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Puts words in Northam's mouth
Says Gov. Ralph Northam "stated that he would even allow a newborn baby to come out into the world... then talk to the mother and talk to the father and then execute the baby."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Wednesday, February 20th, 2019
Company has an internal veteran group
Says former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz once said that he would "hire an illegal immigrant" before he would hire a veteran.
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
Overheated rhetoric
"Climate change is nothing but a bunch of computer models that attempt to tell us what's going to happen in 50 years or 30. Notice the predictions are never for next year or the next 10 years. They're always for way, way, way, way out there, when none of us are going to be around or alive to know whether or not they were true."
— PunditFact on Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
Claim not backed by data
"One out of every five people that the federal government charges with murder is an illegal alien."
— PolitiFact Florida on Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
Faux quote dates back to 2017
Quotes Mike Pence as saying that people with pre-existing conditions need "more Jesus care," not health care.
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Monday, February 18th, 2019
This claim boils down to guilt by association
Says Bill Daley, as part of former Gov. Bruce Rauner’s transition team, wrote "the blueprint" for record Springfield gridlock.
— PolitiFact Illinois on Sunday, February 17th, 2019
Ignores critical facts on abortion
"We’re talking about a law that would allow a child to be aborted right up to the moment of birth."
— PolitiFact Vermont on Friday, February 15th, 2019
Let's look at the word "nearly"
Says "nearly half" of House Republicans have supported a nonpartisan redistricting bill.
— PolitiFact North Carolina on Friday, February 15th, 2019
FEC records back up campaign
Chinese workers made "90,000 banners" for Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign and the president chose to hire "Chinese workers instead of American workers"
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Friday, February 15th, 2019
She didn't get a penny
Says U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a "$10 million payout from Netflix."
No systematic approach
When visa holders exit the United States and enter Mexico, "if they leave through a land port of entry we literally have no clue if they are still here or have returned to their country of origin."
— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, February 15th, 2019
Jumping the gun with flip claim
On Evers' support for a $15 minimum wage
— PolitiFact Wisconsin on Thursday, February 14th, 2019
Actual number could be much higher
"More than a million Californians" do not have "clean water to bathe in or drink."
— PolitiFact California on Thursday, February 14th, 2019
Three years isn't so long ago
"Violent crime is now going down for the first time in a long while."
— PolitiFact National on Thursday, February 14th, 2019
Not the biggest donor, not the same oligarch
Says Mitch McConnell's "biggest donor" is a "Russian oligarch that the GOP just lifted sanctions on."
— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, February 14th, 2019
Death toll is high
"In 2011, for example, the United Kingdom had 146 deaths due to gun violence; Denmark, 71; Portugal, 142; and Japan, 30. But last year, in the United States, almost 40,000."
Take this claim to the curb
Quotes Beto O’Rourke as saying, "If I could throw two kinds of people in the garbage it would be the elderly and wounded veterans. When a tool breaks you don’t fix it, you throw it in the damn trash."
Some amendments were bundled
Since 1938 the minimum wage has been increased "23 times" and was raised "21 times during Democratic congresses, and only twice during Republican ones."
Johnny Appleseed on steroids
"By rubber-stamping the Bayer-Monsanto merger, the Justice Department is handing control over one quarter of the world's seeds and pesticides market to one ginormous agribusiness."
A reasonable prediction
"Expanding Medicaid would bring 40,000 jobs to North Carolina."
— PolitiFact North Carolina on Wednesday, February 13th, 2019
