Ted Cruz

“Democrats are “dishonestly sending around a video from 2017” claiming it was an Oct. 18 ‘No Kings’ rally in Boston.”

PolitiFact says: MSNBC footage circulating on social media is real and depicts Boston’s Oct. 18 "No Kings" rally. Similar aerial views of the protest aired Oct. 18 on four Boston-area television stations and one in New Hampshire.

“Joe Biden did the exact same thing (as Donald Trump on documents) and the DOJ doesn't care!”

PolitiFact says: The Trump case sets a high bar for seriousness and has a number of extraordinary circumstances that the Biden case so far lacks — particularly a failure to return the documents once they were discovered.

“This email reads as if it was cut-and-pasted from an official government briefing. An official government briefing that one would infer his father had received. And it reads as if it could easily have come from a classified briefing..”

Washington Post says: This material was available in newspapers and magazines

“What inevitably stops these horrific crimes: Armed good guys stopping armed bad guys.”

Washington Post says: FBI reports have errors and cannot necessarily be reliable

“Only Democratic cities take “‘days’ to count their votes” while “the rest of the country manages to get it done on election night.”

PolitiFact says: Cities operate under ballot-handling parameters set by their state, which in many cases have been set by Republicans who occupy state-level offices.

“Leopoldo Martínez Nucete, candidato de Biden al BID, había sido un “congresista venezolano, radical y socialista, que sirvió bajo la dirección de Chávez”

“Esos agentes del IRS están diseñados para perseguirlos a ustedes, no están diseñados para perseguir a los multimillonarios o las grandes corporaciones, están diseñados para perseguir a las pequeñas empresas y familias trabajadoras en todo el país”

“In 2013, under a Democratic Senate, "a majority of the Senate voted in favor of" gun-related legislation sponsored by Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ted Cruz, “but the Democrats filibustered it.”

PolitiFact says: Democrats did set a supermajority threshold, but only after Republicans pledged to filibuster the underlying bill, and Republicans unanimously agreed to the voting plan.

“We know from past experiences that the most effective tool for keeping kids safe is armed law enforcement on the campus.”

PolitiFact says: Broad research, including two studies from 2021, does not provide support for Cruz’s claim that armed law enforcement officers on school grounds are the "most effective tool" for keeping kids safe from mass shootings.

“Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson "described in a speech to a law school what you were doing as critical race theory.”

FactCheck.org says: Jackson said CRT "doesn't come up in my work as a judge. It's never something that I've studied or relied on." Her speech was about sentencing policy, not sentencing decisions.

“At a Senate hearing in May, Dr. Fauci said, ‘The NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain-of-function research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.’ That was under oath, under testimony. On October 20th, the NIH principal deputy director in writing directly contradicted it.”

Washington Post says: Cruz is spinning an NIH letter as confirming what it does not say. He is welcome to offer an opinion about its meaning. But, so far, it’s not a fact that NIH has admitted funding gain-of-function research.

“¡El mandato de vacunación ilegal de Joe Biden en acción! Repentinamente nos faltan pilotos y controladores de tráfico aéreo.”

FactCheck.org says: Las cancelaciones de vuelos avivaron argumentos de que los trabajadores del transporte estaban protestando contra los requisitos de vacunación. No hay evidencia de que los trabajadores hayan organizado protestas.

“Joe Biden's illegal vaccine mandate at work! Suddenly, we're short on pilots & air traffic controllers.”

FactCheck.org says: Southwest Airlines' flight cancellations fueled partisan claims that workers were protesting COVID-19 vaccine requirements and causing the cancellations. But there's no evidence that workers staged protests.

“Every single Democratic member of the United States Senate is now on record supporting abolishing the police.”

FactCheck.org says: Cruz's claim is based on his misleading interpretation of the words of two of President Joe Biden’s nominees.

“Video shows President Joe Biden saying "bingo" after a reporter says: “To gun owners out there who say, well, a Biden administration means they’re going to come for my guns.”

FactCheck.org says: The video leaves out Biden's full answer, which makes clear he was referring only to the purchase of semi-automatic firearms, or so-called assault weapons.

“You didn't see Republicans when we had control of the Senate try to rig the game” for Supreme Court nominations.”

PolitiFact says: Cruz’s comment ignores that Republicans gave diametrically opposite treatment to President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland and President Donald Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett.

“91% of the $1.9 trillion America Rescue Plan "is a partisan wish list, paying off the Democratic special interests that got them elected.”

FactCheck.org says: Cruz ignores that Republicans offered an alternative $618 billion rescue bill that included many of the same elements of the Democratic plan, albeit in smaller amounts.

“Said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her allies “blocked a resolution condemning anti-Semitism — which I passed unanimously in the Senate.”

PolitiFact says: Ocasio-Cortez opposed the initial draft of a House resolution, saying it ignored bigotry other than anti-Semitism. She voted for a revised resolution that added condemnations, and it passed by a wide margin.

“The Keystone pipeline was scheduled to have more than 11,000 jobs, including 8,000 union jobs, for contracts worth $1.6 billion.”

Washington Post says: Cruz cited a real estimate of approximately 11,000 jobs, but he left out that they were all temporary.

“39% of Americans … 31% of independents ... 17% of Democrats believe the election was rigged.”

PolitiFact says: The percentage of people who said the election outcome was “the result of illegal voting or election rigging” is much lower than the numbers Cruz cited.