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Clinton

Democrat from New York

Hillary Clinton is a candidate running for president of the United States in 2016. 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.

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Half-True

Murky legal definitions

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

Says Bernie Sanders "wants higher standards for toy guns than real guns."

Half-True

On average but not always

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

"The economy always does better when there’s a Democrat in the White House."

— PolitiFact Arizona

Mostly False

This wasn't one of them

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

When mentioning Villanova’s buzzer-beating win in the national championships, Hillary Clinton said: "I love those come-from-behind victories."

— PolitiFact Pennsylvania

Mostly True

Maybe not exactly, but close

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

"I have 2 and a half million more votes than he (Sanders) does."

Half-True

Except for all those ‘personal’ emails

Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton

"I have now put out all of my emails."

Recent stories featuring Hillary Clinton

March High Five: Our most-clicked items for the month

As the Wisconsin primary approached, PolitiFact Wisconsin readers dialed up candidates records.
 

PolitiFact’s Top 5 fact-checks for March 2016

With heated primaries on both sides of the aisle, most of our Top 5 fact checks from March focused on the two so-called outsider candidates: Democratic candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders and Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.

 

Top 5 for PolitiFact Florida in March 2016

Florida’s presidential primary as well as U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz fueled the Truth-O-Meter.

 

Sorting out Hillary Clinton’s fossil fuel contributions

With so many accusations flying around in the Democratic presidential primary, we thought it was important to lay out the facts of the matter.

Donald Trump: Why so low on the meter, so high in the polls?

Teasing out how the Republican presidential front runner scores so poorly on our Truth-O-Meter but does so well with GOP voters.

 

Plus: The Final Five on the Truth-O-Meter; closer looks at visits by Trump, Clinton, Sanders, Kasich and Cruz; and Trump's comments on punishing women who have an abortion.