David Perdue, left, and Jack Kingston answer questions at a debate in Atlanta on July12, 2014. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution photo)
Fact-checking Georgia's U.S. Senate primary
It's been a bruising battle between veteran Savannah Congressman Jack Kingston and millionaire businessman David Perdue. PolitiFact Georgia has been fact-checking the contest for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate.
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Under Gov. Tom Corbett, "Pennsylvania ranks 49th in job creation."
The number of jobs created and people lifted out of poverty during Bill Clinton’s presidency was "a hundred times" what it was under President Ronald Reagan.
Says former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said that "if the workers are more insecure, that's very healthy for the society" because "they'll serve the masters gladly and passively."
In Syria, "we struck a deal where we got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out."
"The so-called defense minister of the People's Republic of Donetsk ... actually posted a bragging social media posting of having shot down a military transport. And then when it became apparent it was civilian, they pulled it down from social media."
Amid the "crisis at our southern border," there are "reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as … Ebola virus."
Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich "vote as much as 80 percent of the time together."
Former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney are "unable to visit Europe due to outstanding warrants."
"We spend $18 billion a year on making sure that the federal government has immigrant enforcement agents. That's more than DEA and the ATF and the FBI and all the other enforcement (agencies) combined."
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