copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claimed in a July 12 interview that he voted for the first time in 2020. (Vivek Ramaswamy, 2023-07-12)
Evidence (2023-08-25): Vivek Ramaswamy is one of the highest-profile candidates seeking the GOP presidential nomination, but he has not voted in a Republican primary recently enough to be affiliated with the party in his home state's voting records. [...] Ramaswamy said he went on to become a "hardcore" Trump supporter and voted for him in 2020. [...] Ramaswamy, who declared his presidential candidacy this past February, has previously defended his failure to vote in his younger days, telling Sean Hannity he hadn't then because he was "a jaded person in my twenties."
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claimed in a July 12 interview that he voted for the first time in 2020. (Vivek Ramaswamy, 2023-07-12)
Evidence (2023-09-28): Vivek Ramaswamy: Eight things Republican presidential candidate believes Vivek Ramaswamy, the 38-year-old biotech multi-millionaire running for US president, has said he wants to ban "addictive" social media for children. [...] Mr Ramaswamy has voiced support for raising the voting age to 25.
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claimed in a July 12 interview that he voted for the first time in 2020. (Vivek Ramaswamy, 2023-07-12)
Evidence (2023-03-08): Update: Vivek Ramaswamy suspended his campaign on January 15, 2024, after finishing fourth in the Iowa Republican caucuses with just under 8 percent of the vote. Can someone with no political experience and little name recognition make it to the White House? History suggests not. But Vivek Ramaswamy thinks he can break the mold. The multi-millionaire tech entrepreneur and "anti-woke" crusader is running for president on the platform of restoring E Pluribus Unum, the idea that America represents the many becoming one. If Ramaswamy succeeds, he will not only be the first person of Indian descent to sit in the Oval Office, he will be the youngest president ever. On January 20, 2025, he will still be seven months short of turning forty. [...] Ramaswamy’s mother worked as a geriatric psychiatrist; his father was an engineer and a patent lawyer at General Electric. They came to the U.S. from South India before Vivek was born, in 1985. Growing up in the Cincinnati area, Vivek established himself as an overachiever: an accomplished pianist, a nationally ranked tennis player, and the valedictorian of his Jesuit high school. He graduated from Harvard College and Yale Law School, worked at a hedge fund, then started a pharmaceutical company, Roivant Sciences, where he made hundreds of millions of dollars. That a chunk of this wealth derived from a failed effort to bring an Alzheimer’s drug to market is something he doesn’t dwell on in speeches.
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claimed in a July 12 interview that he voted for the first time in 2020. (Vivek Ramaswamy, 2023-07-12)
Evidence (2024-10-03): Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy (/vɪˈveɪk rɑːməˈswɑːmiː/;[1][2] vih-VAYK rah-mə-SWAH-mee; born August 9, 1985) is an American entrepreneur. He founded Roivant Sciences, a pharmaceutical company, in 2014. In February 2023, Ramaswamy declared his candidacy for the Republican Party nomination in the 2024 United States presidential election. He suspended his campaign in January 2024, after finishing fourth in the Iowa caucuses.[3] [...] - ^ "FREOPP Leadership: Vivek Ramaswamy". FREOPP. July 13, 2020. Archived from the original on November 18, 2021. Retrieved July 18, 2023. [...] - ^ Ramaswamy, Vivek (February 13, 2020). "Opinion: The 'Stakeholders' vs. the People". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Archived from the original on August 17, 2023. Retrieved August 29, 2023.
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claimed in a July 12 interview that he voted for the first time in 2020. (Vivek Ramaswamy, 2023-07-12)
Evidence (2023-07-25): Vivek Ramaswamy didn’t attract all that much attention when he launched his presidential bid in February. A 37-year-old multimillionaire who made his fortune working at a hedge fund and then as a biotechnology entrepreneur, Ramaswamy had never served in government and was new to politics. He began making a name for himself as an "anti-woke" crusader, but it wasn’t a name that most Republican voters had heard about. [...] Add in a communications strategy that includes talking to any outlet across the spectrum and doing as much media as his campaign can handle, and Ramaswamy can come across as the Republican answer to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who himself rose out of relative obscurity as an Ivy League-educated small-town mayor in the 2020 Democratic primary field before dropping out and backing President Joe Biden.
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claimed in a July 12 interview that he voted for the first time in 2020. (Vivek Ramaswamy, 2023-07-12)
Evidence (2024-09-16): On an X post from 2020, Routh suggested he voted for Trump in 2016 but became disillusioned, writing: "I will be glad when you [are] gone." [...] In the past Routh also backed candidates such as Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat who has since left the party and swung behind Trump, and also declared his support for former Republican presidential candidates Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley.
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claimed in a July 12 interview that he voted for the first time in 2020. (Vivek Ramaswamy, 2023-07-12)
Evidence (2023-08-09): Vivek Ramaswamy The biotech entrepreneur and author of "Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam" is an audience favorite at multicandidate events and has polled well despite not being nationally known when he entered the race. Ramaswamy’s campaign says he met the donor threshold earlier this year. This summer he rolled out "Vivek’s Kitchen Cabinet" to boost his donor numbers even more, by letting fundraisers keep 10 percent of what they bring in for his campaign. Chris Christie The former New Jersey governor opened his campaign by portraying himself as the only candidate ready to take on Trump. Christie called on the former president to "show up at the debates and defend his record." Christie will be on that stage, even if Trump isn’t, telling CNN this month that he surpassed "40,000 unique donors in just 35 days." He also has met the polling requirements. Doug Burgum Burgum, a wealthy former software entrepreneur now in his second term as North Dakota’s governor, has been using his fortune to boost his campaign.
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claimed in a July 12 interview that he voted for the first time in 2020. (Vivek Ramaswamy, 2023-07-12)
Evidence (2024-09-12): Vance was one of several vice-presidential prospects who trekked to New York to audition to be Trump’s next Mike Pence. He donned the red tie and nailed his umbrage marks. Vivek Ramaswamy, the super-thirsty former GOP-primary candidate, performed his own star turn at the courthouse, but with one notable hiccup. "Let’s pray for our country being stronger on the other side of this disgusting sham politician," Ramaswamy said. He tried to correct himself—"prosecution"—but it was too late. The word had escaped. The moment went viral.
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claimed in a July 12 interview that he voted for the first time in 2020. (Vivek Ramaswamy, 2023-07-12)
Evidence (2023-09-26): In his 2022 book, Ramaswamy also wrote that he voted for Trump in 2020, but that Trump delivered "another tale of grievance" and "no one likes a sore loser; that’s one of the worst victimhood complexes of all." He called Trump’s claims about the election "weak." [...] Vivek Ramaswamy, Tweet, Jan. 12, 2021 [...] New York Post, GOP 2024 candidate Vivek Ramaswamy ‘open’ to pardon of Hunter Biden, Aug. 12, 2023
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claimed in a July 12 interview that he voted for the first time in 2020. (Vivek Ramaswamy, 2023-07-12)
Evidence (2022-12-19): In June, as the sun set on Dublin, Ohio, a well-to-do suburb of Columbus, several dozen people dressed in golf shirts and floral shifts filed into a small auditorium to listen to a talk by a new neighbor. Vivek Ramaswamy, a thirty-seven-year-old entrepreneur, had settled in the area with his wife and toddler son after making a large fortune as the founder of a biotech company. Now, thanks to dozens of appearances on Fox News to criticize "cultural totalitarianism" enforced by liberal élites, he was closing in on fame as a conservative pundit. In the past year, he had cast aspersions on Black Lives Matter and "the death of merit"; mask mandates and U.S.-border protection; public-school curricula and the actor Jussie Smollett. All the flame-throwing had established him, in the words of one anchor, as the network’s "woke and cancel-culture guru."
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claimed in a July 12 interview that he voted for the first time in 2020. (Vivek Ramaswamy, 2023-07-12)
Evidence (2023-10-29): Ramaswamy, a 38-year-old multimillionaire entrepreneur and commentator who founded a major biotech company, announced on Feb. 21 that he is running for president as a Republican.
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claimed in a July 12 interview that he voted for the first time in 2020. (Vivek Ramaswamy, 2023-07-12)
Evidence (2024-01-15): Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy ended his presidential campaign and endorsed Trump after coming in fourth.
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claimed in a July 12 interview that he voted for the first time in 2020. (Vivek Ramaswamy, 2023-07-12)
Evidence (2023-12-20): EXCLUSIVE — Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy admitted he made false claims about his voting history after the Washington Examiner confronted the 2024 Republican contender with state election records. Ramaswamy notably asserted in two interviews released on June 30 and July 12 that he did not vote until 2020, when he backed former President Donald Trump over now-President Joe Biden. However, the wealthy entrepreneur actually first voted in the 2004 presidential election for the late Libertarian nominee Michael Badnarik, according to Ramaswamy as well as Ohio database records in Butler and Franklin counties. [...] Ramaswamy’s remarks come after he responded, "Yup," during a July Scripps News interview upon the journalist stating, "I was surprised to hear that you had not voted until 2020, until the 2020 presidential election. So, you voted for the first time. Now, it’s a little bit over two years. You’re running for president. That’s a pretty big jump to just go from voting, now 2 1/2 years later, to run."
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claimed in a July 12 interview that he voted for the first time in 2020. (Vivek Ramaswamy, 2023-07-12)
Evidence (2024-08-01): Trump ally Vivek Ramaswamy says 'we need a massive reset' Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said on X that "the hard truth is we need a massive reset right now." Ramaswamy, a staunch Trump ally who rarely breaks with the Trump campaign’s rhetoric, pushed for a change in tactics for campaigning against Harris.
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claimed in a July 12 interview that he voted for the first time in 2020. (Vivek Ramaswamy, 2023-07-12)
Evidence (2023-03-08): Strengths: Former tech and finance executive Vivek Ramaswamy is a fresh, young diverse face for most Americans, has a sterling educational background and comes from the business world, which is traditionally valued in the GOP primary. He has been a prominent voice in conservative circles, arguing against the environmental, social and governance (ESG) movement and against "woke"-ism. That could help him with white-collar Republicans, who want an alternative to Trump.
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claimed in a July 12 interview that he voted for the first time in 2020. (Vivek Ramaswamy, 2023-07-12)
Evidence (2023-12-06): Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy defended his stance against providing additional aid to Ukraine in a tense Fox News interview on Thursday that devolved into name-calling and tempers flaring. [...] Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy defended Donald Trump after Chris Christie repeatedly attacked the Republican frontrunner. [...] Vivek Ramaswamy: Tech entrepreneur and author Vivek Ramaswamy launched his outsider campaign for the presidency in February 2023, focused on combatting "woke" ideology, exposing government corruption and ushering in a younger generation of voters into the Republican Party. Ramaswamy, 38, is the youngest candidate in the GOP field. He found success in the private sector after founding Roivant Sciences, a biotechnology firm, before founding Strive Asset Management, an investment management firm that specialized in "anti-woke" asset management, refusing to consider environmental, social and corporate governance, or ESG, factors when investing. He is the author of "Woke Inc." and "Nation of Victims."
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claimed in a July 12 interview that he voted for the first time in 2020. (Vivek Ramaswamy, 2023-07-12)
Evidence (2024-10-09): Musk has often been described as libertarian,[1] but also describes himself as "politically moderate".[2] Following the COVID-19 pandemic, however, his views have also been described as becoming more right-wing and conservative over time.[3] Within the context of American politics, Musk has said he supported Barack Obama in 2008[4] and 2012, Hillary Clinton in 2016, Joe Biden in 2020, and Donald Trump in 2024.[5] In 2022, Musk said he would start voting for Republican Party candidates,[6] with him showing support for Vivek Ramaswamy in the 2024 Republican presidential primaries.[7] He has stated support for universal basic income,[8] gun rights,[9] freedom of speech,[10] a tax on carbon emissions and opposes government subsidies.[11][12] He is also a critic of illegal immigration[13][14] and short-selling.
Claim: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claimed in a July 12 interview that he voted for the first time in 2020. (Vivek Ramaswamy, 2023-07-12)
Evidence (2023-07-26): CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy had just finished a speech at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting when he found himself chatting backstage with Donald Trump. [...] While some Republicans are running as more electable or effective than Trump, and others embrace a pre-Trump GOP posture or are outright anti-Trump, Ramaswamy is pitching himself as something different — the next iteration of Trump, who is at times chummy with his rival. An entrepreneur who made a fortune in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, Ramaswamy is a first-time candidate looking to break through a field of more conventional rivals by touting a suite of proposals some experts have said are extreme and dangerous and would push the bounds of presidential authority. The son of Indian immigrants won enthusiastic applause at some recent multicandidate events — including this month’s Family Leadership Summit in Iowa, an event focused on evangelical voters. Polls show him to be part of a crowded pack of current or former governors, an ex-vice president and other more experienced candidates running well behind Trump and trailing the distant second-place competitor nationally, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose struggles have opened the door for other underdogs to rise. He says he already qualified for the first debate and some Republican strategists regard Ramaswamy as a wild card who could alter the contours of the race as he taps his personal wealth to fund his campaign.
Claim: Weis Markets recently banned the sale of products depicting the American flag and its employees from wearing representations of it (Viral post, 2020-07-03)
Evidence (2020-07-03): Products depicting the American flag are still available for purchase. The existing uniform policy, which prohibits workers from wearing symbolic items on their uniform, has not changed, apart from extending it to face coverings, according to a Weis Markets spokesman.
Claim: Weis Markets recently banned the sale of products depicting the American flag and its employees from wearing representations of it (Viral post, 2020-07-03)
Evidence (2020-07-13): A viral Facebook post shared more than 23,000 times claims the grocery store chain Weis Markets recently banned the sale of products depicting the American flag and its employees from wearing representations of it. [...] Weis Markets is a primarily Pennsylvania-based grocery store chain that has locations in other Mid-Atlantic states. The viral post, shared July 3, suggests that Weis Markets recently banned the sale of products depicting the American flag and banned employees from wearing representations of it. "Weis Food stores will no longer sell anything with the American flag and their employees can no longer wear anything with the flag.. other than for the July 4th holiday," reads the post. It then quotes an unnamed store manager who justified the alleged move by saying, "Weis is staying neutral.. they serve different groups of people in this country."
Claim: Weis Markets recently banned the sale of products depicting the American flag and its employees from wearing representations of it (Viral post, 2020-07-03)
Evidence (2024-06-12): Insider Ownership Of Weis Markets
Claim: Weis Markets recently banned the sale of products depicting the American flag and its employees from wearing representations of it (Viral post, 2020-07-03)
Evidence (2024-10-07): - Weis Ad 09/18/24 – 10/16/24 Click and scroll down. - Weis Ad 09/19/24 – 10/16/24 Click and scroll down. - Weis Ad 10/03/24 – 10/09/24 Click and scroll down.
Claim: Weis Markets recently banned the sale of products depicting the American flag and its employees from wearing representations of it (Viral post, 2020-07-03)
Evidence (2024-10-09): WEIS MARKETS REPORTS SECOND QUARTER 2024 RESULTS [...] WEIS MARKETS ANNOUNCES 2023 GROWTH PLAN AT ANNUAL SHAREHOLDER MEETING [...] WEIS MARKETS REPORTS FOURTH QUARTER AND FISCAL YEAR 2022 RESULTS
Claim: Weis Markets recently banned the sale of products depicting the American flag and its employees from wearing representations of it (Viral post, 2020-07-03)
Evidence (2020-07-03): If Your Time is short - Employees of the Northeast chain Weis Markets must follow the company’s dress code, which means not decorating their uniforms with anything, including the American flag. [...] "Weis Food stores will no longer sell anything with the American flag and their employees can no longer wear anything with the flag. Other than for the July 4th holiday," one post says. "Called the store and manager verified this because ‘Weis is staying neutral. They serve different groups of people in this country’ thought we were all Americans. So therefore I will no longer shop there!" Please spread the word! This is America we have a flag of red white and blue. Don’t like it get the f out." [...] The Standard Speaker, a newspaper in Hazleton, Pa., reported on July 3, that a longtime Weis Markets dress code prohibits employees from displaying pins, logos and other designs, including the American flag, on their uniforms.
Claim: Weis Markets recently banned the sale of products depicting the American flag and its employees from wearing representations of it (Viral post, 2020-07-03)
Evidence (2020-07-08): Did Weis Markets ban the American flag? No, that's not true: The grocery store chain still sells products with the flag, according to spokesman Dennis Curtin. He also said that the company's uniform policy, which states that employees cannot wear items with logos, messages or symbols while working, has not changed. [...] Weis Food stores will no longer sell anything with the American flag and their employees can no longer wear anything with the flag.. other than for the July 4th holiday ..called the store and manager verified this because "Weis is staying neutral.. they serve different groups of people in this country"..thought we were all Americans. So therefore I will no longer shop there ! [...] Curtin, spokesman for Weis Markets, released a statement that denied the post. He stressed that Weis Markets is an American-owned company that has flags on its trucks and at its stores. Curtin wrote:
Claim: Weis Markets recently banned the sale of products depicting the American flag and its employees from wearing representations of it (Viral post, 2020-07-03)
Evidence (2020-07-13): FACT CHECK: Did Weis Markets Ban Images Of The American Flag From Its Stores? [...] Products depicting the American flag are still available for purchase
Claim: Weis Markets recently banned the sale of products depicting the American flag and its employees from wearing representations of it (Viral post, 2020-07-03)
Evidence (2024-09-30): Weis Markets, Inc. (/waɪz/), or (/waɪzɪz/) doing business as Weis and stylized as weis, is an American food retailer headquartered in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.[4] It currently operates 200 stores with over 23,000 employees in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, West Virginia, Virginia, and Delaware.[2] [...] Private brand labels [edit]Weis Markets sells a variety of house brands under the following private brand labels: [...] - ^ a b c d e f g "Weis Markets | 2021 Fortune 500".
Claim: Weis Markets recently banned the sale of products depicting the American flag and its employees from wearing representations of it (Viral post, 2020-07-03)
Evidence (2018-07-04): Into this disputed territory, foreign-made flags have staked their own claim: They, too, are signs of contradiction, yet they are authentic nevertheless. Since the image of the American flag is in the public domain, anyone can use it. But for those who see the American flag as semisacred, importing flags is tantamount to sacrilege. Resolutions from Congress and the American Legion denounce it. How could a symbol that so personally embodies "America" be born in another country? And yet, as a representation of a country of immigrants, how could it not? [...] In response to these foreign-made flags, politicians chose ire over irony. In 2001, Congress’s first Genuine American Flag Act intended to ban all American-flag imports to the United States. It came in direct response to two foreign threats: the sudden spike in flag imports after 9/11, and China’s recent ascension to the World Trade Organization. [...] Outlawing the sale of imported American flags, according to the Chinese manufacturers I interviewed, was understandable but mistaken. Such a ban, Zhang told me, "is senseless and not necessary because in your country, you cannot produce everything just by America itself. You must import." For Maggie Zou, a manager at Shanghai Sinohigher Economics and Trade, such legislation is evidence that the "Americans’ love [for] their country is too much."
Claim: Former Republican Texas Representative Will Hurd claimed in an August 13 interview that 141 people drowned in the Rio Grande river in 2022. (Will Hurd, 2023-08-13)
Evidence (2023-08-13): The Missing Migrants Project states that 140 migrants have died from drowning in 2022, though the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has not released its data from FY 2022.
Claim: Former Republican Texas Representative Will Hurd claimed in an August 13 interview that 141 people drowned in the Rio Grande river in 2022. (Will Hurd, 2023-08-13)
Evidence (2023-08-22): FACT CHECK: Will Hurd Claims 141 People Drowned In The Rio Grande In 2022 [...] Hurd claimed during an interview with CNN host Jake Tapper that 141 migrants died by drowning in the Rio Grande. Hurd said," Last year, there was a drowning case, two drowning cases a couple of weeks ago. But, last year, 141 people drowned in the Rio Grande — in the Rio Grande River. And nobody was talking about that." [...] A representative from the Missing Migrants Project told Check Your Fact that 140 migrants died by drowning in the Rio Grande in 2022. The representative said, "I confirm that the figure that media got for migrant deaths in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo in 2022 is correct."