Political Fact-Checking: Claims Checked Against the Record

This is where we check specific claims against the public record. A claim shows up in a speech, a campaign ad, a debate answer, or a clip that gets passed around online, and we trace it back to its source before we say anything about it. That usually means pulling the full video instead of the trimmed version, finding the bill or budget line a number refers to, or checking a quote against the transcript it came from. We rate what the evidence shows, not how the claim made us feel, and we apply that same standard regardless of which party or candidate made the statement. When a claim is flatly false, we say so. When it's technically accurate but missing context that changes its meaning, we say that too, since a half-true claim causes just as much confusion as an invented one. Every fact-check here links to the primary source behind it, so you can check our work instead of just trusting our conclusion.