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Statement: A STOLEN ELECTION: State totals minus illegal ballot trafficking numbers give President Trump decisive victories in AZ, GA, MI, PA, and WI.
Speaker: the gateway pundit
About the speaker: The Gateway Pundit is a conservative website.
Date: April 24, 2022
Location: georgia
Topics: national;elections;wisconsin;pennsylvania;michigan;arizona
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: A Gateway Pundit headline claims "A STOLEN ELECTION: State totals minus illegal ballot trafficking numbers give President Trump decisive victories in AZ, GA, MI, PA, and WI."  The blog post’s assertions rest on the testimony of  the Vote, a conservative poll-watching organization. The group told Wisconsin Assembly members that they weren’t alleging that the votes were illegal, but that the process was abused.  Gateway Pundit assumed that all of the mail-in ballots  the Vote cast doubt on are illegal and should be thrown out, and that all of them were for Biden.  This  is not accurate. We rate this .  RELATED : All of our fact-checks about elections RELATED:  The faulty premise of the ‘2,000 mules’ trailer about voting by mail in the 2020 election
Statement: We're importing about 10 percent of our milk supply. We're America's Dairyland, but yet we don't have enough milk in this state to meet the demand for our cheesemakers.
Speaker: scott walker
About the speaker: Scott Walker, a Republican, is the former governor of Wisconsin. He was first elected in November 2010. He survived a recall election in 2012, defeating Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett after igniting controversy with a bill curtailing public-employee union collective-bargaining rights.  He won re-election to a four-year term in November 2014 and was a 2016 presidential candidate before dropping out in September of 2015. He was defeated by Tony Evers in the 2018 gubernatorial election. Walker is a former Milwaukee County executive and former member of the state Assembly.
Date: July 10, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: agriculture;economy;states
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Indeed, even the Milk Marketing Board hedges a bit, saying "as much as" 90 percent of Wisconsin milk is made into cheese. Our rating Walker said: "We’re importing about 10 percent of our milk supply. We’re America’s Dairyland, but yet we don’t have enough milk in this state to meet the demand for our cheesemakers." Walker's statement is on target, based on the best available estimates, but there aren't actual statistics on how much milk is shipped to Wisconsin from out of state. With that clarification, we rate his statement .
Statement: 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.
Speaker: jack hanna
About the speaker: Jack Hanna is a longtime animal advocate and director emeritus of the Columbus (Ohio) Zoo and Aquarium. He's often appeared on television to discuss animals, including The Late Show with David Letterman and his own show, Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures. 
Date: August 2, 2015
Topics: environment;animals;punditfact
Context: an ABC "This Week" interview
Fact-check justification: Hanna said, "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." Counting lions in the wild is extremely difficult and requires a lot of estimation. Any hard numbers, therefore, should be taken with a grain of salt. Hanna’s  reflects the consensus among researchers that lion numbers are in decline. The exact figures are up for some deabte, but his point is certainly valid. We rate it .
Statement: Our median income here in Providence is the same as the median income in Mississippi.
Speaker: jorge elorza
About the speaker: Jorge O. Elorza was elected mayor of Providence in 2014. A professor at the Roger Williams University School of Law, he is co-founder of the Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams University and stepped down as a judge on the Providence Housing Court in 2014 to run for mayor. He received his law degree from Harvard University in 2003, and a bachelor of science degree in accounting from the University of Rhode Island. 
Date: November 9, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: economy;income;poverty
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Jorge Elorza said that the median income in Providence "is the same as the median income in Mississippi." He made the comparison to illustrate how poor the capital city really is. In fact, Providence’s median income, both for households and for families, is actually lower than Mississippi’s, not equal to it. While Elorza’s comparison is slightly off, it supports his overall point. We rule his  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: A photo showing Ellen DeGeneres with a girl is evidence of a child sex-trafficking conspiracy.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: July 21, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Eva is the couple’s niece . In a 2015 episode of "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," DeGeneres played a clip of Eva and their other niece Perry singing while riding in the car.   Other photos de Rossi posted from the trip show the couple smiling for a selfie and DeGeneres riding on a watercraft with her mother .   What these photos don’t prove: that DeGeneres is connected to a baseless conspiracy theory about child sex-trafficking, or that she was on the island of the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.   We rate this post .
Statement: Says Ron Johnson's company got government loans and a grant to help expand his business
Speaker: russ feingold
About the speaker: Russ Feingold served as a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Wisconsin from 1992 until 2010, when he was defeated for re-election. An attorney, he previously served 10 years in the Wisconsin Legislature. Following his Senate defeat, he founded Progressives United, which says it mission is to "stand up to the exploding corporate influence in our political system by organizing and amplifying the voices of those who believe that corporations have too much power." Feingold is running against U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, the man who defeated him, in the 2016 election.
Date: September 13, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: message machine 2010
Context: a campaign TV ad
Fact-check justification: The $75,000 grant is clearly government aid. And the rail line it helped create clearly has helped Pacur from its earliest days. But the grant apparently predated Johnson’s arrival in Oshkosh, and there is no  so far -- if more comes to light, we may revisit this ruling -- that Johnson was involved in it. Using Johnson’s out-of-context soundbite, as if he is responding to this point, makes the ad even more . We rate the statement about government aid .
Statement: Most of these mass shootings take place in (areas) where you're not allowed to have a concealed weapons permit.
Speaker: richard corcoran
About the speaker: Richard Corcoran is Florida's appointed education commissioner. He was elected to the state House in 2010 and served as House Speaker 2016-2018.
Date: February 12, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: crime;guns
Context: an inteview on CBS4
Fact-check justification: Corcoran said, "Most of these mass shootings take place in arenas where you're not allowed to have a concealed weapons permit." Corcoran cites research by an advocate for gun rights who used a strict definition to define places where guns were not allowed. In reality, there are places where concealed weapons are permitted, places where police or security officers openly carry weapons, and places where concealed weapons are not permitted. Additionally, there are different ways to define mass shootings. We found that advocates for more gun control analyzed the data and reached different conclusions. Our assessment is that it is difficult to draw broad conclusions about the motivations of the perpetrators of mass shootings or whether they are influenced by gun restrictions. We rate Corcoran’s statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/3a9f4fdc-aed8-4f53-9794-18cf41d2bea7
Statement: Under Gov. Rick Perry's leadership [Texas] has created more jobs over the last decade than the rest of the states combined.
Speaker: bob mcdonnell
About the speaker: Bob McDonnell is the Republican governor of Virginia until January 2014. McDonnell was elected over Democratic state Sen. Creigh Deeds.
McDonnell previously served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1992 to 2006 and as state Attorney General from 2006 to 2009.
McDonnell graduated from the University of Nortre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., with a bachelor's degree in 1976. He then served in the U.S. Army on active duty from 1976 to 1981 and in the reserves until 1997, retiring as a lieutenant colenel. He received a master's degree in business adminsitration from Boston University in 1980 and a master's and law degree from Regent University, Virginia Beach, in 1989.
Date: June 25, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: an op-ed
Fact-check justification: McDonnell wrote that under Gov. Perry, Texas "has created more jobs over the last decade than the rest of the states combined." But the Virginia governor used net job numbers. Those are different from job creation figures, which are not compiled by the BLS or other national authority. So using net job numbers and calling them job creation figures is a case of comparing apples to oranges. We rate McDonnell’s  .
Statement: John McCain's top foreign policy adviser lobbied for... the Republic of Georgia, and McCain has mirrored the position advocated by the government.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: August 9, 2008
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: a statement by Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan
Fact-check justification: "No matter how this conflict started, Russia has escalated it well beyond the dispute over South Ossetia and invaded another country," he said. "There is no possible justification for these attacks." McCain and Obama have both now issued statements supporting Georgia's entry into NATO. There's no  that Scheunemann's ties to Georgia have influenced McCain's position, but it is correct to say McCain has supported the view of the Georgia government. The Obama campaign's statement about Scheunemann and McCain is .
Statement: More classified documents (were) found at the University of Delaware," the "equivalent of a tractor trailer worth.
Speaker: peggy hubbard
About the speaker: Peggy Hubbard is an Illinois Republican who ran for U.S. Senate in 2020 and 2022.
Date: January 30, 2023
Location: national
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Hubbard claimed that "more classified documents (were) found at the University of Delaware," the "equivalent of a tractor trailer worth."  There have been no news or government reports that any classified documents have been found at the University of Delaware.  Biden donated 1,850 boxes of his senatorial papers to the university in 2011. Senators commonly donate records such as correspondence and speeches to their alma maters; Biden is a graduate of the University of Delaware. The collection has not been made public and it is unknown whether any of the documents in the collection were classified. We rate this  .
Statement: John Adcock and Republicans' plan for health care "would get rid of coverage altogether for thousands of families and raise premiums on the rest of us.
Speaker: sydney batch
About the speaker: Sydney Batch, a Democratic candidate for NC House District 37
Date: October 23, 2018
Location: north carolina
Topics: health care
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Batch’s commercial suggests a plan supported by John Adcock and legislative Republicans "would get rid of coverage altogether for thousands of families and raise premiums on the rest of us." Her campaign manager cited a bill that would have provided an alternative option to the Affordable Care Act. While that bill could ultimately destabilize the ACA marketplace, causing premiums to rise, it doesn’t directly eliminate coverage. It didn’t have enough support to pass and Adcock says he opposes it. We rate this  . This story was produced by the North Carolina Fact-Checking Project, a partnership of McClatchy Carolinas, the Duke University Reporters’ Lab and PolitiFact. The NC Local News Lab Fund and the International Center for Journalists provide support for the project, which shares fact-checks with newsrooms statewide.
Statement: Says President Obama was wrong "about Muslims' historical contributions to mankind, such as algebra (actually that was the ancient Babylonians), the compass (that was the Chinese), pens (the Chinese again) and medical discoveries.
Speaker: ann coulter
About the speaker: Ann Coulter is a conservative columnist and author.
Date: June 10, 2009
Location: national
Topics: pundits
Context: a column
Fact-check justification: He didn't say Muslims were the sole inventors of these disciplines, he merely said their innovation contributed to the development of disciplines. We find Coulter is  about Obama's statement about algebra, that she's largely right about navigation, that she's  about pens and that it's fuzzy about how much Muslims contributed to modern medicine. So we find her criticism to be .    Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: Says Bernie Sanders voted against the auto bailout
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: March 15, 2020
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: Washington D.C
Fact-check justification: Biden said that Sanders voted against the auto bailout. Sanders did vote against a set of funds that financed most of the auto bailout — though the funds’ primary purpose was bailing out Wall Street firms, which Sanders strongly opposed. But Biden left listeners with the impression that Sanders’ opposed bailing out the auto industry. Sanders voted in favor of providing auto companies with $14 billion, which was separate from the Wall Street bailout funds he opposed. That standalone measure failed. We rate this  .
Statement: Clinton ally mysteriously dies.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 9, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: However, Hyde’s death isn’t a mystery. It’s been widely reported that she died after the business jet she was flying in hit severe turbulence. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the incident and said a preliminary report will be released later this month.   The chief medical examiner’s office in Hartford, Connecticut, where Hyde was brought after the turbulence and later pronounced dead, found that she died from blunt-force injuries . We rate claims that she died mysteriously, much less that she was murdered by the Clintons, .
Statement: John McCain offers "billions in tax breaks for oil and drug companies, but almost nothing for families like yours.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: August 11, 2008
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: Some families will consider that a significant tax savings while others might rate it "almost nothing." His tax cuts for oil and drug companies, though, are part of an across-the-board reduction of corporate taxes that McCain says will make the United States more competitive with countries around the world. When we look at Obama's overall statement -- billions in tax breaks for oil and drug companies, but almost nothing for "families like yours" -- we find accuracy problems on both halves of the . (The tax breaks aren't just for oil and drug companies, and McCain does offer some tax breaks for families.) Putting the statements together like that only makes it worse, leading us to rate his statement .
Statement: There were 36 states where Republicans who were in charge refused to implement a state (health insurance) exchange.
Speaker: debbie wasserman schultz
About the speaker: Debbie Wasserman Schultz became the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee in 2011 and resigned in July 2016. The Florida Democrat was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004 after serving in the state senate. She represents Congressional District 23 in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Date: July 22, 2014
Location: national
Topics: health care;supreme court
Context: an interview with a Las Vegas news network
Fact-check justification: Wasserman Schultz said that there were "36 states where Republicans who were in charge refused to implement a state exchange." There are 36 states that use the federal exchange or state-federal partnerships instead of state-based marketplaces. But seven of those states are run by Democrats. And, some of the states with Republican governors, like New Mexico and Idaho, tried to institute a state exchange before opting for federally-facilitated marketplace. So while most of the 36 states had Republican governors, not all of them did. We rate this statement .
Statement: It's estimated that 40 percent of all the guns that are sold in the United States occur with no background records check.
Speaker: tim kaine
About the speaker: Tim Kaine is a U.S. senator representing Virginia, elected to the Senate in 2012. He was the 2016 Democratic nominee for vice president.
Kaine was governor from 2006 to 2010, lieutenant governor from 2002 to 2006, mayor of Richmond from 1998 to 2001, and city councilman of Richmond beginning in 1994. He was also the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011.
Kaine was born in St. Paul, Minn. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1979 from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1983. He took a year-long break during law school to work with the Jesuit order as a Catholic missionary in Honduras, becoming fluent in Spanish.
 
Date: April 16, 2015
Location: virginia
Topics: guns
Context: a floor speech
Fact-check justification: Kaine says "it’s estimated that 40 percent of all the guns that are sold in the United States occur with no background records check." His source is a small-sample survey that’s almost 21 years old. It counted some firearms that were purchased before a law went into effect requiring federal background checks for many gun sales. The 1994 survey measured gun transactions, which included firearms that were sold and those that were given as gifts or inheritances. When the results were adjusted to guns sold -- the term Kaine uses -- only 14 to 22 percent of the firearms were sold without background checks. The researchers say they "don’t know" if their findings are relevant today. There’s no updated national study.   Kaine did not acknowledge these points. So we rate his statement .
Statement: Florida has reduced its carbon emissions by 20 percent since 2005.
Speaker: gus bilirakis
About the speaker: Rep. Gus Bilirakis is a Republican Congressman from Florida. He represents the 9th Congressional District, an area north of Tampa Bay.
Date: June 24, 2015
Location: florida
Topics: environment;energy
Context: a speech on the House floor
Fact-check justification: Bilirakis said, "Florida has reduced its carbon emissions by 20 percent since 2005." It may not be immediately clear from Bilirakis’ speech, but he’s only talking about carbon dioxide emissions from power plants that would be affected by the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. Those are the guidelines that would be put on hold by the bill passed by the House. EPA data show those Florida electricity generators have cut carbon dioxide emissions by 21.8 percent between 2005 and 2012. Overall carbon dioxide emissions from all sources didn’t decrease quite as much, dropping anywhere from 13.4 to 15.7 percent. Environmental groups also warned that the current reductions aren’t guaranteed. The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate Bilirakis’ statement .
Statement: I delivered a flat tax for my state. I took my state to No. 1 in job creation. With all due respect to what Rick Perry has said about Texas, we did a little bit better.
Speaker: jon huntsman
About the speaker: Jon Huntsman was the governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009. He served as ambassador to China from 2009 to 2011. He is a Republican candidate for president in 2012. 
Date: January 7, 2012
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs;new hampshire 2012;states;taxes
Context: Manchester, N.H
Fact-check justification: Huntsman didn’t create a pure flat tax in Utah, but he did create a flatter one. As for jobs, the Utah economy did well, but it did not outpace Texas in job creation using the yardstick most economists -- and the Bureau of Labor Statistics itself -- use. We also don’t think it’s valid for Huntsman to  as much credit as he does for himself and his tax changes for the jobs numbers. On balance, we rate the statement .
Statement: Says President Barack Obama's parents were communists.
Speaker: samuel wurzelbacher
About the speaker: Samuel J. Wurzelbacher gained national fame as “Joe the Plumber” during the 2008 presidential election. He is the Republican nominee for Ohio's newly drawn 9th Congressional District in the 2012 election. His Democratic opponent is longtime Democratic incumbent Marcy Kaptur.
Date: April 24, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: elections
Context: a letter published by the Christian Broadcasting Network
Fact-check justification: The  that Wurzelbacher produced doesn’t back his . There does not seem to be any proof that Obama’s mother was a communist. Nor does the 1965 paper authored by Obama’s estranged father verify that he was a communist. And authors of books on Obama say there’s no  that Obama’s parents were communists. We give Wurzelbacher’s incendiary statement a  rating