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Handy with a wrecking ball

Tim McGinty

Says he "tore down hundreds of abandoned homes that served as havens for crime and reduce(d) the value of our neighborhoods."

— PolitiFact Ohio

An overreach

Tom Daschle

U.S. global AIDS spending helped reduce "political instability and violence" by "40 percent" in recipient nations.

Cruz has a point, but his numbers are off

Ted Cruz

Says Donald Trump has written 10 checks to Hillary Clinton "and four of those checks were not to her Senate campaign. … It was to her presidential campaign."

Discredited previously, just as false now

Donald Trump

The wives of the 9/11 hijackers "knew exactly what was happening" and went back to Saudi Arabia two days before the attacks to watch their husbands on television flying the planes.

In the past year, at least

Donald Trump

Marco Rubio "has the No. 1 absentee record in the United States" Senate.

He does fare best, but not always by 11 points

John Kasich

In head-to-head polls for the general election, "I beat Hillary Clinton by more than anybody, by 11 points."

Figuring out Florida revenues is a crapshoot

Charles Van Zant

"For every time the state gets paid a dollar in taxes (on gambling), somebody loses $6."

— PolitiFact Florida

Can't account for drop of 'hundreds of millions'

Ted Cruz

"Spending on welfare, on prisons, and education, all of those have dropped by hundreds of millions of dollars" because of Arizona’s immigration laws that drove out undocumented immigrants.

— PolitiFact Arizona

Not the first to fall for phony Gandhi quote

Donald Trump

Says Mahatma Gandhi once said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

A 'Heck' of a claim

Nevada State Democratic Party

"Every Republican Senate candidate has now announced whether or not they support the Senate taking up the Supreme Court vacancy…except for Congressman Heck."

— PolitiFact Nevada

After disavowing Duke 2 days earlier

Donald Trump

"I don't know anything about David Duke."

The poorest of the poor

Bernie Sanders

"Since (welfare reform) was signed into law, the number of families living in extreme poverty has more than doubled."

Reid quickly made clear he was joking

Ted Cruz

Says "Harry Reid, when asked about the Republican field, said the Republican he likes the best is Donald Trump, and he said, because I can work with him. He'll cut deals."

The Donald and the Dons

Ted Cruz

"There have been multiple media reports about (Donald Trump's) business dealings with the mob, with the mafia."

Maybe an energy plan, but not climate change

Barack Obama

"There is not a single candidate in the Republican primary that thinks we should do anything about climate change."

That's the very definition of a winnable libel case

Donald Trump

Says "the New York Times can write a story that they know is false" yet "they can't basically be sued."

The art of the Israeli-Palestinian deal

Conservative Solutions PAC

Says Donald Trump has said "he would be neutral between Israel and its enemies."

— PolitiFact Florida

Latinos 17, Latinas 0

Stephanie Schriock

"Texas is home to millions of Latinas, but the state has never elected a Latina to Congress."

— PolitiFact Texas

Sweeping claim needs to be toned down

Joe Heck

"There is no evidence to support the claim that Guantanamo is used as a recruiting tool" for terrorists.

— PolitiFact Nevada

It's a distant fourth

Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital

The Chris Hani Baragwanath in South Africa is "the world’s third-biggest hospital."

— PolitiFact Global News Service