“Cal Cunningham has been silent on this on defunding the police; I assume his silence is consent.”
Thom Tillis
U.S. Senator from North Carolina. In a radio interview. Claim dated 30 Jul 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Cunningham wrote an op-ed saying he believes police reform must involve more funding, not less.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Thom Tillis (U.S. Senator from North Carolina) made this claim around 30 July 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 August 2020, 25 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Thom Tillis has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- siriusxm.comhttps://www.siriusxm.com/clips/clip/d81ce79d-3804-4072-9668-82173174c412/cca82364-85b1-4d…
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