Carol Miller, U.S. Rep., R-W.Va.
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: From April to June, responses by emergency medical services for suspected overdoses rose 33% compared to the same period a year earlier. For May and June alone, the number rose 47%, which is close to what Miller said.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
Bill Clinton, Former President of the United States
PolitiFact rated this: True
PolitiFact says: There are about 22 million global cases of COVID-19 as of Aug. 18, including almost 5.5 million cases in the U.S. That works out to about 25% of the world’s cases. The U.S. represents about 4% of the world's population.
Bill Clinton, Former president
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: Clinton was accurate for the broadest comparison, which includes a 20-nation selection of OECD nations between January 2020 and June 2020. The rate in the U.S. was 3.1 times higher in June than in January.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
Michelle Obama, Former First Lady
PolitiFact rated this: True
PolitiFact says: In Michigan, one of the three key states that enabled Donald Trump to win in 2016, the winning margin averaged out to just over two votes per precinct.
Donald Trump, President of the United States
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The United States is doing worse than many other countries in terms of the death rate and the fraction of tests that come back positive.
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
Eva Longoria Baston, actress and Democratic activist
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: The Treasury Department announced it would begin phasing out paper checks for Social Security by 2013. Roughly half a million people still receive their checks in the mail, but the vast majority do not.
National Republican Senatorial Committee, Senatorial Committee
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: It's not clear that the implementation of a public option for health insurance would lead to lower reimbursement rates and cause rural hospitals to close. Medicare is already a government-run program.
Donald Trump, President of the United States
PolitiFact rated this: False
Eva Longoria Bastón, Actress and Democratic activist
PolitiFact rated this: Largely correct
Social media posts
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The picture was taken at Hartford Finishing, which has a contract with USPS to refinish or destroy old mailboxes. The boxes were either removed from little-used locations or replaced with new boxes due to their condition
Donald Trump, U.S. President
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: Election experts told us that the problems in New York were real, but that they were not the result of fraud.
Susan Collins, U.S. senator, R-Maine
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: The law firm that employs Gideon’s husband received a Paycheck Protection Program loan of between $1 million and $2 million. Gideon attacked Collins over the PPP; some of her points were accurate.
National Republican Senatorial Committee, A group promoting Republican Senate candidates
PolitiFact rated this: True
PolitiFact says: As a state legislator in 2001, Cunningham supported a law to address a budget shortfall that included more than $1 billion in new taxes and fees.