Statements we say are Mostly False

Chris Sununu

California and New York are "the two biggest polluting states in the country."

— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, July 28th, 2017

Jeb Bush

"When public schools face increased competition, they get better and kids learn more." 

— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Monday, April 17th, 2017

Maggie Hassan

Says there is a "traditional 60-vote threshold for confirming Supreme Court nominees."

— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, March 31st, 2017

Maggie Hassan

Kelly Ayotte "voted for a budget that had $90 billion of cuts to Pell Grants."

— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Saturday, November 5th, 2016

National Republican Senatorial Committee

Maggie Hassan "raised tuition, making it the highest in America."

— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Thursday, October 6th, 2016

Colin Van Ostern

As a result of Chris Sununu’s vote against a Planned Parenthood contract, "nearly 3,000 fewer" women and families statewide accessed health care for birth control, cancer screenings and annual exams.

— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Thursday, October 6th, 2016

Ted Gatsas

Chris "Sununu supported Obama’s Common Core agenda, taking away local control of our schools."

— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Monday, September 12th, 2016

Colin Van Ostern

"I cast the deciding vote extending Medicaid health care coverage to 50,000 of our fellow citizens,"

— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Thursday, September 8th, 2016

New Hampshire Democratic Party

Blocking a U.S. Supreme Court nomination during the remaining months of President Obama’s term "would leave the nation’s highest court with an unprecedented year-long vacancy."

— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, February 19th, 2016

Chris Christie

"I was appointed U.S. attorney by President Bush on Sept. 10, 2001."

— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, August 7th, 2015

Hillary Clinton

Despite keeping distance from national media interviewers, "I did local press all along, the last three months."

— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Wednesday, July 15th, 2015

Rick Perry

"The entirety of North America -- Canada, the United States and Mexico -- there's more known reserves in those three countries than in Russia and Saudi Arabia."

— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, June 5th, 2015

Jeb Bush

"On my last trip to New Hampshire, I think I met the guy who founded the first and only bank since Dodd-Frank passed, since the financial crisis. One bank in the country."

— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, May 8th, 2015

Ben Carson

"We spent twice as much per capita for health care in this country as the next closest nation."

— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Thursday, April 30th, 2015

Lindsey Graham

"If you took every penny of the 1 percent, including their dog, you wouldn't even begin to balance the budget."

— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, March 27th, 2015

Jennifer Horn

"The governor must inform the Senate president about his or her absence from the state."

— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Thursday, March 5th, 2015

Scott Brown

Says Jeanne Shaheen "voted to pave the way for a new national energy tax."

— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, October 24th, 2014

National Republican Congressional Committee

Rep. Carol Shea-Porter "votes with Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats 95 percent of the time," but Frank Guinta "will take on both parties" and has "independent New Hampshire values."

— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, October 24th, 2014

Jeanne Shaheen

Says Scott Brown co-sponsored legislation to let employers deny women coverage for mammograms.

— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Friday, October 10th, 2014

Marilinda Garcia

Says U.S. Rep. Ann McLane Kuster used $293,000 of taxpayer money to send campaign mail.

— PolitiFact New Hampshire on Monday, August 4th, 2014