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Latest Fact-Checks In Michigan

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TikTok posts
stated on November 2, 2020 in a video posted on TikTok:
“Biden says he doesn’t need voters to get elected.”
False
By Miriam Valverde • November 3, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on November 1, 2020 in a campaign rally:
Says his supporters were “protecting” Joe Biden’s campaign bus in Texas.
Pants on Fire!
By Miriam Valverde • November 2, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on October 30, 2020 in a campaign rally in Waterford, Mich.:
“Our doctors get more money if somebody dies from COVID. … So what they do is they say, ‘I’m sorry, but, you know, everybody dies of COVID.’”
False
By Jon Greenberg • November 1, 2020
YouTube videos
stated on October 27, 2020 in a video on YouTube:
A Detroit TV station aired the election results a week early.
Half-True
By Bill McCarthy • October 29, 2020
Jon Hoadley
stated on October 13, 2020 in a TV ad:
Upton “voted a dozen times to kick thousands of Michigan families off their health insurance and eliminate protections for preexisting conditions”
Mostly True
By Clara Hendrickson • October 28, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on October 22, 2020 in a debate:
Michigan has been “like a prison” during the coronavirus.
False
By Clara Hendrickson • October 23, 2020
Viral image
stated on October 17, 2020 in a Facebook post:
In the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, “the perps were ANTIFA and BLM anarchists.”
Mostly False
By Ciara O'Rourke • October 21, 2020
Congressional Leadership Fund
stated on September 30, 2020 in a TV ad:
“Hoadley called women ‘breeders.’… wanted to learn about crystal meth and wrote that his sexual partners were his victims. Hoadley even wrote about a four year-old wearing a thong.”
Mostly False
By Clara Hendrickson • October 16, 2020
John James
stated on September 27, 2020 in a television ad:
Says Sen. Gary Peters “downplayed the pandemic” and “failed to act.”
False
By Clara Hendrickson • October 8, 2020
Haley Stevens
stated on September 29, 2020 in a campaign ad:
Eric Esshaki “would allow insurance companies to kick people with a preexisting condition off their plans in the middle of a pandemic, including over 100,000 Michiganders who have survived COVID-19.”
Mostly False
By Clara Hendrickson • October 8, 2020
Gary Peters
stated on September 21, 2020 in Gary Peters in a Sept. 21 Facebook ad:
Says “John James opposes abortion, even refusing to make an exception when a woman’s life is at risk” and “wants to make it a felony even in cases of rape and incest.”
Half-True
By Clara Hendrickson • October 6, 2020
Fred Upton
stated on September 8, 2020 in a campaign ad:
Says House candidate Jon Hoadley voted to defund the police
False
By Clara Hendrickson • September 28, 2020
Michigan Democratic Party
stated on September 24, 2020 in an email:
“James is the only Senate candidate in a battleground state who has refused to take a position” on whether the Senate should promptly vote on Trump’s Supreme Court nominee
Mostly True
By Clara Hendrickson • September 25, 2020
Kamala Harris
stated on September 22, 2020 in a TV interview:
“Only one” Black-owned restaurant in Michigan received a loan through the Paycheck Protection Program
Mostly False
By Clara Hendrickson • September 24, 2020
Senate Majority PAC
stated on September 4, 2020 in a Facebook ad:
Says “John James supported Betsy DeVos’ agenda to cut public school funding and put it into wealthy private schools instead.”
Mostly False
By Clara Hendrickson • September 24, 2020
Paul Junge
stated on September 11, 2020 in an interview on 'Detroit Today':
“Candidate Slotkin had presented herself as a moderate and as someone who’d be independent-minded, but her time in office was making it increasingly clear that no, she was very partisan, voting 96% of the time with Speaker Pelosi.”
Mostly False
By Clara Hendrickson • September 21, 2020
Viral image
stated on September 10, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says Joe Biden and Gretchen Whitmer were maskless at the Detroit Athletic Club “while OUR children are being mandated to wear a mask while playing outdoor sports.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • September 11, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on September 10, 2020 in a speech at a rally in Michigan:
“After the last administration nearly killed the US auto industry, I saved the U.S. auto industry … We brought you a lot of car plants… (and Japan) “announced five car companies are coming to Michigan.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • September 11, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on September 9, 2020 in a speech in Warren, Mich.:
“Military COVID infected: 118,984. Military COVID deaths: 6,114.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • September 10, 2020
Robocaller
stated on August 27, 2020 in a robocall:
“If you vote by mail, your personal information will be part of a public database that will be used by police departments to track down old warrants and be used by credit card companies to collect outstanding debt. The CDC is even pushing to use records for mail-in voting to track people for mandatory vaccines.”
Pants on Fire!
By Clara Hendrickson, Dave Boucher • August 31, 2020
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