“Amid COVID-19, 25 of the 26 Republican governors "have decided to play football," but "three-fourths" of the 24 Democratic governors "have decided not to play already and most will probably not play.”
What PolitiFact found
It’s not governors but collegiate athletic conferences and universities themselves that are deciding whether their teams play football this fall.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tommy Tuberville (Republican candidate for 2020 U.S. Senate seat in Alabama) made this claim around 17 August 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 August 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Tommy Tuberville has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- video.foxbusiness.comhttps://video.foxbusiness.com/v/6181879740001/#sp=show-clips
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