“David McCormick fired Pennsylvanians and bragged about shipping their jobs to Asia.”
What PolitiFact found
A Pennsylvania firm once run by U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick cut 50 jobs in 2003. The same year, the company announced plans to open a center in India. But there’s no proof he “bragged” about offshoring the jobs.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Mehmet Oz (2022 candidate for GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania) made this claim around 17 March 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 29 March 2022, 12 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Mehmet Oz has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhYkPxAi0Ik
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