“America wants to be open, and Americans want to be open.”
What PolitiFact found
Large majorities of Americans, and even sizable majorities of Republicans, remain concerned that lifting stay-at-home orders could accelerate the spread of coronavirus.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (president) made this claim around 16 April 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 April 2020, 6 days later. Its rating was “Poll support for staying home”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pe…
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