“Three hundred sixty thousand Pennsylvanians fought on the side of the Union to defeat the flag, that Confederate flag, including more Black soldiers coming from Pennsylvania than any other state in the nation.”
Joe Biden
Democratic presidential candidate. McGregor Industries in Dunmore, Pa.. Claim dated 9 Jul 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
What PolitiFact found
Biden said that 360,000 Pennsylvanians fought for the Union Army during the Civil War and that's correct.
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In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential candidate) made this claim around 9 July 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 July 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- c-span.orghttps://www.c-span.org/video/?473701-1/joe-biden-introduces-economic-blueprint-revitalizi…
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