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    Dec 15, 2025
    For the first time since 2009, PolitiFact is recalibrating the Lie of the Year — our award for the most egregious falsehood we've seen in a year's worth of fact-checking. This year, we want to focus less on the offenders who perpetuate the falsehoods, and more on those who are
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    Oct 2, 2024
    No, Trump did not "salvage" the Affordable Care Act. Vance's claim is False.
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    Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, said Donald Trump, as president, tried to build on the Affordable Care Act....
    Vance tries to rewrite history on Trump and the Affordable Care Act — but the former president tried to take the law down, not build it up or protect Americans’ health insurance
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    Jan 8, 2022
    NEW: Justice Sonia Sotomayor said during oral arguments today that “we have over 100,000 children, which we’ve never had before, in serious condition, and many on ventilators” due to the coronavirus. That's False. bit.ly/3f2EQye
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    Mar 16, 2020
    Joe Biden has said he came out quickly to oppose the Iraq War. That's not what the record shows.
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    .@JoeBiden said he immediately came out against the Iraq War the moment it started. That’s False.
    Joe Biden continues to defend his record on the Iraq War as he seeks the Democratic presidential nomination, lately clai
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    May 5, 2019
    .@ewarren claimed that she warned about the financial crisis before it happened. We found that her 2003 book, 2004-2006 blog posts and media interviews back her claim. We rate it True. bit.ly/2vwII3E
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    Jul 27, 2017
    Pass.
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    Jul 27, 2017
    WIll @PolitiFact give us a ruling on the WH Communications Director's statement about WH adviser Steve Bannon?
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    May 3, 2023
    Teachers union President Randi Weingarten advocated for reopening schools with pandemic safety measures. She criticized the Trump administration’s 2020 calls to reopen schools fully, but it’s misleading to claim that she opposed reopening at all.
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    Teachers union President Randi Weingarten advocated for reopening schools with pandemic safety...
    As educators, parents and students struggled through the early COVID-19 pandemic to balance learning with health safety
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    Weingarten is misrepresenting her prior positions. She called attempts to reopen schools in the fall of 2020 "Reckless, callous, cruel" theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j… Her union pushed aggressively at the local level edweek.org/teaching-learn… Areas with high union influence remained closed much longer returntolearntracker.net/instructional_… They continued in 2022 nytimes.com/2022/01/08/us/…
    Context is written by people who use X, and appears when rated helpful by others. Find out more.
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    Mar 16, 2020
    Joe Biden just wrongly claimed Bernie Sanders voted against the auto bailout. Sanders voted in favor of providing auto companies with $14 billion, which was separate from the Wall Street bailout funds he opposed. #DemDebate
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    In Michigan, Hillary Clinton says Bernie Sanders 'was against the auto bailout'
    Sen. Bernie Sanders didn’t support the bailout that saved the auto industry, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary C
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    Jan 22, 2017
    White House Press Sec. @seanspicer: "That was the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period." politifact.com/truth-o-meter/…
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    Nov 4, 2020
    This is False. Local officials in Virginia Beach said they have investigated the video and determined that the ballots shown were sample ballots, not official ballots.
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    Eric Trump
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    Nov 4, 2020
    Burning 80 Trump Ballots
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    Eric Trump retweets video falsely claiming man burned 80 Trump ballots
    As votes legally cast before Election Day continue to be counted, Eric Trump shared a video that purported to show someo
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    Dec 1, 2023
    Gov. Gavin Newsom is mostly accurate: Per capita, more Floridians have moved to California than the other way around, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
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    California Gov. Gavin Newsom is right that per capita, more Floridians move to his state than the...
    Fox News host Sean Hannity and Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., went toe-to-toe in an interview about California's immigrati
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    Feb 16, 2021
    Don’t blame wind for the Texas power shortage. Gas, coal and nuclear accounted for more than 80% of the shortfall. bit.ly/37o15Ls
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    Oct 2, 2024
    Walz said, “We are producing more natural gas and more oil at any time than we ever have.” This is accurate. U.S. Natural gas production has reached new highs during Joe Biden’s presidency, as has U.S. crude oil production, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration
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    Aug 26, 2020
    Joe Biden didn’t blackmail Ukraine. His demand that a prosecutor be fired was the will of the U.S. government and other Western leaders. There’s no evidence that Hunter Biden was under investigation at the time Biden made his request. politifact.com/factchecks/201… #RNC2020
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    No, Democrats aren’t trying to impeach Trump for asking about Biden’s dealings in Ukraine
    One of Republicans’ key arguments opposing the effort to impeach President Donald Trump is that Trump was genuinely worr

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