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Statement: They were "never my comments" that a woman can't get pregnant from rape.
Speaker: yesli vega
About the speaker: Yesli Vega, a Prince William County supervisor, is the 2022 Republican nominee for Virginia's 7th Congressional District Seat. She is running against incumbent Democrat Abigail Spanburger.
Vega was born in Houston to Salvadoran immigrants and reared in Northern Virginia. She is a graduate of American Military University and worked stints as a law enforcement officer in Virginia with the Alexandia and Manassas Park police departments. She's currently a supervisor and auxillary sheriff in the Prince William County Sheriff's Office.
Vega was elected to Prince William County's Board of Supervisors in 2018.  
Date: October 20, 2022
Location: virginia
Topics: abortion;crime
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Vega said "those were never my comments," when a TV reporter recently asked her whether she believes a woman can’t get pregnant from rape. She was referring to taped comments she made in the spring when an unknown woman questioned Vega about her abortion views. Vega didn’t say a woman can’t get pregnant from rape. To the contrary, she said during her 11-year career in law enforcement, she knew of one instance where that occurred. But there’s more to this story. Vega also suggested to the unknown woman that women might be less likely to get pregnant from rape "because it's not something that's happening organically. You're forcing it." Such claims have been disproven by research and denounced by medical experts. Vega parsed a reporter’s question and gave a  answer. We rate her denial .
Statement: Virginia man arrested for having Minecraft worlds that were exact replicas of classified U.S. military bases.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 28, 2021
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: (Read more about our partnership with Facebook .) Krakow, who is a reporter at the Anchorage Daily News, wrote on Twitter that the article is fabricated and she did not author it. David Hulen, the editor of the newspaper, told Reuters that the newspaper never wrote or published the article. The image of the article previously has appeared on iFunny.com, where users share memes. We rate this  !
Statement: Before we even passed health care, 4 millions kids got health insurance that didn't have it before, through the Children's Health Insurance Program.
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: October 27, 2010
Location: national
Topics: families;health care
Context: an interview on "The Daily Show."
Fact-check justification: They show, as we would expect, only a modest increase in the program's enrollment. In ruling on our statement, Obama is correct to  credit for signing the Children's Health Insurance Program into law after Bush had vetoed it. But he was exaggerating by using the 4 million estimate prematurely. It will take awhile for the program to reach its projected enrollment. So we rate his statement .
Statement: President Obama is shrinking our military.
Speaker: mitt romney
About the speaker: Mitt Romney is a U.S. senator from Utah. He ran for president in 2012 as the Republican nominee, losing to incumbent President Barack Obama. Prior to that, Romney served one term as governor of Massachusetts, elected to the post in 2002. He was born in 1947 in Michigan, where his father was governor from 1963 to 1969. Romney graduated from Brigham Young University and received both a law degree and an MBA from Harvard University. Romney helped found the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984, which launched or rebuilt such companies as Staples and Dominos Pizza. Romney managed the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from 1999-2002. He ran for president in 2008 but lost the Republican nomination. He and his wife, Ann, have five sons, Tagg, Craig, Matt, Ben and Josh.
Date: February 4, 2012
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;military
Context: Las Vegas, Nev
Fact-check justification: Romney is right that the military is "shrinking," partly due to a winding down of overseas wars and partly due to congressionally enacted budget limits. But to say, as Romney did, that this is being done by Obama -- without acknowledging Republican actions -- ignores what really happened. A majority of House and Senate Republicans voted for the initial caps in the Budget Control Act, and the supercommittee was evenly divided between the parties, meaning that its failure was bipartisan. So we rate Romney’s statement .
Statement: Barack Obama "openly supported (opposition leader) Raila Odinga during his visit to Africa in 2006.
Speaker: jerome r. corsi
About the speaker: Jerome R. Corsi is the author of The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality. He is a senior staff writer for the conservative news Web site WorldNetDaily.com. In 2004, he co-authored a book attacking Democratic nominee John Kerry, Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry.
Date: August 1, 2008
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: his book <i>The Obama Nation</i>.
Fact-check justification: Instead of opening businesses and engaging in commerce, people come to rely on patronage and payback as a means of advancing. Instead of unifying the country to move forward on solving problems, it divides neighbor from neighbor." Corsi states that Obama "openly supported" Raila Odinga. We found public statements from Obama during the trip saying the exact opposite. We found no other  to support Corsi's statement, so we rate his statement .
Statement: Obama's approval numbers 'are in the low 40s.'
Speaker: matthew dowd
About the speaker: Matthew Dowd is an author and MSNBC analyst. In 2021, he briefly ran for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor of Texas. He served as chief political strategist to Republican President George W. Bush.
Date: August 15, 2010
Location: national
Topics: pundits;this week - abc news
Context: a roundtable discussion on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour''
Fact-check justification: And among the 16 polls from the month prior to the show, the average was, once again, 45 percent. So over the course of the last month, Obama's approval rating in independent, traditional-format polls has consistently averaged approximately 45 percent -- that is, in the mid 40s, rather than the low 40s. However, the two most recent polls -- showing Obama's approval at 42 percent and 43 percent -- are smack in the middle of the low 40s. Whether these poll results are blips or the start of a new downward trend remains to be seen. For now, we'll give Dowd the benefit of the doubt and rate his statement .
Statement: Police say thousands of people witnessed a "demonic portal opening above White House.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: July 11, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Eventually, the video’s host refers to a December blog post about conservative political consultant Roger Stone claiming that a demonic portal had opened above the White House "around the time the Bidens moved in. "  Stone said he asked a friend who is a police officer in Arlington, Virginia, to investigate the supposed portal and received confirmation that "there’s definitely something there" and that "other people were photographing it." PolitiFact asked a spokesperson for the Arlington County Police Department in Virginia whether the agency had received thousands, or any, reports that a demonic portal had opened above the White House. "We have not received any reports of that nature," spokesperson Ashley Savage said.   We rate this  .
Statement: Under Gov. John Kasich's budget proposal, "the top one percent in Ohio will pay $10,000 less in income tax each year, but Ohio's working and middle class families will pay more.
Speaker: dan ramos
About the speaker: Dan Ramos is member of the Ohio House of Representatives, elected in 2010 to represent the 56th District. This is his first public office. A Lorain native, Ramos is a graduate of Lorain Admiral King High School and The Ohio State University.
Date: February 19, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: The numbers are credible, but Ramos’s statement implies that every working and middle-class family would pay more under the reform. According to the ITEP numbers, 20 percent of Ohioans earn between $51,000 and $78,000 per year, and would begin to see an average yearly savings of about $75. The line between middle- and upper-class incomes is up for debate – not one to be defined absolutely by PolitiFact Ohio – but it’s safe to say that a yearly income of $51,000 is a far cry from upper-class.      Ramos was correct in describing the tax benefit to Ohioans with the highest incomes, but he wrongly implied that all working and middle-class families would take a hit under Kasich’s plan. For that, we rate his statement .
Statement: Says he "will protect your guaranteed benefits" in Medicare while "Mitt Romney would take away Medicare as guaranteed benefits.
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: September 12, 2012
Location: national
Topics: health care;medicare;message machine 2012
Context: a campaign commercial
Fact-check justification: In the ad, Obama said he "will protect your guaranteed benefits" in Medicare, while "Mitt Romney would take away Medicare as guaranteed benefits." Obama  when he refers to "guaranteed" Medicare benefits under today’s system. Currently, Medicare does "guarantee" a form of health coverage for seniors and, in the shorter term, guarantees specific benefits. But Medicare doesn’t cover everything, and Congress and the president can change what is covered, and will be forced to do so when fiscal pressures hit. Meanwhile, it’s plausible that the Romney plan could provide less of a "guarantee" than Medicare currently does, but we found sharp disagreement between supporters and opponents of Romney’s Medicare plan on that point. This disagreement is hard to resolve given the shortage of information Romney has so far provided. On balance, we rate the  .
Statement: Says fluid milk production limitations mean grocery stores are short on milk even as farmers are dumping it
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: April 3, 2020
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: That is a factor, but it over-simplifies the situation a bit. Disappearing markets for cheese, butter and other dairy products in restaurants play a critical role in the suddenly changing dairy economy as well, experts say. Milk is being dumped not just because it can’t be bottled in the proper way, but because the overall demand for all dairy products is down. And because the forms of butter and cheese needed have changed with people largely confined to their homes. We rate this .
Statement: There would be tens of thousands of jobs created" if President Barack Obama approved the Keystone XL pipeline.
Speaker: anna kooiman
About the speaker: Anna Kooiman is a co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend.
Date: November 6, 2014
Topics: environment;jobs;punditfact
Context: a segment on "Fox & Friends"
Fact-check justification: Kooiman said the Keystone XL pipeline would create "tens of thousands of jobs." A State Department review found the project could support -- not create -- 42,100 jobs. But that number needs considerable explanation and does not amount to tens of thousands of full-time jobs in the most common sense of employment. The figure represents the project’s estimated direct, indirect and induced jobs over two years of construction, and all but 50 are temporary. The State Department and TransCanada have different ways of accounting for jobs needed for the building phase, but neither estimate is in the tens of thousands. And some of the remaining indirect and induced jobs supported by subcontractors and employee spending may already exist, so that’s not exactly jobs creation as much as jobs enhancement. Kooiman’s  is based on a seed of  but lacks critical information. We rate it .
Statement: California Gov. Gavin Newsom "just let 76,000 inmates out of jail.
Speaker: john cox
About the speaker: John Cox is a Republican businessman who lives in San Diego County. He is a candidate in the 2021 election to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom. He ran and lost in the 2018 race for California governor.
Date: May 4, 2021
Location: california
Topics: criminal justice;elections;crime
Context: a campaign press conference
Fact-check justification: "  That’s just .   The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation expanded a good behavior and rehabilitation program that will make 76,000 inmates eligible for somewhat shorter sentences. The agency made this move without much public notice, but did so using authority granted under voter-approved Proposition 57.   No one has been released under the expanded program and officials estimate it will be months or years before that happens.   We rate Cox’s statement as .    – The statement is not accurate.
Statement: Lindsay Parkhurst wants to take away programs like Social Security and Medicare that seniors have earned throughout their lifetimes.
Speaker: katherine cloonen
About the speaker: State Rep. Katherine Cloonen, D-Kankakee, represents the 79th District. She has served in the General Assembly since January 2013. 
Date: September 21, 2016
Location: illinois
Topics: medicare;social security
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: In a campaign ad posted on Facebook, Cloonen said, "Lindsay Parkhurst wants to take away programs like Social Security and Medicare that seniors have earned throughout their lifetimes." With Social Security and Medicare being federal programs, state lawmakers have no say in setting benefit levels for these programs. Additionally, Parkhurst has not previously held elected office and therefore has no public voting record on Social Security or Medicare. Nor has she talked about her position on Medicare or Social Security benefits in her campaign. Ironically, Parkhurst is a defense attorney whose law firm has helped clients obtain Social Security disability benefits. She believes both Social Security and Medicare are part of a contract the federal government must honor. Cloonen’s campaign did not respond to multiple emails and messages for comment, and the articles cited in the ad contain no mention of Parkhurst. There is no  to back Cloonen’s , nor can we find any statement or action by Parkhurst that would have, even indirectly, elicited it. We rate Cloonen’s  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/487f0897-a88a-4c8f-a8c5-4d5464447785
Statement: Says a video shows Joe Biden boasted in 2006 "about voting for '700 miles of fence'" and "talking about immigration in some entirely different ways than he does today.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 20, 2021
Topics: immigration;candidate biography
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says that a video shows Biden boasted in 2006 "about voting for ‘700 miles of fence’" and "talking about immigration in some entirely different ways than he does today." In the 2006 video clip, Biden did talk about voting for a 700-mile fence. He said he made the vote mainly to fight drug trafficking, not illegal immigration, but the 2006 Secure Fence Act was squarely aimed at stemming illegal immigration along the southern border. Biden in 2006 supported a variety of measures to fight illegal immigration much as he does today, including addressing root causes that lead people to flee their homes south of the U.S.-Mexico border for the United States. In that respect, Biden’s position is not so different. The post is partially accurate but leaves out important details — our definition of .
Statement: El Paso is the "safest city in the state of Texas, safest city in the United States.
Speaker: beto o'rourke
About the speaker: Beto O’Rourke is a former representative of Texas’s 16th Congressional District. He represented the district from 2013 until 2019, when he gave up his seat to run a senate campaign against incumbent Ted Cruz, which O’Rourke lost. He received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Columbia University. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president.
Date: March 31, 2017
Location: texas
Topics: city government;crime
Context: a U.S. Senate campaign speech
Fact-check justification: O’Rourke said El Paso is the "safest city in the state of Texas, safest city in the United States." This declaration ties to disputed CQ Press rankings, rooted in FBI-published statistics, that appear annually despite the FBI’s advice against using its data to compare communities. The cited rankings also didn't consider every Texas burg nor did they account for differences in population density. We rate O’Rourke’s  .  – 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: Says "Portland has higher standards than feds on allowed police use of force.
Speaker: sam adams
About the speaker: Sam Adams is the mayor of Portland. Before that he was a city commissioner and , for 11 years, was chief of staff to then-Mayor Vera Katz.
Date: September 25, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: city government
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: But the policy also adds these two pieces of direction: 1) "It is the policy of the Bureau to accomplish its mission as effectively as possible with as little reliance on force as practical." 2) "The Bureau expects members to develop and display, over the course of their practice of law enforcement, the skills and abilities that allow them to regularly resolve confrontations without resorting to the higher levels of allowable force." Yin described this text as more "aspirational text, rather than any sort of legal requirement" but said he felt the mayor’s characterization was accurate. We agree with Yin. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Sen. Bill Nelson is a socialist.
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: September 19, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: congress;government regulation;taxes
Context: a campaign appearance
Fact-check justification: Scott’s description of Nelson as a "socialist" is an  red scare tactic. The definition of socialism is a government takeover of production, and Nelson hasn’t called for that. Scott’s campaign pointed to Nelson’s support for Gillum, the Democrat running to the left of Nelson in the governor’s race. While Nelson has shown enthusiasm for Gillum, they are not lockstep on all issues. Gillum has called for abolishing ICE and Medicare for All, and Nelson has said he does not agree. Nelson’s criticism of the Republican tax bill isn’t the same as calling for higher taxes in general. And supporting an expansion of Medicaid is not the same as calling for government-run health care. We rate this  .
Statement: 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.
Speaker: jeff flake
About the speaker: Jeff Flake, a Republican, represents Arizona in the U.S. Senate. He was elected to the Senate in 2012, after serving in the U.S. House.
Date: February 22, 2016
Location: arizona
Topics: supreme court
Context: a statement
Fact-check justification: Flake said, "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." He’s right. Flake’s carefully crafted statement rules out potential exceptions, such as Justice Kennedy’s 1988 election year confirmation, but 1987 nomination, or the 1950s case with President Eisenhower and a Democratic Senate in adjournment when a Supreme Court vacancy came up a month before the November election. This seems to be because a vacancy just hasn’t happened to occur under these circumstances. We rate Flake’s  as .
Statement: In 2010, Betty Sutton "voted to destroy Medicare.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: July 30, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: In fairness, both parties play this game. Sutton falsely accused her Republican opponent, Rep. Jim Renacci, of voting to "end Medicare" because he supported Republican budgets that would privatize the program and provide vouchers. PolitiFact Ohio gave Sutton a  on the -O-Meter for making the . That doesn’t make the GOP  against her any more accurate. On the -O-Meter, the NRCC  rates .
Statement: Exporters are using a federal loophole to "deceptively sell products made from cat and dog fur" to U.S. consumers.
Speaker: hank johnson
About the speaker: Hank Johnson, a Democrat, represents Georgia's 4th Congressional District
Date: July 28, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: trade
Context: a statement
Fact-check justification: The resolution unanimously passed the House of Representatives on July 28. Johnson was one of 170 sponsors. It has not gone before the U.S. Senate. Johnson's comments caught us off-guard, but the issue of cats and dogs being used as fur and their inhumane treatment is a problem. We rate his statement on the issue as .
Statement: Says murder is the chief cause of death for pregnant women.
Speaker: kyleen wright
About the speaker: Kyleen Wright, the mother of four boys, says that she is a past president of Greater Tarrant Right to Life. She calls the Texans for Life Coalition the largest pro-life group in the state.
Date: December 6, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: crime;women
Context: a Twitter message
Fact-check justification: For such women in 2008, the latest year of available data, homicide ranked behind motor vehicle accidents, poisonings, malignant tumors, suicides, poisonings and heart disease among causes of death, our check of a CDC database indicates. We’re ready to rule. The Palladino study, suggesting more pregnant and postpartum women die from murder than any single medical complication, gives Wright’s  an element of . But murder trails medical complications combined as a cause of death and it’s also behind vehicle wrecks. Wright’s statement is .