Politics & Government
Did Mark Kirk Call for the Mass Arrest of 18,000 African Americans?
We fact-checked U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth's two-part claim about incumbent Sen. Mark Kirk. Here's what we found.
In the hotly contested Illinois U.S. Senate race, Democratic challenger Tammy Duckworth is doing everything she can to link Republican incumbent Mark Kirk to Donald Trump.
Even after Kirk said he would not support Trump on June 7, the Duckworth camp kept at it in this tweet:
Kirk, who called for the mass arrest of 18,000 African Americans, was apparently fine w/ Trump's #StillTooRacist call for mass deportation
— Tammy Duckworth (@TammyforIL) June 8, 2016
That’s a packed tweet. Is it true that Kirk called for the mass arrest of 18,000 African-Americans and, second, that Kirk had no objection to Trump’s call for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants?
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Here's what we found and how we rated Duckworth's claim.
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