U.S. Senator, D-Conn.. 10 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2020 to 2026. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.
PolitiFact says: Although some U.S. airstrikes have helped improve political conditions, experts said airstrikes alone are generally not enough to bring about regime change. Usually, airstrikes combined with ground troops have a better …
PolitiFact says: Data shows urban homicides across the U.S. decreased about 12% in 2023 compared with a year earlier. But that data ignores that this decline came after violent crime spiked during the COVID pandemic
PolitiFact says: Data shows some correlation between looser gun laws and higher gun homicide rates in a state, and vice versa. But that relationship does not always hold true.
FactCheck.org says: About 60% of counties are so-called “Second Amendment sanctuaries," which oppose gun laws that they claim are unconstitutional. But that doesn't necessarily mean that all of those counties aren't enforcing U.S. gun laws.
PolitiFact says: Murphy is accurate, and even a little understated, in the context of school shootings alone, according to a Washington Post database of school shootings since 1999.
Washington Post says: Murphy is wrong to claim that “studies” show that 8 out of 10 times U.S. drones have hit the wrong target. He’s talking about the supposed track record during a five-month period in a region of Afghanistan 10 years ago.
FactCheck.org says: A rise in border apprehensions did begin prior to the election under then-President Donald Trump. But the increase in unaccompanied children has spiked significantly in the first full month of the Biden administration.
PolitiFact says: Murphy's figure was based on only 954 students who were tested, and those tests are likely to be skewed because UNC is only testing people who think they need it.