“The newly drawn congressional district map in Arkansas “keeps communities together.”
What PolitiFact found
Arkansas’ newly drawn congressional map reduces the number of split counties in Arkansas, but one of the counties it does split, for the first time, is a doozy: Pulaski County, the most populous and diverse in the state.
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In short
Tom Cotton (U.S. Senator, R-Ark.) made this claim around 21 October 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 October 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Tom Cotton has 13 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 8 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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