“On privatizing Social Security.”
What PolitiFact found
In a debate during the primary campaign, Masters floated the idea of privatizing, citing a need to “cut the knot at some point.” After winning the Republican nomination, he insisted he doesn’t want to privatize.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Blake Masters (2022 Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona) made this claim around 8 August 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 26 August 2022, 18 days later. Its rating was “Half Flip”.
Blake Masters has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- azcentral.comhttps://www.azcentral.com/restricted/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.azcentral.com%2Fstory%2Fne…
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