FactChecking Sanders’ CNN Town Hall
Posted on AllSides February 27th, 2019
From The Left
In a televised town hall, newly announced presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders repeated several misleading claims that we have written about in the past.
Sanders said Trump sought to “throw 32 million people off of the health care they had.” But that figure includes some who would choose to no longer purchase insurance if the individual mandate penalty were removed — which occurred this year.
The senator repeated the misleading Democratic talking point that under the Republican tax plan signed by Trump, “83 percent of the benefits go to the...
