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Statement: Says "EIGHT Iowa counties have more adults registered to vote than voting-aged adults living there.
Speaker: charlie kirk
About the speaker: Charlie Kirk is the founder and president of Turning Point USA, a conservative group that advocates for limited government and free markets.
Date: February 2, 2020
Location: iowa
Topics: elections;punditfact
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: A tweet from Charlie Kirk claims that "EIGHT Iowa counties have more adults registered to vote than voting-aged adults living there." Voter registration data and a statement from Iowa’s secretary of state, as well as population estimates from the Census Bureau, refute that . And experts say comparing voter data to population estimates isn’t a good measure of registration rates in the first place.  Kirk’s tweet is . We rate it .
Statement: Trump refuses to denounce the KKK.
Speaker: conservative solutions pac
About the speaker: Conservative Solutions PAC is a super political action committee based in Tampa, Fla., that supports Marco Rubio for president.
Date: February 29, 2016
Location: nevada
Topics: candidate biography
Context: a Conservative Solutions PAC ad, first aired on Feb. 29
Fact-check justification: A pro-Rubio super PAC said, "Trump refuses to denounce the KKK." Trump hasn’t gone after the KKK and white nationalists like Duke with the same fervor as his opponents, but it’s  to make a blanket statement based on a single interview given his history of rejecting white supremacists. We rate the ad as .
Statement: Iran President Hassan "Rouhani has more Cabinet members with Ph.D.s from American universities" than members of Barack Obama's Cabinet.
Speaker: bob schieffer
About the speaker: Bob Schieffer is the host of CBS' Face the Nation. He announced April 8, 2015, that he would be retiring in the summer of 2015.
Date: December 9, 2013
Topics: education;foreign policy;punditfact
Context: comments at a forum at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Fact-check justification: Bob Schieffer referenced an Atlantic piece when he said Rouhani’s cabinet has more members with Ph.D.s from American universities than Obama’s. While we could not nail down the academic background of each member of Iran’s cabinet, we found enough members with verifiable degrees -- three -- to deem his statement accurate. Obama has two, including one official with Cabinet-rank. What it all means for international relations remains to be seen. We rate Schieffer’s statement .
Statement: On my first day in office, I ordered a review of every regulation in the pipeline and every contract exceeding $1 million.
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: March 8, 2011
Location: florida
Topics: state budget
Context: his State of the State speech
Fact-check justification: "We are not sending our rules to the governor's office," Atwater spokesman Sterling Ivey said. "We are looking at all of our rules internally to make sure they align with the direction the commissioner wants to go with the department." Scott is right that he froze regulations and certain contracts upon taking office. But it didn't apply to all state agencies, and we've only found one contract that's actually been denied since the freeze took effect. We rate this  .
Statement: In the three months before the act took effect, America lost 750,000 jobs a month. In the last three months, we've lost about 35,000 jobs a month.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: February 17, 2010
Location: national
Topics: stimulus
Context: 'USA Today'
Fact-check justification: But the bill was signed Feb. 17, 2009, and officially went into effect that day. And using that measure — November and December of 2008, and January 2009 — Biden is off by about 26,000 jobs. Biden also said that job losses averaged about 35,000 for November and December 2009, and January of 2010, which is also correct. Because Biden is not quite right on the first part of his statement, we'll knock him down a point. As a result, we find his  to be .
Statement: Military take over on May 11 confirmed!
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 9, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Here’s the : There’s no confirmation that the military is taking over the government on May 11. This  is unfounded. Were it valid, there would be news reports and statements from lawmakers about the radical action. There are none.   We rate this post .
Statement: Lincoln was fervently making plans to send all freed slaves to the jungles of Central America once the (Civil War) was over. … The only thing that kept this from happening was his assassination.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: June 25, 2015
Location: national
Topics: history;race and ethnicity
Context: posts on the Internet
Fact-check justification: A widely shared bit of text on the Internet says that "Lincoln was fervently making plans to send all freed slaves to the jungles of Central America once the (Civil War) was over. … The only thing that kept this from happening was his assassination." This is  on many levels. Even when he was arguing for voluntary colonization during his first two years as president, Lincoln did not envision forced deportations of ex-slaves. Moreover, historians agree that the idea of large-scale, voluntary colonization was effectively dead by the time the Emancipation Proclamation was issued on Jan. 1, 1863 -- more than two years before Lincoln’s assassination. We rate the  . EDITOR’S NOTE, July 9, 2015 : After this article was published, we were contacted by three historians who have studied the period in question and offered additional information. We summarized some of their findings here but decided that our original  rating stands.
Statement: Currently, there is no one from South Austin on the (Austin City) Council!
Speaker: max nofziger
About the speaker: Max Nofziger, a former Austin City Council member, ran unsucessfully for the council in 2011.
Date: May 1, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography
Context: “Voters Guide,” League of Women Voters of the Austin Area
Fact-check justification: Curtis said Leffingwell lives in the Balcones  Drive part of West Austin and among other council members, Sheryl Cole lives in Wilshire Woods, Laura Morrison resides in Old West Austin, Chris Riley is downtown, Randy Shade lives in Clarksville and Bill Spelman hails from Hyde Park. Council Member Mike Martinez told us he lives in the Senate Hills part of East Austin, but plans to move later this year to East 11th Street near Chicon. Curtis said the latest South Austinites on the council, Betty Dunkerley and Jennifer Kim, finished their terms in June 2008. As we closed this check, Nofziger called to say he’d originally heard from local activists that the council now lacks South Austin residents. We rate his statement .
Statement: Alabama state police arrest 3 poll workers in Birmingham.
Speaker: american revolution
About the speaker: American Revolution posts fake news.
Date: December 15, 2017
Topics: elections;fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: Robyn Bradley Bryan, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency spokeswoman, told PolitiFact that the agency did not arrest any poll workers. A spokesman for the Alabama Secretary of State, John Bennett, told PolitiFact that there were no poll workers with the names in the article. A headline stated "Alabama state police arrest 3 poll workers in Birmingham." There is no  that such a crime occurred. We rate this headline .
Statement: Russian annexation of Crimea "removes a million residents of the Ukraine that have provided the margin of victory for (Viktor) Yanukovych, the pro-Moscow prime minister in his last election.
Speaker: karl rove
About the speaker: Karl Rove is a former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush. He has worked as a commentator and political analyst for Fox News.
Date: March 16, 2014
Topics: elections;foreign policy;punditfact
Context: a panel discussion on "Fox News Sunday"
Fact-check justification: Rove said that Russian annexation of Crimea "removes a million residents of the Ukraine that have provided the margin of victory for (Viktor) Yanukovych, the pro-Moscow prime minister in his last election." Crimea and neighboring Sevastopol -- the two newly annexed portions of Russia -- were certainly bastions of support for Yanukovych in the 2010 election. But while they came close to providing his entire national margin of victory, they fell a bit short, providing 90 percent of Yanukovych’s winning margin. We rate Rove’s  .
Statement: Bill McCollum voted four times to raise his own pay, by a total of $51,000, and earns a congressional pension worth more than $75,000 a year.
Speaker: florida democratic party
About the speaker: the Florida affiliate of the Democratic Party.
Date: February 24, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: candidate biography
Context: an advertisement by the Florida Democratic Party
Fact-check justification: (This is distinct from his military pension, which earned him $13,455 that year; McCollum served in the Navy and the Naval Reserve from 1969 to 1992.) His 2006 report showed a federal pension worth $77,612, while his 2008 report showed a $77,280 federal pension. All three filings showed congressional pensions worth "over $75,000 dollars a year." So this  is accurate as well. Both claims are supported by the , so we're assigning it a rating of .
Statement: Several times, Obama "has apologized for what he deems to be American arrogance, dismissiveness, and derision; for dictating solutions, for acting unilaterally ... .
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: March 2, 2010
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;patriotism;terrorism
Context: his book "No Apology."
Fact-check justification: In reviewing Romney's book, we couldn't help but notice that Romney's diagnosis of the problems America faces are very similar to the themes Obama often repeats: The U.S. needs to educate its children better to remain competitive in the global marketplace. We spend too much money on health care. The fiscal future is ultimately unsustainable. It is in the matter of foreign policy that Romney lays out the most aggressive case against Obama, warning that the United States needs to maintain its military dominance in the world, particularly in the face of threats from China, Russia and Islamic jihadists. Obama, Romney writes, needs to "proudly defend her rather than continually apologize for her." Here, we're checking Romney's statement that Obama "has apologized for what he deems to be American arrogance, dismissiveness, and derision" and a host of other reasons. If you think American presidents should never admit to any sort of error at any time, you might find yourself in philosophical agreement with Romney's criticisms. We set out to discover whether Obama really had apologized in his speeches, and what he was apologizing for. But in our review of his words, we came up short. Yes, there is criticism in some of his speeches, but it's typically leavened by praise for the United States and its ideals, and often he mentions other countries and how they have erred as well. There's not a full-throated, sincere apology in the bunch. And so we rate Romney's statement . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/e94d364b-9df6-4b93-93f7-05cc58722c8e
Statement: I've got five years of experience as a national security staffer in the U.S. Congress.
Speaker: jon ossoff
About the speaker: Jon Ossoff, a Democrat, is a U.S. Senator from Georgia. Ossoff is a former aide to Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga.
Date: February 20, 2017
Location: georgia
Topics: candidate biography;foreign policy
Context: a campaign appearance
Fact-check justification: Ossoff said, "I've got five years of experience as a national security staffer in the U.S. Congress." This description certainly applies to his final three years on Capitol Hill, which were spent in middle- to senior-level foreign policy posts. Whether it applies to his first two years working for the lawmaker is less clear cut. His former supervisors insist that due to unusual circumstances within the office, Ossoff handled foreign-policy duties above his pay grade during that time. An independent expert told us that the explanation is plausible. That said, Ossoff at the time was an undergraduate student holding a part-time position that, in the Capitol Hill pecking order, was entry-level. That adds relevant context, and he left it out. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says a young Texas rapper charged with capital crimes faces the death penalty but the alleged Santa Fe High School shooter faces prison and then parole after 40 years.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: May 22, 2018
Location: texas
Topics: children;criminal justice;crime
Context: an online meme
Fact-check justification: A meme suggests a Texas rapper charged with capital offenses faces the death penalty while the alleged shooter in the Santa Fe school faces prison only and then parole after 40 years -- even though both are 17. That disparity isn’t backed up by state laws which, in compliance with Supreme Court rulings, potentially subject both the rapper and the alleged school shooter to sentences of life in prison with parole possible after 40 years. U.S. juveniles haven’t been subject to death sentences since the high court ruled out that prospect in 2005. We rate this meme .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: During the past four years, "average wages have barely budged.
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: January 28, 2014
Location: national
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: the State of Union address
Fact-check justification: Obama said that during the past four years, "average wages have  budged." Two federal data sets broadly agree: Over the most recent four-year period, the average wage has risen no more than 1.7 percent above inflation. That’s a rising wage -- but by a small amount, about a half a percentage point above inflation per year. We think that’s a reasonable definition for " budged." So we rate Obama’s  .
Statement: In the next two years, we'll spend more on interest on our national debt than we do on the national defense.
Speaker: mike pence
About the speaker: Mike Pence is the former vice president of the United States. A Republican, Pence was elected governor of Indiana in 2012. Pence previously served for 12 years as a congressman from Indiana representing the Sixth Congressional District; he was first elected in 2000. During his time in the U.S. House of Represenatives, he served as House Republican Conference chairman and chairman of the House Republican Study Committee. Pence was born in Columbus, Ind. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1981 from Hanover College and a law degree in 1986 from Indiana University. After accepting Donald Trump's offer to be running mate, Pence ended his 2016 campaign to be re-elected as Indiana governor. 
Date: March 30, 2023
Topics: federal budget;military
Context: an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer
Fact-check justification: Pence said, "In the next two years, we'll spend more on interest on our national debt than we do on the national defense." CBO projections from February 2023 show that net interest is projected to exceed defense spending starting in fiscal year 2029, but not in the next two years. This analysis provides the most apples-to-apples comparison. It’s possible to envision scenarios that would speed up that date, but doing so would be speculative. We rate the statement .
Statement: The Iran deal "trusts the Iranians to inspect themselves.
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: September 1, 2015
Location: texas
Topics: foreign policy;nuclear
Context: a speech to the Greater Houston Partnership
Fact-check justification: Cruz said the Iran deal "trusts the Iranians to inspect themselves." A confidential side deal might allow Iranian staff to take photos and video and collect samples at the Parchin site yet the IAEA has generally insisted its protective protocols aren't being compromised. The Parchin uncertainty aside, Cruz didn’t offer nor did we find  the overall agreement trusts Iranians to inspect themselves. In contrast, his statement left the impression Iran would be conducting all inspections under the agreement by itself. That’s not so. We rate the  .  – The statement is not accurate. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: A Florida judge ruled parts of Obamacare unconstitutional.
Speaker: u.s. chamber of commerce
About the speaker: From the chamber's Web site: "The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world's largest business federation representing 3 million businesses of all sizes, sectors, and regions, as well as state and local chambers and industry associations. More than 96% of U.S. Chamber members are small businesses with 100 employees or fewer."
Date: May 8, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: health care;legal issues;message machine 2012
Context: attack ad for TV
Fact-check justification: The U.S. Chamber's ad says, "A Florida judge ruled parts of Obamacare unconstitutional." It’s  that a Florida judge ruled parts of the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. But the chamber fails to acknowledge that other judges have upheld it, and that the Supreme Court will have the final say this summer. Their statement is accurate but needs additional clarification. We rule it .
Statement: While Exxon Mobil has 40 pages on its media response strategy, its plan for resource protection is only five pages long and its plan for oil removal is just nine pages long.
Speaker: bart stupak
About the speaker: Bart Stupak is a former Democratic congressman from Michigan’s 1st district. He declined to seek re-election in 2010, retiring after nine terms in office.
Date: June 15, 2010
Location: national
Topics: environment;energy;oil spill
Context: a Congressional hearing
Fact-check justification: So those plans look the same because in fact they call upon the same resources to respond," Tillerson said. In rating Stupak's statement, we find he is largely accurate in his description that the Exxon Mobil plan "has 40 pages on its media response strategy" while its plan for resource protection "is only five pages long and its plan for oil removal is just nine pages long." We did notice that other sections of the plan expand on some of the topics listed in resource protection and oil removal. Nevertheless, Exxon's media plan is highly detailed and lengthy, particularly when compared with the other oil company plans and other sections of its own report. So we rate Stupak's statement .
Statement: We have one charter school that for seven years has been rated unacceptable.
Speaker: bill ratliff
About the speaker: Bill Ratliff, a consulting civil engineer elected to the Texas Senate in 1998, was chosen by Senate colleagues to serve as acting lieutenant governor from 2001 through 2002. He did not seek re-election to the Senate in 2004.
Date: May 16, 2013
Location: texas
Topics: education
Context: an interview with Texas Monthly magazine
Fact-check justification: Ratliff said: "We have one charter school that for seven years has been rated unacceptable." His present-tense statement struck us as suggesting a school had been rated unacceptable seven straight years and was somehow still chugging. Both conclusions are , though the statement has an element of . The state rated a Uvalde school "academically unacceptable" for three straight years, 2000 through 2002, and four straight years, 2005 through 2008. However, the school closed before the beginning of the 2010-11 school year. It had been out of business more than two years when Ratliff referred to it. We rate this  as .
Statement: The Republican tax bill "lets every American keep more of what they earned.
Speaker: kevin mccarthy
About the speaker: Kevin McCarthy, who was first elected in 2006, is a Republican member of Congress representing a district in California. McCarthy was elected as House Speaker in January 2023.
Date: November 5, 2017
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
Fact-check justification: McCarthy said the Republican tax bill "lets every American keep more of what they earned." By the Joint Committee on Taxation's analysis, the tax bill does, on average, produce tax cuts for each of the 11 income groups it studied. But that’s not what McCarthy repeatedly said -- that it would produce a tax cut for "every American." Individual taxpayers’ situations will be affected differently by provisions in the bill, and for 2018 alone, the committee found that 8 percent of taxpayers would pay more in taxes. That translates to millions of Americans. We rate the statement .