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Statement: Says he "strongly supports legalization for Dreamers.
Speaker: john cornyn
About the speaker: John Cornyn is a U.S. senator from Texas, former Texas attorney general and former justice on the Texas Supreme Court. He earlier served as a Bexar County state district judge.
Date: September 12, 2020
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;children
Context: an advertisement
Fact-check justification: The version of the DREAM Act currently before Congress could provide a pathway to citizenship for more than 2 million Dreamers. Cornyn opposes the legislation because it would give Dreamers access to federal student financial aid that's not available to citizens — a provision that Brandewie said is "wholly unrelated" to the legalization of Dreamers.   Our Ruling A Spanish-language advertisement from Cornyn’s campaign says that Cornyn "strongly supports legalization for Dreamers." It’s  that Cornyn’s voting history has supported the legalization of Dreamers, but there are also examples of his opposition to bills that package Dreamer protections with other items. We rate this  .
Statement: I've always voted for keeping the government open. I've never cast a vote to shut down the government.
Speaker: kevin cramer
About the speaker: Kevin Cramer is a U.S. Congressman representing North Dakota's At-large congressional district. He is running for U.S. Senate.
Date: July 31, 2018
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;health care;voting record
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Cramer said, "I've always voted for keeping the government open. I’ve never cast a vote to shut down the government." We found multiple instances where Cramer indirectly helped to cause a shutdown by voting for bills that defunded Obamacare -- these bills had no chance of survival in the Senate or of being signed by then-President Obama. While Cramer's actions were not direct votes on keeping the government open, they encouraged the 2013 shutdown. We rate this statement .
Statement: Rubio admitted he "would have accepted the stimulus money.
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: February 17, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: economy
Context: a news release
Fact-check justification: it's another to actively advocate those policies, which I think are disastrous for America." And indeed, even in the aforementioned interview, when asked whether he would have attended the presidential visit from Barack Obama -- referring to a February 2009 town hall meeting in Fort Myers, which Crist attended -- Rubio said he would have avoided it "because that rally was in support of a specific plan." To recap: Crist's campaign claimed that Rubio admitted that he would have accepted the stimulus money. And indeed, in the WFLA interview, Rubio said he "would have accepted those portions of the money that would not have put Florida in a worse position off in the future than it is right now." We rate this .
Statement: The Russians didn't wear uniforms when they came in" to Ukraine.
Speaker: chris matthews
About the speaker: Chris Matthews is the host of the MSNBC show Hardball. Previously, Matthews served on the staffs of congressional Democrats and worked as a speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter. He also worked as chief of staff to former House Speaker Tip O'Neil.
Date: March 3, 2014
Topics: foreign policy;military;punditfact
Context: a segment on "Hardball"
Fact-check justification: Matthews said, "the Russians didn’t wear uniforms when they came in" to Ukraine. To be certain, they are wearing uniforms. But we think a reasonable person would infer Matthews  was talking about uniforms that identified them as Russians. That does require a bit of clarification. So we rate the  .
Statement: In 10 Michigan precincts, voter turnout reached 100% and in 6 precincts it surpassed 100%
Speaker: russell james ramsland jr.
About the speaker: Russell James Ramsland Jr. is a cybersecurity analyst and former congressional candidate from Dallas, Texas. He works for Allied Security Operations Group and has filed multiple affidavits in election-related lawsuits in 2020.
Date: November 24, 2020
Location: michigan
Context: an affidavit
Fact-check justification: An affidavit filed in a lawsuit in Michigan seeking to overturn the election purports to show turnout rates in Michigan that indicate election fraud. The numbers do not match the official statement of votes cast in all but one jurisdiction, and many inflate the numbers significantly. The official data show that the number of voters who cast a ballot in November’s election did not exceed the number of registered voters in any of the jurisdictions named. We rate this  ! Louis Jacobson contributed to this report.
Statement: There was no surge in 501(c)(4) applications in 2010.
Speaker: tim griffin
About the speaker: Tim Griffin was elected the 24th representative of Arkansas’s Second Congressional District on November 2, 2010.  The youngest son of a minister and teacher, Tim is a fifth generation Arkansan, veteran, attorney and former small business owner who lives in Little Rock with his wife Elizabeth and their two children. He serves on the House Ways and Means Committee.
Date: June 4, 2013
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: a House Ways and Means hearing
Fact-check justification: Griffin said there was no surge in 501(c)(4) applications in 2010, and the numbers from the IRS back him up. The timeline in the Inspector General’s audit shows that the selective treatment of groups based on their ties to the tea party movement began before any rise in the IRS workload. We rate the statement .
Statement: Video shows U.S. Secret Service agents are demons.
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 13, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Inside Edition and others reported on  claims that the agent was wearing prosthetic hands so he could hold a gun under his coat. Video footage of the event disproved this rumor, showing his hands in motion and not stiffly at his sides.   And earlier this year, we fact-checked a  that the Secret Service agent was actually John F. Kennedy Jr. — who is dead — in disguise.   That was  and so is this .   We rate it !
Statement: White House chef quits because Trump has only eaten fast food for 6 months.
Speaker: halfwaypost.com
About the speaker: A parody website based in St. Louis, Mo.
Date: July 6, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: Trump’s culinary preferences have been a topic in the media before. He’s shown a fondness for taco bowls and had promised during his presidential campaign to feed Chinese President Xi Jinping " a double-size Big Mac " if he were to visit the White House. Trump opted instead to offer a more traditional steak and fish during Xi’s trip to the United States in April , but that was at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. But in this case, people who don’t notice HalfwayPost.com’s warnings that its content is all empty calories may be left with a sour taste. We rate this  !
Statement: Guess what, [children are] not at risk unless they have an underlying medical issue.
Speaker: mike turzai
About the speaker: Mike Turzai, a Republican from Allegheny County, is the state's Speaker of the House. He's been a state rep. since 2001.
Date: May 9, 2020
Location: national
Topics: coronavirus;pennsylvania
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: Speaking about the coronavirus, Turzai said children are "not at risk unless they have an underlying medical issue." A new study and a growing number of gravely ill children in New York City prove otherwise. We rate this statement .
Statement: Says Rick Scott presided over cuts to the Bright Futures college scholarship program.
Speaker: american bridge 21st century
About the speaker: American Bridge 21st Century is a Democratic super PAC.
Date: March 18, 2014
Location: florida
Topics: education
Context: an online video
Fact-check justification: American Bridge’s video said that Scott presided over cuts to the Bright Futures college scholarship program. During his tenure, the program’s total budget and number of students served has dropped. The average award amount under Scott is smaller than during the Crist years. However, it's worth noting that the Legislature under both Crist and Scott tightened eligibility requirements, which reduced the number of students who received the money. Both Crist and Scott signed off on those changes. We rate this  .
Statement: We have almost 68,000 Georgia students who are required by law to attend a chronically failing school.
Speaker: nathan deal
About the speaker: Nathan Deal is running for Georgia governor in 2010.
Date: September 9, 2016
Location: georgia
Topics: education
Context: education conference
Fact-check justification: We ran the numbers -- and he’s right. There are about 68,000 students in these failing schools. But his administration sets the standard, its numbers are out of date and there are other options. Opponents also  some of these "chronically failing" schools have made gains in recent years. We rate his  .
Statement: The prosecutor who brought the indictment of Texas Gov. Rick Perry "has ties to Obama. He has ties to the Democrats.
Speaker: tom delay
About the speaker: Tom DeLay, a former members of the U.S. House and Texas House, is a former House majority leader. He resigned his seat in June 2006. In 2010, a Travis County jury convicted him of laundering corporate donations to help Texas House candidates in 2002, but the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overturned the convictions Oct. 1, 2014.
Date: August 31, 2014
Topics: ethics;punditfact
Context: an interview on "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: The ruling DeLay said it’s "not " that McCrum isn’t a Democrat, saying "he has ties to Obama (and) he has ties to Democrats." McCrum has loose ties to Obama and Democrats -- and he has Republican ones, too. News reports and McCrum’s political record show he is not expressly partisan, having contributing a few hundred dollars to a few people on both sides of the aisle. There's a sliver of  in DeLay's statement, but it ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: NATO hasn't provided enough troops (in Afghanistan) because they are still angry about us going into Iraq.
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: May 13, 2008
Location: national
Topics: military
Context: Cape Girardeau, Miss
Fact-check justification: So Obama is on solid footing when he says more troops are needed in Afghanistan. In a Pentagon news briefing in July 2007, Gen. Dan K. McNeill, commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, said as much, calling the international military mission "under-resourced." And even a U.S. government report concluded that European criticism of the U.S. war in Iraq has made some NATO countries less willing to commit troops to Afghanistan. While some NATO experts say that is not the only reason, they agree it is a big one. We rate Obama's statement .
Statement: Says he has never voted for raising taxes.
Speaker: saxby chambliss
About the speaker: Saxby Chambliss, a Republican, is a United States senator from Georgia
Date: November 27, 2012
Location: georgia
Topics: candidate biography;taxes
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: The fact that some excise taxes were increased as other taxes were cut at far higher levels does not constitute a tax increase by my definition, nor by the definition of tax watchdog groups," he said. To sum up, Chambliss said he has never voted for a tax increase in his 18 years in Congress. By the standards of some of the most active federal tax watchdog organizations in the nation, Chambliss has not raised taxes. There was one clear example of a tax increase that would have an impact on smokers, but it was part of a bill that cut taxes for a large number of Americans. We rate this  .
Statement: Says a company that got tax breaks from the state later "laid off 100 Ohioans, even as its CEO cut a half-million-dollar check to Kasich's super PAC.
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: April 3, 2016
Location: ohio
Topics: campaign finance;candidate biography;ethics
Context: ad paid for by campaign for Ted Cruz
Fact-check justification: Cruz’s attack ad links a series of headlines to suggest that as governor, Kasich rewarded his former business ties in exchange for political contributions. The ad’s tone is ominous, but the text is factual. What isn’t explained is that everything in the ad has been the subject of prior complaints that did not provoke any regulatory action. It’s been suggested that an overhaul of state rules might prevent similar situations from arising, and similar allegations from dogging Ohio leaders. But that’s a different ad, for another day. We rate these claims .
Statement: President Obama's education "solution" includes an effort to "nationalize curriculum.
Speaker: rick santorum
About the speaker: Rick Santorum is running for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. He is a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania and was a Republican presidential candidate in 2012.
Date: August 28, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: children;education
Context: a speech at the Republican National Convention
Fact-check justification: Santorum said Obama has tried to "nationalize curriculum." Santorum appears to be adopting an argument from critics of the Common Core standards. But Santorum’s statement is  for several reasons. For starters, the discussion about common standards pre-dates Obama. Although the vast majority of states have adopted those standards, they are voluntary. The states don’t have to adopt the Common Core standards to apply for Race to the Top grants or waivers from No Child Left Behind, although that’s been the preferred route so far. Finally, it’s important to note that standards aren’t the same as curriculum. States can agree on a standard about multiplication or reading but create different curriculums to teach those skills. Santorum has oversimplified a complex topic and fed into the generic "federal takeover" argument. We rate this  . PolitiFact Florida is partnering with 10 News for the election. See video fact-checks here .
Statement: During his campaign for president, Donald Trump "committed to honoring states' rights when it comes to marijuana legalization.
Speaker: gavin newsom
About the speaker: Gavin Newsom was elected governor of California in 2018. He is the state's former lieutenant governor and served as mayor of San Francisco. He is a Democrat.
Date: February 24, 2017
Location: california
Topics: drugs;states;the 2018 california governor's race;marijuana
Context: a letter
Fact-check justification: California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom recently claimed Donald Trump, during his campaign for president, "committed to honoring states' rights when it comes to marijuana legalization." In at least three campaign interviews, Trump said he thought the issue of legalizing marijuana should be left to the states. This wasn’t one of Trump’s high-profile promises like building a wall on the Southern border. And he did not address marijuana in his major campaign speeches. But he did make clear, multiple times, how he felt when asked. In a separate interview on Fox News, Trump expressed concern over legal pot in Colorado. But in two subsequent interviews he returned to his line that the matter should be decided by the states. In the end, Trump’s own words back Newsom’s . We rated it .   – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for  more  on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: The candidates controlled by Madigan, all of them have said, 'The answer to our problems is a massive income tax hike.'
Speaker: bruce rauner
About the speaker: Bruce Rauner was elected governor of Illinois in 2014. He became the first Republican governor in the state in 12 years upon his inauguration in January 2015. The gubernatorial campaign was Rauner's first foray into politics. He previously had been a principal at the private equity firm GTCR in Chicago.
Date: December 4, 2017
Location: illinois
Topics: elections;state budget;taxes
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Rauner said Democratic gubernatorial "candidates controlled by Madigan, all of them have said, ‘The answer to our problems is a massive income tax hike.'" Rauner’s "controlled by Madigan" tag is aimed at the three highest-profile candidates, Pritzker, Kennedy and Biss, and suggests without proof they are all acting at the behest of the powerful House Speaker.  All three have advocated for a change from a flat income tax rate to a graduated-rate system in which tax rates are higher for those with higher incomes. Despite Rauner’s examples, a progressive income tax system does not necessarily mean a tax increase for the middle class. And there is no  that anyone in Illinois politics has a blueprint for income and tax brackets under a potential Illinois system. The closest such blueprint, from 2012, had the vast majority of voters paying the same or lower taxes. Nor is that decision up to the governor. It would take three-fifths of the General Assembly and a majority of voters to bring a progressive tax to reality. Recent history does not point favorably to this happening without significant Democratic gains in the Legislature. Pritzker was squishy when discussing immediate revenue needs with Crain’s, but Rauner cites the Crain’s article as Pritzker’s solid endorsement of a "massive tax increase."  We rate Rauner’s statement .
Statement: Austin is "a city that has basically doubled in size every 25 years or so since it was founded.
Speaker: lee leffingwell
About the speaker: Lee Leffingwell, initially elected mayor in 2009, is a former Austin City Council member and retired airline pilot. Leffingwell, a past chair of the city's Environmental Board, grew up in Austin's Bouldin neighborhood, according to the biography posted on the city's web site.
Date: February 25, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: city government;population
Context: his "State of the City" address
Fact-check justification: Leffingwell said Austin is a "city that has basically doubled in size every 25 years or so since it was founded." That's right per changes in population, making this historical statement .  – The statement is accurate and there’s nothing significant missing. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: The polls "show over half of Americans identify themselves as being pro-life.
Speaker: barth bracy
About the speaker: Barth Bracy is executive director of Rhode Island Right to Life.
Date: February 3, 2012
Location: rhode island
Topics: abortion;children;health care;human rights;legal issues;government regulation;polls and public opinion;public health;religion;women
Context: a radio interview
Fact-check justification: Barth Bracy said the polls "show over half of Americans identify themselves as being pro-life." To us, that means greater than 50 percent of the population now feel that way. That was  for one Gallup poll that is now nearly three years out of date. Although 51 percent in that survey said they were "pro-life," the level of support has dipped a bit in subsequent surveys. Gallup frequently polls people on this question, and its polls show that anti-abortion advocates have clearly gained ground since the mid-1990s, when fewer than 40 percent of Americans identified themselves as "pro-life." Given the margin of error, the polls reveal a fairly even divide between the two sides. But the most recent polls show that, despite some surges of support, it is not correct to say that more than half of Americans call themselves "pro-life." We rule Bracy's statement as  . Gallup's next survey on the question will be released in May. (Get updates from PolitiFactRI on Twitter . To comment or offer your ruling, visit us on our PolitiFact Rhode Island Facebook page.)
Statement: Luke Messer? He plotted with the Never-Trumpers to steal the nomination from President Trump.
Speaker: todd rokita
About the speaker: Todd Rokita is a Republican congressman representing Indiana's 4th Congressional District since 2011. Rokita is running for U.S. Senate in 2018.
Date: April 3, 2018
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography
Context: an ad
Fact-check justification: Rokita said Messer "plotted with the Never-Trumpers to steal the nomination from President Trump." Rokita’s campaign and supporters argued that Messer’s engagement with questions about a white knight candidate and criticism of Trump’s rhetoric on national television expressed an implicit support of the anti-Trump movement. But we found no indication that Messer actively plotted to prevent Trump from winning the Republican nomination or election. He maintained reluctant support for Trump throughout the 2016 campaign. What's more, Rokita had moments where he criticized Trump in a similar manner as well.  We rate this  .
Statement: A Virginia principal "expelled two kids for wearing a crucifix around their necks  saying, 'there is no place for religion at school.'
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: January 30, 2019
Topics: religion;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: If the supposed principal’s name sounds familiar, it’s not from the news. But you'll be remembering the Michael Jackson song, "Wanna Be Startin’ Something’." Help me sing it! "Mama-say, mama-sa, m-ma-ko-ssa." We rate this  !