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Statement: Almost every poll has shown that Sanders vs. Trump does a lot better than Clinton vs. Trump … and, that's true nationally.
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: March 6, 2016
Location: national
Topics: polls and public opinion
Context: Flint, Mich
Fact-check justification: Sanders said that "almost every poll has shown that Sanders vs. Trump does a lot better than Clinton vs. Trump … and, that’s  nationally." On the numbers, Sanders is right. He runs stronger against Trump than Clinton in six of the seven national head-to-head polls since Jan. 1. However, polling experts say such results should be taken with a grain of salt, since polls taken well before the start of the general-election contest have historically not been very accurate predictors of the November results. The statement is accurate but needs additional context, so we rate it .
Statement: One person, Kathleen Sebelius, was going to determine whether or not" 10-year-old lung patient Sarah Murnaghan would live or die.
Speaker: rush limbaugh
About the speaker: Rush Limbaugh is a conservative radio talk show host. His website describes him as "America's Truth Detector; the Doctor of Democracy; the Most Dangerous Man in America; the All-Knowing, All-Sensing, All-Everything Maha Rushie; defender of motherhood, protector of fatherhood and an all-around good guy."
Date: June 6, 2013
Location: national
Topics: children;health care;public health;pundits
Context: his radio show
Fact-check justification: Limbaugh said that "one person, Kathleen Sebelius, was going to determine whether or not" 10-year-old lung patient Sarah Murnaghan would live or die, essentially serving as a one-woman "death panel." It’s  that Sebelius played an appeals role in the transplant-policy process. However, she was not the only person or entity that did -- existing rules, medical experts and a federal judge also played a role in Murnaghan’s case. In addition, Sebelius didn’t have the power to grant or revoke life; many factors, including the availability and suitability of organs, will ultimately determine her likelihood of survival. On balance, we rate Limbaugh’s  . UPDATE : On June 12, 2013, Murnaghan underwent lung transplant surgery.
Statement: Corporate profits are up, CEO pay is up, but average wages of Americans are flat.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: July 22, 2007
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: Washington, DC
Fact-check justification: The Commerce Department reported that corporate profits from current production increased 21.4 percent in 2006 and were up 12.5 percent in 2005. CEO pay has also gone up. A Forbes report in May 2007 said chief executives of the nation's 500 largest companies got a 38 percent raise in 2006, on top of a 6 percent hike in 2005 and a 54 percent raise in 2004. And Clinton is right that average wages have been flat. Adjusted for inflation, median family income has been flat since 2001, hovering around $54,000, according to government statistics.
Statement: PayPal has reinstated its policy to fine users $2,500 directly from their accounts if they spread 'misinformation.'
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: October 27, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: The provision is in each version of the agreement going back to at least 2013 .   The confusion began in early October, when PayPal said it mistakenly published changes to its Acceptable Use Policy that it later described as . The changes said that misinformation was a prohibited activity on the site and users would be fined $2,500 for violations.   "PayPal is not fining people for misinformation and this language was never intended to be inserted in our policy," the company said in an Oct. 8 statement sent to news outlets. We rate the  that PayPal has "reinstated its policy to fine users $2,500" for "spreading misinformation" .
Statement: Smart! 'Kuwait issues its own Trump-esque visa ban for five Muslim-majority countries.'
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: February 2, 2017
Location: national
Topics: immigration;foreign policy
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: On Facebook, Trump said, "Smart! 'Kuwait issues its own Trump-esque visa ban for five Muslim-majority countries.' " That’s  -- news coverage suggests that Kuwait implemented a visa ban on a half-dozen predominantly Muslim nations in 2011, six years before Trump took office. Meanwhile, any argument that Kuwait’s past actions indicate a like-minded approach between Trump and Kuwait sidesteps the reality that pursuing such a policy in the United States inevitably has a much bigger impact because the U.S., unlike Kuwait, allows a path to citizenship for legal immigrants. We rate the statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/d6ba1000-cfb1-4ab9-a5e1-c229b1b45320
Statement: All the talk about socialism during the campaign made young people more interested in it by Election Day.
Speaker: michael moore
About the speaker: Michael Moore directed the movie "Capitalism: A Love Story" and is a well-known documentary filmmaker. His movies includes "Roger and Me," "Bowling for Columbine," "Fahrenheit 9/11," and "Sicko." He won the Academy Award for best documentary in 2002 with "Bowling for Columbine," and he was a nominee in 2007 for "Sicko." Michael Moore's Web site is www.MichaelMoore.com.
Date: October 2, 2009
Location: national
Topics: economy
Context: the movie Capitalism: A Love Story
Fact-check justification: He said that the Web reference will be changed. But while that item may be corrected on the Web site, the statement in the movie still says that "by Election Day," socialism was more popular with young people than it used to be. There does not appear to be much, if any, poll data to support that. So Moore has not convincingly shown that young people are reacting to the U.S. economic system by moving toward socialism. We rate Moore's statement .
Statement: 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.
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: January 24, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: labor
Context: Iowa
Fact-check justification: However, in seeking a stronger rhetorical point, Walker stretches the honor Sampson received. It helps make the story more dramatic, but less accurate. We rate Walker’s statement . ------ More on Scott Walker For profiles and stories on Scott Walker and 2016 presidential politics, go to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Scott Walker page .
Statement: Since Gov. Nathan Deal office in 2011, the state's rainy day fund has grown by 643 percent.
Speaker: nathan deal
About the speaker: Nathan Deal is running for Georgia governor in 2010.
Date: January 14, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: state budget;states
Context: State of the State address
Fact-check justification: The other way to measure reserves to project how many days they could be used for government operations, and the current money would cover about 16 days, he said. In summary, the state had $1.5 billion in its rainy day fund and relied on it to balance the state budget through the toughest years of the Great Recession. The fund is not where it once was nor is it where it needs to be so the state is ready for the next economic downturn. But it is exactly where Deal said it is -- up 643 percent since he took office. We rate Deal’s statement .
Statement: The only time in our history when the debt has been higher than this was the end of World War II.
Speaker: david cote
About the speaker: David Cote is president of Honeywell International. He was a member of President Barack Obama's Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, otherwise known as the Simpson-Bowles debt commission, and is now a part of "Fix the Debt," a bipartisan campaign to address the nation's fiscal challenges. In 2011, his total compensation was $37 million.
Date: February 11, 2013
Location: new hampshire
Topics: debt
Context: a speech during a “Fix the Debt” press event
Fact-check justification: In hard dollars, it’s not even close. The current $16.49 trillion debt is far larger than at any other point in U.S. history. But, the debt-to-GDP ratio tells a different story. The current ratio, 73 percent, is among the nation’s highest. But, as Cote notes, it still has a ways to go to get to the 106 and 109 percent levels reached during and after World War II. However, Cote was unspecific about comparing today’s debt to the exact end of World War II in August, 1945, or the era following the war. As noted, the debt remained higher for six years after the war than it is today. We rate Cote’s  .
Statement: In WI, over 79% of Title X patients rely on Planned Parenthood for their basic health care.
Speaker: mark pocan
About the speaker: Mark Pocan was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2nd Congressional District on Nov. 6, 2012. He is from Madison and previously served as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin state Assembly. 
Date: August 19, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: abortion;health care;public health;women
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Pocan said "In WI, over 79% of Title X patients rely on Planned Parenthood for their basic health care." We found these numbers match data collected for a U.S. Senate committee, and used by Planned Parenthood itself. But Pocan’s  was a bit off by framing the debate around "basic health care." Title X funds are limited to reproductive health care issues, not such things as physicals, flu shots and other general matters for which people might see a doctor. Our definition for  is: "The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information."  That fits here.
Statement: #MichaelCohen: Convicted of lying to Congress re: Russia investigation … #ElliottAbrams: Convicted of lying to Congress re: arming Contra death squads
Speaker: ilhan omar
About the speaker: Ilhan Omar is a Democratic congresswoman representing Minnesota's 5th congressional district, which includes parts of Minneapolis and surrounding municipalities.
Date: February 27, 2019
Location: national
Topics: legal issues;foreign policy
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Omar tweeted, "Michael Cohen: Convicted of lying to Congress re: Russia investigation … Elliott Abrams: Convicted of lying to Congress re: arming Contra death squads."  She was correct that both Cohen and Abrams were guilty of lying to Congress, although her comparison overlooks that Cohen admitted to other violations, including tax and loan fraud. Abrams received a pardon, and whether the Contras are accurately described as "death squads" is a complex issue. We rate this statement .
Statement: I was the first elected Republican in Williamson County history.
Speaker: john carter
About the speaker: Carter, of Georgetown, was initially elected to the U.S. House in 2002. He is a former state district judge.
Date: February 18, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: elections
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Carter said he was "the first elected Republican in Williamson County history." It’s hard for Carter to say definitively that he was the first Republican ever elected to serve locally because of inconsistencies on early ballots, incomplete records and newspaper reports. The same year he was elected, another Republican was elected to serve as a Justice of the Peace for the 1st precinct. We rate this  .  – The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context
Statement: According to 2009 estimates, an agreement with Panama could result in almost 1,900 Florida jobs in the first year – and about 15,000 jobs after five years.
Speaker: rick scott
About the speaker: Rick Scott, a wealthy Florida businessman, was first elected Florida's 45th governor on Nov. 2, 2010 and re-elected Nov. 4, 2014. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018 and is running for re-election in 2024.
Date: March 18, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: jobs;trade
Context: his weekly radio address
Fact-check justification: In trumpeting a possible trade agreement with Panama, Scott tried to highlight the benefits to Florida by saying the agreement "could result in almost 1,900 Florida jobs in the first year – and about 15,000 jobs after five years." Scott rightly couches his job  by noting that it's an estimate and offering the qualifier "could," so we can't fault him too much. But the fact is the analysis Scott relied on to make his  is based on a series of significant assumptions or estimates, and a much more thorough analysis concluded that determining the impact on jobs created by the trade agreement with Panama was not possible. The lesson here is to be wary of any job estimate figure. We rate this  .
Statement: Gabby Petito's last text to her mother included an acronym for "Send The Authorities Now.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 20, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The FBI later said it appeared that Laundrie had sent text messages from Patito’s phone to give the  impression that she was still alive. We don’t know whether he sent the text referring to Stan. But we found no  to corroborate this post’s  that Petito was asking her mother to "send the authorities now." We rate it . PolitiFact Researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: Says Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was photographed at dinner with Democratic lawmakers.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 8, 2022
Topics: supreme court;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: The editor who received the tip failed to do so in this case. We deeply regret the error. "  In the photo in question , someone with dark hair — like Sotomayor and Weinshall have — can be seen sitting at a table with their back to the camera next to Klobuchar, who is turned around and facing the camera.   A spokesperson for Schumer told the Associated Press that Sotomayor wasn’t at the dinner. We rate claims that Sotomayor is the person in the picture .
Statement: Says Hillary Clinton's health care plan from the 1990s "had a broader provision in favor of corporate right to back out" of providing contraceptive coverage than the one created by the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision.
Speaker: newt gingrich
About the speaker: Newt Gingrich is a political adviser and author. A former Georgia congressman, Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich sought the GOP nomination for president in 2012.
Date: July 6, 2014
Topics: abortion;congress;corporations;health care;religion;sexuality;supreme court;punditfact
Context: interview on ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: Gingrich said Hillary Clinton's health care plan from the 1990s "had a broader provision in favor of corporate right to back out" of providing contraceptive coverage than the one created by the Hobby Lobby Supreme Court decision. We found that Sen. Moynihan did produce a health care bill, as part of widespread reform efforts, that included a religious exemption for employers that was broader than the provisions created by the court’s decision. However, Gingrich was  to connect that back to the Clintons. The Clintons’ health care plans did not include such a provision, and they did not back Moynihan’s bill. In fact, Moynihan was critical of the administration throughout the health care debate. Additionally, his proposal came up near the end of the reform efforts and didn’t generate much discussion. We rate Gingrich's  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/183923cd-a3bd-46d3-aca7-68b0ada766b8
Statement: Bill Gates tweeted that "vaccines in our food supply solves the problem of vaccine hesitancy.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: January 18, 2023
Location: national
Topics: food;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Social media posts  Bill Gates tweeted that "vaccines in our food supply solves the problem of vaccine hesitancy." He didn’t.  The tweet was fabricated and came from a photo illustration that NewsPunch used in a story about comments Gates made in 2018. In that talk, he said nothing about using food to force vaccinations on people.  We rate this  ! RELATED:  No, mRNA vaccines aren’t widely used in livestock and can’t get into the food supply
Statement: Most of Kathy Manning's donors are from out-of-state.
Speaker: ted budd
About the speaker: Ted Budd is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives who represents parts of central North Carolina between Greensboro and Charlotte. He joined Congress in 2017.
Date: August 30, 2018
Location: north carolina
Topics: campaign finance
Fact-check justification: After combing through all of the publicly listed donations on the FEC’s site, it is  that most of Manning’s donors are from outside of North Carolina. We took the ActBlue donations into consideration, and they do not change the outcome. 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: A video shows former President Barack Obama referring to his wife, Michelle as "Michael.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 20, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Mullen and his family — his wife, Deborah and his sons Jack and Michael — had been introduced by then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.   Panetta said, "I want to extend my deepest thanks to Admiral Mullen’s family: his wife Deborah, his two sons Jack and Michael, who both followed in their father’s footsteps, attending the Naval Academy and now serve with fleet." In the full speech, Obama said , "Most of all, Admiral Mullen, Deborah, Michael, and I also want to acknowledge your son Jack, who’s deployed today. All of you have performed extraordinary service to our country." We rate the  that Obama was referring to his wife !
Statement: (M)ore Georgians have jobs than at any other time since October 2008.
Speaker: nathan deal
About the speaker: Nathan Deal is running for Georgia governor in 2010.
Date: January 15, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Economists believe the job market will continue to improve in 2014, but some caution that the kinds of jobs available aren’t exactly offering the same kind of pay as baseball pitcher Clayton Kershaw, who last week signed a contract to make $30 million a year. Some prominent economists have projected that only one in five jobs added in 2014 will pay more than $60,000 a year, the AJC reported. To sum up, Deal said in his State of the State address that more Georgians have jobs than they did at any time since October 2008. Data from the state’s Labor Department supports the governor’s argument. We rate Deal’s  .
Statement: Says Bob Saget predicted his death
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 2, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A video shared on Facebook suggested Saget predicted his death.  The video points to a joke Saget made in October when talking with his wife about her favorite movies. Saget was found unresponsive in his hotel room in January, and authorities have since determined his death was the result of accidental head trauma.  There is no  to suggest Saget predicted his death.  We rate this  .
Statement: The increase in the garbage tax that [Mayor Allan Fung] imposed in Cranston for some people has been as much as $200.
Speaker: kenneth block
About the speaker: Kenneth Block is a software engineer and president of Simpatico Software Systems. He founded Rhode Island's Moderate Party and ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2010. He switched to the Republican Party in 2013 and made an unsuccessful run for Rhode Island Governor in 2014.
Date: July 15, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: environment;city government;debates
Context: a radio debate
Fact-check justification: During a radio debate, Ken Block said, "The increase in the garbage tax that [Mayor Allan Fung] imposed in Cranston for some people has been as much as $200." He then mentioned the word "tax or taxes" five more times. But there is no garbage tax. And only those who request an extra barrel or are discarding bulky items and mattresses will pay any extra fees. In fairness, Block later used the word "fee," and "additional fee." But we believe the average listener  would conclude that Block was talking about a hike in -- or extra fee beyond -- an existing "garbage tax." In addition, Block’s  that "many Cranston residents are now paying more for trash service than they were a year ago," is sweeping generalization. Only 80 residents have so far requested an extra barrel. We won’t say that Block’s  is a whole lot of garbage. But it certainly misleads and . We rule his statement . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)