copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2022-12-14): Explaining why he is likely to vote against an $858 billion defense spending bill, Sen. Bernie Sanders wrongly stated that there are "85 million Americans who have no health insurance." The government estimate is about 27 million. [...] Sanders, Dec. 11: Look, we have — we have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance. We have 600,000 people who are homeless. We have a dysfunctional health care system, dysfunctional childcare system, where working parents are paying $15,000 a year, on average, for child care. We have got to start protecting the needs of working families. [...] Sanders apparently misspoke. "It’s 85 million uninsured or underinsured," Mike Casca, the senator’s spokesperson, told us, citing a September report by the Commonwealth Fund. Sanders has used that statistic before. In an October opinion piece for the Hill, Sanders wrote that "85 million Americans are uninsured or under-insured."
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
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Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2023-01-02): "We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance," Sanders said Dec. 11 on CNN’s "State of the Union." [...] Casca referred us to a 2022 survey by the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that is a respected source of health care research. The survey found that 43% of working-age adults 19 to 64, or about 85 million Americans, were uninsured or inadequately insured. Specifically: [...] Sanders’ spokesperson referred us to data from the Commonwealth Fund that found about 85 million Americans ages 19 to 64 were uninsured or inadequately insured (meaning they had a gap in coverage over the past year or coverage that didn’t provide affordable access to health care).
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2024-09-30): All states—including the District of Columbia—provide data each month about their Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Programs (CHIP) eligibility and enrollment activity. These data reflect a range of indicators related to key application, eligibility, and enrollment processes within the state Medicaid and CHIP agency. View the complete dataset on Data.Medicaid.gov. For a retrospective view of the past 12 months of Medicaid and CHIP enrollment up to the most recent monthly enrollment report, view the Medicaid and CHIP Enrollment Snapshot. [...] Total Medicaid and CHIP Enrollment - Total enrollment figures represent the total unduplicated number of individuals enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP as of the last day of the reporting period. These figures are point-in-time counts of total program enrollment, and not solely a count of those newly enrolled during the reporting period. These figures include only those individuals who are eligible for comprehensive benefits (for example, emergency Medicaid, family planning-only coverage and limited benefit dual eligible individuals are excluded), except as indicated in the state-specific notes included with the tables.
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2024-01-01): - According to a 2021 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 5.8% of children aged 0–17 are diagnosed with a food allergy. [...] - In a cohort of predominantly Black (69 percent) and Hispanic (21 percent) children born in urban centers, 10 percent of the children who had a family history of hay fever, eczema or asthma were allergic to eggs, milk, or peanuts. [...] - In a 2013–2014 survey of over 600 schools participating in a program to provide undesignated (stock) epinephrine for emergency use, more than 10 percent reported at least one case of anaphylaxis.
Claim: “We have 85 million Americans who have no health insurance.” (Bernie Sanders, 2022-12-11)
Evidence (2019-12-10): Other states, such as Florida, have large older populations because people are moving there to retire, according to Haaga. [...] In 2016, 42 states spent $284 million to provide help for nearly 950,000 people age 65 and older, including intervention services, emergency medical services, emergency shelters, and counseling. [...] Participants get work experience in nonprofit and public agencies, including schools, hospitals, day care centers and senior centers.
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2024-08-06): After dropping the first three years of Donald Trump’s presidency, violent crime rose in 2020, his final year in office. The increase was big enough to erase those collective decreases. The violent crime rate in Trump’s final year in office was still slightly lower than it was during the final year of his predecessor, President Barack Obama. Experts said it’s wrong to pin the blame for rising violent crime solely on Trump. The spike was caused by a confluence of the coronavirus pandemic and societal upheaval after George Floyd’s 2020 murder.
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2024-08-06): Was Tim Walz right that ‘violent crime was up under Donald Trump’? [...] But what about Walz’s assertion that "violent crime was up under Donald Trump," which Walz repeated in an Aug. 7 speech in Eau Claire, Wisconsin? The newly minted vice presidential candidate has a point, but it needs some asterisks. [...] Walz said, "Violent crime was up under Donald Trump."
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2024-09-03): - Violent crime and murders nationwide have gone down during the Biden/Harris administration, according to FBI and other crime data. But Trump has taken to citing a different set of data to claim "there’s been a 43% increase in violent crimes since I left office." [...] Violent crime and murders nationwide have gone down during President Joe Biden’s term, according to FBI and other crime data, as we’ve written. But Trump has taken to citing a different set of data, the National Crime Victimization Survey. "Nationwide, there’s been a 43% increase in violent crimes since I left office, including a 58% increase in rape, 89% increase in aggravated assault, and a 56% increase in stone-cold robbery," Trump said in Atlanta, comparing data from 2020 to 2022 in the government’s National Crime Victimization Survey.
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2024-10-02): Donald Trump has made the issue of crime a cornerstone of his campaign. He says violence in America is out of control and rising. [...] But several years of national data tell the opposite story: Crime is falling in cities and towns across the United States. NBC News recently spent a day with Detroit police, who say Trump’s characterization is false. [...] Some experts say the victim survey results for those years may be suspect, since they don’t reflect the increases seen in the FBI data. But Trump uses these low 2020 and 2021 victim survey numbers, despite the doubts cast on them, to argue that violent crime has spiked significantly during the Biden-Harris administration.
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2024-08-21): 3. Walz said "violent crime was up under Donald Trump." Half True. Violent crime rose in Trump's final year, 2020. However, the pandemic and the protests after George Floyd's murder, which happened in Walz’s home state, drove the spike, making it hard to assign blame to Trump’s policies.
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2024-09-23): Violent crime is one of the key issues in the US election, with research suggesting that many Americans believe it is on the rise. [...] Donald Trump regularly highlights this survey as proof that "violent crime nationwide is up 40%" since 2020. [...] However, Trump is making a comparison with a year when violent crime - as measured by the survey - was significantly lower.
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2020-09-01): President Donald Trump has said major US cities are seeing a spike in crime, and has offered to send in federal law enforcement to tackle the situation. [...] President Trump has also pointed to a string of shootings in recent months, and shooting incidents in Chicago are up by more than 60% compared to the same point last year. [...] Other cities earmarked by President Trump have also seen mixed trends. Murders are down in Baltimore, but up in Oakland and Detroit compared with the same time last year.
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2024-08-15): Fact check: Walz says violent crime was up under Trump [...] But what about Walz’s assertion that "violent crime was up under Donald Trump," which Walz repeated in an Aug. 7 speech in Eau Claire, Wisconsin? The newly minted vice presidential candidate has a point, but it needs some asterisks. [...] Walz said, "Violent crime was up under Donald Trump."
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2024-07-26): Murders and aggravated assaults shot up dramatically under Trump, while most other types of crime declined. [...] The rate of aggravated assaults also rose under Trump — by 12.6%. [...] The big jump in the number of murders is entirely due to a 29% rise in Trump’s final year, which also saw millions laid off from jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic; widespread protests against racism and police brutality following a Minneapolis policeman’s murder of a black man, George Floyd; and a surge in production and sales of firearms.
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2024-05-08): Former President Donald Trump said FBI data that show homicides and other violent crimes trending down are "fake numbers." They’re not. [...] The FBI statistics contradict Trump’s campaign narrative, repeated at a May 1 rally in Wisconsin, about rampant and rising violent crime in the U.S. And polls that show most Americans believe crime is on the increase. But that doesn’t mean the data are wrong or "fudged," as Trump put it. [...] According to the FBI’s preliminary 2023 crime report, violent crimes dropped 5.7% between 2022 and 2023, and the number of murders declined 13.2%. That’s based on data from 79% of law enforcement agencies in the U.S., representing higher participation than any year during Trump’s presidency. Murders and violent crime went up in 2020, Trump’s last year in office, and murders continued to rise in 2021, albeit to a lesser extent, as violent crime ticked down a bit. Both have been declining since, according to FBI and other crime data.
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2020-08-30): Statistics show that some crime has been increasing in big cities, with mayors who are Democrats and Republicans. According to figures compiled by data analyst and consultant Jeff Asher, the murder rate this year has increased by 26% through July, compared with a year ago. Other violent crimes are up slightly, while property crimes are down by 7.7%. [...] Murder remains up big (+26%) while violent crime is roughly even and property crime remains solidly down relative to each city's YTD 2019 total. pic.twitter.com/yh8xhAwWFC [...] The Trump administration announced this summer that it was sending federal resources to cities, including additional FBI agents, along with U.S. marshals and agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, to — in the Justice Department's words — "fight the sudden surge of violent crime."
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2024-07-19): VERDICT: Violent crime in the US fell last year. [...] Violent crime was down 6% in 2023 and there was a significant drop of 13% in the murder rate, external, according to preliminary FBI data. [...] The latest FBI crime data, external, which is also preliminary, indicates this downward trend in violent crime in the US has continued into 2024, with reported incidents falling 15% in the first three months of this year, compared with the same period last year.
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2024-08-12): But what about Walz’s assertion that "violent crime was up under Donald Trump," which Walz repeated in an Aug. 7 speech in Eau Claire, Wis.? The newly minted vice presidential candidate has a point, but it needs some asterisks. [...] But in 2020, the violent crime rate spiked to 385.2 per 100,000 people — higher than any previous year under Trump. [...] Walz said, "Violent crime was up under Donald Trump."
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2024-04-03): "Trump’s implication that the crime rate is only going up is false," said Anna Harvey, a political science professor and director of the Public Safety Lab at New York University. "During 2020, the last year of the Trump presidency, violent crime rose dramatically. The murder rate, for example, increased by almost 30%, the largest one-year increase on record. But violent crime has been falling during the Biden presidency." [...] Still, given the declines in 2023 in national numbers on everything from murder to rape to aggravated assault to robbery to arson, there is no basis for Trump’s claim that US crime statistics are only going up. In fact, Asher told CNN, the available data suggests that the national rates of murder and overall violent crime were lower in 2023 than they were under Trump in 2020, when the country experienced social and economic upheaval on account of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2024-06-27): Former President Donald Trump was quick to criticize the data’s limitations, claiming crime is "so much up." He cited a different data source that is only current through 2022, based on a survey of Americans to determine if they were victims of crime. And like Biden, Trump missed part of the story by zooming in to cherry-pick a statistic in his favor. Zooming out to see the big picture, the overall trend in crime victimization suggests that by 2022, crime had returned to pre-pandemic norms. [...] Trump said crime rates are actually up. Is he right? [...] "[Biden] says crime is down," Trump said in a rally in Philadelphia last week. "Crime is so much up." Then, after a long digression about asylum seekers, political correctness, fake news and Biden’s age, Trump returned to the subject. "According to the much better crime victimization survey, there has actually been a 43% increase in violent crime since I left office," Trump said in the speech that aired live on Newsmax.
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2024-04-24): A growing share of Americans say reducing crime should be a top priority for the president and Congress to address this year. Around six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) hold that view today, up from 47% at the beginning of Joe Biden’s presidency in 2021. [...] Americans tend to believe crime is up, even when official data shows it is down. [...] For example, in 2022, there were more than 700 violent crimes per 100,000 residents in New Mexico and Alaska. That compares with fewer than 200 per 100,000 people in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Maine, according to the FBI.
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2024-08-08): Harris swiftly interrupted rallygoers, saying "hold on, hold on," and went on to declare that her campaign with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was "not just a fight against Donald Trump," but a "fight for the future." The chants broke out again, when Walz told the crowd "violent crime was up under Donald Trump — and that’s not even counting the crimes he committed." Walz then began to talk over the crowd and motioned with his hands to quiet down. [...] Yet Democrats have also approached Trump’s criminal cases with caution, wanting to remind voters of his conviction while also avoiding politicizing his legal cases. The former president has leaned into his court cases by portraying himself as the victim of a weaponized judicial system and has claimed without evidence that the cases against him are coordinated with the White House. A special counsel acting independently of the White House brought the two federal cases against Trump. Local authorities brought two of the cases against him with no evidence they coordinated.
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2024-08-13): "Homicides Are Skyrocketing in American Cities Under Kamala Harris," Donald Trump's campaign avers in a statement issued on Monday. Like Trump's assertion that "our crime rate is going up," this claim is completely at odds with reality. According to FBI data, the homicide rate jumped by more than 27 percent in 2020, when Trump was president; rose slightly in 2021, the first year of the Biden administration; and fell by 7 percent in 2022. Preliminary FBI numbers show bigger drops in 2023 (about 13 percent) and this year (26 percent for the first quarter). So far this year, according to data from 277 cities, homicides are down by about 17 percent. [...] The Trump campaign does not claim those numbers are wrong, as implied by the "lie" label. Instead it objects to the story's focus: "It may be true that in *some* cities, some categories of violent crime are lower for the first 6 months of 2024 than in 2023—but violent crime is still WAY UP compared to 2019 under President Trump. Axios can cherrypick all the crime data they like, but it won't change what Americans know: our communities are more dangerous under Kamala Harris."
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2024-03-22): Despite the falling crime numbers, Trump and his supporters are making violent crime a major issue in the 2024 presidential election, conflating it with the migrant crisis at the southern border. They have seized on the slaying of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Hope Riley, who was attacked and killed while jogging in a park at the University of Georgia on Feb. 22 allegedly by a migrant from Venezuela authorities said illegally entered the country in 2022. [...] But while cities with traditionally high crime levels like New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia saw homicides decline by 12% to 21%, other cities saw sharp increases in slayings in 2023 compared to 2022. Homicides went up 24% in Memphis, 27% in Washington, D.C., 15% in Dallas and 14% in Kansas City. [...] According to historical data from the Major Cities Chiefs Association, homicides and aggravated assaults nationwide are up 17% and 14% respectively from 2019.
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2024-08-21): Since Harris became vice president, Trump said, "her administration's crime statistics show she's presided over a 43 percent increase in violent crime. These are all government numbers, 43 percent increase in violent crime." [...] Data from the Michigan State Police, compiled by the Detroit News as Trump was preparing to visit the state, shows a similar drop in violent crime. Trump was arguing that violent crime was up in a state where violent crime is clearly down. [...] Maybe violent crime is up in America because Trump thinks anything that keeps him out of power is an act of violence. In which case, since 2020, it is.
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2020-09-01): Today, Attorney General William P. Barr joined President Donald J. Trump to announce the expansion of Operation Legend to Chicago and Albuquerque. Operation Legend is a sustained, systematic and coordinated law enforcement initiative in which federal law enforcement agencies work in conjunction with state and local law enforcement officials to fight violent crime. The Operation was first launched on July 8 in Kansas City, Missouri, as a result of President Trump’s promise to assist America’s cities that are plagued by recent violence. [...] As part of Operation Legend, Attorney General Barr directed the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service, DEA, and ATF to significantly increase resources into Chicago and Albuquerque in the coming weeks to help state and local officials fight high levels of violent crime, particularly gun violence. Chicago is currently experiencing a significant increase in violent crime, with homicides currently up 51 percent over 2019. Over the weekend of July 17, more than 60 people were shot in the city of Chicago, with 14 fatalities. Similarly, Albuquerque is currently on pace to break 2019’s record for homicides in the city. On the weekend of July 10, there were four murders in Albuquerque within a 24-hour period.
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2024-08-20): In Michigan, Donald Trump predicts ‘destruction and death’ under Democrats - In Michigan, Donald Trump claims violence crime surged under Democrats, but statistics he cited aren’t as conclusive - Trump spoke at the Livingston County Sheriff’s Department flanked by sheriffs from rural Michigan counties who support his reelection - Democrats have countered Trump’s assertions with statistics showing violent crime is down under the administration of President Joe Biden [...] Democrats pointed to data from the FBI and Michigan State Police showing violent crime in both the U.S. and Michigan spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, including Trump’s final year in office. "Violent crime was up under Donald Trump under his administration," Attorney General Dana Nessel said earlier Tuesday. "It went down substantially when he left office and when Vice President Harris and of course, President Biden have been in office, we've seen a reduction in violent crime."
Claim: “Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.” (Tim Walz, 2024-08-06)
Evidence (2024-02-28): Donald Trump stoked fears of a migrant-fueled crime wave at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, describing the United States under President Biden as awash in "bloodshed, chaos, and violent crime." It was a near cut-and-paste from his CPAC speech last year, when he warned that the country was becoming a "lawless, open borders, crime-ridden, filthy, communist nightmare." [...] The first problem with Trump’s narrative is the timeline. The spike in violent crime happened on Trump’s watch, not Biden’s. In 2020, the final year of the Trump presidency, murder rose by nearly 30 percent and assault by more than 10 percent. Crime surges are almost always multifactorial, and the Covid-19 pandemic and associated economic upheaval played a major role in the historic 2020 crime surge. One cause, though, most certainly was not the Biden presidency, which had not yet begun. [...] Trump’s other baseless crime-related claim at CPAC was that newly arrived migrants are responsible for violent crime. He predicted that the current wave of migration will be "far more deadly than anyone thought." There is no evidence to support this narrative. New York City, for example, has absorbed more than 150,000 migrants since the spring of 2022. Violent crime did not increase during that time. Moreover, research conducted before the pandemic suggests that undocumented immigrants are not a major source of crime, contrary to Trump’s claim.