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Statement: Kanye West's access to Wisconsin's ballot was "denied by liberals.
Speaker: republican party of wisconsin
About the speaker: The Wisconsin Republican Party works to elect Republicans to state and federal offices and advance the GOP agenda.
Date: August 20, 2020
Location: national
Topics: elections;wisconsin
Context: News release
Fact-check justification: In a statement, the Republican Party of Wisconsin said West’s access to the ballot was "denied by liberals." Democrats led the charge to remove him and arguably had the most to lose if he appeared on the November ballot. But the final decision was bipartisan, with both Democrats and Republicans on the Elections Commission agreeing with a staff recommendation that he filed the paperwork too late. Our definition of  is "The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression." That fits here.
Statement: We've got more revenue than we ever have.
Speaker: jim demint
About the speaker: Jim DeMint is a former U.S. Senator from South Carolina. He is now president of The Heritage Foundation .
Date: June 26, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;taxes
Context: an interview on CNN's "State of the Union with Candy Crowley"
Fact-check justification: (We checked Denton’s 2003 comparison, and he’s correct.) Still, for the specific statement DeMint made on CNN -- which is the  that we’re checking -- DeMint was  using either standard. He was off by a few years using raw dollar figures. And when you use tax revenue as a share of gross domestic product -- which is a better yardstick for this sort of comparison -- he was off by six decades. So we rate DeMint’s statement .
Statement: Says U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner "voted five times against protecting pre-existing conditions.
Speaker: jill schupp
About the speaker: Jill Schupp, a Democratic state senator representing the St. Louis area, is running against U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner, R-Mo., in the 2020 election.
Date: September 16, 2020
Location: missouri
Topics: health care
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Schupp stated in a Facebook post that "Ann Wagner doesn’t want you to know that she’s voted five times against protecting people with pre-existing conditions." Wagner has repeatedly voted for legislation that repealed the Affordable Care Act, which establishes protections for those with pre-existing conditions. If the repeals had been successful, the protections for pre-existing conditions would be gone.  Wagner’s introduction of various bills as alternatives to the Affordable Care Act that would guarantee protections suggests that’s not the whole story. She has co-sponsored legislation to keep protections in place, but there are loopholes that could jeopardize coverage if the Affordable Care Act was dismantled. We rate this statement .
Statement: FYI: the last statewide recount in WI was in 2016. After that recount, the vote margin changed by only 131 out of the 2.7 million votes cast.
Speaker: republican party of wisconsin
About the speaker: The Wisconsin Republican Party works to elect Republicans to state and federal offices and advance the GOP agenda.
Date: April 3, 2019
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;states;supreme court
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: After that recount, the vote margin changed by only 131 out of the 2.7 million votes cast." The vote margin did change by only 131 votes. However, the state GOP slightly undershot the mark with the 2.7 million figure. It was closer to 3 million. We rate the  .
Statement: Says U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin "wants to use a government jet that costs $25,000 per hour for his honeymoon.
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: September 13, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: ethics;federal budget;homeland security;transportation
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Treasury officials defended that visit as official government travel and said Mnuchin would reimburse the government for bringing his wife along. Our rating Pocan says Mnuchin "wants to use a government jet that costs $25,000 per hour for his honeymoon." Pocan’s use of wants wrongly suggests it is a pending request, and the news report he cites said the jet could cost $25,000 an hour. But essentially Pocan is on target: Mnuchin put in a request for a government plane to take him and his wife to their honeymoon destinations, though he did not use one. We rate Pocan’s statement .
Statement: The economic "turnaround started at the end of my term.
Speaker: charlie crist
About the speaker: Charlie Crist lost the race for Florida governor as the Democratic candidate in 2022. He served as a U.S. congressman from St. Petersburg since 2017 and resigned Aug. 31, 2022 to focus on his campaign.  As a Republican, Crist served as governor from 2007 to 2011. Crist left the Republican Party in 2010 to mount a campaign for the U.S. Senate as an independent. Crist lost the race to Marco Rubio. In 2012, he endorsed President Barack Obama and announced that he had registered as a Democrat. He lost his race as a Democratic candidate for governor in 2014.
Date: March 9, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: an interview on CNN
Fact-check justification: Crist said that the economic "turnaround started at the end of my term." During Crist’s last year in office, Florida’s economy experienced notable gains in personal income and industrial production, and more marginal improvements in the unemployment rate and in payroll employment. But GDP didn’t grow again until Scott took office. Economists say Crist deserves some credit for the economic turnaround because he accepted federal stimulus dollars, but they add that any state is inevitably buffeted by national and international trends far beyond their control. On balance, the  for an economic turnaround on Crist’s watch -- and for a significant role by him in a turnaround -- are mixed. So we rate his  .
Statement: A compilation of images shows what Joe Biden has "done to our country.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: June 20, 2022
Topics: pundits;facebook fact-checks;punditfact
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: The photo of migrants at "your borders" was actually snapped in March 2019, before Biden became president, south of the border fence in El Paso, Texas. Johnson, the chief creative officer at Turning Point USA and a Newsmax host, did not respond to PolitiFact’s requests for comment, but he deleted his post shortly after we reached out. We rate this Instagram post . RELATED: Newsmax, Fox News air outdated, out-of-context photos of empty shelves in segments bashing Biden
Statement: We all know the Queen's been dead for a while now," and her death is part of a dark conspiracy involving pedophilia or child trafficking.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 8, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post said, "We all know the Queen’s been dead for a while now," and her death is part of a dark conspiracy involving pedophilia or child-trafficking.  shows that the queen died Sept. 8. There is no  to indicate she was connected to a pedophilia ring. We rate this  !
Statement: Every Republican in Congress voted to defund the police when they voted against the American Rescue Plan.
Speaker: bobby scott
About the speaker: Bobby Scott, D-3rd, has been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1993. The district is comprised of all of Charles City and Surry counties and Petersburg and Portsmouth and portions of Henrico and Prince George counties and Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk and Richmond. Scott has seats on the Judiciary and Education and Labor committees.
Scott previously served in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1979-83 and in the state Senate in 1983-93. He was a member of the National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve. He was a lawyer in a private practice from 1973-91.
Scott was born in Washington, D.C. He earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., in 1969 and a law degree from Boston College in 1973.
Date: July 12, 2021
Location: virginia
Topics: public safety;stimulus;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification:   Scott tweeted, "Every Republican in Congress voted to defund the police when they voted against the American Rescue Plan." The $1.9 trillion stimulus dedicates $350 billion to compensating state, local and tribal governments for lost revenues during the coronavirus crisis. The law gives the governments wide flexibility in using the money, and one option is to spend it on essential workers or their departments.  But the bill never guaranteed that the money would go to essential workers — including police and their departments — when Republicans voted against it. And there’s a huge difference between voting against a possible one-time cash injection into police departments and cutting their existing funding, as Scott implied. We rate Scott’s statement .
Statement: Electric vehicles are unaffordable because "the average cost of replacing an electric vehicle battery is over $10,000, while the average cost of replacing the battery of a gas-powered car is $100 to $200.
Speaker: debbie lesko
About the speaker: Debbie Lesko is the Republican U.S. Rep. for Arizona's 8th congressional district.
Date: August 30, 2022
Location: arizona
Topics: climate change;energy;technology;transportation
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Lesko said that "the average cost of replacing an electric vehicle battery is over $10,000, while the average cost of replacing the battery of a gas-powered car is $100 to $200." Her numbers are in the ballpark, but beyond that, her comparison breaks down. The two types of car batteries play fundamentally different roles in the operation of a car. A traditional battery only starts the engine. An electric vehicle battery stores all the power needed for moving the vehicle. In addition, early studies found that over a car’s lifetime, consumers save money with electric vehicles because of lower fuel and maintenance costs.  The tweet includes numbers that are fairly accurate, but it omits important context that would change a reader’s understanding of the price difference. We rate this  .
Statement: Says video shows "Ukrainian forces shoot down Russian plane carrying hundreds (of) troops on Kyiv airport.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 5, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: The Facebook video also includes old footage from Ukraine. At the 52-second mark, soldiers are sitting side-by-side at computers, looking at radar. That footage can also be seen at the 1:52 mark in a 2019 video about the final stage of tests of anti-aircraft missile systems that was posted by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.. And at the 59-second mark in the Facebook video, the footage of a tank is the same as the 3:21-mark in a 2014 video filmed in the Donbas region of Ukraine. We rate the  that this video shows recent footage of Ukrainian forces shooting down a Russian plane .
Statement: Payday lenders profit "from the poor by charging 1,000-plus" percent "interest.
Speaker: wendy davis
About the speaker: Wendy Davis, a Fort Worth attorney, was initially elected to the Texas Senate in 2008. She was the 2014 Democratic gubernatorial nominee, giving up a shot at winning re-election to the Senate.
Date: December 30, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: financial regulation
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Davis said payday lenders charge 1,000-plus percent interest. The effective annual rate of such loans in Texas, taking into account uncapped fees, can exceed 1,000 percent, but that’s not been common. For three months in 2012, the average effective annual rate for payday loans repaid in multiple installments exceeded 1,000 percent. Yet average effective rates for such loans were otherwise lower, while such rates for considerably more prevalent single-installment loans topped out at an average of 465 percent. We rate this partly accurate  as .  – 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 Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. has said Black Lives Matter "is a terrorist movement, a hate group and calls it, Black LIES Matter.
Speaker: sheriff david clarke for u.s. senate
About the speaker: Sheriff David Clarke for U.S. Senate is an official draft campaign trying to persuade Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. to run for a U.S. Senate seat in Wisconsin in 2018.
Date: April 5, 2017
Location: wisconsin
Topics: candidate biography;civil rights;criminal justice;legal issues;terrorism
Context: a fund-raising email
Fact-check justification: And in a July 2016 column he wrote for The Hill, he said: "We have several forces internal and external attacking our rule of law: ISIS, Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street – just the most recent iterations of the elements who brand themselves as unique but seek the same revolutionary aim: take down the West …"    Our rating The Sheriff David Clarke for U.S. Senate draft committee says that Clarke said Black Lives Matter "is a terrorist movement, a hate group and calls it, Black LIES Matter." Clarke has repeatedly used Lies instead of Lives in labeling the group, and has repeatedly called it a hate group. In his memoir, he calls the group a "terrorist organization." We rate the statement .
Statement: I never lobbied under any circumstance" for Freddie Mac.
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: December 15, 2011
Location: national
Topics: campaign finance;ethics
Context: Iowa
Fact-check justification: Gingrich is technically correct that he was not a registered lobbyist for Freddie Mac. But it appears he took pains to avoid being subject to the rules. Giving strategic advice is widely considered a way of using political influence without having to register. We rate his statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/a3809163-f465-4790-89e5-46d3c3a5af8a
Statement: Regarding the Iraq War, "I was the one that said, 'Don't go, don't do it, you're going to destabilize the Middle East.'
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 6, 2016
Location: national
Topics: debates;iraq
Context: Manchester, N.H
Fact-check justification: Regarding the Iraq War, "I was the one that said, ‘Don’t go, don’t do it, you’re going to destabilize the Middle East.’ " Maybe Trump felt this way privately, but he made no publicly reported comments in the lead up to the Iraq War that reflect this sentiment. We could only find one example of Trump commenting on the Iraq War before the invasion, and he seemed apprehensive but not vehemently opposed to the operation. He only started publicly denouncing the war after it started. Trump makes it sound like he stood on a railroad to try to stop the Iraq War train in its tracks. In reality, by the time he got around to forcefully criticizing the war, that train had already left the station. We rate his statement .
Statement: While in Congress, Nathan Deal was a leader when it came to protecting our borders.
Speaker: nathan deal
About the speaker: Nathan Deal is running for Georgia governor in 2010.
Date: April 30, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: immigration
Context: a press releaase
Fact-check justification: He was willing to press issues such as birthright citizenship repeatedly. Deal is also recognized by a nationally known immigration watchdog group as taking a lead on the issue. "He certainly was one of the leaders," said Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform. And while his success changing actual U.S. immigration law is limited and his campaign's portrayal of the CLEAR bill's influence over the 287(g) program is , Deal did play a notable behind-the-scenes role beefing up immigration enforcement. We rate this  to be .
Statement: Under former President George W. Bush's administration "while the population in that period grew by 10 percent, the number of jobs in the nation grew by 1 percent.
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: February 19, 2011
Location: virginia
Topics: bush administration;economy;jobs;labor
Context: a speech at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner
Fact-check justification: A July 1, 2009, estimate shows the state’s population had grown to 7.88 million -- a 9.6 percent increase. To summarize, Kaine said that during former President George W. Bush’s administration, the U.S. population increased by 10 percent while the number of jobs went up only 1 percent. Estimates from the U.S. Census and the BLS show that during the Bush years, the population increased by 7.8 percent while the number of jobs rose by .83 percent. Kaine’s numbers are a little off his and spokesman doesn’t know where they came from. Even so, his suggestion that population growth outpaced job growth by a ratio of 10 to 1 is pretty much on the mark, so we rate his  .
Statement: Says a photo at CPAC shows evangelical leaders praying over a golden statue of former President Donald Trump.
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: March 1, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: We conducted a reverse-image search , which showed that the original photo depicted Trump meeting with a group of evangelical leaders. In the doctored version, the gold-painted statue was edited in to replace Trump. The authentic photograph was taken by photographer Marco Bello at an "Evangelicals for Trump" launch event at the King Jesus International Ministry in Miami on Jan. 3, 2020.   News organizations such as the New York Times and NBC shared images and video of the moment. These posts are .
Statement: Says Texas has "lower taxes and less regulations than anywhere else in the U.S.
Speaker: roger williams
About the speaker: Roger Williams won election to represent the newly created Congressional District 25 in 2012. He is a former Texas secretary of state, the state's chief elections officer. He was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2001 as chairman of the Republican National Finance Committee’s Eagles fundraising program and also has served as state finance chair for John Cornyn's 2002 Senate campaign, according to his campaign website.
Date: October 18, 2020
Location: texas
Topics: government regulation;regulation;small business;taxes
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Williams said that Texas has "lower taxes and less regulations than anywhere else in the U.S." Texas is a big state with a large population and a diverse array of industries that demand a variety of regulations. There are various ways to quantify and compare Texas’ regulatory volume to other states, yet none rank Texas as having the fewest regulations in the U.S. Williams’ office did not respond to multiple inquiries asking how he figured his statement. Studies also show that despite having no state income tax, its overall per capita tax burden does not rank as the lowest in the U.S. We rate this  .
Statement: In this country, we have a 25 percent dropout rate.
Speaker: arne duncan
About the speaker: Arne Duncan is the U.S. Secretary of Education. Prior to his appointment as secretary of education, Duncan was chief executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools.
Date: August 29, 2010
Location: national
Topics: education;this week - abc news
Context: an interview on ABC's "This Week with Christiane Amanpour"
Fact-check justification: In fact, there is no comprehensive data on graduation and dropout rates from private schools, which account for about 8 to 9 percent of high school students. Since parents paying tuition are likely to be especially motivated to see their children finish school, the  national dropout rate reported probably overstates the actual percentage of American children failing to graduate from high school. Several of our statistical experts said that it's common for politicians everywhere to skip the warnings when decrying American dropout rates. We understand the need for simplicity in a televised interview, but Duncan could have easily said the dropout rate "may be as high as 25 percent." Since he presented the figure as a hard and fast fact, we rate his statement .
Statement: Suggests virologist's death is linked to COVID-19 vaccines.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: November 25, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: Multiple Instagram posts suggested that Fuller’s death was linked to COVID-19 vaccines. Fuller died from an illness not related to COVID-19, and there is no  linking the vaccine to her death. We rate this  .
Statement: Under Scott Walker, "the Wisconsin middle class is shrinking at a faster rate than any other state in the country.
Speaker: rachel maddow
About the speaker: Rachel Maddow is the host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show”. She formerly hosted a radio program of the same name on the defunct Air America network.
Date: July 13, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;families;income
Context: a television show
Fact-check justification: A study by a nationally respected research group found that -- comparing 2000 to 2013 -- the percentage of households in Wisconsin that were middle class dropped by a larger percentage than any other state. But 2000 was more than a decade before Walker took office. Using the same data, we compared 2010, the year before Walker took office, to 2013, the latest year for which data are available. In that comparison, Wisconsin ranked 24th in terms of shrinkage of its middle class. We rate Maddow's statement .