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Statement: Under Lee Fisher Ohio has lost nearly 400,000 jobs.
Speaker: rob portman
About the speaker: Rob Portman was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He is a former Republican congressman who also was a U.S. trade representative and director of the Office of Management and Budget under President George H.W. Bush.
Date: September 13, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;message machine 2010
Context: a campaign video
Fact-check justification: BLS data shows that during his tenure Ohio had a net loss of about 255,000 jobs; a significant number of jobs, although not as many as the Portman ad states.  The higher jobs figure in the ad reflects net jobs lost into this year. Still, at a time when Ohio lost thousands of jobs, Fisher was in charge of the state agency most responsible for bringing new jobs to Ohio. That doesn’t mean he’s responsible for the job losses, but he was in charge of the department most capable of addressing the problem. We find Portman’s  in his Job Czar ad to be .
Statement: On Tim Kaine: "In exchange for campaign contributions, he appointed a radical jihadi to the Virginia Immigration Commission.
Speaker: chain email
About the speaker: Chain emails circulate on the Internet, usually anonymously, making a variety of political claims.
Date: September 21, 2016
Location: virginia
Topics: campaign finance;ethics
Context: a chain email
Fact-check justification: A chain email, based on postings by two conservative blogs, says that  Kaine "in exchange for campaign contributions … appointed a radical jihadi to the Virginia Immigration Commission." This refers to a 2007 appointment. The appointee, Esam Omeish, a surgeon and Muslim activist, said in a 2000 speech that the "jihad way is the way to liberate your land." Kaine, when told of the comment seven years later, immediately obtained Omeish’s resignation from the panel. In the aftermath, Omeish said the word jihad has several meanings, and that he was referring to it as an Islamic concept of personal struggle - not a call for holy war. As for the supposed payoff, the email refers to $43,050 in contributions that the New Dominion PAC, representing Arab-Virginians, made to Kaine’s gubernatorial campaign years before Kaine created the advisory commission and appointed Omeish to it. It also refers to $10,000 the PAC - not Kaine -- received from an Islamic nonprofit group four years after the appointment. Kaine was out of office at the time, and there’s no  he benefitted from the donation. Federal laws, in fact, barred that money from being advanced to Kaine’s U.S. Senate campaign in 2012. So the  that Kaine appointed Omeish "in exchange" for political money is based on flimsy happenstance, not fact.  We rate it .
Statement: While Americans pray for Paris, the government has acted on mandatory national vaccinations.
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: November 17, 2015
Location: georgia
Topics: congress;public health;terrorism
Context: a viral meme on social media
Fact-check justification: A meme making the rounds on social media takes a different tack on the Paris terrorist attacks. It claims the tragedy has been a distraction to government efforts to mandate vaccinations for all public schoolchildren. There is a proposal for a similar law, but there has been no movement on the proposal since a week after it was introduced last spring. That’s the last bit of  to the meme. The rest of the message and implication border on the ludicrous. We rate the  .
Statement: To be clear, I'm not talking about confiscating anybody's guns.
Speaker: beto o'rourke
About the speaker: Beto O’Rourke is a former representative of Texas’s 16th Congressional District. He represented the district from 2013 until 2019, when he gave up his seat to run a senate campaign against incumbent Ted Cruz, which O’Rourke lost. He received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from Columbia University. In 2019, he ran for the Democratic nomination for president.
Date: October 16, 2019
Location: national
Topics: government regulation;guns
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: O’Rourke said: "To be clear, I’m not talking about confiscating anybody’s guns." O’Rourke has said "yes" and "hell, yes" when asked about confiscating assault-style weapons. And his mandatory buyback proposes taking those weapons from people, even if it involves a purchase. We rate O’Rourke’s  that he is "not talking about confiscating anybody’s guns" as .
Statement: Photo shows "Chuck Schumer kissing this child on Epstein island!
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: July 17, 2020
Topics: crime;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: On the same day, a Facebook account called Focus On Gambia also posted the image, writing that "the government of Gambia must take legal action against pedophiles in Gambia." (In the comments of this post, some users question whether the photo was actually taken in Gambia.) Epstein donated more than $184,000 to both Democratic and Republican politicians from 1990 until his death, including Schumer, who has since donated the money to anti-human trafficking charities.   But we unearthed nothing to support that the image recirculating on social media shows Schumer or that the photo was taken on Epstein’s island.   We rate this post .
Statement: Donald Trump's "golf course on the island defaulted, like so many of his other failed business schemes. The failure left Puerto Rican taxpayers with a nearly $33 million bill.
Speaker: florida democratic party
About the speaker: the Florida affiliate of the Democratic Party.
Date: April 27, 2017
Location: florida
Topics: bankruptcy
Context: a press release
Fact-check justification: The Florida Democratic Party said that Trump’s "golf course on the island defaulted, like so many of his other failed business schemes. The failure left Puerto Rican taxpayers with a nearly $33 million bill." Trump entered into a licensing and management agreement in 2008 -- after the golf course resort had fallen into debt. Trump failed to turn around the resort and it declared bankruptcy in 2015. The Puerto Rico Tourism Development Fund, which provided project financing in 2000 and 2004, filed a  in bankruptcy court for $32.7 million. The fund is paid for with tax dollars. The Democratic Party is correct that taxpayers are left with a nearly $33 million bill, but it  when it points the finger exclusively at Trump, omitting important details about the recession’s impact on the resort and its financial woes years before Trump’s involvement. We rate this  .
Statement: Says Connie Mack was "the only member of the Florida delegation that voted against a bill to help NASA.
Speaker: bill nelson
About the speaker: Bill Nelson was first elected to the U.S. Senate from Florida in 2000. He lost re-election to Gov. Rick Scott in 2018. Nelson previously served in the Florida Legislature, Congress and as state Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner.
 
Date: October 17, 2012
Location: florida
Topics: space;voting record
Context: a debate
Fact-check justification: Nelson claims Mack opposed a bill to help NASA. And it’s  that Mack was the only member of the Florida delegation to vote against the NASA Authorization Act of 2010.   But there’s a sprinkle of nuance we just can’t ignore. While NASA supported the bill as a new and exciting path forward, many members of Congress had concerns about whether it charted the right path for the space program. Even space policy experts agree that a vote against that legislation isn’t necessarily a vote against the space program. We rate the  .
Statement: Says his hometown of Paint Creek, Texas, "doesn't even have a ZIP code.
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: August 14, 2011
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography
Fact-check justification: Sam Bolen, a Texas-based spokesman for the postal service, it takes a minimum of 10,000 mail deliveries in an area for it to qualify for its own assigned ZIP code, though some existing codes cover areas with fewer deliveries. At the Haskell post office, about 10 miles northwest of Paint Creek, clerk Nancy Snelling told us that Paint Creek has a ZIP code; it’s 79521, which is also the ZIP code for Haskell, the county seat. Perhaps Perry means Paint Creek is not big enough to warrant its own ZIP code. In that vein, there’s an element of  to his . We rate it .
Statement: Says Kamala Harris said, "I don't like Joe Biden and do not like his history with certain people or who he's aligned with, he's trash to me.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 14, 2020
Location: california
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: In a search for the quote online , Google returned two results: a link to a Facebook page where someone had posted it in a comment, and a June 2019 blog post titled, "Kamala Harris buries Joe Biden. "  The blog post is supportive of Harris, then still a presidential candidate, and praises her performance during a debate.   The statement that appears in the Facebook post is also in the blog post, but it’s not in a quote attributed to Harris. Rather, it’s the blog post’s author who writes: "I don’t like Joe Biden and do not like his history with certain people or who he’s aligned with, he’s trash to me." We rate this Facebook post .
Statement: Under Obamacare, members of Congress are required to purchase their health insurance from the new exchanges.
Speaker: james langevin
About the speaker: James Langevin has represented Rhode Island's 2nd Congressional District since 2001. He was elected to the state's Constitutional Convention in 1986. Two years later, he won a seat as a State Representative and went on to become, at age 30, Rhode Island's youngest Secretary of State in 1995.
Date: August 12, 2013
Location: rhode island
Topics: congress;health care
Context: an interview on WPRO-AM
Fact-check justification: It was this proposed rule that prompted critics over the past few weeks to allege that the Obama administration was creating another exemption for Congress members and their staffs. But Congress had already agreed to live by the system it created. What the new rule actually does is continue the federal government’s contribution toward its employees’ insurance coverage. So when U.S. Rep. James Langevin said he would be required to buy his health insurance through one of the Obamacare exchanges, his statement was  . (If you have a  you’d like PolitiFact Rhode Island to check, e-mail us at [email protected] And follow us on Twitter: @politifactri.)
Statement: Video shows Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez crying after "Ted Cruz gets up and humiliates her to her face.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: January 23, 2023
Topics: congress;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Cruz discussed immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border during his speech, and briefly mentioned Ocasio-Cortez.   "Rep. Ocasio-Cortez has a famous photo of her grasping her head by the kids in cages," Cruz said, referring to images she shared in 2019 that showed her at the border. "Well, I want to give a simple challenge to Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and for every Democrat in this body. Go see the Biden cages. "  We rate claims that this video shows Cruz making Ocasio-Cortez cry .
Statement: Says his supporters were "protecting" Joe Biden's campaign bus in Texas.
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: November 1, 2020
Location: michigan
Topics: corrections and updates;texas
Context: a campaign rally
Fact-check justification: We rate Trump’s  . This fact check is available at IFCN’s 2020 US Elections #Chatbot on WhatsApp. Click here , for more. UPDATE,  5:20 p.m.: We removed references to this story about a now-deleted YouTube video showing trucks and other vehicles surrounding a Biden campaign bus.
Statement: We've had about 3,000 murders" in connection with lax border security.
Speaker: greg abbott
About the speaker: Greg Abbott won election as governor of Texas in November 2014, carrying 59 percent of the vote. Abbott was re-elected in 2018. Abbott, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, served three terms as the state's attorney general before being succeeded by Ken Paxton in early 2015.
Date: July 22, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: immigration;criminal justice;crime
Context: an interview on Fox News
Fact-check justification: Abbott told Van Susteren "we’ve had about 3,000 murders" in connection with lax border security. This declaration, it turned out, isn’t substantiated by the cited state presentation which instead indicates 203,000-plus immigrants jailed in Texas in recent years had together accumulated 3,070 homicide charges (not convictions) in their lives. These individuals included people living here with legal permission and people here without authorization. Significantly, the presentation doesn’t show the homicides were committed by non-citizens living here without permission. Also, it’s silent on Abbott’s conclusion the immigrants charged with homicide all entered the country due to the border being easy to cross. Absent factual confirmation, the attorney general’s  strikes us as  and . !  – The statement is not accurate and makes a  . Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.
Statement: Video shows Tucker Carlson advertising Affordable Care Act subsidies.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 19, 2023
Topics: health care;facebook fact-checks
Context: a video
Fact-check justification: The original video, which Carlson tweeted April 26, came two days after his abrupt firing from Fox News. He mentioned neither the Affordable Care Act nor a $7,000 subsidy.   The Affordable Care Act provides subsidies to lower premiums and out-of-pocket costs for some eligible Americans buying health insurance on the health insurance Marketplace . But there’s no $7,000 cash grab that’s ending soon via a link on Facebook. We rate claims that this video is authentic .
Statement: Ben Unger supported a 15 percent property tax increase on Oregon seniors.
Speaker: promote oregon leadership pac (oregon house republicans)
About the speaker: Promote Oregon Leadership is the political action committe of Oregon House Republicans.
Date: October 1, 2012
Location: oregon
Topics: message machine 2012;taxes
Context: campaign mailer
Fact-check justification: Look, we know this is standard campaigning. Take a candidate’s position on an issue and weed out the context so you end up with something like Unger supported "a 15 percent property tax increase on Oregon seniors," as if he wanted to single out old folks for additional taxes. To us, the statement is missing important details that voters should have. But then, the mailers wouldn’t be as fun, would they? We find the statement : partially accurate, but missing important details.
Statement: U.S. Rep. Jim Marshall (D-Ga.) refuses to return $37,000 in "dirty" campaign contributions from U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.)
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: August 10, 2010
Location: georgia
Topics: message machine 2010
Context: a recorded message
Fact-check justification: But a point that concerned us more is that the contributions were made before the allegations surfaced. Anyone who hears the message would not know from it when the contributions were made, which made a difference to every expert we spoke with. We believe the statement does contain some . But it leaves out important details and takes some things out of context. On our -o-Meter scale, that rates as .
Statement: No administration has ever looked less like America, just by the numbers, than the Biden administration.
Speaker: tucker carlson
About the speaker: Tucker Carlson was a Fox News pundit until his departure in April 2023.
Date: February 6, 2023
Location: national
Topics: race and ethnicity;pundits
Context: a TV segment
Fact-check justification: This is . Researchers have touted Biden’s administration as one of the most diverse in the country’s history, thus looking more like the U.S. population. The  also fails to take into account that for nearly two centuries, only white men were represented in the Cabinet and the federal judiciary. Even though women and people of color lived in the country.   We rate this  !
Statement: U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin didn't want a border fence to block illegal immigration "because he is afraid that someone will get hurt trying to go around the fence.
Speaker: michael j. gardiner
About the speaker: Michael J. Gardiner is a lawyer who has run unsuccessfully for Congress twice in the 2nd District, in 2010 and 2012. Born in 1962, he is a graduate of Cranston High School East, the University of Rhode Island and the Western New College School of Law. He served in the Rhode Island Army National Guard from 1981 through 1992. He is divorced with one child.
Date: June 22, 2010
Location: rhode island
Topics: immigration;homeland security;human rights
Context: a posting on his website
Fact-check justification: For the record, we asked Langevin’s office why the Congressman voted against the legislation. Spokeswoman Joy Fox responded with an email saying that Langevin is not convinced that the border fence is an answer to the problem of border security. “He had serious concerns that the costs of the bill would not result in significant improvements to our border security. And these concerns, unfortunately, have been borne out. The border fence initiative has been beset by ineffective management, cost overruns and missed deadlines,” Fox said.
Statement: The 1990s were a time of prosperity. We created more than 22-million new jobs, moved 8-million people out of poverty, and turned our economy around.
Speaker: bill clinton
About the speaker: Bill Clinton was president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He is married to Hillary Clinton, the 2016 presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.
Date: January 25, 2008
Location: national
Topics: economy
Fact-check justification: It's tough to get around that." "To the degree that a president can effect economic progress," Burtless said, "most would say Bill Clinton did well above average." Let the partisan folks argue about whether Bill Clinton deserves credit for the numbers, or whether Hillary Clinton can recreate them. The numbers are right. We rate Bill Clinton's statement .
Statement: The 1% is paying less in taxes than everyone else.
Speaker: ilhan omar
About the speaker: Ilhan Omar is a Democratic congresswoman representing Minnesota's 5th congressional district, which includes parts of Minneapolis and surrounding municipalities.
Date: October 12, 2019
Location: national
Topics: taxes
Context: a tweet
Fact-check justification: Omar tweeted, "The 1% is paying less in taxes than everyone else." The bottom 99% pay more in tax dollars and shoulder a larger percentage of the tax burden than the top 1%. However, focusing on this calculation ignores a contrary piece of the picture: the top 1% continues to pay a larger share of all federal taxes than it collects in income. We rate the statement .
Statement: Says Leah "Vukmir supports allowing people to carry concealed weapons into day care centers, churches, health care clinics and playgrounds.
Speaker: jim sullivan
About the speaker: Jim Sullivan, a Democrat, was elected to the Wisconsin state Senate in 2006 and was defeated for re-election in 2010. He represented the 5th District in the Milwaukee area. He ran unsuccessfully in the nonpartisan 2011 race for Milwaukee County executive.
Date: October 22, 2010
Location: wisconsin
Topics: message machine 2010;guns
Context: campaign literature distributed to district residents
Fact-check justification: In a campaign flier, Sullivan says Vukmir, "supports allowing people to carry concealed weapons" into day cares, churches and other places. As stated, Sullivan suggests Vukmir wants to allow most anyone to do so. In reality, the bill in question would have been limited to those who obtained permits and -- in three of the four public places described -- applied to a very limited number of people.   That is an important detail left out. We rate Sullivan’s statement .
Statement: Protesters caused $7.5 million in damage to the Wisconsin State House
Speaker: dan kapanke
About the speaker: Dan Kapanke is a Republican state Senator, representing the La Crosse area in northwest Wisconsin. He was elected to his post in 2004. He is one of the Republican state Senators targeted for recalls based on their 2011 vote for a measure curtailing collective bargaining rights for public employees.
Date: June 28, 2011
Location: wisconsin
Topics: labor;state budget
Context: a fundraising email
Fact-check justification: The campaign acknowledged its . Yet its revised statement changed the nature of the , broadening it from a  solely about physical damage to the building. It’s starting to smell like a whole bunch of grills on a holiday weekend. We rated an earlier $7.5 million Capitol damage  . This one, too.
Statement: Says Houston's 18th congressional district has been "gentrified" and is home to "more Anglos than African Americans.
Speaker: john faulk
About the speaker: John Faulk, a semi-retired accountant, calls himself an "ardent Constitutionalist." He was the unsuccessful Republican challenger to U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, in 2010.
Date: June 12, 2010
Location: texas
Topics: candidate biography;census;elections;race and ethnicity
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: In 2008, 21 percent of families lived below that level, according to the 2008 census survey. All told, Faulk quoted a portion of the '08 census survey that could lead someone to conclude the district's whites outnumber blacks, signaling a boon for any GOP candidate given that minority voters usually favor Democrats. But that conclusion overlooks the fact that Hispanics -- who are also minority voters -- comprise the majority of white residents. Also, the census data yielded no , such as higher incomes, of significant gentrification. Faulk's statement is .