“Says that to help people in need during the coronavirus pandemic, Mike Garcia said: "Everyone should have to figure out how to fend for themselves.”
What PolitiFact found
The TV ad uses a narrator, words on the screen and imagery to invoke COVID-19. It then immediately uses the Garcia remark, without indicating that he made it about food stamps.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (Committee that works to elect Democrats to the U.S. House) made this claim around 8 September 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 September 2020, 10 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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