U.S. Senate candidate, R-Ariz.. 9 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2022 to 2024. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.
PolitiFact says: Gallego co-sponsored a 2019 bill that would have curbed transfers of military-grade weapons to police departments. But this is a different issue and it occurred the year before "defund the police" became a rallying cry.
PolitiFact says: In Arizona, both violent crime generally and murder specifically have declined by more than 40% since 1994.
PolitiFact says: Ruben Gallego's father was arrested for drug crimes when Gallego was a child. Gallego's father left the family when he was young and he said they have rarely spoken. There's no evidence Gallego has "links to the cartel."
PolitiFact says: The CHANGE Act was the 118th bill, resolution or amendment Gallego co-sponsored, not the first.
PolitiFact says: House Republicans passed a bill in July that would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. But federal law already bans noncitizens from voting in federal elections.
FactCheck.org says: Gallego has said that he opposes allowing noncitizens to vote in Arizona and in federal elections. But in 2023, he voted to allow a D.C. law letting noncitizens vote in local elections -- a law that he now opposes.
PolitiFact says: A review of ballots cast in Maricopa County confirmed that Joe Biden won, and courts rejected allegations of fraud or attempts to deny certification for Biden and only a few people have been charged with fraud.
PolitiFact says: More than 775 people have been arrested in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Federal prosecutors have filed charging documents that show the alleged crimes by the individuals.