Bernie Sanders is the reason Iowa went so wrong and now his supporters are handing Trump ammunition.

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117. He has gotten into trouble before when he quotes statistics or numbers...

And he's gotten called out on it, to his displeasure. For instance, according to Politifact....

"42 percent of (Walmart’s) associates are black."

"Forty percent of the guns in this country are sold without any background checks."

"When Trump won, we had the lowest voter turnout in 20 years."

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

"We now work the longest hours of any people around the world."

"Last year, ExxonMobil made $19 billion in profit. Guess what. They paid zero in taxes. They got a $156 million refund from the IRS."

"Was it 150 million people on private insurance? 50 million of those people lose their private insurance every year when they quit their jobs, or they go unemployed, or their employer changes their insurance policy."

With Medicare for All, "study after study has shown that ... the average middle-class families will save $3,000 each and every year on their health care bills."

Says middle class taxpayers "subsidize Walmart’s horrendously low wages to the tune of at least $6.2 billion every year."

Says President Donald "Trump’s budget gives a $100 billion tax break to three of the wealthiest families."

"Increasing the min. wage to $15 an hour would reduce spending on food stamps, public housing and other programs by over $7.6 billion a year."

"Washington politicians are paid over $200,000 an hour for speeches."

"NAFTA, supported by the Secretary (Clinton), cost us 800,000 jobs nationwide."

"We work longer hours than any people in the industrialized world, including the Japanese."


"Very little of (the defense) budget — less than 10 percent — actually goes into fighting ISIS and international terrorism."

The largest low-wage employer "is not McDonalds or Walmart but the U.S. government."

"We have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on Earth."

"Poverty levels (are) at an all-time high."


False statements involving Bernie Sanders
https://www.politifact.com/personalities/bernie-sanders/statements/byruling/false/

Mostly False statements involving Bernie Sanders
https://www.politifact.com/personalities/bernie-sanders/statements/byruling/barely-true/