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Latest Fact-Checks In Polls and Public Opinion

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Cory Booker
stated on January 9, 2020 in public comments:
National polls have “never predicted who will be president from our party. Carter was in the single digits a few months before caucuses. Bill Clinton was. Obama — 20 points behind in the national polls roughly.”
True
By Brooklyn Draisey • February 6, 2020
Erica Smith
stated on December 6, 2019:
Says she’s beating Democratic opponent Cal Cunningham and is also the first black, female US Senate candidate to be beating an incumbent Senator (Thom Tillis) in “every poll out of the gate.”
Half-True
By Paul Specht • January 10, 2020
Frederica Wilson
stated on December 12, 2019 in a hearing:
Says Betsy DeVos is the “most unpopular person in our government.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • January 6, 2020
Andrew Yang
stated on October 22, 2019 in an interview with The Washington Post:
“I’m one of only two candidates in the field that 10% or more of Donald Trump voters say they would support in the general” election.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 24, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
stated on October 15, 2019 in a Democratic presidential debate:
Americans “say that what they want is a choice” to join a single-payer system like Medicare rather than ending private insurance.
True
By Louis Jacobson • October 16, 2019
Joe Biden
stated on September 12, 2019 in the Democratic debate in Houston:
“Over 90% of the American people think we have to get assault weapons off the street  — period.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • September 12, 2019
Jess McIntosh
stated on June 30, 2019 in a TV panel:
“Fifty percent of Republicans are in favor of Medicare for All.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • July 2, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on June 4, 2019 in a press conference in London:
“I’ve had tremendous Republican support. I have a 90% — 94% approval rating, as of this morning, in the Republican Party. That’s an all-time record.”    
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • June 6, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on April 23, 2019 in a tweet:
“In the ‘old days’ if you were president and you had a good economy, you were basically immune from criticism.”
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • April 23, 2019
Michael Moore
stated on February 1, 2019 in an interview:
“Seventy percent of the American public agree with” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “on having the top marginal (tax) rate for the rich” at 70 percent, and “that’s a Fox News Poll saying that.”  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • February 6, 2019
Joe Manchin
stated on January 8, 2019 in an interview on Bloomberg television:
“President Trump has the strongest support percentage-wise in our state than any other state in the nation. He won West Virginia by almost 43 percentage points and he’s been carrying close to 60 percent approval.”
Mostly True
By Jensen Mills, Stephanie Alvaro • January 28, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2018 in a rally in Wheeling, W.Va.:
“Even in California now, they don’t want to be sanctuary cities anymore. They want out.”
Mostly False
By Kenna Richards • November 15, 2018
E. Gordon Gee
stated on September 20, 2018 in an interview with the Daily Athenaeum:
In public approval, “the press is rated right now below that of Congress, and that is very low; it’s in the single digits.”
False
By Mary Alice Truitt • October 29, 2018
John Cox
stated on July 30, 2018 in a Fox Business Network interview:
“Fully half the people — our research is showing half the people — in (California) want to leave.”
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • September 6, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on August 13, 2018 in a tweet:
Says Ohio Gov. John Kasich is “very unpopular.”
False
By Amy Sherman • August 14, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on July 29, 2018 in a tweet:
“Wow, highest Poll Numbers in the history of the Republican Party. That includes Honest Abe Lincoln and Ronald Reagan.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • July 30, 2018
Tony Evers
stated on June 27, 2018 in a campaign email:
“I’m the first Democrat to ever lead Scott Walker in an election year.”  
False
By Samantha West • July 26, 2018
Republican Party of Texas
stated on July 14, 2018 in a fundraising email blast:
Says a poll showed Democrat Beto O’Rourke within 2 percentage points of Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • July 20, 2018
The Gateway Pundit
stated on June 9, 2018 in a headline:
“Trump approval rating better than Obama and Reagan at same point in their presidencies.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • June 18, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on May 4, 2018 in the NRA convention:
“I doubled my African-American poll numbers. We went from 11 to 22 in one week.”
Mostly False
By John Kruzel • May 7, 2018
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