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Republican State Leadership Committee
stated on March 26, 2020 in a campaign ad:

Says Jill Karofsky as a prosecutor “went easy on” a Madison man in a 1999 sexual assault case

By Eric Litke • March 27, 2020
Turning Point USA
stated on March 25, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak "has banned the use of an anti-malaria drug that might help cure coronavirus.”

By Daniel Funke • March 27, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2020 in a Hannity show interview:

Speaking of his restriction on travel from China, “I had (Joe) Biden calling me xenophobic. … He called me a racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from China coming in.”

By Miriam Valverde • March 27, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on March 25, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says to leave objects in the sun to avoid contracting the coronavirus.

By Tom Kertscher • March 27, 2020
Duey Stroebel
stated on March 24, 2020 in a tweet:

Says that under order from Gov. Tony Evers, he and his eight children can’t legally have dinner together anymore.

By Eric Litke • March 27, 2020
Bloggers
stated on February 28, 2020 in a news article:

“Swing State Hit With 2020 Voting Lawsuit - Accused Of Registering Over 1,500 Deceased People In Pennsylvania.”

By Jessica Calefati • March 27, 2020
Daniel Kelly
stated on March 8, 2020 in a TV interview:

Says a Marquette professor called him a "maverick" and found no correlation between his opinions and conservative background.

By Haley BeMiller • March 27, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on March 23, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says the CDC now says that the coronavirus can survive on surfaces for up to 17 days.

By Samantha Putterman • March 26, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on March 20, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says truck drivers are being turned away from fast-food restaurants during the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Samantha Putterman • March 26, 2020
John Cornyn
stated on March 18, 2020 in a press conference:

“China is to blame because the culture where people eat bats and snakes and dogs and things like that, these viruses are transmitted from the animal to the people and that's why China has been the source of a lot of these viruses like SARS, like MERS, the Swine Flu and now the coronavirus.”

By Madlin Mekelburg • March 26, 2020

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