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Latest Fact-Checks In Pennsylvania

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Donald Trump
stated on May 22, 2019 in remarks in the Rose Garden:
Says Pennsylvania Republican nominee for Congress Fred Keller “was a 50-50 shot” before his landslide victory.
False
By Louis Jacobson • May 22, 2019
Scott Wagner
stated on October 11, 2018 in Campaign email:
“Our unemployment rate is 20 percent higher than the national average.”   
False
By Colin Deppen • October 18, 2018
National Republican Congressional Committee
stated on September 12, 2018 in a TV ad:
Scott Wallace wants to tax families of five for ‘irresponsible breeding’
False
By Sarah Anne Hughes • September 14, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on June 4, 2018 in a tweet:
Philadelphia Eagles players stayed “in the Locker Room for the playing of our our National Anthem” or were “kneeling.”
False
By Michaela Winberg • June 5, 2018
Donald Trump
stated on March 14, 2018 in Private fundraiser:
Says Conor Lamb “ran on a campaign that said very nice things about me.”
False
By Colin Deppen • March 22, 2018
Martina White
stated on August 31, 2017 in In a statement to the Northeast Times:
“It is shocking to me that Police Commissioner Richard Ross and Mayor Jim Kenney allowed this illegal occupation to go on for hours without taking any action to enforce the law…”
False
By Mark Dent • September 1, 2017
Bob Casey
stated on July 5, 2017 in a tweet:
The GOP health care proposal would slash more than $135 million in federal funding available to PA schools.
False
By Anna Orso • July 11, 2017
Bruce Kraus
stated on March 22, 2017 in an interview with The Incline:
“Data shows that vehicle break-in is the No. 1 crime in the city, but also the No. 1 crime in the South Side Flats, and it’s closely followed by assault.”
False
By MJ Slaby • April 11, 2017
Bloggers
stated on February 18, 2017 in In an article:
Says former Sen. Rick Santorum said, “Sometimes pregnancy is God’s way of comforting rape victims.”
False
By Mark Dent • April 2, 2017
Scott Wagner
stated on March 28, 2017 in in a State Impact article.:
“…the earth moves closer to the sun every year – you know the rotation of the earth. We’re moving closer to the sun.”
False
By Anna Orso • March 31, 2017
Jim Kenney
stated on March 27, 2017 in a tweet:
“Immigrants are responsible for 96 percent of our small biz growth since 2000.”
False
By Cassie Owens • March 28, 2017
John Eichelberger
stated on February 13, 2017:
Inner-city students “fall back and don’t succeed, whereas if there was a less intensive track, they would.”
False
By Cassie Owens • February 27, 2017
Donald Trump
stated on January 26, 2017 in In a speech at the GOP Retreat:
“Here in Philadelphia murder has been steady — I mean — just terribly increasing.”
False
By Mark Dent • January 26, 2017
Doug Pederson
stated on December 18, 2016 in In a press conference:
“Your chances of throwing it are actually a little bit better in that situation.”
False
By Mark Dent • December 20, 2016
NARAL Pro-Choice America
stated on September 28, 2016 in an ad.:
“Toomey and Trump will ban abortion and punish women who have them.”
False
By Anna Orso • October 6, 2016
Pat Toomey
stated on September 13, 2016 in In a press release:
McGinty previously told a local community newspaper in her native Philadelphia that she ‘has found an alarming undercurrent of misinformed people in the ‘T’ part of the state’ outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
False
By Mark Dent • September 16, 2016
Hillary Clinton
stated on July 29, 2016 in a speech at Temple University:
Says Donald Trump “doesn’t make a thing in America.”
False
By Mark Dent • August 1, 2016
Daniel Grace
stated on May 17, 2016 in a statement:
A three-cents-per-ounce soda tax in Philadelphia “would result in the loss of 2,000 family-sustaining Teamster Union jobs and countless other jobs in the beverage industry.”  
False
By Anna Orso • May 20, 2016
Tom Marino
stated on May 13, 2016 in In an MSNBC interview:
“I have had to fill out FEC reports for the past six years now, and they’re much more detailed than a tax return…”
False
By Loghan Thain • May 20, 2016
Steve Santarsiero
stated on April 2, 2016 in a campaign mailer.:
“Steve Santarsiero wrote PA’s Gun Safety Law.”
False
By Anna Orso • April 21, 2016
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