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Pants on Fire!

This Philadelphia songwriter isn't running for prez

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Says a photo shows Beto O’Rourke "in college drunk and pissing his pants."

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019

True

GOP margin has grown in W.Va.

Trump

Says in the 2016 presidential election, "I won that one by 42 points -- 42 points -- West Virginia."

— PolitiFact West Virginia on Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019

Pants on Fire!

Actually, he's a capitalist

Bishop

Says Dan McCready "really admires socialism."

— PolitiFact North Carolina on Friday, September 6th, 2019

Mostly False

Blends several stories into one

Biden

Says that as vice president, he pinned a Silver Star on a Navy captain in Afghanistan who had carried a mortally wounded comrade out of a ravine, and resisted receiving a medal for his actions.

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, September 4th, 2019

Mostly False

An exaggeration

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A photograph shows Joe Biden with a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

— PolitiFact Facebook fact-checks on Thursday, August 15th, 2019