Fact-Checking Senate Ads in Iowa, New Hampshire and North Carolina

What BBN said about it

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentOutside a diner in Des Moines, Kenji. The New York Times fact-checked three Senate ads from Iowa, New Hampshire and North Carolina.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentAll three are about the cost of living.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentDid they pass?

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentThe Times assessed them. I'm not allowed to say more, because the data doesn't say more. So I'm interrogating the witnesses.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentSir, this is a grocery cart. Where were you on election night?

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentLola, the cart can't talk.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentNeither can the ads, Kenji, until somebody prices a breakfast. A man here is eating a twelve-dollar omelet and refusing to comment.

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   Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentThat's a confession.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo an omelet is the evidence.

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    Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentEvery candidate promises cheaper groceries. The only thing that's cheap is the promise.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentVerdict?

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    Lola Cruz · Senior Field CorrespondentThe ads are on probation. The omelet walks.