PolitiFact | Mitch McConnell

The Poynter Institute

Stand up for facts and support PolitiFact.

Now is your chance to go on the record as supporting trusted, factual information by joining PolitiFact’s Truth Squad. Contributions or gifts to PolitiFact, which is part of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Poynter Institute, are tax deductible.

I would like to contribute

Mitch McConnell is a U.S. Senator from Kentucky and the Republican majority leader in the U.S. Senate.

True

0%

Mostly True

24%

Half True

0%

Mostly False

0%

False

0%

Pants on Fire

0%

Mitch McConnell
stated on May 11, 2020 in a Team Trump Facebook Live:

“Clearly, the Obama administration did not leave any kind of game plan for something like this.”

By Victoria Knight • May 14, 2020
Mitch McConnell
stated on February 26, 2019 in a speech:

Says NC absentee voters have "no way" to know if ballots are delivered

By Paul Specht • March 7, 2019
Mitch McConnell
stated on June 4, 2018 in a Senate floor speech:

"The bottom line is clear: Under the policies of this unified Republican government, American workers, families, and business owners are achieving economic growth that is unmatched in recent memory. … More than 1 million new jobs have been created just since we passed tax reform last December."

By Louis Jacobson • June 5, 2018
Mitch McConnell
stated on February 1, 2017 in a tweet:

"Not a single Democrat opposed Neil Gorsuch's confirmation in 2006."

By Amy Sherman • February 3, 2017
Mitch McConnell
stated on January 9, 2017 in an op-ed on FoxNews.com:

"About 8 out of 10 favor changing Obamacare significantly or replacing it altogether."

By Louis Jacobson • January 10, 2017

Bloggers
stated on July 9, 2016 in a story:

Ninety pounds of cocaine was found on a boat owned by Mitch McConnell's family and that they are “financing his Senate campaigns with their cocaine drug profits.”

By Samantha Putterman • February 26, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on April 22, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Mitch McConnell was cured of polio when he was a child by government-funded care and now he’s trying to take that same care away from millions of Americans

By Samantha Putterman • April 29, 2019
Facebook posts
stated on January 31, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says Mitch McConnell's "biggest donor" is a "Russian oligarch that the GOP just lifted sanctions on."

By Samantha Putterman • February 14, 2019
Don Blankenship
stated on May 1, 2018 in a debate:

"Mitch McConnell was one of the few senators that voted after Tiananmen Square not to have punitive actions against China for human rights violations."

By Louis Jacobson • May 3, 2018
Cory Booker
stated on January 8, 2017 in an interview on 'Face the Nation':

"In 2009, Mitch McConnell was the person that’s saying, 'Hey, we should get all the ethics information in before we do the hearings.' "

By Linda Qiu • January 8, 2017

Fact-checking journalism is the heart of PolitiFact. Our core principles are independence, transparency, fairness, thorough reporting and clear writing. The reason we publish is to give citizens the information they need to govern themselves in a democracy.

In a world of wild talk and fake news, help us stand up for the facts.