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Town hall audience member
stated on September 17, 2015 in a town hall held by Donald Trump in Rochester, N.H.:

"You know our current president is (Muslim). You know he's not even an American."

By Lauren Carroll • September 18, 2015
Donald Trump
stated on September 16, 2015 in a GOP presidential debate on CNN:

Says Mexico doesn't have birthright citizenship, and Americans are the "only ones" to have it.

By Katie Sanders • September 17, 2015
Viral image
stated on September 3, 2015 in an image shared on Facebook:

" 'Denali' is the Kenyan word for 'black power.' "

By Will Cabaniss • September 3, 2015
Viral image
stated on August 26, 2015 in an Internet graphic:

Bernie Sanders opposes the death penalty, and Hillary Clinton supports it.

By Will Cabaniss • September 2, 2015
Viral image
stated on August 26, 2015 in a viral Internet chart:

Bernie Sanders opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and Hillary Clinton supports it.

By Will Cabaniss • September 2, 2015
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 30, 2015 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

"Saudi Arabia has the third-largest military budget in the entire world."

By Will Cabaniss • August 30, 2015
Julius Jones
stated on August 17, 2015 in an interview on MSNBC:

"The policy mistakes that ... the Clintons made got us, in large degree, to the situation that we are in today with mass incarceration."

By Will Cabaniss • August 25, 2015
S.E. Cupp
stated on August 23, 2015 in an interview on "State of the Union":

"There are actually only 30 countries that practice birthright citizenship."

By Will Cabaniss • August 23, 2015
Howard Dean
stated on August 12, 2015 in an interview on "Morning Joe":

"There’s a tremendous other number of public officials who have done the same thing" as Hillary Clinton with a private email server.

By Will Cabaniss • August 18, 2015
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 16, 2015 in an interview on "Meet the Press":

"We spend almost twice as much per capita on health care as do the people of any other country."

By Will Cabaniss • August 16, 2015

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