“Five hundred thousand Americans, including 30,000 veterans, are sleeping out on the streets today in America.”
Bernie Sanders
Senator (I-Vt.). in the sixth Democratic primary debate, Los Angeles. Claim dated 19 Dec 2019.
Washington Post rated thisFalse
In short
Bernie Sanders (Senator (I-Vt.)) made this claim around 19 December 2019. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 December 2019, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Bernie Sanders has 49 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 35 misleading or mixed and 4 true.
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- washingtonpost.comhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/20/transcript-december-democratic-debate/
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