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Statement: New Jersey has the second highest rate of institutionalization" of people with developmental disabilities "in America. Only Texas puts more of its citizens -- confines more of its citizens -- to institutions than New Jersey.
Speaker: chris christie
About the speaker: Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 
Date: February 21, 2012
Location: new jersey
Topics: disability;health care
Context: his budget speech
Fact-check justification: Christie said: "New Jersey has the second highest rate of institutionalization in America. Only Texas puts more of its citizens -- confines more of its citizens -- to institutions than New Jersey." Christie is right, according to the population of large, state-operated institutions. Only Texas has more people with developmental disabilities in such institutions than New Jersey. However, as a rate compared to the general population, the governor is slightly off. Arkansas and Mississippi institutionalize more people with developmental disabilities than New Jersey by that measure. Texas is 43rd. Still, experts agree that the governor’s point is on target: New Jersey lags the rest of the country in moving people with developmental disabilities out of institutions and into the community. We rate the statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: North Carolina is "in the small minority of states that requires an absentee ballot to be signed by two witnesses or a notary public.
Speaker: jay chaudhuri
About the speaker: Jay Chaudhuri is a Democratic member of the N.C. Senate who represents parts of Raleigh and Cary.
Date: April 10, 2020
Location: north carolina
Topics: elections;coronavirus
Context: an op-ed
Fact-check justification: State Senators Marcus and Chaudhuri said "North Carolina is in the small minority of states that requires an absentee ballot to be signed by two witnesses or a notary public." According to a nonpartisan organization that tracks state laws, NC is one of only three states (6 percent of the US) that requires absentee ballots to be signed by two witnesses or a notary public. We rate this statement .
Statement: It's "common knowledge" that al-Qaida is receiving training from Iran.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: March 18, 2008
Location: national
Topics: iraq
Context: Amman, Jordan
Fact-check justification: The rest of the Islamic world is  Sunni, though many Sunni countries have Shiite minorities. Saudi Arabia has an estimated 4-million Shiites out of a total population of 27-million, and Shiites there face discrimination. Under Saddam Hussein, Sunnis were the ruling class of Iraq, even though the country was majority Shiite. That division has hurt U.S. efforts to unify the country. McCain recovered quickly, but we still rate his statement  for saying that everyone knows Iran and al-Qaida are working together.
Statement: The 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was "an American intel op against Trump.
Speaker: scott adams
About the speaker: Scott Adams created the "Dilbert" comic strip. He hosts the "Coffee with Scott Adams" video podcast.
Date: March 8, 2023
Location: national
Topics: city government;race and ethnicity
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Fuentes and Gionet have shared their affinities for Trump — both were in Washington, D.C., during the Jan. 6, 2021, Stop the Steal rally and attack on the U.S. Capitol. Gionet is a named defendant and pleaded guilty for his actions. Alt-right activist Richard Spencer, who shouted "Hail Trump" when the former president was elected, was at the rally and later returned to Charlottesville in October 2017 for another white nationalist rally . Spencer later disavowed himself from Trump.  Adams’  that the Unite the Right rally was staged is ! PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: Now with the COVID-19 … more people are dependent on drugs or alcohol.
Speaker: joe manchin
About the speaker: Joe Manchin is a U.S. senator from West Virginia. The former governor of West Virginia won a special election in November 2010 to complete the balance of the late Sen. Robert Byrd’s term.
Date: August 19, 2020
Location: west virginia
Topics: drugs;public health
Context: an interview with the Washington Examiner
Fact-check justification: Manchin said, "Now with the COVID-19 … more people are dependent on drugs or alcohol." Manchin misused the term "dependent" to refer to overdoses and other individual drug crises like those targeted by his bill. (It’s also no longer the preferred term in the field.) That said, official West Virginia data shows increases in emergency room visits due to overdoses in June, July and August 2020 compared with the same months in 2019. National data shows increases in reported overdoses in a majority of participating counties, as well as increases after the enactment of stay-at-home orders. And one academic study found increased alcohol use nationally during the pandemic. We rate the statement .
Statement: Wisconsin is one of several states where you can change your early ballot if you think you've made a mistake.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: November 1, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: city government;elections;states
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Our rating Trump says: "Wisconsin is one of several states where you can change your early ballot if you think you've made a ." As long as you do it in time -- in Wisconsin, several days before election day -- you can "spoil" your original ballot and cast a new one. At least three other states allow re-voting, too. We rate Trump’s statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/a44566ab-602e-42cc-bac3-47e4efcdee04
Statement: Says recent polls show Americans agree with Republicans that the federal debt ceiling should not be raised and the debt and deficit should be dealt with mostly by cutting spending.
Speaker: josh treviño
About the speaker: Joshua Treviño, formerly of the Texas Public Poilcy Foundation, based in Austin, says in an online biographical entry that he was previously the founder and president of Treviño Strategies and Media, where he worked on national and international media campaigns. His entry also says his experience encompasses work in more than 30 countries.
Date: July 13, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: deficit;federal budget;polls and public opinion
Context: a TV appearance
Fact-check justification: Put another way, at least 43 percent indicated some support for tax increases — most of them also backing budget cuts. "Americans' preferences for deficit reduction clearly favor spending cuts to tax increases," Gallup sums up, "but most Americans favor a mix of the two approaches." Its write-up closes: "A key question to be answered in the days ahead is whether an agreement to raise the debt ceiling will include any tax increases. This is something many Republican members of Congress oppose, but most Americans do not seem to share this view." We rate Treviño’s statement .
Statement: A golf course closes somewhere in America every 48 hours.
Speaker: bryant gumbel
About the speaker: Bryant Gumbel, an award-winning journalist, hosts HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.
Date: July 21, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: sports
Context: an episode of HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel
Fact-check justification: Gumbel said a "golf course closes somewhere in America every 48 hours." In 2013, actually, the rate was one 18-hole course closing every 56 hours and that’s before appropriately taking into account the year’s 14 reported openings, which means the nation experienced one less golf course every 61 hours. We rate Gumbel’s catchy but only partly accurate statement .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: The president referred to the Syrian opposition just a few months ago as pharmacists and doctors, and so on.
Speaker: michael hayden
About the speaker: Michael Hayden is a retired U.S. Air Force general and former Director of the National Security Agency and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Date: September 14, 2014
Topics: iraq;terrorism;punditfact
Context: comments on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: In discussing Obama’s decision to arm opposition forces in Syria, Hayden said, "The president referred to the Syrian opposition just a few months ago as pharmacists and doctors, and so on." We found several examples of Obama, as recently as June and August, characterizing the Syrian rebels as pharmacists and doctors, as well as dentists, radio reporters and teachers. Usually he was describing their capacity to fight Assad, but that doesn’t make Hayden’s point any less accurate. We rate Hayden’s statement .
Statement: With his decision on whether to fire Gen. Stanley McChrystal, President Obama "has to fix yet another problem he inherited from the Bush administration.
Speaker: ed schultz
About the speaker: Ed Schultz is the host of the Ed Show on MSNBC.
Date: June 22, 2010
Location: national
Topics: afghanistan;military;pundits
Context: a commentary on MSNBC's "The Ed Show"
Fact-check justification: (We contacted MSNBC's publicity department but received no clarification about what Schultz meant.) So if Schultz believes that McChrystal is a problem inherited from Bush, he's . Obama didn't just appoint McChrystal to fill a vacant spot; he effectively sacked the general in charge to create a vacancy that he then proceeded to fill with McChrystal as his fix-it man. The lesson for Democrats is that not everything can be blamed on President Bush. We rate Schultz's comment !
Statement: One legislative Republican's district gets almost all the school supply funding.
Speaker: roy cooper
About the speaker: Roy Cooper, a Democrat, is the governor of North Carolina. Previously he was the attorney general, a state senator and a state representative.
Date: May 30, 2018
Location: north carolina
Topics: city budget;education
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Cooper tweeted: "One legislative Republican’s district gets almost all the school supply funding." Cooper has a point that budget writers designated a large portion of new school supply funding to schools in one Republican legislator’s district. But his tweet lacks important context, giving the impression that school districts might go without new school supplies this year — which isn’t . We rate this  .
Statement: The president came in and campaigned against me 12 times.
Speaker: john kasich
About the speaker: John Kasich is the governor of Ohio. A Republican and a former congressman, he defeated Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland in 2010 and was reelected in 2014. He ran for president in 2016.
Date: June 13, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: elections
Context: an interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: As we have said before, there is a small element of  in Kasich’s . Obama did make 12 visits to Ohio prior to the November 2010 election. But he made just three trips directly on Strickland’s behalf and he mentioned Kasich by name in his remarks on just one. Those are critical facts that give a different impression. On the -O-Meter, that means Kasich’s  rates .
Statement: Hillary Clinton furious at 'special gift' Melania Trump sent her from her hospital bed
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: May 17, 2018
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: blog post
Fact-check justification: The story provides no  of the gift, and no major news outlets reported anything about it. The story did, however, get something right: the popularity of Melania as a baby name. The name came in fifth among the fastest-growing girls’ names, leaping from spot 1,650 in 2016 to 930 in 2017, according to Social Security data. But that doesn’t support the  headline. We rate this statement !
Statement: Puerto Rico mayor facing fraud charges over $3M in federal disaster relief
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: July 15, 2018
Location: national
Topics: fake news;crime
Context: a blog post
Fact-check justification: The article said, "Puerto Rico Mayor Facing Fraud Charges Over $3M In Federal Disaster Relief." The article was styled to make it seem that Cruz, the vocal San Juan mayor, was responsible for the fraud. The entire first half of the article focuses on her liberal politics and her objections to Trump, rather than any specific crimes. All of this is severely . The reporting on the underlying fraud itself is bungled. It has nothing to do with "federal disaster relief." The story mixes up two unrelated cases of fraud stemming from Puerto Rico that took place over a year before Maria struck. We rate the statement .
Statement: If Senator Clinton or John McCain had stood up in previous years for increases in fuel efficiency standards . . . then we would not be in this same situation in the first place.
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: May 4, 2008
Location: national
Topics: energy
Context: an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press
Fact-check justification: Clinton – and McCain, for that matter – have been more skeptical about having the government promote one fuel over another, especially if it's too costly to compete without government help. During another energy debate, in June 2003, Clinton supported a pair of amendments to weaken federal ethanol mandates. However, majorities in both houses supported the alternative fuel, and wound up mandating greatly expanded usage in both the 2005 and 2007 energy laws. Obama's criticism is right on Clinton, but  on McCain. Because Obama neglects to recognize McCain's prominent role in a bipartisan effort to legislate increases in federal fuel-economy standards and depicts him as less-than-serious player on the issue, we rule his statement: .
Statement: I don't think there's any doubt (Joe) Biden's senile.
Speaker: brit hume
About the speaker: Brit Hume is a Fox News political analyst.
Date: September 29, 2020
Topics: debates;health care;punditfact
Context: a Fox News interview
Fact-check justification: Geriatrics experts said they do not observe Biden to be "senile" — a word that may imply someone is slow moving and cognitively impaired. The word "senile," which one expert said was a pejorative, is also often used by some people to mean dementia. A person with dementia has difficulties independently carrying out daily life functions. The experts we spoke to said Biden does not exhibit this problem. We rate Hume’s  .
Statement: Says White House adviser Steve Bannon said, "Nobody can blame you for beating your wife if it's out of love.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: November 14, 2016
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: Newslo.com stories take a small bite of real news or quotes by real people and build  stories around them. They feature a pair of buttons that allow readers to highlight the  parts of their stories, so readers can conceivably know the difference. But on other sites without the buttons, there’s no way to know. The Bannon story originated on a site known for generating  stories. We rate it !
Statement: Rick Scott's prison plan would cut Florida's prison budget in half, close prisons, and release tens of thousands of prisoners early -- murderers, rapists, sex offenders, armed robbers, drug dealers.
Speaker: florida police benevolent association
About the speaker: The Florida Police Benevolent Association is a law enforcement union group supporting Alex Sink for governor.
Date: September 27, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: crime;message machine 2010
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: The Scott campaign maintains they can reach their targeted spending levels without closing prisons or releasing prisoners early, and has taken the option of releasing inmates off the table. The PBA is editorializing, in essence, what would happen if Scott is elected and has a say over the Department of Corrections budget. At PolitiFact Florida, we shy away from trying predictions, so we're specifically not ruling on what would happen if the state cuts $1 billion out of its prison budget. But we can say the PBA is about right on the size of the budget cuts being suggested by Scott, and  that's Scott's plan is to close prisons and release inmates. We rate the group's  .
Statement: Says former President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominations "required 60 votes.
Speaker: bernie sanders
About the speaker: Bernie Sanders is a senator from Vermont. Sanders was first elected to the Senate in 2007 and was re-elected in 2012 and 2018. The senator also ran an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2016, losing the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton. From 1991 until 2007, he was the representative of Vermont’s At-Large District of the House of Representatives. Sanders was the mayor of Burlington from 1981 to 1989. He received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Chicago. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in April 2020.
Date: February 5, 2017
Location: national
Topics: congress;supreme court
Context: an interview on CNN
Fact-check justification: Sanders said Obama’s Supreme Court nominations "required 60 votes." Going into the nomination fight, Obama had to prepare for the possibility that his nominees would need 60 votes to support cloture, as Alito required during the Bush administration. But once the unanimous consent agreement or cloture was reached, all the nominees needed was a simple majority. We rate the statement .
Statement: North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper "has not left the Governor's Mansion since the start of the #COVID19 crisis.
Speaker: north carolina republican party
About the speaker: The N.C. GOP is a political party in North Carolina
Date: December 27, 2020
Location: north carolina
Topics: coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The NC GOP tweeted that Cooper "has not left the Governor's Mansion since the start of the (COVID-19) crisis."  That’s not only , the party knows it’s . Cooper has left the mansion numerous times since March, and made many public appearances. We rate this  .
Statement: 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.
Speaker: roy blunt
About the speaker: Roy Blunt is the junior U.S. senator from Missouri. He was formerly a U.S. representative from Missouri’s 7th district, and served for six years as the Republican whip in that chamber.
Date: November 19, 2017
Location: missouri
Topics: legal issues;women
Context: an interview on "Meet the Press"
Fact-check justification: Blunt said, "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." According to the Office of Compliance, any employee or member of Congress must go through counseling for a 30-day period before they can continue with further steps of reporting the harassment. However, we were unable to find  detailing how many hours the 30-day period includes. Blunt’s statement is on the right track but needs further clarification with the "hours" . We rate it .
Statement: Says Gen. David H. Berger, commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps., refused Nancy Pelosi's request to use the Marines for inauguration security, telling her "we don't work for you.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: January 13, 2021
Location: national
Topics: military;facebook fact-checks
Context: a story
Fact-check justification: The rights of freedom of speech and assembly do not give anyone the right to resort to violence, sedition and insurrection," the memo reads. "As Service Members, we must embody the values and ideals of the Nation. We support and defend the Constitution. Any act to disrupt the Constitutional process is not only against our traditions, values, and oath; it is against the law." We rate the  story about a general rebuffing a request from Pelosi .
Statement: Katie Hobbs "has voted to double our gas tax.
Speaker: kari lake
About the speaker: Kari Lake, a former anchor for Fox 10 News in Phoenix, was the Republican nominee for governor of Arizona in 2022. She lost the general election to Katie Hobbs.
Date: October 12, 2022
Location: arizona
Topics: energy
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Kari Lake said that Katie Hobbs "has voted to double our gas tax." Hobbs co-sponsored a bill in 2018 to raise the state gas tax from 18 cents per gallon to 36 cents per gallon. The bill never received a vote. We rate this  .
Statement: As soon as I endorsed (Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly), the Wisconsin Democrats said, let's move the election to two months later.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: April 7, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Trump claims his endorsement of Kelly caused the Wisconsin attempts to push the election back until June. That’s not at all how it happened. Trump had already endorsed Kelly back in January.  And in any case, the action from Evers that coincidentally followed Trump’s reiterated endorsement on Twitter was to shift to a mail-in election, not to move the whole election by several months. That leaves us with a  that is both  and . We rate this .
Statement: Point Pleasant Beach does not own its beaches; they are privately owned and operated by businesses such as Jenkinson's
Speaker: vincent barrella
About the speaker: Vincent Barrella is the mayor of Point Pleasant Beach.
Date: August 22, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: environment;income
Context: a column published on NJ.com
Fact-check justification: Barrella says the borough’s beaches are privately owned and operated by various businesses in town. While Jenkinson’s and others do own most of the beachfront, the borough owns slightly more than an acre of prime real estate: the Maryland Avenue beach. For that reason, we rate Barrella’s  .  To coment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .