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FactCheck.org says: Riley has said he doesn’t support defunding the police. The quote was an edited version of Riley’s statement. He actually said that “folks having a mental health crisis deserve help not handcuffs."
FactCheck.org says: There was no vote. Biden simply announced that the Department of Education would provide debt relief, and the plan is facing a legal challenge.
FactCheck.org says: School-entry vaccination requirements are set by state or local officials, not the CDC or the federal government.
FactCheck.org says: The ad ignores that Barnes said the killings were “not justified in any way” and that he “denounced” the attack.
FactCheck.org says: That refers to Sen. Rick Scott’s plan, which would “sunset” all federal programs in five years unless Congress reauthorized them. But Oz has not expressed support for doing that.
FactCheck.org says: The ad edited portions of McMullin’s comments. McMullin said “there is an element of the Republican base that is racist,” and that the party’s leaders won’t stand up to them for fear of losing votes.
FactCheck.org says: The COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials were designed to study the vaccine’s safety and efficacy in preventing symptomatic disease, not transmission.
FactCheck.org says: The CEO of a company that managed poll worker data for Los Angeles was arrested for possible mishandling of that data. But election deniers have falsely suggested that the arrest is evidence of election fraud.
FactCheck.org says: Experts who specialize in the unique method used in the analysis say it was not properly done.
FactCheck.org says: There’s no evidence Michels changed his personal opinion opposing exceptions for rape or incest, but he did say he’d be willing to compromise if the state legislature brought him a bill that included those exceptions.
FactCheck.org says: The National Archives and Records Administration kept documents for several years in a former bowling alley while the permanent George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum was under construction.
FactCheck.org says: Laxalt's point seems to be that because pandemic-related job losses and business closures remained after Trump left office, that demonstrates to voters that “it’s 100% their [Democrats’] fault.”
FactCheck.org says: Stacey Abrams opposed Georgia’s new election law and gun laws, but she spoke out against corporations using economic sanctions to protest the laws.
FactCheck.org says: John Fetterman, who is running for Senate, has tattoos which memorialize victims of violence. But conservative pundits — including Newt Gingrich — claim, without proof, the tattoos suggest drug use and ties to a gang.
FactCheck.org says: There's something to the fact that Puerto Ricans, more so than other Spanish-speaking groups, settled in Wilmington.
FactCheck.org says: Tshibaka has said she would ban the sale of the morning-after pill via the mail, but the ads leave the misleading impression she would ban all forms of birth control.
FactCheck.org says: Becker has said she supports a ban on abortion except in cases of rape, incest, and to save the life of the mother. Becker also has said she opposes regulating abortion on the federal level.
FactCheck.org says: There is no evidence that babies are harmed by drinking breast milk from mothers who have received a COVID-19 vaccine.
FactCheck.org says: She discussed the need to help poorer countries often bearing the brunt of the consequences of climate change, and the need in the U.S. to make sure that low-income communities are not left behind in mitigation planning.