“Herschel Walker “is heavily funded by the oil and gas industry, raking in more than $140,000 in donations from Big Oil and other energy interests.”
League of Conservation Voters
group. Claim dated 28 Nov 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
What PolitiFact found
Donors from the oil and gas industry gave $190,000 to the campaign of Herschel Walker. The amount represents less than 1% of $58 million in donations.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
League of Conservation Voters (group) made this claim around 28 November 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 December 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
League of Conservation Voters has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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