During the most recent GOP presidential debate, Carly Fiorina made a claim that 92% of the job losses in President Obama’s first term belonged to women. Fiorina was in fact, wrong, as several news outlets pointed out she had copied a previously debunked statistic used during the 2012 election by Mitt Romney. By the end of Obama’s first term, there was an increase of over 400,000 working women.
According to ABC News, Fiorina corrected herself on a recent episode of This Week With George Stephanopoulos. “I misspoke on that particular fact,” Fiorina said. “In this particular case, the fact-checkers are correct,” Fiorina continued. “The 92% it turns out was the first three-and-a-half years of his term and in the final six months things improved.” However, President Obama had entered into office when a recession had already been in place for two years.