The Fact Checker team checks statements made by an Iowa political candidate/officeholder or a national candidate/officeholder about Iowa, or in ads that appear in our market.
Claims must be independently verifiable.
We give statements grades from A to F based on accuracy and context.
If you spot a claim you think needs checking, email us.
The Fact Checker team is comprised of Erin Jordan, Michaela Ramm, John Steppe, and Marissa Payne.
Gov. Kim Reynolds’s statements on Fox News were focused on how quickly Iowa’s agricultural production returned to normal after the COVID-19 outbreaks at meatpacking plants. But is she glossing over impact on workers?
The Fact Checker looks at a tweet from Sen. Chuck Grassley claiming Iowans are facing seven-year high gas prices and that President Joe Biden is to blame for the increase.
State Auditor Rob Sand, who is considering a run for governor in 2022, was critical of the amount of funding going to the Terrace Hill fence versus Iowa’s correctional system.
The Fact Checker is checking whether it’s true President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have not visited the U.S. border region since Biden came into office Jan. 20. That’s what Hinson said in May 10 fundraising video.
The state senator claimed: “In Iowa, net overall migration in 2020 was negative. We lost 2,348 folks who left this state. We rank 45th among states in ethnic diversity.”
Gov. Kim Reynolds claimed this past month that the Green New Deal proposed by progressive Congressional lawmakers would “destroy Iowa’s economy and our way of life.”
With a flurry of mass shootings so far in 2021 — more than 150 according to the not-for-profit Gun Violence …
As Democratic President Joe Biden signs many executive orders in his first few months in office, many Republicans have rebuked …
Why don’t the union’s numbers match those from the Corrections Department?
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