The 6th Republican debate is history.

But even as the candidates pack up and leave Charleston, the non-partisan fact-checkers at PolitiFact are still working to parse political truth from political fiction. Was Bush correct about Hillary Clinton is under an FBI investigation? Trump once again swung wide on the refugee crisis.

And Cruz accused former Attorney General Eric Holder of vowing to “brainwash” the American public on guns.

PolitiFact scribes spent the night trying to decipher those and other comments from the still-crowded GOP field. You can find our findings here.

And PolitiFact will be back for the Democratic debate this weekend.

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Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney — pictured during a hearing Monday, Dec. 15, 2025 — has cleared the way for Georgia's State Election Board to obtain Fulton ballots and other documents from the 2020 election. (Arvin Temkar/AJC)

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Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney — pictured during a hearing Monday, Dec. 15, 2025 — has cleared the way for Georgia's State Election Board to obtain Fulton ballots and other documents from the 2020 election. (Arvin Temkar/AJC)

Credit: Arvin Temkar/AJC