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Fact check: Are Abbott’s ads defending Texas GOP under fire from Democrats over health care true? Last year, Texas passed a bill to protect coverage of pre-existing conditions, the ads brag. But the bill just set up a process for devising a fix for high premiums sick Texans paid – before 2013. Whether Republicans will protect sick people's health coverage -- if Obamacare is ruled unconstitutional -- is a top topic in ads and attacks as Democrats seek to capture the Texas House. In pre-pandemic file photo, 2,000 Dallas residents crowded into a health fair at the Fireside Recreation Center last November. (Joseph Stoltz / Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Te) AUSTIN — Gov. Greg Abbott and fellow Republicans in the Texas House, under attack from Democrats saying they haven’t done enough on health care, have responded by talking a lot lately about a bill they’ve passed in each of the past two legislative sessions. But did North Richland Hills GOP Sen. Kelly Hancock’s legislation really shie...

Fact Check: Biden on the Stump We fact-check nine claims made by the Democratic presidential nominee in recent campaign speeches Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images Former Vice President and presidential nominee Joe Biden gives remarks at UA Plumbers Local 27 Erie Training Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Oct. 10, 2020. After months of doing mostly virtual events due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden returned to in-person events with small, socially distanced crowds in September. He’s kept up his travel in October. We reviewed Biden’s speeches on the stump between Oct. 12 and 16. He held six events over three days in swing states:  two   in  Ohio,  two   in  Florida and  two   more  in Michigan. All combined, he spoke for almost two hours and 46 minutes, or less than 30 minutes per speech. His shortest speech (in Detroit) was about 19 minutes, and his longest (in Cincinnati) was more than 3...