“We cut the black poverty rate by more than half.”
Pete Buttigieg
Mayor of South Bend, Ind.. at a campaign event in Allendale, S.C.. Claim dated 2 Dec 2019.
Washington Post rated thisThree Pinocchios
In short
Pete Buttigieg (Mayor of South Bend, Ind.) made this claim around 2 December 2019. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 December 2019, 3 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
Pete Buttigieg has 33 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 17 misleading or mixed and 5 true.
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