“Fact: Mike Bloomberg spent $12 million to re-elect a Senate Republican (Toomey) in 2016. Toomey beat the Dem (McGinty) by 1.5 points. If McGinty had won, Ds would have controlled the Senate after Doug Jones won and could have blocked Kavanaugh from the Supreme Court.”
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Claim dated 19 Feb 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
In short
This claim spread on social media around 19 February 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 February 2020, 9 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
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