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Statement: One of George Soros' companies has provided some of the (voting) machines" for some states.
Speaker: sean duffy
About the speaker: Sean Duffy is a Republican member of the U.S. House, representing Wisconsin's 7th District in the northwestern part of the state. The former Ashland County district attorney was elected In November 2010, taking the seat previously held by Democratic U.S. Rep. Dave Obey of Wausau.
Date: October 27, 2016
Location: national
Topics: elections
Context: an interview on CNN
Fact-check justification: Duffy said that there were unverified reports that a George Soros company was providing voting machines in certain states. In the week before Duffy said that, those reports had been fully discredited three times. Soros owns no company that offers voting machines, and the company named in the rumor has no voting machines in the United States. To call a baseless rumor "unverified" after it has been thoroughly debunked twists the meaning of the word. We rate this  . https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/74ea2227-cd2b-4e4b-9f20-8f2af7d27807
Statement: More contraception availability increases abortion demand.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: January 11, 2023
Location: national
Topics: abortion;women;facebook fact-checks
Context: an Instagram post
Fact-check justification: An Instagram post claims that more contraception availability increases abortion demand. That isn’t accurate. The sources the post cites date to the 1980s, and contraceptive options and usage trends have changed dramatically since then. Most unintended pregnancies result from women not using contraception or not using it consistently or correctly, experts say. Reputable, current research shows that improved contraceptive use has helped reduce unintended pregnancies and decrease the rate of abortions. We rate this . PolitiFact researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this report.
Statement: Says Charlie Bass forfeits right to equal cost for TV ads under FCC rules
Speaker: ann mclane kuster
About the speaker: Ann McLane Kuster was the Democratic nominee for Congress in the Second Congressional District of New Hampshire, narrowly losing by just 3,551 votes in 2010.
Kuster, an attorney, has not held elected office, but her parents did. Her mother, Susan McLane was a State Senator, and her father Malcolm served as Mayor of Concord, on the Executive Council, and ran for Governor as an Independent in 1972.
Kuster, of Hopkingtom, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1978, in the third class with women, and received her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1984.
Date: August 31, 2012
Location: new hampshire
Topics: negative campaigning
Context: a press release sent to The Telegraph on Aug. 31, 2012
Fact-check justification: Kuster says Bass’ "Not Working for Us" TV ad forfeited its right to WMUR’s lowest rates because it violated FCC rules. The rules Kuster cite only apply to advertisements about Bass’ Republican opponents in the primary. Until Kuster and Bass are direct opponents for the Second Congressional District general election race, her accusation is moot. Moreover, even if Bass did violate the rules, WMUR is still free to charge him the lowest rate. We give Kuster a .
Statement: Well, I got 52% (of women voters). And I will tell you — in my opinion I might have won women. ... Hey, Hillary Clinton focused on women, and I did phenomenally well.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: June 16, 2019
Location: national
Topics: elections;women
Context: an ABC News interview
Fact-check justification: Trump said, "Well, I got 52% (of women voters). And I will tell you — in my opinion I might have won women. ... Hey, Hillary Clinton focused on women, and I did phenomenally well." According to exit poll data, 41% of all women voted for Trump in 2016. Trump’s 52%  refers to his share of white women. Another measure from a Pew Research Center study — using only validated voters and taking potential bias of exit polling into account — found that 39% of all women and 47% of white women voted for Trump. Trump’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: There really isn't any kind of foreign policy network that is supporting and advising Sen. Sanders.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: February 7, 2016
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy
Context: comments on Meet the Press
Fact-check justification: Clinton said, "There really isn’t any kind of foreign policy network that is supporting and advising Sen. Sanders." It’s not a network in the same sense of Clinton’s, but Sanders has met with several foreign policy experts. It doesn’t appear he has any team with which he regularly discusses foreign policy. An expert who advised Mitt Romney said that’s not all together distressing or upsetting, giving the nature of the campaign. The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate it .
Statement: Says he "brought 1,200 jobs to Texas by moving his factories here from China.
Speaker: farouk shami
About the speaker: Farouk Shami is a Palestinian-born businessman from Houston. He is the founder and chairman of Farouk Systems, Inc., a $1 billion corporation known for it's BioSilk and CHI hair care product lines.
Date: November 23, 2009
Location: texas
Topics: economy
Context: a TV ad
Fact-check justification: Last July, the company said it hopes to shift 4,000 jobs to Texas by 2012, starting with the move of 1,000 jobs from South Korea and China. Leibowitz said that some jobs have been created as a result of relocating production from China, but not the ones advertised as part of Shami's campaign. Perhaps Shami deserves a back slap for admitting his  and reworking his ad. Still,  information was left online. We rule his  .
Statement: Students no longer say the Pledge of Allegiance in schools.
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: April 26, 2020
Topics: education;patriotism;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Some schools and teachers are not beginning the virtual day with the pledge, according to the station, but one elementary school begins its morning announcements with the pledge. One parent said her children recited the pledge "every day in school last year." At Whittier Tech in Massachusetts, "each day, teachers will take attendance, classes will say the pledge of allegiance and announcements will be given," according to a Sept. 18 press release from the high school about welcoming students back to campus.   In Johnson City, Tenn., a news station broadcasts different school classes saying the pledge on school days. We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Our spending has caught up with us, and our debt soon will eclipse the entire size of our national economy.
Speaker: john boehner
About the speaker: John Boehner of Ohio is the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was formerly the Republican minority leader from 2007-2011, and was the majority leader briefly prior to that.
Date: January 5, 2011
Location: ohio
Topics: deficit;federal budget
Context: the House of Representatives
Fact-check justification: We are not endorsing or rejecting Boehner’s proposed solutions or his analysis of the policies that led to the problem. Democrats blame the war in Iraq and the tax cuts of former President George W. Bush, while Republicans blame spending by Democrats and President Barack Obama’s White House. Some economists suggest that with sensible policy changes and an economy that eventually turns robust, these fears will never come to pass. But when the nonpartisan CBO and the Democratic president’s fiscal commission agree with the Republican leader on the scope of the problem, both citing the prospect public debt at 185 percent of GDP, the -O-Meter must concur that his prediction is reasonable. So we rate Boehner’s statement .
Statement: Our children do not spend any time in school learning about our own U.S. Constitution.
Speaker: dan flynn
About the speaker: Dan Flynn represents Texas' second district in the Texas House.
Date: February 14, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: education
Context: a column
Fact-check justification: Relative to the amount of time spent on other subjects, ‘our children do not spend any time at all learning about the U.S. Constitution.’" Flynn’s statement, though, was absolute. Lacking back-up information from his end or any other  that either schools are flouting the state’s curriculum standards or students aren’t being held to them, the statement more than fails. We smell smoke. !
Statement: In the 1980s, "The lowest income people had the biggest gains.
Speaker: steve moore
About the speaker: Steve Moore is an editorial board member and senior economics writer at The Wall Street Journal.
Date: February 2, 2011
Location: national
Topics: economy;history;income;pundits;taxes
Context: HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher"
Fact-check justification: "All economists agree that the 1980s saw a huge increase in inequality," said Saez, an economics professor at the University of California Berkeley. There was "increased concentration at the top and big losses at the bottom (especially during the early 1980s recession)." So Moore can make a credible argument -- based on Census data -- that all incomes rose during the 1980s, but the data does not support his  that the lowest income people had the biggest gains. To the contrary, the lowest income people had the smallest gains. We rule Moore's  .
Statement: If we kept (the minimum wage) indexed to inflation, people would be making $20 an hour right now.
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 16, 2021
Location: wisconsin
Topics: economy;jobs
Context: remarks at a CNN town hall
Fact-check justification: Biden said that "if we kept (the minimum wage) indexed to inflation, people would be making $20 an hour right now." Indexing the minimum wage to inflation would have produced a wage today between $8.98 and $12.27, depending on which year you started the indexing. That’s well short of the $20 Biden said.  The White House said Biden should have said that if the minimum wage had been indexed to worker productivity, it would be at $20 an hour today. That’s close to the $24 estimated by a liberal economist, but that’s not what Biden said.  We rate the statement .
Statement: Stephen Boss died because of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Speaker: tweets
About the speaker: Twitter is a messaging service where people often discuss politics. Individual messages are called Tweets.
Date: December 14, 2022
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: The medical examiner-coroner didn’t list any "other significant conditions. "   In statements to publications including People magazine, Boss’ wife didn’t mention the COVID-19 vaccine.   We found no  connecting Boss’ death to the COVID-19 vaccine — only unsubstantiated claims on social media. We rate them .
Statement: Says Gov. Rick Perry is "spending Texans' hard-earned money to live like Louie XIV.
Speaker: boyd richie
About the speaker: Boyd Richie served three terms as chairman of the Texas Democratic Party. He did not seek re-election in 2012.
Date: May 20, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;ethics;state budget
Context: an e-mail blast
Fact-check justification: We’ll speculate he’s good with his rental quarters. But ça suffit, as they say in France. The Democrats said Richie was joshing. We’ll grant they’re kidders. We rate his statement Pantalon en Feu .
Statement: A major part" of the climate change bill sponsored by Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman "was essentially written by BP.
Speaker: mitch mcconnell
About the speaker: Mitch McConnell is a U.S. Senator from Kentucky and the Republican minority leader in the U.S. Senate.
Date: June 9, 2010
Location: national
Topics: environment;climate change;corporations;energy;oil spill
Context: a Senate floor speech
Fact-check justification: It may be revealing that one day after the statement we're checking, McConnell had toned down his description of BP's role. In a floor speech on June 10, 2010, McConnell said, "Some favor the Kerry-Lieberman cap-and-trade bill, a significant portion of which, by the way, has been pushed by the oil company BP." If he'd simply said "pushed" the day before, he would have been pretty close to being accurate. But McConnell went much further when he said that BP had "essentially written" a "major part" of the bill. We rule that  by McConnell .
Statement: The Texas Senate "approved a bill to put a special label on the insurance cards of anyone who bought a plan through Obamacare" that includes the letter "S" for subsidy.
Speaker: al sharpton
About the speaker: The Rev. Al Sharpton, a minister based in New York City, is founder of the National Action Network civil rights organization. He is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host and he hosts MSNBC PoliticsNation. Sharpton has run for the U.S. Senate and was a Democratic candidate for president in 2004.
Date: May 29, 2015
Topics: health care;punditfact
Context: a broadcast of MSNBC's "PoliticsNation"
Fact-check justification: Sharpton said that the Texas bill would add a label to insurance cards for coverage purchased through the federal exchanges and that people receiving a subsidy would see the letter "S" on their insurance card. That provision was dropped more than two weeks before Sharpton said it. The bill that passed the Legislature and has been sent to the governor would add the letters QHP to any insurance card tied to a health care plan on the federal exchange. But it wouldn’t differentiate between those purchased with or without a federal tax credit. Special label? Yes. Scarlet "S"? No. Sharpton’s  rates .
Statement: Georgia's unemployment rate has exceeded the national rate for 50 consecutive months.
Speaker: buddy carter
About the speaker: Buddy Carter, a Republican, is a state senator from Pooler, Georgia.
Date: December 13, 2011
Location: georgia
Topics: jobs
Context: a column
Fact-check justification: OK, so when was the last time the nation’s unemployment rate was the same or eclipsed Georgia’s? Answer: July 2007. In that month, the national rate and Georgia’s were 4.7 percent, according to the BLS. Carter was correct. We rate the  in his column as .
Statement: Says the state's rainy day fund is "our insurance policy against a major natural disaster.
Speaker: rick perry
About the speaker: Rick Perry is the U.S. Energy Secretary and was governor of Texas from late December 2000 through 2014. He was re-elected in 2002, 2006 and 2010. He unsucessfully ran for president in 2012 and 2016.
Date: March 14, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: a conference call
Fact-check justification: The purpose of the savings account was to buffer the state against economic shocks. To date, a small portion of the money has been spent in connection with a natural disaster. That leaves Perry’s statement .    Editor's note: This statement was rated  when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to .
Statement: Sixty percent of (Virginia's) children don't meet national proficiency standards…
Speaker: glenn youngkin
About the speaker: Republican Glenn Youngkin was elected Virginia's governor in November 2021. He defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who was governor from 2014 to 2018.
Youngkin was reared in Richmond and Virginia Beach and won a basketball scholarship at Rice University, where he earned an engineering degree. He earned a MBA from Harvard University. Youngkin worked 25 years at the Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm based in Washington with $230 billion in assets. He retired in 2020 as CEO after taking the company public. His net worth is estimated at $254 million, according to The Washington Post.
Youngkin's 2021 campaign for governor is his first bid for public office.
Date: January 17, 2022
Location: virginia
Topics: education
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Nationally, 65% of students fall short of the proficiency level. Proficiency is an aspirational standard on the national test. It’s defined as the "goal for what most students should know" at their grade level. That’s different from the minimum amount of knowledge they need to keep up in class. Because Youngkin’s statement needs clarification, we rate it .
Statement: If you look worldwide, the number of terrorist incidents have not substantially increased.
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: September 28, 2016
Location: national
Topics: homeland security;terrorism
Context: a CNN town hall
Fact-check justification: Obama said, "If you look worldwide, the number of terrorist incidents have not substantially increased." There is no universally accepted definition of a terrorist incident, so there is no universally accepted count. Based on State Department data, there’s been a 7 percent increase in terrorist attacks worldwide from 2009 to 2015. But the State Department’s criteria for what can be counted as a terrorist attack is stricter than that of other databases. According to START’s Global Terrorism Database, for instance, there was a 214 percent rise in terrorist attacks from 2009 to 2015, a substantial increase. Obama’s statement contains an element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .
Statement: The Texas power grid is not part of the US power grid because they wanted to avoid federal regulation.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 16, 2021
Location: texas
Topics: government regulation;weather
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: "The Texas power grid is not part of the U.S. power grid because they wanted to avoid federal regulation," reads a Facebook post. The history of the Texas power grid backs this up. An aversion to federal regulation was one of the main reasons that Texas energy companies opted for a power grid that didn’t cross state lines. Texas has resisted regulation in major court cases.  This  is . ​
Statement: I was speaking out on pension reform almost 17 years ago.
Speaker: ernest almonte
About the speaker: Ernest Almonte served as Rhode Island's Auditor General from 1994 to 2010. He has served as president of the Rhode Island Society of Certified Public Accountants and the National Association of State Auditors. He is founder of the Almonte Group, an accounting firm. He is married with five sons. In 2014 he made an unsuccessful run for Rhode Island General Treasurer as an independent.
Date: October 5, 2014
Location: rhode island
Topics: candidate biography;debt;deficit;economy;history;labor;government regulation;pensions;retirement;state budget;unions;wealth;workers;taxes
Context: an interview on WLNE's "On the Record"
Fact-check justification: Ernest Almonte said, "I was speaking out on pension reform almost 17 years ago." The comment was in the context of a question on the state's pension system. It’s clear from documentation Almonte provided and information we found that Almonte was warning about problems years ago. But the documentation he could provide only dealt with problems in municipal plans, although some of those were in the MERS system run by the state. Because his statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information, we rule it  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, email us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Under President George W. Bush, "we added $4.9 trillion to the debt. Under President Obama … we've added $6.5 trillion to the debt.
Speaker: kelly ayotte
About the speaker: Kelly Ayotte is a U.S. Senator representing New Hampshire as a Republican. She was the first woman to serve as her state's attorney general. Appointed to that position in 2004 by a Republican governor, she was twice reappointed by a Democratic governor.
Date: October 24, 2013
Location: new hampshire
Topics: debt
Context: Hudson, N.H
Fact-check justification: Ayotte said that the country has added $6.5 trillion to the national debt since Obama took office and $4.9 trillion under Bush. When measuring by total debt, she’s correct on both counts. We rate her  .
Statement: Pelosi's new coronavirus bill allows illegals to receive billions in relief funds in past, current, and future payments.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: May 12, 2020
Topics: immigration;economy;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: We contacted We Build the Wall for comment, but did not hear back. A tax policy group estimated that if the HEROES Act became law as written, about $16.4 billion would go to households of ITIN filers or of mixed status. Beneficiaries would include U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents who live in a household with an ITIN filer. The post is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. We rate it .