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Statement: Dave Brat "worked on Democrat Gov. Tim Kaine's Council of Economic Advisors while Kaine tried to raise our taxes by over $1 billion.
Speaker: eric cantor
About the speaker: Eric Cantor is a former congressman who represented Virginia's 7th District from 2001 to 2014. He rose to House minority whip in 2009 and House majority leader in 2011. Cantor was upset by Dave Brat in the 2014 GOP primary for congress. He is now vice chairman and managing director of Moelis & Company, a global investment bank.
 
 
 
Date: April 22, 2014
Location: virginia
Topics: candidate biography;economy;state budget;taxes
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Cantor’s TV ad says, "Brat worked on Democrat Gov. Tim Kaine’s Council of Economic Advisors while Kaine tried to raise our taxes by over $1 billion." Brat clearly served on the panel and Kaine clearly sought tax hikes. The ad does not explicitly say these two events are connected, but mentioning them in the same sentence creates an unfair impression that Brat was part of a group that advised Kaine to raise taxes. There’s no  that occurred. The panel, as pointed out by the state’s long-serving secretary of finance, weighed in on the direction of the state’s economy. It did not advise the governor on revenue and tax policies. Cantor’s statement is accurate but needs clarification. We rate it .
Statement: In Congress right now, we're doing the best job we have ever done in women in the federal legislature," but it's still only "19 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: August 16, 2016
Location: national
Topics: women
Context: a campaign event
Fact-check justification: Kaine said, "In Congress right now, we're doing the best job we have ever done in women in the federal legislature," but it’s still only "19 percent." He’s right that the current figure for the United States is 19 percent, and he’s right that that’s a record high. We rate the statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/669619cb-b381-46e4-8b4c-7e05ba0556f8
Statement: Obamacare takes $500 billion out of Medicare and funds Obamacare.
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: June 13, 2011
Location: national
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: New Hampshire
Fact-check justification: He's right that future savings from Medicare are planned to offset new costs created by the law. But the way he phrases it gives the impression that the law takes money that was already allocated to Medicare and funds the new health care law with it. In fact, the law uses a number of measures to try to reduce the rapid growth of future Medicare spending. Those savings are then applied to costs created by the law -- especially coverage for the uninsured -- so that the overall law doesn't add to the deficit. We rate his statement .
Statement: Yesterday afternoon the Republicans in the General Assembly used the nuclear option to pass North Carolina's over $20 billion budget.
Speaker: sydney batch
About the speaker: Sydney Batch, a Democratic candidate for NC House District 37
Date: May 23, 2018
Location: north carolina
Topics: state budget
Context: a newsletter
Fact-check justification: Batch said, "Yesterday afternoon the Republicans in the General Assembly used the nuclear option to pass North Carolina's over $20 billion budget." In fact, the budget hasn’t been approved yet. It hasn’t even been put up for a vote. Batch apologized for the  and retracted her statement in a new email – which PolitiFact applauds. But that doesn’t protect her first statement from our -O-Meter. We rate her  . CORRECTION:  An earlier version of this story misquoted Gerry Cohen, former had of the bill-drafting division in the legislature, saying that a state budget had previously been approved without going through the amendment process. To clarify, Cohen isn’t sure whether it has happened before. This error doesn’t affect PolitiFact’s rating.
Statement: Bill Nelson actually voted in favor of higher taxes 272 times.
Speaker: connie mack
About the speaker: Connie Mack was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2004. Mack, of Fort Myers, lost a U.S. Senate race to Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2003.
Date: October 26, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: taxes
Context: a fundraising email
Fact-check justification: Mack said that "Bill Nelson actually voted in favor of higher taxes 272 times." After PolitiFact gave Mack a "" rating for saying that Nelson voted to raise taxes 150 times the Mack campaign has tweaked their message to say Nelson voted in favor of "higher taxes." Mack argues that "higher" taxes aren’t necessarily the same as a tax "increase" -- a vote for the status quo or against a tax cut is choosing a path of "higher" taxes, Mack argues. We find that Mack’s new wording could still leave voters with a  impression. Nelson did take some votes that raised taxes. But Mack grossly inflates the number by counting multiple votes on the same bill, non-binding resolutions and some fees that only affected a slice of the population. We rate this  .
Statement: Thanks to Washington, nearly everyone will pay more in taxes in 2013. Somehow people think it's just the wealthy. It's not.
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 4, 2013
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;federal budget;state budget;taxes
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The expiration of the Social Security payroll tax holiday means that tax will revert to higher, pre-2011 rates for everyone who earns a paycheck, though a minority of tax filers have no wage earnings. But he makes a glass-half-empty  about a broad deal by viewing the result in a narrow context of one tax decision, while leaving out important information about the tax effect of another major decision that was part of the deal. It would also have the ring of  to say that "thanks to Washington" a massive tax increase was averted in the same deal. But then, he only had 140 characters to work with. We rate Walker’s  .
Statement: Says Donald Trump has "bankrupt four separate businesses.
Speaker: mark warner
About the speaker: Mark Warner, a Democrat, has represented Virginia in the U.S. Senate since 2009. He serves on the Banking, Budget, Commerce and Intelligence committees. He is the honorary co-chairman of the Forward Together PAC.
Warner gave the keynote address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Warner previously served as governor of Virginia from 2002 to 2006. He also ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1996. Before public office, Warner was an early investor in the cell phone business, co-founded the company that became Nextel.
Warner was born in Indianapolis, Ind., and grew up in Illinois and Connecticut. Warner graduated from George Washington University, Washington, D.C. He received a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass.
Date: June 21, 2016
Location: virginia
Topics: bankruptcy;candidate biography;gambling
Context: a TV interview
Fact-check justification: Warner said Trump has "bankrupt four separate businesses." The number, if anything, is conservative. We count five. But beyond the number, Warner’s statement also asserts that Trump was the cause of the bankruptcies, and that’s harder to parse out. There’s no doubt he had a role in many of the failings, having larded his casino operations with huge debts. But analysts note that Trump wasn’t acting alone; he had willing investors who put up big sums of money in the risky gaming industry. There’s also questions about how involved he was in running all of the casinos that bore his name. So on the whole, we rate Warner’s statement .
Statement: Split election results show the Arizona governor's race was rigged.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: November 14, 2022
Location: arizona
Topics: elections;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: Axios reported that split-ticket voters in 2022 played an "outsized role in critical midterm contests" with the potential to decide final results in close Senate races in Georgia and Arizona.    Liam Kerr, a co-founder of WelcomePAC, which sought Republican votes for Democrat Tim Ryan in Ohio’s Senate race, told Axios that "both parties and the media love polarization porn, but normal voters know the electorate is volatile and ticket-splitters are common." Ticket splitting in Arizona does not signify fraud in the state’s governor’s race. It signifies that people voted for candidates and not for political parties. We rate this  !
Statement: Citing his efforts to secure the border, Obama said, "Overall, the number of people trying to cross our border illegally is the lowest it has been since the 1970s.
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: November 20, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: immigration
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Obama said, "Overall, the number of people trying to cross our border illegally is the lowest it has been since the 1970s." We cannot directly check Obama's literal  -- which would include the number of people who failed and succeeeded to cross the border -- because those statistics are not maintained by the federal government.  Instead, we turned to the data that most closely aligned with what he was trying to say. Using Border Patrol data, we found Obama is correct on the sheer numbers for the number of people caught trying to cross the border. In 2013, about 420,000 illegal immigrants were apprehended at the border. The last time it was lower than that was 1972. After that year, apprehensions steadily rose throughout the 1970s, ending at just shy of 900,000 in 1979. Experts noted, however, that Obama is creating an imperfect comparison because the border situation was far different in 1970 than it is in more recent years. In the 1970s, it was easier for people to make multiple attempts or excursions illegally across the border. On a final note, it's problematic for Obama to assume credit for the low numbers, as the trend started before he took office and the flows of immigrants across the border tends to correlate with economic conditions at least partially outside of the president's control. We rate this  Half .
Statement: A photo shows "NATO resupplying Ukrainian farmers anti-tank supplies.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 10, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;ukraine;russia
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: We did not immediately hear back from NATO, either.   But it is clear that the photo predates Russia’s 2022 assault on Ukraine and does not show NATO airlifting anti-tank supplies to farmers in the country, as the viral Facebook post claimed. The chopper in the 2020 photo is labeled, "Indian Air Force." India is not a member of NATO. We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Many Nevadans relied on Uber for work, but after accepting $70,000 from taxi companies, Catherine Cortez Masto went after Uber ... (driving) them out of town.
Speaker: freedom partners action fund
About the speaker: The Freedom Partners Action Fund, a Super PAC, says it supports "candidates who believe in freedom, who will empower innovators and entrepreneurs over special interests to expand opportunities, create strong communities, and give everyone the best shot at a better life."
Date: June 27, 2016
Location: nevada
Topics: transportation
Context: a television ad
Fact-check justification: A Freedom Partners Action Fund ad claims that Cortez Masto "went after Uber ... until she drove them out of town" after receiving tens of thousands of dollars in donations from taxi companies. Freedom Partners got a couple of the details right in the amount of taxi industry donations and Cortez Masto’s aggressive legal actions against Uber. But there’s a convincing argument that Uber at the very least bent the rules, and it’s clear that Cortez Masto didn’t have some sort of individual vendetta against the ride-hailing company — her office was working with state regulators who specifically requested the attorney general take action. The ad also neglects to mention how Uber only temporarily left town. The ridesharing service is very much up and running through Nevada a year after its initial skirmish with the state. Because this ad takes things out of context, we rate it . Editor's note: This story was updated shortly after publication to clarify how the state Attorney General's office responded to Uber's launch on Friday, Oct. 24, 2014.
Statement: The newly created state Immigration Enforcement Review Board "can actually prosecute, and get them [violators] into jail, if we bring in the attorney general.
Speaker: phil kent
About the speaker: Phil Kent was appointed by Gov. Nathan Deal in 2011 to the Immigration Enforcement Review Board.
Date: October 4, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: immigration
Context: a speech before the North Fulton and Friends Tea Party
Fact-check justification: The board can bring a potential violation to the attorney general’s attention. So can any citizen. That doesn’t mean his office will investigate, much less prosecute. Kent may have meant to convey that the Immigration Enforcement Review Board can only recommend that the attorney general open an investigation, but he gave the impression it has far more power than that. He therefore earns a .
Statement: John Kitzhaber created 128,000 new jobs while governor.
Speaker: john kitzhaber
About the speaker: John Kitzhaber, a Democrat, was governor of Oregon for two terms, starting in 1995. He was inaugurated in 2011 for an unprecedented third term.
He was elected to the Oregon Legislature in 1978, rising to the position of Senate President. He spearheaded the Oregon Health Plan as a legislator and as governor. Kitzhaber graduated from Dartmouth College and the University of Oregon Medical School (now Oregon Health & Science University). He worked as an emergency room physician in Roseburg from 1974 to 1988.
Date: October 12, 2010
Location: oregon
Topics: economy
Context: a campaign mailer
Fact-check justification: The economy was not a central concern for most of his administration. Kitzhaber played a role in making Oregon more attractive to business, but the global and national economies played a larger role in Oregon’s success. The fact of increased jobs in his  is accurate but by trying to take credit for jobs creation, he leaves out important details or takes things out of context. We rate it . Comment on this story
Statement: Huckabee "granted 1,033 pardons and commutations . . . more clemencies than the previous three governors combined.
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: December 17, 2007
Location: national
Topics: crime
Context: Iowa
Fact-check justification: It ought to be about looking at every case with honesty, making decisions. And, yes, sometimes they don't turn out so brilliantly. I've made mistakes. But I've tried to make the  on the ledger of thinking what would be in the best interest of all of us. Do I want this person unemployed for the rest of their life?"
Statement: Says he "did not try to leave the scene of the accident" that led to his arrest for driving while intoxicated.
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: September 21, 2018
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a debate at Southern Methodist University
Fact-check justification: O’Rourke said he didn’t try to leave the scene of his 1998 DWI accident and arrest. Records indicate O’Rourke was arrested at the scene and wasn’t charged with trying to flee. But the September 1998 Anthony Police Department report on the incident says a witness said O’Rourke tried to leave the scene before police arrived and the witness kept him from doing so. We rate this  .  – The statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Trump is in White House! He promises to lock up Hillary!
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 27, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: It was an old photo of Trump at the White House posted on Twitter on Oct. 25.    As for the former president promising to lock up Clinton, the woman talks about how Trump, as a presidential candidate, floated the idea of telling the attorney general to get a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton . In October 2020, he endorsed his supporters’ calls to jail her . There is nothing in the video to support that Trump is now vowing to lock up Clinton, and certainly not from the White House.   We rate this post !
Statement: The number of people in Atlanta dying from HIV and AIDS declined 59 percent between 2004 and 2012.
Speaker: fulton county health and wellness
About the speaker: this is the county health department in Fulton
Date: November 20, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: public health
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: At a time when new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths are down globally, Fulton County touted a report that showed its mortality rate dropped 59 percent from a peak in 2004. The report, and state data, back up the dramatic decline. While Atlanta remains in the top five cities in the nation for such deaths and still struggles with executing prevention programs, it also has seen the mortality rate drop since the report. We rate the statement .
Statement: A 97 year-old Holocaust survivor was killed for being Jewish yesterday. In the United States. Let that sink in.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: October 28, 2018
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post on Instagram
Fact-check justification: Forward, a Jewish publication, corrected an Oct. 28 story about Mallinger on Oct. 30. "An earlier version of this story erroneously stated that Rose Mallinger was a Holocaust survivor," the editor’s note says. People magazine also corrected a story that "incorrectly identified Rose Mallinger as a Holocaust survivor." Yahoo News reported on Oct. 29 that census records "appear to show she was the fourth of six children of Yiddish-speaking parents who had themselves arrived in the U.S. from Lithuania as children." We rate this statement .
Statement: Drone footage confirms Jeffrey Epstein is alive.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: December 6, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: Though the link is now dead, it was published Aug. 30, 2019, on YouTube, with a description that apparently referred to Hurricane Dorian : "Post Dorain Little St. James Drone 8/30/2019. "  Little St. James is the island in the U.S. Virgin Islands that Epstein bought in 1998.   Multiple officials at different levels of government have said that Epstein is dead .   U.S. corrections officials announced his death, the New York City medical examiner performed his autopsy, and the U.S. attorney general, federal prosecutors and an Epstein lawyer have said he is dead.   We rate claims that this drone footage confirms he’s still alive !