“The cost of a Fourth of July cookout in 2022 increased by 67.2% because of inflation.”
Nikki Haley
former South Carolina governor. a tweet. Claim dated 4 Jul 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
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.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Nikki Haley (former South Carolina governor) made this claim around 4 July 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 July 2022, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Nikki Haley has 35 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 12 of them false or fake, 19 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
This check was done by PolitiFact, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.