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False75% confidence5 sourcesOct 28, 2026Only one Republican senator voted against the Voting Rights Act of 1965.Said by CThe claim that only one Republican senator voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act is contradicted by the Senate tally: Republicans voted 30-2 on final passage (77-19 overall), so two Republicans opposed it. The claim matches the passage's wording, and the speaker's own 'only one' figure is the claim being checked, not evidence for it.False60% confidence3 sourcesOct 28, 2026Approximately 3% of the American public believes that Vladimir Putin is great.Said by BPew Research Center surveys in 2026 put American confidence in Putin at about 6% to 10%, so the claimed 3% falls well below the recorded range on the closest available measure. The sources do not measure how many Americans call Putin 'great', so the figure is contradicted by a comparable measure rather than by a direct match.Mixed45% confidence3 sourcesOct 28, 2026In Georgia, ballots cast by Black voters are up 15% while ballots from white voters are down 3% compared to the previous midterm cycle.Said by BThe claim's direction for Black voters is supported: Georgia's early electorate shows Black voters rising to 32.4% of ballots from 30.2% in 2022. The sources do not report the 15% and -3% ballot-count changes, and their raw totals (2,826,146 early votes in 2026 vs 2,511,966 in 2022, with white voters at 1,484,965 in 2026) imply white ballot counts roughly flat to slightly up, not down 3%. The white share fell from 58.2% to 52.5%, so the 'down' appears to reflect share rather than count. The claim is quoted from Bloomberg and repeated by Charlie Sykes, so it is not independently corroborated. The 'as of 2026-10-28' snapshot is also a moving target, as the totals rose through Nov 1.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Mixed60% confidence6 sourcesOct 28, 2026Brad Raffensperger passed a voter suppression law in Georgia.Said by BSources show Georgia's 2021 SB 202 was approved by Republican legislators and signed by Gov. Brian Kemp, not passed by Raffensperger, who is Secretary of State. They also show he publicly supported and defended the law, so he backed it but did not pass it; the 'voter suppression' label is critics' characterization, not a finding.Mixed65% confidence6 sourcesOct 28, 2026Louisiana redistricted the second and sixth districts to eliminate majority Black seats.Said by ASources support that Louisiana's 2026 congressional map eliminated one majority-Black district, the 6th (Cleo Fields' Baton Rouge-to-Shreveport seat), but they show the 2nd District remained majority-Black, so the claim that both the 2nd and 6th were redistricted to eliminate majority-Black seats is only partly right. The 2nd was redrawn but not eliminated.Mixed60% confidence5 sourcesOct 28, 2026Jon Ossoff lost his 2017 special election campaign for Congress in the North Atlanta suburbs by a couple of points.Said by 2DOssoff did lose the June 2017 runoff in Georgia's 6th District, a North Atlanta suburban seat, so the core fact holds. However, the margin was about 4 points (51.9% to 48.1%), roughly double the 'couple of points' the claim states, so the magnitude is overstated relative to the record.Mixed60% confidence6 sourcesOct 28, 2026Federal corruption and conflict of interest laws do not apply to the president.Said by 3CThe sources strongly support that the federal conflict-of-interest statute (18 U.S.C. § 208) and its definitions exclude the President, so that part of the claim holds. The broader wording 'corruption ... laws do not apply' is contradicted by sources stating that bribery law (18 U.S.C. § 201) and the STOCK Act still apply to the President. The passage itself says 'corruption and conflict of interest laws that regulate many government officials,' which the extraction dropped, and on that narrower reading the claim is largely supported.True90% confidence3 sourcesOct 28, 2026Jon Ossoff is a member of the United States Senate.Said by BMultiple sources (Congress.gov, the senator's official Senate website, AP) confirm Jon Ossoff is a U.S. Senator from Georgia serving since 2021 and running for reelection in 2026, so the claim holds as of 2026-10-28. The passage's 'Senator John Ossoff' reference resolves to the same person, and the extraction faithfully drops only the 'John' variant.True90% confidence6 sourcesOct 28, 2026Keisha Lance Bottoms is running for governor of Georgia.Said by BAs of 2026-10-28, Keisha Lance Bottoms was the Democratic nominee and candidate for Georgia governor in the November 2026 general election against Republican Rick Jackson, per multiple sources including AP, Politico, NBC, and WALB. The claim's present-tense 'is running' is supported; the post's 'first Democrat elected governor in nearly 30 years' detail is also reflected in sources describing Democrats seeking to flip the seat, and the extraction faithfully reflects the passage.True90% confidence5 sourcesOct 28, 2026Donald Trump was elected to a second term as president.Said by BMultiple tier1 and primary sources state Donald Trump won the November 2024 election for a second (non-consecutive) presidential term and began it January 20, 2025. The claim's wording matches the passage's referent ('won a second time'), and no source contradicts it.True92% confidence8 sourcesOct 28, 2026No Democrat has been elected governor in Georgia in nearly 30 years.Said by BThe sources consistently show that the last Democrat elected governor of Georgia was Roy Barnes in 1998, and Republicans have won every governor's race since, so no Democrat has been elected in roughly 28 years, which fits 'nearly 30 years.' The claim is a faithful paraphrase of the passage's premise, which drops only the 'first Democrat' framing and the candidate's campaign, and it is graded on that basis.True80% confidence9 sourcesOct 28, 2026Donald Trump is making his second stop in Georgia in less than two weeks.Said by BAs of 2026-10-28, Trump's Georgia visits were a Dalton rally about a week or so earlier and a Perry rally on 2026-10-24, which multiple sources describe as his second Georgia stop in less than two weeks. The post's future tense ('will make') refers to that Perry rally, which had already happened by the posting date, so the core claim holds; the claim does not depart from the passage. The Reuters piece saying Trump would head to Ohio and Georgia on Wednesday is a minor inconsistency, since Trump went to Ohio, but it does not change the verdict.