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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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. (center) is flanked by GOP whip Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. (left) and Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, as Thune speak to reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. Earlier Tuesday, the Senate passed the budget reconciliation package of President Donald Trump's signature bill of big tax breaks and spending cuts. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

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