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Joe Biden
stated on October 25, 2020 in a "60 Minutes" interview:

“I can send every qualified person to a four-year college in their state for $150 billion.”

By Noah Y. Kim • October 30, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on October 15, 2020 in a town hall:

“The boilermakers union has endorsed me because I sat down with them and went into great detail with leadership [about] exactly what I would do.”

By Jessica Calefati • October 21, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on October 15, 2020 in an ABC town hall:

"They eliminated the funding for community policing."

By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on October 10, 2020 in a comment to reporters:

Senate Republicans' move to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in an election year is "not constitutional."

By Bill McCarthy • October 13, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on October 5, 2020 in an NBC town hall in Miami:

During the Obama/Biden administration “18,000 people got clemency.”

By Amy Sherman • October 6, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on September 20, 2020 in a speech:

“The Trump campaign asked that I release the list (of potential Supreme Court nominees) only after (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) passed away.”

By Bill McCarthy • September 22, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on September 20, 2020 in a speech in Philadelphia:

“There's no court session between now and the end of this election.”

By Louis Jacobson • September 21, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on September 17, 2020 in a CNN town hall:

"If the president had done his job, had done his job from the beginning, all the people would still be alive. All the people. I'm not making this up. Just look at the data."

By Bill McCarthy • September 18, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on September 9, 2020 in a speech in Warren, Mich.:

“Military COVID infected: 118,984. Military COVID deaths: 6,114.”

By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on September 2, 2020 in a speech in Wilmington, Del.:

Says he was the first person to call for invoking the Defense Production Act.

By Louis Jacobson • September 4, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on July 22, 2020 in a SEIU roundtable discussion:

“McDonald’s (makes) you all sign noncompete contracts that you cannot go across town to try to get a job at Burger King.”

By Jon Greenberg • July 28, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on July 22, 2020 in a town hall:

No U.S. presidents elected before Donald Trump were racist.

By Sophie Austin • July 27, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on May 21, 2020 in a video:

"You weren't allowed to own a cannon during the Revolutionary War as an individual."

By Louis Jacobson • June 29, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on May 22, 2020 in an interview on The Breakfast Club radio show:

“The NAACP has endorsed me every time I've run.”

By Amy Sherman • June 1, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on March 15, 2020 in a debate:

Because the Federal Reserve recently cut interest rates to near 0%, “the Fed will be of little consequence now. They’ve already used what leverage they have.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 18, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on March 3, 2020 in a tweeted video:

Video shows President Donald Trump saying COVID-19 is Democrats’ “new hoax.”

By Daniel Funke • March 15, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on February 7, 2020 in comments during the New Hampshire presidential primary debate:

Sanders’ “Medicare for All” plan "would cost more than the entire federal budget that we spend now."

By Shefali Luthra • February 13, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on September 12, 2019 in a Democratic debate:

Says the Obama administration "didn't lock people up in cages."

By Miriam Valverde • September 13, 2019
Joe Biden
stated on September 3, 2019 in an NPR interview:

Referring to the Iraq War, "immediately, the moment it started, I came out against the war at that moment."

By Miriam Valverde • September 5, 2019
Joe Biden
stated on August 7, 2019 in a campaign stop in Iowa:

Says Donald Trump "asserted that immigrants would quote, ‘carve you up with a knife’."

By Jon Greenberg • August 9, 2019
Joe Biden
stated on May 1, 2019 in an interview:

"I was always labeled as one of the most liberal members of the United States Congress."

By John Kruzel • May 6, 2019
Joe Biden
stated on July 27, 2016 in an appearance on MSNBC:

Says Donald Trump "is going to go out and carpet bomb" the Middle East.

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 2, 2016
Joe Biden
stated on April 29, 2016 in a speech at the Vatican:

"In the United States alone we lose more than 3,000 people a day to cancer."

By Louis Jacobson • May 9, 2016
Joe Biden
stated on May 8, 2012 in a speech:

"When we took office, let me remind you, there was virtually no international pressure on Iran."

By Eric Stirgus • May 14, 2012
Joe Biden
stated on April 1, 2012 in a “Face the Nation” interview:

"General Motors is the largest corporation in the world again."

By Becky Bowers • April 9, 2012
Joe Biden
stated on August 30, 2011 in remarks at a campaign fundraiser:

Says U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal "eliminates Medicare" in 10 years.

By Dave Umhoefer • September 7, 2011
Joe Biden
stated on January 17, 2010 in a fundraiser in Florida:

"As long as I have served . . . This is the first time every single solitary decision has required 60 senators."

By Catharine Richert • January 22, 2010
Joe Biden
stated on December 31, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa:

"John doesn't have a record in the Senate. John's only passed four bills. They're all about post offices."

By Adriel Bettelheim • January 7, 2008
Joe Biden
stated on December 31, 2007 in a campaign event in Ames, Iowa:

"Barack Obama hasn't passed any (bills)."

By Adriel Bettelheim • January 7, 2008
Joe Biden
stated on November 2, 2007 in statement on Web site:

"In the 1990s, the Biden Crime Bill added 100,000 cops to America's streets. As a result, murder and violent crime rates went down eight years in a row."

By Wes Allison • November 2, 2007

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