“The concern is misplaced, because if you look at the statistics, African American voters are voting in just as high a percentage as Americans.”
What Washington Post found
These numbers are apples and oranges — the entire population (in which the turnout rate is dragged down by other ethnic groups) versus just one ethnic group.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Mitch McConnell (Senator (R-Ky.)) made this claim around 19 January 2022. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 January 2022, 6 days later. Its rating was “Two Pinocchios”.
Mitch McConnell has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
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