Following Thursday's first GOP debates, fact checkers got to work finding many a whopper among the Republican candidates' claims. Jeb Bush, for instance, took credit for tax cuts that were mandated by federal law, while Donald Trump falsely claimed that there would be no immigration debate without his campaign.
Meanwhile, Marco Rubio attempted to paint Hillary Clinton as the most entrenched political insider, but the biggest tally of years of political experience actually goes to Rick Perry. Lindsey Graham misrepresented where America buys its foreign oil. And Ben Carson said the Air Force is the smallest it's been since 1940, which might be scary except that the Air Force didn't truly exist as a separate branch of the military until 1947.
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