“I’m running against a kid named Jon Ossoff, who has been endorsed by the Communist Party.”
David Perdue
Senator (R-Ga.). in an interview with Hugh Hewitt. Claim dated 1 Oct 2020.
Washington Post rated thisFour Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
The Communist Party did not endorse Ossoff
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
David Perdue (Senator (R-Ga.)) made this claim around 1 October 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 October 2020, 5 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
David Perdue has 9 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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