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Statement: Says he and his running mate "are the only candidates that do believe in free trade.
Speaker: gary johnson
About the speaker: Gary Johnson is the Libertarian nominee for president in 2016. He was also the party's nominee in 2012. He previously served as governor of New Mexico as a Republican.
Date: September 4, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;trade
Context: a campaign appearance
Fact-check justification: In 2015, she released a video called "Flush the TPP" in which she characterized the agreement as a "backroom deal" that "gives corporations more power than nations." Our rating Johnson said he and his running mate were the only candidates who support free trade. While his statement has  to it — they are the only candidates supporting the largest free trade agreement currently on the table — Clinton and Trump say they support the idea of free trade deals if executed to their liking. Clinton supported NAFTA and in the Senate voted for several smaller trade deals. For a partially accurate statement that leaves out important details, our rating is .
Statement: In New Hampshire, 93 percent of Democrats, 79 percent of Republicans, 82 percent of gun owners and 60 percent of NRA households support background checks.
Speaker: gabrielle giffords
About the speaker: Gabrielle Giffords is a former Democratic U.S. Representative from a district in Arizona. She was seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in Tucson, Ariz., on Jan. 8, 2011, and has since become a leading advocate for preventing gun violence.
Date: July 1, 2013
Location: national
Topics: civil rights;crime;guns
Context: USA Today
Fact-check justification: Giffords, seeking common ground for gun control legislation, said "in New Hampshire, 93 percent of Democrats, 79 percent of Republicans, 82 percent of gun owners and 60 percent of NRA households support background checks." The numbers came from polling on behalf of her own advocacy group. We found some independent  that New Hampshire voters support expanded background checks, through the support is weaker among Republicans. It’s also important to note that support for background checks doesn’t translate directly to support for the Senate bill Giffords mentioned in her op-ed. Support for the bill itself commands smaller majorities, and a minority of gun-owning Republicans nationally. Giffords’  requires clarification and additional information. We rate it .
Statement: Ron Johnson is "willing to hand over the Great Lakes to the oil companies.
Speaker: russ feingold
About the speaker: Russ Feingold served as a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Wisconsin from 1992 until 2010, when he was defeated for re-election. An attorney, he previously served 10 years in the Wisconsin Legislature. Following his Senate defeat, he founded Progressives United, which says it mission is to "stand up to the exploding corporate influence in our political system by organizing and amplifying the voices of those who believe that corporations have too much power." Feingold is running against U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, the man who defeated him, in the 2016 election.
Date: July 13, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: environment;energy;message machine 2010
Context: a campaign ad
Fact-check justification: But the ad made a flat hand-the-lakes-over statement, ignoring Johnson’s expressed concerns for the environment. That’s not handing the lakes over to Big Oil. It was produced based on the original Johnson statement, but the ad remained on the air long after Johnson clearly said no to Great Lakes drilling. And Feingold is continuing to state on the campaign trail: "It’s kind of reasonable to think that if (Johnson) had a chance to vote for drilling the Great Lakes, he’d be first in line." We rate Feingold’s  .
Statement: The city of Columbus would save $41 million a year if employees had to contribute to their own, guaranteed-check pensions.
Speaker: dave yost
About the speaker: David Yost, a Republican, was elected Ohio auditor in 2010. He previously was a county prosecutor from Delaware County in Ohio.
Date: October 2, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: jobs;labor;unions
Context: a newspaper column
Fact-check justification: Yost would have been more precise, and only slightly less compelling, had he simply noted that Columbus would have saved $41 million last year. That, in fact, is how The Dispatch referred to the savings. And readers also would have been fully informed had he acknowledged Coleman’s efforts to reduce pickups; Yost’s implication was that without SB 5, the savings would not materialize otherwise. Those are needed points of clarification and additional information. On the -O-Meter, we rate Yost’s  .
Statement: Congressman Scott DesJarlais "is spending his one year anniversary on vacation -- only working 6 days in all of January.
Speaker: democratic congressional campaign committee
About the speaker: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is responsible for assisting Democratic candidates for the U.S. House.
Date: January 5, 2012
Location: tennessee
Topics: congress
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: Just because Congress is on recess does not mean that lawmakers are on vacation. To make such a charge is to imply that a congressman's work ends whenever he or she leaves Washington – a totally  . The DCCC is rehashing a favorite talking point that grossly distorts the congressional calendar. The DCCC offers no specifics to back this up other than the schedule. That's not just , it's a  distortion. !
Statement: The Republican Party has the worst reputation in American polling of any political party in history.
Speaker: maria cardona 
About the speaker: Maria Cardona is a Democratic political strategist who worked on the Hillary Clinton for president campaign in 2008.
Date: September 11, 2014
Topics: congress;polls and public opinion;punditfact
Context: comments on CNN's "State of the Union"
Fact-check justification: Arguing that the Democrats stand a chance in the upcoming midterm elections, Cardona said, "The Republican Party has the worst reputation in American polling of any political party in history." According to Gallup, CNN, and Pew, that was case roughly a year ago -- but now now. In late 2013, Gallup had Republican favorability at 28 percent, and Republican unfavorability at 62 percent. Both of those are records for either major party. There are two major caveats, though. First, polls only started asking the "favorable/unfavorable" question about political parties in 1992, and there’s no good analogue before then; looking back to 1992 doesn’t quite warrant "in history," as Cardona phrased her . Second, the Republican Party has bounced back from their low watermark in the most recent polls. Cardona's  is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it .
Statement: Barack Obama wants to "unilaterally disarm our nation.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: May 21, 2008
Location: national
Topics: military
Context: a chain e-mail
Fact-check justification: The question is for what, and more specifically 'for whom'." On June 8, Macsmind posted a full version of the video, noting "some lefties are complaining that the video is a hack job and it's out of context. Therefore I present to you context." Macsmind and others may not like the foreign policy goals that Obama outlines in his video, but it's deceptive to call those goals unilateral disarmament. For this reason, we find this the chain e-mail's statements to be .
Statement: Says Florida refused to allow the insurance commissioner to "negotiate lower rates with companies or refuse rates that are too high" under Obamacare.
Speaker: ted deutch
About the speaker: Congressman Ted Deutch represents South Florida's 22st District, which includes communities in Palm Beach and Broward counties. He was first elected to Congress in 2010 and previously served in the Florida State Senate.
Date: August 1, 2013
Location: national
Topics: health care;states
Context: a letter with other Florida lawmakers to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
Fact-check justification: A letter from Deutch and Florida’s U.S. House Democrats says that the governor and legislators refused to allow the state insurance commissioner to "negotiate lower rates with companies or refuse rates that are too high." They did precisely that, though they argued that the federal government could step in on Florida’s behalf. It turns out, that’s not how it works. Deutch’s  about the state’s temporarily diminished powers is .
Statement: The sex-offender registry has been around for a long time, and the research that's out there says that it has no positive impact on the public safety.
Speaker: ohio public defender's office
About the speaker: The Ohio Public Defenders office
Date: April 12, 2013
Location: ohio
Topics: crime
Context: a newspaper interview
Fact-check justification: What conclusion can we draw about Borror’s statement for the Ohio Public Defender’s Office,  that research shows the sex offender registry has no positive impact? We found that research has been done generally on the effectiveness of sex offender registration and notification laws.    We found that studies indicate the laws have no clear effect on recidivism, or repeat offenses, which is their intended target, and are ineffective in assessing and managing risk. Although there is some indication that registration and community notification may deter first-time adult offenders, the studies find that the deterrence doesn’t extend to juveniles -- and that community notification likely increases repeat sex crimes and other crimes. With that information needed for clarification, we rate the statement .
Statement: Technology coming to Virginia allows COVID-19 personal protection equipment to be "decontaminated and reused 20 times without degrading performance.
Speaker: ralph northam
About the speaker: Before he was inaugurated as the 73rd Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Ralph Northam served as an Army doctor, pediatric neurologist, business owner, state Senator and Lieutenant Governor.
A native of Virginia’s Eastern Shore, Northam was educated at the Virginia Military Institute.  After graduation, Northam was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Army. He served eight years of active duty and rose to the rank of major.
He attended Eastern Virginia Medical School and then traveled to San Antonio for a pediatric residency, where he met his wife Pamela, a pediatric occupational therapist at the same hospital.  Northam did his residencies at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and served as chief neurological resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital. As an Army doctor, he served in Germany, treating soldiers wounded in Operation Desert Storm.
Date: May 1, 2020
Location: virginia
Topics: coronavirus
Context: a news conference
Fact-check justification: Northam said with decontamination systems being set up in Virginia, "PPE can be decontaminated and reused 20 times without degrading." The systems are excellent news for Virginia which, like practically all states, has struggled to acquire N95 masks for medical workers. But the governor’s words are still rosy. The FDA, in its letter of emergency approval, said the decontamination system "may be effective" safely recycling masks up to 20 times, but warned the process should  only be used when there are "insufficient (new) supplies." Some early research suggests the structure of the masks may be compromised through the repeated process, making them less-secure fits on faces. So Northam’s statement is partially accurate, but leaves out important details. We rate it .
Statement: Says Donald Trump and Ron Johnson "oppose a woman's right to choose and Johnson voted against the Violence Against Women Act.
Speaker: russ feingold
About the speaker: Russ Feingold served as a Democratic U.S. Senator representing Wisconsin from 1992 until 2010, when he was defeated for re-election. An attorney, he previously served 10 years in the Wisconsin Legislature. Following his Senate defeat, he founded Progressives United, which says it mission is to "stand up to the exploding corporate influence in our political system by organizing and amplifying the voices of those who believe that corporations have too much power." Feingold is running against U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, the man who defeated him, in the 2016 election.
Date: October 26, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: abortion;criminal justice;crime;women
Context: a radio ad
Fact-check justification: That alternative would help deter and prosecute violence against women – without the inclusion of unconstitutional provisions. Our rating Feingold says Trump and Johnson "oppose a woman’s right to choose and Johnson voted against the Violence Against Women Act." Trump and Johnson are anti-abortion, though Trump in particular has said he supports exceptions to allow abortion in certain cases. Johnson did vote no on reauthorizing the violence law, but it’s not as though he opposed protections for women; in fact, he voted for alternative measures that did not pass. For a statement that is accurate but needs clarification, our rating is .
Statement: I committed to public financing; (Obama) committed to public financing.
Speaker: john mccain
About the speaker: John McCain was a U.S. senator from Arizona, a post he held from 1987 to his death in 2018. He previously served two terms in the U.S. House. He was the Republican nominee for president in 2008. McCain was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and spent his career in the military, as his father did. He was a combat pilot in Vietnam who was shot down and spent 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war. He was born in 1936 in Panama. 
Date: February 20, 2008
Location: national
Topics: ethics
Context: Columbus, Ohio
Fact-check justification: It's also clear that Obama has committed to "aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election." And in answering the question, "Will you participate in the presidential public financing system" on the Midwest Democracy Network questionnaire, Obama said, "Yes." But every comment Obama makes is in the context of reaching an agreement with the Republican nominee. It is not a blanket commitment to public financing. For this reason, we rule McCain's statement to be .
Statement: President Trump is asking everyone to forward this email… The TRUMP Rules: Congressional Reform Act of 2017.
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: September 26, 2019
Topics: congress;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: (FactCheck.org debunked several of the message’s claims back then and revisited the topic again as it resurfaced with the president’s name attached.)   In 2012, Warren Buffett  was at it again ! In 2018, the message appeared as a petition for the Congressional Reform Act of 2018 posted on ipetitions.com.    And now, in 2019, we’re here to say that if you forward this rebooted chain letter, you’ll have seven years of bad luck.   We rate this Facebook post !
Statement: New Jersey alone, my home state, is facing a ten-and-a-half billion dollar shortfall in its 2012 fiscal budget. This means more cuts in state and local spending for education, which means our kids are hurt.
Speaker: robert menendez
About the speaker: Robert Menendez, a Democrat, has been serving as one of New Jersey's U.S. Senators since January 2006. Menendez previously served as a member of the House of Representatives.
Date: October 18, 2011
Location: new jersey
Topics: education;state budget
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Menendez claimed New Jersey "is facing a ten-and-a-half billion dollar shortfall in its 2012 fiscal budget," meaning more cuts in state spending on education. Although a nearly $10.5 billion structural deficit had been projected, the fiscal year 2012 budget is balanced, as required by state law. Also, the budget increases state aid for education over the previous fiscal year. Since Menendez is  about there being a budget shortfall and education funding cuts, we rate this statement . To comment on this ruling, go to NJ.com .
Statement: Obamacare adds trillions to our deficits and to our national debt.
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 28, 2012
Location: national
Topics: federal budget;health care
Context: a press conference
Fact-check justification: Medicaid is the joint federal-state health insurance program for the very poor. A statement on the CBO website on the day of the ruling said, "CBO is in the process of reviewing the Supreme Court’s decision related to the Affordable Care Act to assess the effect on CBO’s projections of federal spending and revenue under current law. We expect that this assessment will probably take some time." Still, we find no factual basis for Romney’s  that the law "adds trillions to our deficits and to our national debt." We rate his statement .
Statement: Miss Universe Guyana 2017 arrested at London Heathrow airport with 2 kilograms of cocaine.
Speaker: states-news.com
About the speaker: States-news.com posts fake news.
Date: November 15, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: a headline
Fact-check justification: We found no contact information on the states-news.com website. We were unsuccessful at reaching Husain, but a spokeswoman for the Miss Universe organization told PolitiFact, "This is a  news site." A headline states that "Miss Universe Guyana 2017 arrested at London Heathrow airport with 2kg of cocaine." We found no  that she was busted for cocaine.  We rate this headline .
Statement: My mask will keep someone else safe and their mask will keep me safe.
Speaker: pat toomey
About the speaker: Pat Toomey is a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, having won election to his seat in 2010 by defeating Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak. Toomey occupies the seat formerly held by Sen. Arlen Specter, to whom he narrowly lost in the 2004 Republican U.S. Senate primary.
Date: March 28, 2020
Location: national
Topics: coronavirus;pennsylvania
Context: a video on Twitter
Fact-check justification: Under ideal circumstances, no face masks are intended to be worn for more than one encounter. That guidance also extends to homemade masks. "At the end of the day, these cloth masks should be treated as contaminated materials that you bring in to your home — they need to be laundered in hot soapy water, and you’d need to consider sanitizing in bleach or hydrogen peroxide regularly," Peltier said. Our ruling  Toomey’s  that his homemade mask would keep someone else safe and that someone else’s homemade mask would keep him safe matches the latest guidance from the CDC. We rate this statement .
Statement: Lumber, gas, wheat, coal and corn cost more in April 2021 "in Joe Biden's America" than they did a year earlier.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 22, 2021
Topics: agriculture;economy;energy;food;gas prices;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: An image widely shared on Facebook claimed that lumber, gas, wheat, coal and corn cost more "in Joe Biden's America." The specific price increases claimed are roughly accurate, but they compared April 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic had all but shut down the economy and driven down prices, with April 2021, as the nation’s recovery from the pandemic was in swing.  Economists say that post-pandemic mismatches in supply and demand are to blame for higher prices in April 2021. While presidents often get blamed for inflation, in this case the sharp contrast in prices from a year earlier is due mainly to the economy having hit a low in April 2020. For a statement that is partially accurate but leaves out important details, our rating is .
Statement: Rhode Island voters are moving away from the Democratic party to non-affiliation
Speaker: anthony gemma
About the speaker: Anthony Gemma is the former president and CEO of Gem Plumbing who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in the 1st District in 2010 and in 2012. He headed up his family's company from 2001 to 2008 when he left to start Mediapeel, a marketing firm. Gemma is also the co-founder and president of the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation.
Date: June 28, 2010
Location: rhode island
Topics: elections;history
Context: a speech at the state Democratic convention
Fact-check justification: So we dug a little deeper, and found a Providence Journal story from March 7, 2000 , reporting that then-Secretary of State (and now Congressman) James Langevin tracked the number of eligible voters going back to 1970. The story included a breakdown of the 2000 numbers by party. The data: fewer than 9 percent were Republicans, 56 percent were unaffiliated (far higher than today) and 35 percent were Democrats (significantly lower than today). Gemma is citing a trend that doesn't exist -- not in recent history, not going back 10 years. So we rate his statement as .
Statement: I have introduced balanced budgets every year that I've been governor.
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: January 29, 2018
Location: illinois
Topics: state budget
Context: a session with Chicago Tribune editorial board
Fact-check justification: Rauner last year earned PolitiFact’s ! rating for his  that a state budget he proposed was balanced. Indeed, fiscal experts say Rauner has never proposed a balanced budget as required under the state Constitution since taking office in 2015. All facts to the contrary, Rauner repeated a similar  this week during an appearance at the Chicago Tribune. "I have introduced balanced budgets every year that I’ve been governor," Rauner said. Aides to the governor filibustered when we asked them to back up his latest statement. A year ago, PolitiFact called Rauner out on his balanced budget . His most recent comment is equally outrageous. Once again, we rate it !