“What I’m worried about is how un-American this whole initiative is. It’s sick. It’s sick … deciding that you’re going to end voting at five o’clock when working people are just getting off work.”
What Washington Post found
Not a single expert we consulted who has studied the law understood why Biden made this claim, as this was the section of law that expanded early voting for many Georgians.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 25 March 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 30 March 2021, 5 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
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
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/03/25/remarks-by-president…
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