Amid an Omaha campaign visit from presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, KMTV’s partners at PolitiFact took a look at how she has scored during their fact checks.
PolitiFact's Truth-O-Meter shows how she stands after examining 140 of her statements in recent years:
True: 28%
Mostly True: 23%
Half True: 21%
Mostly False: 16%
False: 11%
Pants on Fire: 1%
PolitiFact takes a closer look at two statements Clinton made this month.
In a post to her campaign website in early December, Hillary Clinton was quoted as saying, "Ted Cruz tried to ban contraception" five times.
While Sen. Cruz is a strong opponent of abortion, Clinton's campaign doesn't show how Cruz is trying to push across-the-board bans on contraception.
His support of a personhood amendment might ban certain types of contraception. Other examples are limited and deal with what employers would be required to pay for.
TRUTH-O-METER
The statement contains some element of truth but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression, so PolitiFact rates it “Mostly False.”
Last week, Clinton told ABC News that the Charleston, South Carolina, shooter "should have never been given a gun, but the universal background check was not fast enough."
Dylann Roof admitted to a drug offense a few weeks before he tried to buy a gun, so the FBI said he should have been denied one.
However, it wasn't the three-day time limit by itself that undermined Roof's background check. There were clerical errors in the FBI's database that prevented the examiner from seeing Roof's drug admission.
TRUTH-O-METER
Clinton's characterization misses some important information about Roof's case. PolitiFact rates it “Mostly True.”
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