent of its water. You know how much the city of Austin reuses? About 5 percent. And that's not right. We can do better."


claim:
Mike "Martinez has voted to raise taxes and utility rates while ending free bus service for seniors."


claim:
University of Texas students "signed a petition seeking the legal right to abort newborn babies up to five-years-old."


claim:
"Mike Martinez cut a deal with prosecutors to avoid facing possible jail time and stuck us with his $24,657.50 legal bill."


claim:
"When (Barack Obama) took office, 2.3 million people were out of work. Five-plus years later, we have 5 million-plus out of work."


claim:
Says President Barack Obama "has lost more members of the House and more members of the Senate than any president ever has lost" in modern times.


claim:
"There are more African American men in prison, jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850."


claim:
Thirty-eight states -- Georgia not included -- have appointed, rather than elected, state school superintendents.


claim:
At the 50 Milwaukee schools serving "at least 80% African-American and at least 80% low income" students, the reading proficiency is 8%.


claim:
"In 1990, the U.S. led the world in the percentage of 25-34 year olds with college degrees. Today we are in 12th place."


claim:
President Barack Obama "said over 20 times he did not have the legal authority" to act as he did on immigration.


claim:
Says a man in Ferguson, Mo., was photographed holding a sign that said, "No mother should have to fear for her son's life every time he robs a store."


claim:
Says Barack Obama has "the worst record of any president when it comes to putting America deeper in debt."


claim:
"In 2012, 123 African-Americans were shot dead by police. ... Same year, 326 whites were killed by police."


claim:
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed became a city resident in the last annexation, opening the door to his candidacy.


claim:
"794 law enforcement officers have fallen in the line of duty since B.H. Obama took office, with no special recognition from the White House."


claim:
"Wisconsin’s state budget is almost twice as large per person as the state budget of Texas, and even after billions in tax cuts, Wisconsin’s working families and businesses remain subject to a heavy tax burden."


claim:
Citing his efforts to secure the border, Obama said, "Overall, the number of people trying to cross our border illegally is the lowest it has been since the 1970s."


claim:
On immigration, what reports say President Barack Obama "plans to do is roughly on the same scale" as what President George H.W. Bush did.


claim:
A sign in Dearborn, Mich., for the Advancement of Islamic Agenda for America says, "Allah be praised. America we will kill you all and nothing you can do to stop it."


claim:
In "the past four or five" presidential elections, "people who poll high at the beginning are not the people who end up being the nominees."


claim:
"There are more people living in this country who were not born here than at anytime in the history of the country."


claim:
"In Rhode Island, a recent study showed that among a group of people who had been homeless for a year or more, Medicaid costs averaged about $60,000 per person."


claim:
"The actions I’m taking" are "the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican president and every single Democratic president for the past half-century."


claim:
In rural Virginia, "Sen. Warner ran 8-10 points ahead of a traditional Democrat -- ahead of Senator Kaine, ahead of Governor McAuliffe."


claim:
Austin mayoral candidate Steve Adler opposed an injunction to stop a "company from dumping petrochemicals directly into the Barton Springs aquifer."


claim:
"Fox News uses photo of a married couple promoting ‘traditional marriage’ and the photo is actually of a same-sex couple."


claim:
In Wisconsin, unions can essentially give "unlimited" contributions to political parties, but business can't give any.


claim:
In the 2014 elections, "the American people overwhelmingly said we don't want Obamacare … and we don't want amnesty."


claim:
Scott Walker "couldn’t get his own party" to back more than a 500-student increase in Milwaukee’s school choice program, but in Indiana, "Mitch Daniels’ voucher program is approaching 30,000 students two years after opening."


claim:
The Orange County, Florida, school board "voted to make it impossible for a student to receive a grade below 50."


claim:
Keystone XL allows "Canada to pump their oil, send it through our land, down to the Gulf, where it will be sold everywhere else."


claim:
Austin mayoral candidate Steve Adler has "never been active in anything that has to do with City Hall."


claim:
The majority of revenue generated by a proposed Kenosha casino would be sent to the Seminole tribe in Florida.


claim:
The climate-change agreement between the United States and China "requires the Chinese to do nothing at all for 16 years."


claim:
Repeal of Obamacare would "take away health care for 10.3 million Americans" who have received coverage since Oct. 1, 2013.


claim:
"Over the last few years, we’ve put more people back to work than all the other advanced economies combined."


claim:
Georgia has some of the highest gas taxes in the Southeast but one of the lowest taxes on gasoline for transportation in the nation.


claim:
"China has made enormous progress in its human rights. That is a fact recognized by all the people in the world."


claim:
"The Democratic leader in the Senate, Harry Reid, has blocked any vote on the Keystone pipeline for years."


claim:
The State Department says the 42,000 jobs created by the Keystone XL pipeline are "ongoing, enduring jobs."


claim:
Austin mayoral candidate "Steve Adler admitted his law firm worked with Koch Industries for nearly a decade."


claim:
Republicans approved 12 times larger tax breaks for "people making over 350 grand" than for "the average middle-class person."


claim:
Amendment 2 on medical marijuana won a higher percentage of the vote than the last six Florida governors, including Jeb Bush’s 2002 landslide.


claim:
Says Obama's net neutrality proposal "puts the government in charge of determining Internet pricing, terms of service and what types of products and services can be delivered."


claim:
"Every single day in this country, 1,000 people are deported and the vast majority of those people that are deported aren't criminals."


claim:
"The president of the United States came in the Tuesday before the election in a ward that went 99% for him in the last election and they couldn't even (increase) the vote there."


claim:
Congress has 11 percent approval ratings, yet 96.4 percent of incumbent lawmakers were re-elected in 2014.


claim:
"There would be tens of thousands of jobs created" if President Barack Obama approved the Keystone XL pipeline.


claim:
"According to recent reports, a group of death panels organized under Obamacare ordered their first execution."


claim:
Georgia has led the nation in student fatalities caused by motorists illegally passing stopped school buses.


claim:
Every new Republican member of the U.S. Senate said they "will vote to repeal and replace Obamacare."


claim:
Loretta Lynch, the new nominee for attorney general, "was a member of Bill Clinton's defense team during the 1992 Whitewater corruption probe."


claim:
The proposed mine in northern Wisconsin would be built without any government oversight, and will be nine miles long.


claim:
"We've created more jobs in the United States than every other advanced economy combined since I came into office."


claim:
"One-hundred times as many people worked their way from poverty into the American middle class" during his presidency compared to Ronald Reagan's presidency.


claim:
"Among the developed nations, we are the least economically and socially mobile country in the world."


claim:
"Families in Del Valle, who are City of Austin residents, have to drive to Bastrop to go to the closest grocery store."


claim:
"We’re above 800 million Muslims radicalized, more than half the Muslims on Earth That’s not a minority. That’s now a majority."


claim:
"Jeanne Shaheen was principally involved in a plot with Lois Lerner and President Barack Obama’s political appointee at the IRS to lead a program of harassment against conservative nonprofit groups during the 2012 election"


claim:
Dave Brat said "the best way to fix Social Security would be to give seniors back what they paid in and no more."


claim:
"Kansas has not elected somebody other than a Republican (to the U.S. Senate) since before 'The Wizard of Oz' hit the movie theaters."


claim:
"In K-12 education, our kids are scoring at the bottom of science and mathematics right now in the industrialized world -- at the bottom."


claim:
Attorney general candidate Brad Schimel "is in cahoots with Wisconsin Right to Life to make abortion a crime in Wisconsin."


claim:
The gender gap in his support is "not unique to me" and "there’s not a huge gap from where Republicans have been in presidential, gubernatorial and US Senate elections" in recent years.


claim:
Wisconsin Republicans "repealed a statewide fair pay law" that made "sure women are treated fairly on the job."


claim:
"Women and men both are making less when you adjust for inflation than when" John Kitzhaber was first elected governor.


claim:
A new Colorado law "literally allows residents to print ballots from their home computers, then encourages them to turn ballots over to ‘collectors.’ "


claim:
"The nation as a whole has created jobs at a rate that is two times the rate that we have created jobs here in Wisconsin under Gov. Walker."


claim:
"All of Liberia can produce less than one-third as much electricity as the Dallas Cowboys football stadium consumes at peak times."


claim:
"The Austin Tea Party and an ultra-conservative millionaire are behind the" campaign against the city’s light-rail proposition.


claim:
Greg Abbott has benefitted from "payday lenders who have given him $300,000 and then received a ruling from him that they can operate in a loophole in the law that allows them to charge unlimited rates and fees."


claim:
"We have spent $350 million to deal with sea-level rise" in the Miami area and "hundreds of millions of dollars to deal with coral reefs."


claim:
Figures for September 2014’s job growth in Wisconsin mark the "largest private-sector job creation we've had in the month of September in more than a decade"


claim:
Says the 1956 Republican Party platform supported equal pay, the minimum wage, asylum for refugees, protections for unions and more.


claim:
"Rick Scott vetoed funding for 30 Florida rape crisis centers. Scott said the centers weren’t needed."


claim:
Says Scott Walker "gave $6 million in tax breaks to a corporation and told them that they can keep that money even if they lay off half their workforce."


claim:
Suicide comes from federal government largesse "saying you are not worth anything but you are going to get something for nothing."


claim:
Says Charlie Crist wants felons who "commit a heinous crime" such as "intentional permanent disfigurement of a child, you walk out of jail, you immediately get to vote."


claim:
Four members of the Rhode Island General Assembly "went to vote in 2010 and were told they had already voted."


claim:
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter "votes with Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats 95 percent of the time," but Frank Guinta "will take on both parties" and has "independent New Hampshire values."


claim:
"Money towards the Ebola vaccine is basically cut in half to what it was. More cuts are coming under the congressional sequester."


claim:
Says property insurance rates are going up because Rick Scott signed a bill preventing the state from regulating insurance.


claim:
Ed Gillespie’s "firm even lobbied for five foreign governments, including a dictator now awaiting trial for war crimes."


claim:
"Obama, instead of nominating a health professional, he nominated someone who is an anti-gun activist (for surgeon general)."


claim:
A lawyer demanded "several Houston pastors hand over to the city government many of their private papers, including their sermons."


claim:
Six convictions are connected to an allegation by prosecutors "that Gov. Scott Walker is at the center of a criminal scheme."


claim:
The projected $1.8 billion state budget shortfall for 2015-’17 "actually comes from an assumption based on zero growth. That just doesn’t happen."


claim:
None of $400 million the City of Austin proposes to spend on road projects "will be used to add new lanes to congested roadways."


claim:
Says Scott Walker cut funding to local governments in Wisconsin, contributing to the "second-largest increase in violent crime" in the Midwest.


claim:
"We've had 27 (Ebola) outbreaks around the globe and they've never spread outside of the confines of the countries that were initially affected."


claim:
"The next state budget will begin with a surplus of over half a billion dollars -- $535 million to be exact."


claim:
Says David Perdue wants to abolish the U.S. Department of Education, which would cost Georgia schools $1 billion a year and eliminate millions in student loans.


claim:
The Affordable Care Act says that "at age 76 when you most need it most, you are not eligible for cancer treatment. …  Cancer hospital will ration care according to the patient's age."


claim:
"While (Charlie Crist) was governor, utility costs went up 30 percent and went from below the national average to above the national average. Since I got elected, utility rates have come down 11 percent and now we are below the average."


claim:
Blocking travel from countries with Ebola should be possible because President Barack Obama "has sealed off Israel in the past."


claim:
"This year," the Austin City Council "granted a small homestead" property tax "exemption of $5,000... applied equally to everyone. And we also granted an exemption for the elderly and the disabled members of the community."


claim:
Says a bill he vetoed to give driver licenses to certain immigrants known as Dreamers would have changed "nothing."


claim:
"Ninety-five percent of Oregonians now have health insurance coverage, tens of thousands for the very first time."


claim:
The CDC is "spending money on things like jazzercise, urban gardening and massage therapy" that could be redirected to Ebola.


claim:
In 1968 "the average corporate CEO made 20 times the average worker’s pay. Today that multiple is about 350."


claim:
"In the past three years, we have prosecuted or brought more cases on access to public records than in the previous 12 years combined."


claim:
"In 2013," Dan Patrick voted "against funding to test the backlog of rape kits, allowing rapists to walk free."


claim:
Under Scott Walker’s policies, "the typical Wisconsin family has actually seen their real income drop by nearly $3,000 in the last four years."


claim:
Almost every state has offered an insurance plan on its health exchange that does not cover abortion.


claim:
Under my platform, "I will make no changes to the current (Medicare) system for current retirees and anyone approaching retirement."


claim:
Under Scott Walker's "tax plan, the average Wisconsin taxpayer got just $11 a month. But corporations got $610 million in tax cuts. Millionaires got at least $1,400 per year."


claim:
"Under the administration of Gov. Scott Walker, northern Wisconsin’s mining economy is moving forward and more people are getting good, high-paying jobs."


claim:
Says Jeb Bush -- not Charlie Crist -- signed legislation that let Duke Energy collect money for nuclear projects.


claim:
"Weeks after accepting a quarter-million-dollar campaign contribution" from a hospital board chairman, Greg Abbott went to court against victims of a drug-taking neurosurgeon.


claim:
"Iowa has the fourth fastest-growing personal income in the United States, while nationally, the real wage has decreased over the past eight years that Congressman (Bruce) Braley has been there by 2.7 percent."


claim:
"As district attorney, Susan Happ took $180,000" in a "shady" land deal "from a man charged with multiple felony counts of sexual assault before she offered him a deferred prosecution."


claim:
Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, "would help lift over a million Americans out of poverty."


claim:
Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour "will destroy between half a million and one million jobs."


claim:
Says Rick Scott changed his promise from 700,000 jobs created "on top of what normal growth would be" to just 700,000 jobs.


claim:
Says President Barack Obama’s recent New York fundraising trip "cost between $25 million and $50 million."


claim:
The United States was not one of 16 countries where David Perdue said in his Pillowtex deposition that he created jobs.


claim:
Says Charlie Crist "is embroiled in a fraud case for steering taxpayer money to a de facto Ponzi scheme."


claim:
"An overwhelming majority of Republican and Democrat law enforcement leaders have endorsed Brad Schimel."


claim:
"The unemployment rate for young people is down from a 10.6 percent high in 2009 to 2.6 percent today."


claim:
"The CBO says if we raise the minimum wage the way Charlie (Crist) wants to do it, it would lose 500,000 jobs."


