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Claim Codes: Red = Fact Check on a Right Claim, Blue = Fact Check on a Left Claim, Black = Not Political/Conspiracy/Pseudoscience/Other
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| FALSE | Claim by Vivek Ramaswamy (R): “These people want to send your sons and daughters to go die in Ukraine. They’ve been arguing for it for a year.”
PolitiFact rating: False (None of the candidates said that.) Fact-checking the fourth 2024 Republican presidential primary debate |
| MOSTLY FALSE |
Claim by Joe Biden (R): “There are 40 million people in America today who get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. His [Donald Trump’s] plan is to throw every one of them off that — that legislation.”
FactCheck.org rating: Mostly False (But that worst-case-scenario figure is based on Trump not replacing the ACA with anything. He says he would replace it with something — though he has given no details on what that would be.) |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Video of an Alabama compound shows “Hamas is here and training hidden in plain sight.”
Politifact rating: False (Hamas is not in Alabama!) Hamas training in U.S. ‘hidden in plain sight’? No, Alabama compound is not Hamas-operated |
| BLATANT LIE |
Claim via Social Media: Conservative political commentator Candace Owens threw Joy Behar off of “The View” on her first day as a co-host of the show.
Snopes.com rating: False (She is not a cohost. This was labeled satire but shared by the gullible.) Did Candace Owens Throw Joy Behar Off ‘The View’ On Her 1st Day as Co-Host? |
| MOSTLY TRUE |
Claim by Ron Johnson (R): “In order to be a poll worker on the conservative side, you have to register through the Republican Party of Wisconsin.”
Politifact rating: Mostly True (Political parties prepare lists of names of people interested in becoming poll workers. Those nominees get first priority for open poll worker positions. But that applies to both sides, not just Republicans or conservatives. After that, it’s possible for unaffiliated poll workers — who apply through their local clerks — to fill the slots.) Johnson’s line on how to register to be a poll worker is Mostly True |
| FALSE | (International: Australia): The NSW government has passed a bill banning people saying “free Palestine from the river to the sea.”
Australian Associated Press rating: False (The state government has not passed any bills banning the use of the phrase.) Pro-Palestine censorship claim falsely targets state government |
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Claim by Joe Biden (R): “There are 40 million people in America today who get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. His [Donald Trump’s] plan is to throw every one of them off that — that legislation.”
FactCheck.org rating: Mostly False (But that worst-case-scenario figure is based on Trump not replacing the ACA with anything. He says he would replace it with something — though he has given no details on what that would be.)
(Trump) says he would replace it with something — though he has given no details on what that would be.
Why would you believe anything Trump promises????? I think that Biden’s statement is absolutely correct. Trump is planning to ” throw every one of them off that — that legislation.