“The climate change agenda is a hoax … The reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.”
Vivek Ramaswamy
entrepreneur and GOP presidential hopeful. remarks during the first GOP presidential primary debate in Milwaukee. Claim dated 23 Aug 2023.
Washington Post rated thisFour Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
His math doesn't add up
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In short
Vivek Ramaswamy (entrepreneur and GOP presidential hopeful) made this claim around 23 August 2023. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 August 2023, 2 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
Vivek Ramaswamy has 19 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 8 of them false or fake, 10 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- rollcall.comhttps://rollcall.com/2023/08/24/transcript-gop-presidential-hopefuls-debate-in-milwaukee/
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