Assessing the candidates' overall truthfulness

With primaries completed this week in Florida and Ohio, as well as in Illinois, Missouri and North Carolina, we thought it was a good time to look at the remaining candidates trying to capture their party's nomination for president.

By PolitiFact

March 22, 2016 at 1:20PM

Below is a snapshot of where their Truth-O-Meter scorecards stood as of this week using PolitiFact's system of rating the accuracy of statements made.

Learn about the methodology here, and access dynamic scorecards here, which update automatically with new fact-checks.

The candidates are ranked by polling average.

(Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
(Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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