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PolitiFact | Climate scientists reject Trump’s prediction 'It’ll start getting cooler' in California
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PolitiFact | Claim Viewed By Millions On Social Media Says California Legalized Pedophilia. That Is False.
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PolitiFact | What Kept Kamala Harris So ‘Cautious’ As California’s Attorney General?
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PolitiFact - Tom McClintock Claimed ‘The Flu Killed 80,000 Americans Last Year.’ Here’s Why That’s Misleading.
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Kamala Harris claims she ‘took on Big Oil’ as California AG. How far did she go?
Democratic presidential hopeful and California Sen. Kamala Harris says she → Read More
No, President Trump wasn’t ‘kicked off’ the California ballot. That’s Pants on Fire.
The California Republican Party made a misleading and blatantly inaccurate claim this week that President Donald Trump was "kicked off the California ballot" during a fundraising pitch on its website. It asks supporters to donate to get Trump "back on the ballot." The message goes on to claim "Governor Newsom signed SB27, preventing President Trump from appearing on next year’s ballot. The law… → Read More
Was Kamala Harris ‘part of second class to integrate’ Berkeley's public schools?
California Sen. Kamala Harris won a breakout moment in last week’s Democratic presidential debate when she attacked Joe Biden’s record opposing busing to desegregate schools in the 1970s. But her critique of the former vice president also placed a spotlight on her claim that she was → Read More
PolitiFact | PANTS ON FIRE: Trump’s latest California voter fraud claim as baseless as past allegations
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Who is Kamala Harris? A bio of the Democratic presidential candidate
Editor's note: This story is part of PolitiFact’s ongoing coverage of the 2020 campaign; these reports will be updated as the campaign continues. For more candidate profiles and fact-checking, go to www.politifact.com/2020/ Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris is relatively new on the national scene, but she's quickly become recognized for her tough questioning of Trump administration appointees. In… → Read More
PolitiFact | Who is Kamala Harris? A bio of the Democratic presidential candidate
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Kamala Harris claims Trump’s tariffs cost $1.4 billion per month. That’s Mostly True
California Sen. and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has repeatedly attacked President Trump over the cost of his tariffs. Recently, she said they amount to a huge monthly tax on working Americans. → Read More
Did Kamala Harris flip-flop on independent probes of police shootings?
A Republican Super PAC and several news reports said Democratic presidential candidate and California Sen. Kamala Harris shifted her position this week on whether independent prosecutors should probe police shootings. → Read More
Fact-checking what Gavin Newsom had to say on immigration in his State of the State
In his first State of the State Address, California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom claimed the Trump administration has → Read More
There are holes in President Trump’s claim about the San Diego border wall
In his State of the Union Address this week, President Donald Trump pointed to San Diego’s border fence with Mexico as an example of where "walls work and walls save lives." "San Diego used to have the most illegal border crossings in our country. In response, a strong security wall was put in place. This powerful barrier almost completely ended illegal crossings," he claimed. Given the many… → Read More
Kamala Harris: Criminal justice reformer, or defender of the status quo? The record is mixed
U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., kicked off her campaign for president with a speech that, in part, pushed back against critics who believe she failed to challenge shortcomings of the criminal justice system during her career as an elected prosecutor. Harris, 54, served as California’s attorney general from 2011 through 2016 and before that as San Francisco’s district attorney. In her Jan. 27… → Read More
PolitiFact - Kamala Harris: Criminal justice reformer, or defender of the status quo? The record is mixed
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Who is Kamala Harris? Meet the California Democrat running for president
Democratic U.S. Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Kamala Harris is relatively new on the national scene, though she's quickly become recognized for her tough questioning of Trump administration appointees in Senate hearings. But the majority of voters across the country are just beginning to know the 54-year-old former prosecutor from California. What about her background, how do you… → Read More
Trump repeats overly simplistic, False claim on California’s wildfires
President Trump blamed a lack of "proper Forest Management" for California’s deadly wildfires in a tweet on Tuesday, repeating his overly simplistic claim about the cause of the infernos that have ravaged the state in recent years. Eighty-six people were killed and 14,000 homes destroyed in November when the Camp Fire tore through Northern California’s Butte County, making it the most deadly and… → Read More
Introducing PolitiFact California’s ‘Newsom-Meter’, tracking the campaign promises of Gavin Newsom
During his run for governor, Democrat Gavin Newsom promised to rapidly expand California’s housing supply, saying he’d "lead the effort to develop 3.5 million new housing units" by 2025 to address the state’s affordable housing crisis. Newsom, who will be sworn in as governor on Jan. 7, also pledged to ensure health care access for everyone in the state regardless of income or immigration… → Read More
Did California's border closure cost $5.3M in economic loss? Are 'billions’ at stake?
During a recent visit to the U.S.-Mexico border, California’s Democratic Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom claimed the Trump administration’s temporary border closure last month cost $5.3 million in economic loss in the area and that future shutdowns could run into the billions of dollars. U.S. border officials on Nov. 25 stopped all traffic for several hours at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, which serves… → Read More