Fact-checking U.S. politics

Even Ferris Bueller would agree this is right

Hillary Clinton

"A trade war is something very different (than curbing new trade agreements). We went down that road in the 1930s. It made the Great Depression longer and more painful."

Floated, but stopped just short of encouraging

Hillary Clinton

Says Donald Trump said the U.S. should "encourage" Japan to get nuclear weapons.

Not a big operation to start with

Carlos Lopez-Cantera

"I've cut the budget of the (lieutenant governor’s) office by more than half."

— PolitiFact Florida

Predates Jim Crow by five decades

Levar Stoney

Virginia’s banning of felons from voting is a "Jim Crow-era law."

— PolitiFact Virginia

Important, but not top

Paul Babeu

"The president has said the national security threat facing America, the top one, is global warming."

— PolitiFact Arizona

Consider the motion to reconsider

Patty Judge

"When a bill is sent to the governor’s office, there is no option for changing it. You sign it or you don’t sign it. While there was lots of conversation, there was really no opportunity for any sort of amending."

— PolitiFact Iowa

This fact needs a going out of business sale

David Perdue

"More businesses went out of business last year than were started for the first time in our history."

— PolitiFact NBC

Holding currently represents more of it than Ellmers does

Renee Ellmers

Because George Holding doesn’t live in the congressional district he’s running for, he "doesn’t experience the same things that we are all experiencing."

— PolitiFact North Carolina

Bushian

Greg Abbott

The 2015 Legislature "passed the fewest laws in 20 years."

— PolitiFact Texas

Trump took it back

Hillary Clinton

Says Donald Trump "has the gall to say that prisoners of war like John McCain aren’t heroes."

One ranking, not definitive

Sharron Angle

"Congressman Joe Heck has (voted) 62% of the time with Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats on a variety of important issues."

— PolitiFact Nevada

Brother from another mother

Rush Limbaugh

The presence of gorillas calls into question the concept of evolution.

— PunditFact

At least as evidence of experience with Russia

Hillary Clinton

Says Donald Trump "says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia."

Hasn't always held upper house in high regard

Marco Rubio

Says he never told anyone he hated the U.S. Senate.

— PolitiFact Florida

Later called it a 'joke,' but has used 'hoax' often

Hillary Clinton

Says "Donald Trump says climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese."

La Salle is definitely a four-year college

Katie McGinty

Says she was the first in her family to go to a four-year college.

— PolitiFact Pennsylvania

A rabid claim

Alcee Hastings

The Dog Meat Festival in Yulin, China, "threatens global public health."

— PolitiFact Global News Service

Don't gloat, Packers fans

Robin Vos

"The Chicago Bears have had more starting quarterbacks in the last 10 years than the total number of tenured (UW) faculty fired during the last two decades."

— PolitiFact Wisconsin

On paper, no. In practice, pretty much

Scott Walker

The University of Wisconsin System had a "jobs-for-life tenure program" for professors.

— PolitiFact Wisconsin

Iran deal aims to block Iran getting nukes

Jon Keyser

Says "Obama wants to give (Iran) nuclear weapons and Michael Bennet, he was all for it."

— PolitiFact Colorado

Tuberculosis: A PolitiFact Sheet

Say what? Rush Limbaugh wonders why Harambe didn't evolve

Not 'allowed': Clinton's email talk misses the mark

Was Trump a 'draft dodger'?

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