WASHINGTON — During the first televised debate between Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Beto O'Rourke on Friday night, both accused the other of making untruthful statements.

Here’s a fact check of some of their statements.

Cruz: O’Rourke called police officers the "modern-day Jim Crow”

O’Rourke did not call police officers the "modern-day Jim Crow,” as Cruz claimed.

Cruz was referring to comments O’Rourke made Wednesday during a town hall at Prairie View A&M University.

Here's more context of O'Rourke's response, when he said racial profiling, discriminatory stop-and-frisk searches, racially motivated police shootings and discriminatory sentencing should be collectively considered the “new Jim Crow.”

"That system of suspecting somebody, solely based on the color of their skin; searching that person solely based on the color of their skin; stopping that person solely based on the color of their skin; shooting that person solely based on the color of their skin; throwing the book at that person and letting them rot behind bars solely based on the color of their skin, it is why some have called this, I think it is an apt description, the new Jim Crow," O’Rourke said.

O'Rourke: I did not try to flee the scene of 1998 drunk driving incident

The Houston Chronicle first reported details of O'Rourke's drunken driving arrest through state and local police reports. The reports stated that a witness told police O'Rourke was driving at a "high rate of speed," lost control, hit a truck and careened into oncoming traffic, then tried to leave.

"I did not try to leave the scene of the accident," O'Rourke said during the debate.

Cruz: O’Rourke said black children are being killed by white police officers

O’Rourke made an ambiguous claim in an August viral video about NFL players’ protests of police brutality.

“Black men, unarmed, black teenagers, unarmed, and black children, unarmed, are being killed at a frightening level right now, including by members of law enforcement without accountability and without justice,” O’Rourke said.

The Washington Post fact-checked the claim and said it couldn't be rated because it was unclear if the reference meant O'Rourke believed unarmed black children were being killed generally, or killed by police.

"If you drill down and look at the data for unarmed black children killed by police, there is virtually no support for the idea that this happens at a frightening level," the Post found.

But O'Rourke didn't mention unarmed black children during the debate, only adults. The Post found that between 2015 and Aug. 20 of this year, 90 unarmed black men were killed by police.

“You have another unarmed black man killed in this country by law enforcement,” O’Rourke said Friday.

O’Rourke: Maternal mortality is three times more deadly for African-American women

The national statistic is true, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Black women are three to four times more likely than other women to die from pregnancy-related causes.

O'Rourke also called Texas the "epicenter" of the issue. According to the most recent state data, Texas does not have as grave of a problem with maternal mortality as a 2016 study initially suggested, though it is still an issue.

The Texas state health department announced findings in April that Texas had a rate of 14.6 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2012, not 38.4 like the study had suggested. The average maternal mortality rate that year nationwide was 15.9.

Cruz: Beto O'Rourke is a socialist

The Dallas Morning News has debunked this claim. O'Rourke has denied he is a socialist, and he does not support worker ownership of the means of production in society, which is the traditionally accepted definition of socialism.

"There is a fundamental choice in this election. It's a choice between, we're seeing nationally, socialists like Bernie Sanders, like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and indeed Congressman Beto O'Rourke advocating for those same policies," Cruz said, referring to universal health care policy.

That just happened: @TedCruz unequivocally just called @BetoORourke a socialist. Cruz aides pushed back hard when @dallasnews reported recently that he's been insinuating that. #TXSenateDebate — Todd J. Gillman (@toddgillman) September 21, 2018

O’Rourke: Ted Cruz missed a quarter of the votes in 2015, and half of the votes in 2016

A Dallas Morning News analysis of Cruz's votes found that Cruz had the third-most absences of any senator in 2015, and the most in 2016. From April 2015 to June 2016, roughly the period when Cruz was campaigning, he missed 43.4 percent of Senate votes.

In Cruz’s Senate career, he has missed 13.4 percent of votes, compared to O’Rourke missing 2.9 percent of House votes over the same period.

Cruz: O'Rourke wanted to open the debate on legalizing narcotics

Politifact found that O'Rourke, then an El Paso City councilman, was quoted as saying that ending a prohibition of narcotics "should at least be on the table, and so far it hasn't."

O'Rourke later walked back his statements and called the proposition "artless, and even inaccurate" in his 2011 book Dealing Death and Drugs: The Big Business of Dope in the U.S. and Mexico.

"I only learned later that marijuana is not a narcotic, even though it was precisely that drug that I felt people would be most open to debating," O'Rourke wrote.

O’Rourke: I don’t know how you’re going to repeal the Affordable Care Act and keep protections for pre-existing conditions

This is half-true. The failed House version of the GOP-sponsored health bill that would have repealed and replaced the Affordable Care Act would have protected access to insurance for those with pre-existing conditions, but would not have kept the Affordable Care Act's protection from pricing discrimination.