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The 2020 Election Collection: Fact-Checking the Presidential Race ​ Happy Halloween, Truth-Seekers! In celebration of the spookiest day of the year, we’re sharing a collection we rounded up to combat one of the scariest things we’ve encountered: 2020 U.S. presidential election misinformation. With Election Day right around the corner, this is one of your last chances to check the facts before casting your ballot. That’s why we’ve collected all of our fact checks related to the election in one easy place for browsing by candidate and category.  Whatever election-centric rumors you’ve heard, we’ve got you covered.  ​Read More Fact Checks Did AOC Call GOP ‘Sad’ and ‘Stupid’ for Criticizing Her Outfits? Republicans criticized the expensive price tags on outfits worn by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a Vanity Fair photo shoot. ✅ Mostly True Did Golfer Jack Nicklaus Endorse Trump? The famous golfer said that the 2020 election was not a "personality contest." ✅  Correct Attribution Does a Video Show a ‘Butthole’ Surfing Robot? Truly just a means to an end. ✅  True Were Trump Supporters Injured by a Fire Hose at Tampa Rally? With four days to go until Election Day, the president spoke outside Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. ❌ False Are These Calif.’s Mandatory Rules for Christmas/Thanksgiving Gatherings? A meme circulating on Facebook caused some to believe that the state had issued holiday rules. ❌  False View Latest Fact Checks We Can't Do This Without You Make a contribution today and help ensure Snopes.com endures — and grows. $5 $20 $50 $100 $200 $250 View more options News Did Searches for “Change My Vote” Spike After Final Prez Debate or Hunter Biden Controversy? Trendception: A master class in the use of spurious data to make bogus and self-referential political talking points unsupported by empirical evidence. Read More How Twitter’s Trending Function Can Go Haywire Twitter users were clamoring for Chris Pratt to be canceled because of his support of President Donald Trump. There was one problem: Pratt had never said such a thing. Read More Facebook Shutters Pro-Trump Group Posing as ‘Official Kayleigh McEnany Fan Page’ The social network previously shut down a different but similarly named group after discovering it was managed from North Macedonia. Read More Scarlett Johansson, Colin Jost Marry in Private Ceremony The actress and “Saturday Night Live” star got engaged in 2019 after dating two years. Read More Texas Early Voting Exceeds Total of All 2016 Ballots Texas is the first state to hit the milestone in 2020. Read More

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