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Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

Drawing on years of experience as communications chief for President George W. Bush and senior advisor for the McCain-Palin campaign, Nicolle Wallace provides political insight and clarity on where the decision-makers stand on complex issues. Join her for analysis and discussion with the key newsmakers every weekday.

Can’t tell60% confidence6 sourcesOct 28, 2026Major League Baseball moved the All-Star Game in 2021 to Colorado due to Georgia's voter suppression law.Said by BThe sources confirm that MLB moved the All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver's Coors Field in 2021 in response to Georgia's voting law, but the passage says the move happened in 2020, so the extracted claim's 2021 date departs from the post and the claim is not gradeable as the poster's statement.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell30% confidence3 sourcesOct 28, 2026In 2022, 96,000 people had voted early in Louisiana at this point in the election cycle.Said by AThe extracted claim departs from the passage, which says '2002, at this time in 2002, 96,000 people had voted early' and does not mention 2022 for that figure, so the post did not make this claim as written. Separately, KPLC reports Black early votes statewide at 98,008 in 2022 through a comparable point, which is close to 96,000, but that figure is not graded against the claim as extracted.Can’t tell50% confidence6 sourcesOct 28, 2026The number of early votes in Louisiana at this point in 2026 is 179,000.Said by AThe extracted claim departs from the passage: the post's 179,000 figure refers to Black early votes in Louisiana, not the total number of early votes. Sources match that Black early vote figure (179,094, per KPLC) but show total early votes around 520,942 (Oct 27) and 530,507 (Oct 31), so the claim as extracted would be false, yet it is graded as unverifiable because the scope was widened beyond what the post said.Can’t tell40% confidence5 sourcesOct 28, 2026Corruption is the number one issue for voters in the 2026 election.The claim departs from the passage: the post says "We have not seen polls showing that corruption was the number one issue" and that Trump put it at number one, so the post does not assert the extracted claim. On the substance, sources conflict: CNBC (Oct 23) found corruption the top issue, while AP-NORC, NBC, and Marist rank the economy or cost of living first, so the claim's wording is not settled either way.Can’t tell40% confidence3 sourcesOct 28, 2026Election day is scheduled for.The extracted claim is a truncated fragment ('Election day is scheduled for.') with no date, so there is no checkable assertion to grade. The passage's implied point, that election day is less than a week after October 28, is consistent with the sources showing Election Day as Tuesday, November 3, 2026, but the claim itself departs from the passage's wording.Can’t tell30% confidence5 sourcesOct 22, 2026Speaker Johnson refused to see Congresswoman-elect Krahulba for weeks to delay the implementation of the Epstein Transparency Act.Said by ANone of the sources mention Congresswoman-elect Krahulba. The closest match is Adelita Grijalva, whose swearing-in Johnson delayed until the House reconvened, and Grijalva's belief that he was trying to delay the Epstein vote, but that is a different referent and a claimant's belief, so the claim cannot be graded against these sources.Can’t tell30% confidence4 sourcesOct 22, 2026Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor stood behind the president when he signed the legislation bringing CISA into law.Said by 2CThe passage says "Chris Krebs and I stood behind the president's shoulder" and then addresses Miles Taylor as a separate person, so the speaker is not Taylor. The claim's naming of Miles Taylor therefore departs from the passage. Sources confirm Krebs was present at the 2018 CISA signing, but none place Taylor there.Can’t tell30% confidence3 sourcesOct 22, 2026The Democracy Docket reported that some groups may be using AI programs to sift through voter rolls.Said by 2DThe post says 'they' (the federal government effort it was describing, not 'some groups') may be using AI programs to sift voter rolls, so the extracted claim departs from the passage and is not graded as the poster's claim. The sources do not report that the federal government uses AI on voter rolls; a June 2026 Democracy Docket article covers activist voter-roll tools (EagleAI, ELLY) that are not described as AI, and the HSI dataset report is from a different outlet.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell45% confidence4 sourcesOct 22, 2026The Department of Homeland Security used a small office of contractors to review voter rolls in every state.Said by 2CThe claim departs from the passage: the speaker framed a tiny DHS office of contractors reviewing every state's voter rolls as a hypothetical warning about what a future administration could do, not as a fact about what DHS did. Sources describe DHS surging hundreds of officers on a review of at least 47 state rolls and seeking a third-party contractor to collect voter records, which does not match a small contractor office, so the claim as extracted cannot be graded as the poster's statement.Can’t tell40% confidence3 sourcesOct 22, 2026Safe haven entitlements for 1,200 families of military personnel are scheduled to end on November 30.Said by 3CThe claim adds a figure of 1,200 families that the claimant's passage never states, so it departs from the post and is graded as unverifiable. The November 30 end date for safe haven entitlements is supported by sources published before the post, but the 1,200 figure is not in the passage; the sources give about 1,300 Navy families and dependents.Can’t tell35% confidence5 sourcesOct 22, 2026Families of military personnel are expected to move into permanent housing by December 1.Said by 3CThe claim departs from the passage: the post concerns Navy families evacuated from Bahrain who were told to leave hotels and short-term rentals for permanent housing by December 1, but the extracted claim generalizes this to 'families of military personnel' in general. The sources support only part of the Bahrain account (support payments end Nov. 30 and families have been living in temporary housing), and none explicitly confirms the December 1 permanent-housing move as of 2026-10-22.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell30% confidence6 sourcesOct 22, 2026Three ships were destroyed by missiles and drones in the Strait of Hormuz the night prior to the town hall.Said by 3CNone of the sources reports three ships destroyed by missiles and drones in the Strait of Hormuz on the night before the October 2026 town hall (about October 21). The sources cover frequent attacks in October, including a Reuters count of 28 attacks, but they describe other dates and mostly mines or unspecified projectiles, so the specific claim cannot be graded.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.

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