“I was in the United States Senate when 54 senators said let’s do background checks, let’s get rid of assault weapons, and with 54 senators, it failed because of the filibuster.”
Elizabeth Warren
Democratic presidential candidate. debate. Claim dated 12 Sep 2019.
FactCheck.org rated thisHalf- Right
In short
Elizabeth Warren (Democratic presidential candidate) made this claim around 12 September 2019. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 September 2019, 1 day later. Its rating was “Half- Right”.
Elizabeth Warren has 28 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 5 true.
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- beta.washingtonpost.comhttps://beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/13/transcript-third-democratic-debate/
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