“Says Joe Biden "has advocated cutting Social Security for 40 years”
Bernie Sanders
Independent Senator from Vermont. In a television attack ad.. Claim dated 11 Mar 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
In short
Bernie Sanders (Independent Senator from Vermont) made this claim around 11 March 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 March 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly 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.
Where the claim appeared
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