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Statement: Less than 5 percent of registered users in states allowing medical marijuana have cancer or AIDS.
Speaker: don't let florida go to pot
About the speaker: Don't Let Florida Go To Pot is an organization opposed to Florida's Amendment 2 to legalize medical marijuana. Their website is operated by Save Our Society From Drugs and the Florida Sheriff's Association.
Date: May 20, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: health care;marijuana
Context: the group's website
Fact-check justification: Don’t Let Florida Go To Pot said "less than 5 percent of registered users in states allowing medical marijuana have cancer or AIDS." The medical marijuana opponents that run the website said they estimated their total using figures from states with current laws allowing the drug. Not all states report figures the same way, however, or may not report them at all. Patients who don’t have cancer or AIDS still may have legitimate reasons to use medical marijuana, including for pain relief. So the statistic Don't Let Florida Go to Pot cites isn't perfect. But the available  does suggest fairly strongly that the people who use medical marijuana for cancer or AIDS is a small percentage of all users. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Beto O'Rourke is "open to abolishing ICE.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: August 3, 2018
Location: texas
Topics: immigration
Context: a video ad made public by the Texas Tribune
Fact-check justification: Cruz said in his ad that O’Rourke is "open to abolishing ICE." In June 2018, O’Rourke said he’s open to abolishing ICE. However, he also said he wasn’t in favor of eliminating the agency without ensuring its enforcement duties were assigned elsewhere. We rate this  .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Says detained immigrant parents separated from their children at the border are being charged "as much as $8 a minute to call their children.
Speaker: bill nelson
About the speaker: Bill Nelson was first elected to the U.S. Senate from Florida in 2000. He lost re-election to Gov. Rick Scott in 2018. Nelson previously served in the Florida Legislature, Congress and as state Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner.
 
Date: July 23, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: immigration;homeland security
Context: a Senate floor speech
Fact-check justification: Nelson said detained immigrant parents separated from their children at the border are being charged "as much as $8 a minute to call their children." ICE told us that parents should not be charged to talk to their children. But lawyers working with parents have heard that they were charged. One legal services group told PolitiFact that there may be a free number to call, but its clients did not know about it and had been charged. Having said that, we were only able to find one instance of anyone claiming that parents had to pay as much as $8 per minute. Most of the accounts we found mentioned amounts ranging from $3 a minute to 20 cents a minute.  There is some anecdotal  to back Nelson's , but not enough to establish that $8 a minute as standard practice. Nelson’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: Says "Hillary Clinton's rejection of efforts to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat not only defies logic, but the will of the majority of Americans.
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: June 4, 2015
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections
Context: a statement
Fact-check justification: Polls show strong support for voter ID laws, including from Democrats. The other elements of the  -- easier to vote and harder to cheat -- amount to a split. It’s clearly not easier to vote if the extra step of obtaining a photo ID is added. Likewise, it is harder to cheat if there is an extra verification step at the polling place. On balance, we rate Walker’s  .
Statement: Election results in Clark County, Nevada, and Arizona are not yet known because those places "want more time to cheat.
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 10, 2022
Location: national
Topics: nevada;elections;arizona
Context: a Truth Social post
Fact-check justification: His  is  and . We rate it ! Read this fact-check in Spanish . RELATED: Why days of ballot counting isn’t suspicious RELATED: Ask PolitiFact: What would speed up election results?
Statement: Says Betty Sutton and House Democrats "gutted" Medicare by $741 billion to pay for Obamacare.
Speaker: jim renacci
About the speaker: Jim Renacci, a Republican, is running against U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, in 2018. Renacci is the representative from Ohio's 16th Congressional District. He is a businessman and also the former mayor of Wadsworth. He was first elected to Congress in 2010.
Date: August 15, 2012
Location: ohio
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: a campaign email
Fact-check justification: The  that Democrats support "gutting" Medicare is  -- program spending will still increase under Obamacare, but at a slower pace. There is an element of  in Renacci’s . The health care law seeks to reduce future Medicare spending, and the tally of those cost reductions over the next 10 years is $716 billion. But describing those savings as cuts that gut Medicare suggests a slashing of programs that is not in the law. On the -O-Meter, the  rates .
Statement: Says Ted Cruz "never denied" his father was photographed with Lee Harvey Oswald.
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: June 22, 2016
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;history;crime
Context: Cleveland
Fact-check justification: Trump said the day after the Republican convention that Cruz "never denied" his father was pictured with Oswald before Kennedy’s assassination. This spring, Cruz called the National Enquirer story "lies."  Earlier, a Cruz camp spokeswoman said outright the elder Cruz wasn’t in the published photo. That's far enough from "never denied," it makes Trump's   and . !  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  . Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Alabamians "haven't changed their opinion" on same-sex marriage since voting to ban it in 2006.
Speaker: roy moore
About the speaker: Roy Moore is a lawyer, judge, activist and Republican politician from Alabama. Moore ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate in 2017. He served as judge of the Sixteenth Judicial Court of Alabama from 1992 until he was elected Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court in 2000. He was removed from his position in 2003 for refusing to remove a Ten Commandments monument he installed in the Alabama Judicial Building. He then served as president of the Foundation for Moral Law, a Christian activist group, until 2012 when he was once again elected Chief Justice.
Date: February 12, 2015
Location: national
Topics: legal issues;lgbtq
Context: an interview with CNN
Fact-check justification: Moore said since voters passed a constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage in 2006, Alabamians "haven’t changed their opinion." An overwhelming number of people still oppose same-sex marriage in Alabama, and it remains one of the least-supportive states of gay marriage, according to the information available. But polling data suggests measurable movement on this issue. In 2006, 81 percent of voters supported the referendum to prohibit gay marriage in Alabama. Recent polls show about 71 percent of likely voters oppose same-sex marriage today. That’s in line with other data that show growing support for same-sex marriage in the last decade there, and is similar to the rate of decline in opposition nationally. The statement contains partially accurate but leaves out important details, so we rate it .
Statement: There's 150 I believe now – it's over 100 professional athletes dead, professional athletes, the prime of their life, dropping dead that are vaccinated, right on the pitch, right on the field, right on the court.
Speaker: john stockton
About the speaker: former professional basketball player
Date: January 23, 2022
Location: national
Topics: public health;sports;coronavirus
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Stockton claimed over 100 professional athletes who are vaccinated are "dropping dead, right on the pitch, right on the field, right on the court." This is not backed up by any science or actual data. There have been no official reports linking the vaccines to heart issues in athletes and sports cardiologists said they haven’t seen athletes collapse after getting vaccinated against the virus. Lists of athletes this has supposedly happened to have included people who didn’t die, didn’t get the vaccine, or had a family history of heart issues. We rate this .
Statement: In Texas, because of the laws they passed, a 95-year-old World War II veteran is being denied the right to vote by mail because he can't produce a registration number he got back in the 1950s.
Speaker: stacey abrams
About the speaker: Stacey Abrams, a Democrat and national voting rights activist, is running for Georgia governor in 2022. She lost the Georgia governor's race in 2018. She is a former House Minority Leader for the Georgia General Assembly and State Representative for the 84th House District.
Date: January 31, 2022
Location: georgia
Topics: national;elections;texas
Context: an interview on CNN
Fact-check justification: Abrams said, "In Texas because of the laws they passed, a 95-year-old World War II veteran is being denied the right to vote by mail because he can't produce a registration number, he got back in the 1950s."  Thompson, the veteran, registered to vote in Houston decades ago when citizens didn’t have to provide ID. He applied for a mail ballot twice in January and received two denial letters. A new state law that requires the ID on a mail ballot application to match that on their registration record. Thompson ended up submitting updated ID information for his voter registration and it appears his application was accepted Jan. 28 and processed Jan. 29. Abrams made her statements after it had been reported that Thompson had re-registered. And there is still time for him to get a mail ballot for the March 1 primary, so Abrams’ comments were premature. But the situation was a new challenge for a man who says he has been successfully voting for decades. We rate this statement .  RELATED : The battleground states where Republicans want to overhaul voting laws
Statement: Today's minimum wage worker making $7.25 an hour has less buying power than a minimum wage worker in the 1960s.
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: February 7, 2019
Location: virginia
Topics: economy
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Scott said, "Today’s minimum wage worker making $7.25 an hour has less buying power than a minimum wage worker in the 1960s." When adjusted for inflation into today’s dollars, the minimum wage of that decade varied from $8.57 an hour to $11.58. The average over the decade was $10.09 and hour - significantly higher than today’s rate. We rate Scott’s statement . Correction: Bobby Scott is a Democrat. An earlier version of this fact-check misidentified his party.
Statement: You can buy lobster with food stamps.
Speaker: greg morris
About the speaker: Greg Morris, a Republican, is a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Born and raised in Vidalia, he
communities in parts of Appling, Jeff Davis, Montgomery, and Toombs counties.
Date: March 13, 2014
Location: georgia
Topics: government regulation;state budget
Context: an article
Fact-check justification: As the Fox News video showed, there is at least one person receiving those federal benefits who bought lobster. The man did say he does so if it’s on sale. From what we’ve seen, there are few people buying such high-end items. But it is possible, just as Morris said. We rate his statement as .
Statement: Says Sen. Bill Nelson "voted for higher taxes" 349 times.
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: June 13, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: taxes
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Scott said Nelson "voted for higher taxes" 349 times. Just like Republicans in the past, Scott’s list overstates the number of times Nelson voted for higher taxes by including nonbinding budget resolutions, which accounted for almost half of the 349 votes on the list. Scott also counts multiple votes on the same piece of legislation, which further inflates the number. And as we’ve concluded in previous checks, the list neglects that Nelson has, on occasion, voted for lower taxes. We rate this  .
Statement: McCain "hasn't held executive responsibility.
Speaker: wesley clark
About the speaker: Wesley Clark, a retired Army general, ran for president in 2004.
Date: June 29, 2008
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
Fact-check justification: An executive job Clark's larger point is correct: McCain has accomplished a lot in his storied military and political career, but he has relatively little executive experience. But still, Clark, who ran for president in 2004, was  to say that McCain "hasn't held executive responsibility." His tenure at the RAG shows that McCain not only held an executive post in which he managed a staff of 1,000 and oversaw a fleet of 75 planes, but he earned positive reviews for his performance. When McCain departed, the unit was given its first-ever Meritorious Unit Citation. So we find Clark's  to be .
Statement: Photo shows "plastic bags filled with gas" in someone's car trunk in South Carolina.
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: May 12, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In March 2019, Televisa.news reported that police had detained the drivers of two vehicles that were transporting more than 1,000 liters of gasoline in plastic bags in Huauchinango, Mexico. A caption of the photo — translated by Google from Spanish to English — says it shows "a thousand liters of fuel in plastic bags." The next day, Aristegui Noticias published the photo with a story about two people who had been arrested after they tried to carry "more than a thousand liters of illegal gasoline in the trunk of their cars. "   The photo wasn’t taken in South Carolina, so we rate this post .
Statement: COVID-19 vaccines are gene therapy and a recent Forbes article proves that.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: December 2, 2021
Topics: public health;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Social media posts claimed that COVID-19 vaccines are gene therapy and a recent Forbes article proves that. The vaccines do not amount to gene therapy. Gene therapy involves modifying a person’s genes to cure or treat a disease. The COVID-19 vaccines do not alter your DNA. The original headline on the Forbes article said "the vaccine changes your DNA a tiny bit," but was quickly changed by the author, a Johns Hopkins University gene expert, who said it was misinterpreted. He said in the article that the vaccines do not alter DNA and told PolitiFact they are not gene therapy. We rate the post .
Statement: Says "many states" are floundering under crushing deficit spending.
Speaker: mike haridopolos
About the speaker: Mike Haridopolos, a Republican, is the president of the Florida Senate.  Haridopolos represents District 26 which spans portions of Osceola, Brevard and Indian River counties. He was elected to the state senate in 2003, and previously served in the State House of Representatives.
Date: April 26, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: state budget
Context: comments announcing a budget deal with the Florida House of Representatives
Fact-check justification: All other states are required to pass balanced budgets. We rate Haridopolos'  . (Updated April 27, 2011: This story has been corrected to describe the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities as "Democratic-leaning." It also was updated to include information from the National Conference of State Legislatures.)
Statement: Says the CDC's new tracking policy is covering up cases of "breakthrough" COVID-19 infections among vaccinated people.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 16, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post says a new CDC tracking policy is meant to cover up cases of breakthrough COVID-19 infections among vaccinated people. Under the new policy, the CDC is monitoring only the breakthrough COVID-19 cases that involve hospitalization or death. The agency says the change is meant to provide more researchers more meaningful data about the cases it’s most concerned about. There is no  the agency is attempting to hide or misrepresent its own data about the effectiveness of the vaccines. We rate this  . RELATED: No, the death rate for vaccinated people is not higher than that of unvaccinated people
Statement: We are number one in the country as far as our spending (COVID-19 relief) money on businesses as it relates to the percentage of federal funds that we receive.
Speaker: tony evers
About the speaker: Tony Evers, a Democrat, was elected Wisconsin governor in November 2018. His term begins in January 2019. Evers has served as the Wisconsin superintendent of public instruction, a non-partisan position, since 2009. He previously worked as a teacher and school district administrator.
Date: July 24, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: public health;small business;states;coronavirus
Context: TV interview
Fact-check justification: Evers said "We are number one in the country as far as our spending (COVID relief) money on businesses as it relates to the percentage of federal funds that we receive."  Based on the available information, the  appears to be on target, with a few caveats. Among them: The data focuses on money distributed through ARPA and the figures are only for money distributed through March, so the final picture could change. Our definition for  is a statement that is "partially accurate but leaves out important details or takes things out of context." That fits here.
Statement: Nevada Democratic Party leaders "hijacked the process on the floor" of the state convention "ignoring the regular procedure and ramming through what they wanted to do.
Speaker: jeff weaver
About the speaker: Jeff Weaver is a Democratic campaign operative who is the current campaign manager for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
Date: May 17, 2016
Location: nevada
Topics: elections
Context: a television interview on CNN
Fact-check justification: Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said Nevada Democratic Party leaders "hijacked the process on the floor" of the state convention "ignoring the regular procedure and ramming through what they wanted to do." Caucuses and delegate math can be incredibly confusing, and the arcane party structures don’t reflect how most people assume presidential selection works. But the howls of unfairness and corruption by the Sanders campaign during Nevada’s state Democratic Convention can’t change the simple fact that Clinton’s supporters simply turned out in larger numbers and helped her solidify her delegate lead in Nevada. There’s no clear  the state party "hijacked" the process or ignored "regular procedure." We rate this  .
Statement: Says the COVID-19 vaccine doesn't "prevent catching or spreading" the virus "and only lasts months.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: September 19, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In August, the Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer and Moderna to give a third dose of their vaccines to certain immunocompromised people because it could increase protection for people such as organ transplant recipients, Yale Medicine recently noted . In September, an FDA advisory committee recommended booster shots of the Pfizer vaccine for people who receive their second shot at least six months prior and who are 65 and older or have a high risk of a severe case of COVID-19.   But, again, plenty of other vaccines have boosters . The flu vaccine, of course, is annual, and vaccines against Hepatitis B, whooping cough, chicken pox and measles, among other diseases, require multiple shots.   We rate this post .