We've fact-checked the presidential candidates 650 times. Here's what we found
On March 23, 2015, in a college auditorium in Virginia, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz became the first major candidate to announce his campaign for president. From then until now -- a span of 465 days -- PolitiFact has been watching the candidates and fact-checking their claims. Through June 29, we have published 650 fact-checks of the presidential candidates on our Truth-O-Meter. That’s more than one new fact-check a day, and as you can imagine, a lot of Mostly False, False and Pants on Fire claims. We get asked all the time how the candidates compare. We often fret the question because we ...
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