Cory A. Booker
Topics
- True
“The consumer confidence in this country has gone way down.”
other·2025-04-01·by PolitiFact · 2 evidence - True
“There is a direct connection between discriminatory policies within the USDA and the enormous land loss we have seen among Black farmers over the past century.”
other·2021-02-09·1 source·by PolitiFact · 2 evidence
- True
“The U.S. Senate is dominated by millionaires, and I am not one of them.”
self record·2020-07-30·by PolitiFact · 2 evidence - True
“National polls have never predicted who will be president from our party. Carter was in the single digits a few months before caucuses. Bill Clinton was. Obama was 20 points behind in the national polls roughly.”
other·2020-01-09·by PolitiFact · 2 evidence - Mixed
“Nuclear is more than 50 percent of our non-carbon causing energy. So people who think that we can get there without nuclear being part of the blend just aren't looking at the facts.”
policy plan·2019-09-04·1 source·by FactCheck.org · 3 evidence
- True
“In 2017, we had more marijuana possession arrests in our country than all other violent crimes combined.”
other·2019-07-05·by PolitiFact · 2 evidence - Mixed
“When Connecticut did licensing, their shootings dropped, their murders dropped 40%. Suicides dropped 15%.”
other·2019-05-12·1 source·by PolitiFact · 4 evidence
- Mixed
“Nowadays, there is more regulation over toy guns than real ones.”
other·2019-05-06·1 source·by PolitiFact · 2 evidence
- Mixed
“We now have longitudinal data that shows that children born around Superfund sites have dramatically higher rates of birth defects, dramatically higher rates of autism.”
other·2019-04-29·1 source·by PolitiFact · 4 evidence
- Mixed
“Trump cut funding from the Justice Department to investigate domestic terrorist groups, white supremacist groups.”
other·2019-03-27·1 source·by PolitiFact · 3 evidence
- False
“Farmer suicide rates are as high as they have been since the Great Depression.”
other·2019-03-18· - False
“Even the CBO says if you lower Medicare to allow 50-year-olds to get into it, you can not only save the government money, but you can lower premiums for all Americans.”
policy plan·2019-02-04·1 source·by PolitiFact · 2 evidence
- Mixed
“Research shows that 1 percent of licensed dealers supply a whopping 57 percent of the guns that are recovered in crimes.”
other·2018-03-14·1 source·by PolitiFact · 2 evidence
- Mixed
“In American history since 9/11, we've had 85 major attacks in our country, 73 percent of them have been by white nationalist hate groups.”
other·2018-01-16·1 source·by PolitiFact · 3 evidence
- Mixed
“In 2009, Mitch McConnell was the person that's saying, hey, we should get all the ethics information in before we do the hearings.”
other·2017-01-08· - Mixed
“A 500 percent increase in incarceration in our country, disproportionately affecting poor and disproportionately affecting minorities.”
other·2016-07-10·1 source·by PolitiFact · 3 evidence
- Mixed
“Al-Qaida operatives have said, hey, we want you to use this loophole — for purchasing guns despite being on a watch list — to attack and kill Americans.”
other·2016-06-16· - True
“You're more likely to get struck by lightning in Texas than to find in-person voter fraud.”
other·2015-08-09· - Mixed
“We built a new prison every 10 days between 1990 and 2005 to keep up with our mass incarceration explosion of nonviolent offenders.”
other·2015-07-27·1 source·by PolitiFact · 2 evidence
- Mixed
“Newark is now home to one-third of all commercial and multi-family development in New Jersey.”
self record·2013-09-10·1 source·by PolitiFact · 2 evidence