Three more Republicans are throwing their hats into the presidential ring this week: former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former computer executive Carly Fiorina and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson.
Huckabee now lives in the Panhandle while Carson lives in West Palm Beach.
Of the three, we’ve fact-checked Huckabee the most, thanks to his previous run for president in 2007, when he staked out a position as a down-to-earth economic populist with strong appeal to evangelicals.
One of our more memorable fact-checks from that race was Huckabee’s claim that the signers of the Declaration of Independence were "brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen." Huckabee (who has worked as a minister) was totally off on the numbers: Only one out of 56 signers was a clergyman. We rated the statement Pants on Fire.
On a totally different note, we couldn’t resist seeing if we could fact-check his claim to have eaten squirrel while in college after cooking the critter in a popcorn popper. We found an eyewitness who confirmed Huckabee’s story, so we rated the claim True.
To read about the Truth-O-Meter records of the latest batch of GOP candidates, turn to Angie Drobnic Holan's story from PolitiFact and here are our files on Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio.
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