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Clinton Wall Street

Clinton Wrong About Wall Street Attacks

  • April 5, 2016

Hillary Clinton falsely claimed she is “the only candidate” in the presidential campaign “on either side” who has been attacked in advertising funded by “Wall Street financiers and hedge fund managers.”

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Make America Awesome

  • April 1, 2016

A super PAC formed in December 2015 in opposition to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

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Video: Facts on Melania Trump Photo

  • April 1, 2016

After a brief hiatus, CNN’s Jake Tapper returns with a fact-checking video on Donald Trump’s false claim that Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign bought the rights to a racy photo of Trump’s wife, Melania, and gave it to a super PAC.

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Kasich Barred by Convention Rule?

  • March 30, 2016

Ted Cruz has repeatedly said that by rule only he and Donald Trump will be eligible to be on the ballot for consideration at a contested convention. Not necessarily.

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Trump Repeats Debunked Deficit Claim

  • March 30, 2016

Donald Trump continues to say that Wisconsin has a budget deficit of $2.2 billion. It didn’t last year when he made the same claim, and it doesn’t this year, either.

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Trump’s False Accusation

  • March 30, 2016

Donald Trump has accused Sen. Ted Cruz’s campaign of buying the rights to a racy photo of Trump’s wife, Melania, and giving the photo to a super PAC that used it in an ad. But the photographer who took the photo told us no one contacted him to buy the rights.

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TV Ad Distorts Trump’s Gun Position

  • March 28, 2016

An ad from an anti-Donald Trump super PAC uses a partial quote from Trump to distort his position on gun control.

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Delegate Math

Fuzzy ‘Math’ in Anti-Trump TV Ad

  • March 28, 2016

An image that appears in an anti-Donald Trump TV ad inaccurately shows that Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich combined have more delegates than Trump. In fact, Trump has more delegates than both men combined, 739 to 608.

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Trump Touts GOP Turnout

  • March 22, 2016

Donald Trump said that when it comes to primary voter turnout so far “the Democrats are down 35 percent, whereas the Republicans are up over 70 percent.” Trump is nearly accurate if the comparison is to 2008, but that year was an outlier for Democrats.

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Yes, Trump Said Bush ‘Lied’

  • March 17, 2016

Donald Trump denied that he ever accused President George W. Bush of lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. “I didn’t say lie,” Trump said. That’s false. Trump at least twice — most recently in a debate last month — said Bush “lied.”

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