All Half-True statements involving Joe Biden
"In 2008, when Flint had 265 sworn officers on their police force, there were 35 murders and 91 rapes in this city. In 2010, when Flint had only 144 police officers, the murder rate climbed to 65, and rapes … climbed to 229."
"We're not engaged in nation-building" in Afghanistan.
Among the money spent on health care in the United States, "46 cents on every dollar spent is through Medicare and Medicaid."
"The average CEO makes $10,000 more every day ... than what the average worker makes every year."
"One percent of the American people make over 21 percent of all the income in America. That wasn’t the way before George Bush became president."
"When George Bush said we shouldn't investigate why the government's response to Hurricane Katrina was so incompetent, John McCain stood with him."
John McCain's tax plan will give no reduction "for 100-million American families."
(McCain) says "we can't have ... timelines to draw down our troops from Iraq."
Says McCain "supported George Bush's policies 95 percent of the time."
"First, he said he would take all of our troops out in six months, and now he acknowledges it would take a year."
"Joe Biden is the only candidate with a plan to get us out of Iraq and keep us out."
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