“Fox offers Chris Wallace's Sunday Spot to Candace Owens.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
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“Says an image shows the Highland Park shooting suspect "in jail or rehab or a psychiatric center" before the shooting.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“The cost of a Fourth of July cookout in 2022 increased by 67.2% because of inflation.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Haley’s staffers quickly deleted the tweet once they realized that a series of six percentage increases can’t be simply added together to yield a total percentage increase.
“An image shows a “UFO photographed on June 21, 2014 by the pilot from the cockpit of an F-16 military plane flying near Lackland Air Force Base of the United States located in San Antonio, Texas.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“J.D. Vance "wants to defund law enforcement.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: Vance wants to defund the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a law enforcement agency. Broadly, Vance has not said he wants to defund all police departments.
“No one “with a concealed carry permit ever committed a mass shooting.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, his prospective opponent, has received $1.2 million from the gun lobby.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“The majority of citizens in the country will have no change at all because … most of the population resides in states that have already protected abortion rights.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: 61% of Americans — a majority — live in a state where, for now, the overturning of Roe isn’t changing the legal status of abortion. But well short of a majority live in states that actively "protected" abortion rights.
“The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade "made the United States an outlier among developed nations in the world" on abortion rights.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: The reversal of Roe eliminated the national right to abortion access in the U.S., leaving it to states to regulate.That makes the U.S. an outlier among other developed nations, which allow national access to abortion.
“Adam Laxalt "supports eliminating Nevada's protections for legal abortions.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: Adam Laxalt has indicated support for tightening abortion access by asking voters in a referendum to restrict abortion in Nevada to the first 13 weeks of pregnancy.
“Adam Laxalt "wants to restrict" and "worked to limit access to birth control.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: As Nevada's attorney general, Adam Laxalt supported efforts that would have restricted access to birth control. We did not find more recent statements from Laxalt on this issue.
“Recent research suggests that 15% of abortions are the result of coercion.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“Joe Biden’s margin of the less than 21,000 votes in Wisconsin was the tightest of any state in 2020.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“When you have unemployment below 4% and inflation above 4%, recession always follows within two years.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: The data Summers based this on did find the likelihood of a recession at 100% under these conditions. However, these conditions almost never occur. They’ve been seen in just a handful of quarters since 1955.
“In every other major industrial country in the world … inflation is higher.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: On the one hand, every other major industrialized nation has seen inflation spike well above pre-inflation levels. However, the United States has seen its inflation rate spike higher than its most direct competitors.
“Wisconsin's archaic abortion ban is older than 20 states.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
“A compilation of images shows what Joe Biden has “done to our country.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“An image shows gas prices on Jan. 6, 2021.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: This image is actually from 2015, not 2021. National average gas prices on Jan. 6, 2021, were around $2.25 to $2.32 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
“Waiting periods for gun purchases may not make a difference, because "If somebody's decided that they're gonna take their life, they're gonna take their life.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“95-item list of food-destroying incidents demonstrates that “you are duped if you think they aren’t planning a food shortage.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Most of the incidents included in this list of agricultural incidents involving fires and “destroyed” poultry were not suspicious, per authorities. More than 10 items were duplicates, incorrect, or didn't happen.