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Checked by Washington Post9 Oct 2020United StatesElections
Mike Pence, Vice President

“There were documents released this week that the CIA actually made a referral to the FBI documenting that those allegations were coming from the Hillary Clinton campaign.”

Washington Post rated this: Misleading

Washington Post says: Pence left off that caveat that this is raw intelligence and could be gossip. He treated it as an established fact — that the CIA “documented” the allegations to the FBI.

Checked by PolitiFact8 Oct 2020United StatesElections
Kamala Harris, Democratic vice presidential nominee

“When Abraham Lincoln was faced with a Supreme Court vacancy 27 days before Election Day and his party controlled the Senate, he said the people should vote first.”

PolitiFact rated this: Lincoln's motivations unclear

PolitiFact says: Historians who have studied the relationship between Lincoln and his nominee, Salmon P. Chase, said that Lincoln’s decision may have stemmed from political or logistical reasons rather than high-minded ones.

Checked by PolitiFact8 Oct 2020United StatesElections
Kamala Harris, Democratic vice presidential nominee

“When Abraham Lincoln was faced with a Supreme Court vacancy 27 days before Election Day and his party controlled the Senate, he said the people should vote first.”

PolitiFact rated this: Needs context

PolitiFact says: She’s right about the proximity of the chief justice's death to Election Day, but historians can't say for sure whether Lincoln's motivations for a delay were exactly as Harris suggested.

Checked by FactCheck.org29 Sep 2020United StatesElections
Donald Trump, President of the United States

“They had another case where a thousand ballots were sent, but not single — they were sent double, so you get to vote twice.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Voters Can't Vote Twice

FactCheck.org says: The Fairfax County registrar said “we make an entry into their voter record that they have returned a ballot. So if something else shows up, the ballot has already been returned. We can’t count that ballot.”