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Live fact-checking from the New Hampshire primaries

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Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. speaks during a town hall meeting in Laconia, N.H., Wednesday Feb. 3, 2016. (AP)

Jon Greenberg

By Jon Greenberg February 1, 2016

Louis Jacobson

By Louis Jacobson February 1, 2016

PolitiFact reporters are on the ground in New Hampshire to see the candidates and analyze their statements first hand. Follow along here.

Listed inside the live blog.

Hillary Clinton

stated on September 6, 2022 in a tweet.:

“I had zero emails that were classified.”

half-true

half-true

stated on August 10, 2022 in an interview on Fox News:

“The Congressional Budget Office says 90% of the revenue generated from the new IRS agents will come from people making less than $200,000 … and the revenue generated will be $300-plus billion.”

false

false

stated on August 10, 2022 in a tweet.:

“Democrats are voting to add an army of 87,000 IRS agents who will target middle class taxpayers and conduct at least 1 million more audits each year. ”

barely-true

barely-true

stated on November 8, 2022 in election night coverage on Fox News:

“Electronic voting machines didn't allow people to vote” in Maricopa County, Arizona.

false

false

stated on November 8, 2022 in a tweet:

“There is no chain of custody” for ballots placed in Box No. 3 at Maricopa, Arizona, polling sites.

false

false

stated on November 1, 2022 in a town hall event:

“J.D. Vance said nothing about” the attack on Paul Pelosi.

false

false

stated on October 26, 2022 in a newspaper interview:

Blake Masters “wants to privatize” Social Security.

barely-true

barely-true

Instagram posts

stated on October 25, 2022 in an Instagram post:

The documentary “2,000 Mules proves” Democrats “cheated on the 2020 elections.”

false

false

stated on October 15, 2022 in a tweet:

Immigrants illegally in the country are treated “better than military veterans.”

false

false

stated on October 9, 2022 in an interview on CBS News' Face the Nation:

Kari Lake has “gone on the record saying she supports Arizona's complete abortion ban. She's called it a great law.”

mostly-true

mostly-true

stated on October 9, 2022 in an interview on CBS News' Face the Nation:

“Katie Hobbs voted for allowing a baby who survives an abortion — that the hospital would refuse medical care and allow the baby to die on a cold metal tray.”

barely-true

barely-true

stated on September 27, 2022 in a campaign ad:

“I voted with Trump on trade.”

mostly-true

mostly-true

stated on September 22, 2022 in a Secretary of State debate:

Ballot harvesting “altered the outcome” of a city council election in Yuma County, Arizona.

false

false

Saving Arizona PAC

stated on September 8, 2022 in a campaign ad:

“Mark Kelly voted against the Keystone pipeline, which caused higher gas prices.”

barely-true

barely-true

Elizabeth Warren

stated on August 28, 2022 in an interview on CNN:

"40% of the folks who have student loans do not have a college diploma, four-year diploma. These are people who are truck drivers and who are nail technicians and nurses’ aides.”

true

true

Hillary Clinton

stated on September 6, 2022 in a tweet.:

“I had zero emails that were classified.”

half-true

half-true

stated on August 10, 2022 in an interview on Fox News:

“The Congressional Budget Office says 90% of the revenue generated from the new IRS agents will come from people making less than $200,000 … and the revenue generated will be $300-plus billion.”

false

false

stated on August 10, 2022 in a tweet.:

“Democrats are voting to add an army of 87,000 IRS agents who will target middle class taxpayers and conduct at least 1 million more audits each year. ”

barely-true

barely-true

stated on November 8, 2022 in election night coverage on Fox News:

“Electronic voting machines didn't allow people to vote” in Maricopa County, Arizona.

false

false

stated on November 8, 2022 in a tweet:

“There is no chain of custody” for ballots placed in Box No. 3 at Maricopa, Arizona, polling sites.

false

false

stated on November 1, 2022 in a town hall event:

“J.D. Vance said nothing about” the attack on Paul Pelosi.

false

false

X posts
stated on May 20, 2025 in posts:

Former President Joe Biden’s cancer is a form of “turbo cancer” caused by mRNA vaccines.

By Grace Abels • May 20, 2025
Karoline Leavitt
stated on May 19, 2025 in a White House press briefing:

President Donald Trump’s big tax and spending bill “does not add to the deficit.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2025
Scott Bessent
stated on May 18, 2025 in remarks on NBC's "Meet the Press":

“Gasoline prices have collapsed under President Trump."

By Louis Jacobson • May 20, 2025
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on May 14, 2025 in Senate testimony:

It’s “all true” that the measles vaccine wanes quickly, was never fully safety tested and contains fetal debris.

By Madison Czopek • May 16, 2025
Bernie Sanders
stated on May 12, 2025 in a post on X:

“Republicans just unveiled their ‘big, beautiful bill,’ which will take Medicaid & health insurance away from 13.7 million Americans.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 16, 2025
Gavin Newsom
stated on May 14, 2025 in in a press conference:

On California offering affordable health care access for immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

By Amy Sherman • May 16, 2025
Donald Trump
stated on May 8, 2025 in an event in the White House:

Declining cargo traffic at U.S. ports “means we lose less money. … When you say it's slowed down, that's a good thing.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 16, 2025
Alex Jones
stated on May 11, 2025 in en una publicación en X:

Un vídeo muestra al presidente francés, Emmanuel Macron, al primer ministro del Reino Unido, Keir Starmer, y al canciller alemán, Friedrich Merz, con una bolsa de cocaína tras visitar al presidente ucraniano, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

By Maria Briceño • May 16, 2025
Marcia Morey
stated on April 30, 2025 in a speech in the North Carolina House of Representatives:

“Google caved in to Trump. They erased Black History Month from the calendar.”

By Paul Specht • May 15, 2025
Stephen Miller
stated on May 9, 2025 in an interview:

The Immigration and Nationality Act “stripped Article III courts, that's the judicial branch, of jurisdiction over immigration cases.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 15, 2025

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