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Live fact-checking from the New Hampshire primaries

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Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. speaks during a town hall meeting in Laconia, N.H., Wednesday Feb. 3, 2016. (AP)

Jon Greenberg

By Jon Greenberg February 1, 2016

Louis Jacobson

By Louis Jacobson February 1, 2016

PolitiFact reporters are on the ground in New Hampshire to see the candidates and analyze their statements first hand. Follow along here.

Listed inside the live blog.

stated on November 8, 2022 in election night coverage on Fox News:

“Electronic voting machines didn't allow people to vote” in Maricopa County, Arizona.

false

false

stated on November 8, 2022 in a tweet:

“There is no chain of custody” for ballots placed in Box No. 3 at Maricopa, Arizona, polling sites.

false

false

stated on November 1, 2022 in a town hall event:

“J.D. Vance said nothing about” the attack on Paul Pelosi.

false

false

stated on October 26, 2022 in a newspaper interview:

Blake Masters “wants to privatize” Social Security.

barely-true

barely-true

Instagram posts

stated on October 25, 2022 in an Instagram post:

The documentary “2,000 Mules proves” Democrats “cheated on the 2020 elections.”

false

false

stated on October 15, 2022 in a tweet:

Immigrants illegally in the country are treated “better than military veterans.”

false

false

stated on October 9, 2022 in an interview on CBS News' Face the Nation:

Kari Lake has “gone on the record saying she supports Arizona's complete abortion ban. She's called it a great law.”

mostly-true

mostly-true

stated on October 9, 2022 in an interview on CBS News' Face the Nation:

“Katie Hobbs voted for allowing a baby who survives an abortion — that the hospital would refuse medical care and allow the baby to die on a cold metal tray.”

barely-true

barely-true

stated on September 27, 2022 in a campaign ad:

“I voted with Trump on trade.”

mostly-true

mostly-true

stated on September 22, 2022 in a Secretary of State debate:

Ballot harvesting “altered the outcome” of a city council election in Yuma County, Arizona.

false

false

Saving Arizona PAC

stated on September 8, 2022 in a campaign ad:

“Mark Kelly voted against the Keystone pipeline, which caused higher gas prices.”

barely-true

barely-true

Elizabeth Warren

stated on August 28, 2022 in an interview on CNN:

"40% of the folks who have student loans do not have a college diploma, four-year diploma. These are people who are truck drivers and who are nail technicians and nurses’ aides.”

true

true

Hillary Clinton

stated on September 6, 2022 in a tweet.:

“I had zero emails that were classified.”

half-true

half-true

stated on August 10, 2022 in an interview on Fox News:

“The Congressional Budget Office says 90% of the revenue generated from the new IRS agents will come from people making less than $200,000 … and the revenue generated will be $300-plus billion.”

false

false

stated on August 10, 2022 in a tweet.:

“Democrats are voting to add an army of 87,000 IRS agents who will target middle class taxpayers and conduct at least 1 million more audits each year. ”

barely-true

barely-true

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on April 21, 2024 in a post on X:

“Congress prohibits the NIH from researching the cause of mass shootings.”

By Louis Jacobson • April 23, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on April 14, 2024 in a Facebook post:

Video shows Iranian drone sent to Israel stuck in a power line in Iraq.

By Jeff Cercone • April 22, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on April 13, 2024 in una publicación en Instagram:

Video muestra “ataque aéreo de Irán contra Israel".

By Maria Briceño • April 22, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on April 9, 2024 in a video:

Morton Salt and other plain and iodized table salts contain 25% sand and 25% glass that cut up “your arterial and venous network and that’s how you get high blood pressure.”

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • April 22, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on April 9, 2024 in una publicación en Facebook:

"OVNI en Arlington, Texas, avistado durante el eclipse solar".

By Marta Campabadal Graus • April 22, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on March 24, 2024 in una publicación en Facebook:

"La diabetes desaparece por sí sola en 3 noches. ¡No se necesitan inyecciones ni medicamentos costosos!...”.

By Maria Briceño • April 22, 2024
Kamala Harris
stated on April 15, 2024 in a moderated conversation:

“As many as 75% of school shootings resulted from a gun that was not secured.”

By Samantha Putterman • April 22, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on April 16, 2024 in statement to the media in New York City:

“This trial that I have now, that’s a Biden trial.”

By Amy Sherman • April 19, 2024
X posts
stated on April 18, 2024 in an X post:

Video shows hecklers April 16 booing Joe Biden’s motorcade in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

By Jeff Cercone • April 19, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on April 12, 2024 in a post:

Michelle Obama announced she is "running for President in 2024 as a man."

By Grace Abels • April 19, 2024