“Senator, your presidential campaign, right now as we speak, is funded in part by money you transferred, having raised it at those exact same big-ticket fundraisers you now denounce.”
Pete Buttigieg
Democratic presidential candidate. Democratic presidential debate. Claim dated 19 Dec 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisNews accounts confirm it
In short
Pete Buttigieg (Democratic presidential candidate) made this claim around 19 December 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 December 2019, 1 day later. Its rating was “News accounts confirm it”.
Pete Buttigieg has 33 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 17 misleading or mixed and 5 true.
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