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“Says Joe Biden said voting by mail is a way to “fundamentally change this country,” contradicting past statements by Barack Obama and Debbie Wasserman Schultz.”
Republican National Committee political group. Claim dated 8 May 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False

What PolitiFact found

The video includes short clips of Barack Obama and Debbie Wasserman Schultz sounding critical of voting by mail, but that was in the narrow context of a proposal to re-do a presidential primary in Florida in 08.

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

Republican National Committee (political group) made this claim around 8 May 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 May 2020, 6 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.

Republican National Committee has 11 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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