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Facebook posts
stated on December 7, 2022 in a Facebook post:

This video shows Chuck Grassley demanding Joe Biden’s “resignation.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • December 13, 2022
Deidre DeJear
stated on October 19, 2022 in a tweet:

"Kim Reynolds doesn’t think nurses are educated."

By Liam Halawith • October 31, 2022
Zach Nunn
stated on July 10, 2022 in an interview with Breitbart:

“My opponent, Cindy Axne, has actively sought to defund the police.”

By Sam Knupp • July 20, 2022
Mike Franken
stated on May 5, 2022 in a tweet:

“Senator Grassley hopped off the Finance Committee, where he could be helpful to Iowa and the nation, in favor of the Judiciary Committee"

By Lyle Muller • May 9, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on April 12, 2022 in a Facebook post:

“A bird pooped on Joe Biden during his speech” in Iowa.

By Jeff Cercone • April 13, 2022
Tweets
stated on February 6, 2022 in a tweet:

Turning Point USA is a white nationalist organization.

By Caleb McCullough • February 16, 2022
Progress Iowa
stated on November 15, 2021 in a press release:

"Only one member of Iowa’s federal delegation" voted in favor of the bipartisan infrastructure legislation.

By Lyle Muller • November 18, 2021
Ashley Hinson
stated on October 21, 2021 in a press release:

Democrats are “asking for a blank check book to spend as much as they want without worrying about the repercussions.”

By Kelsey Harrell • October 27, 2021
Mariannette Miller-Meeks
stated on September 8, 2021 in a tweet:

“My opponent wants to abolish” law enforcement.

By Natalie Dunlap • September 17, 2021
Kristi Noem
stated on July 16, 2021 in an Iowa event:

“In South Dakota, I’m putting prayer back in our schools.”

By Natalie Dunlap • July 22, 2021
Greg Hauenstein
stated on June 17, 2021 in a tweet:

The “Back the Blue” Act that Gov. Kim Reynolds signs means you can't wear the American flag. "So throw out those towels and swimsuits ... or you’re a criminal!"

By Natalie Dunlap • July 6, 2021
Bloggers
stated on April 8, 2021 in articles and social media:

Black Lives Matter protest at Iowa Capitol was an “insurrection” like that on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol.

By Tom Kertscher • April 12, 2021
Donald Trump
stated on October 14, 2020 in a campaign speech:

Says Joe Biden has plans to ban animal agriculture and gas-powered cars.

By Julia Shanahan • January 18, 2021
Organizers for Bernie 2020
stated on February 4, 2020 in a tweet:

Says Democrats "blocked the Iowa poll" and "blocked the Iowa caucus."

By Tom Kertscher • February 4, 2020
Charlie Kirk
stated on February 2, 2020 in a tweet:

Says "EIGHT Iowa counties have more adults registered to vote than voting-aged adults living there.”

By Daniel Funke • February 3, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on August 27, 2016 in a speech:

"Hillary Clinton wants to shut down family farms" using "radical regulation," by raising business tax "rates as high as nearly 50 percent" and by taxing "family farms again at death by as much as 45 percent."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 31, 2016
Jeb Bush
stated on November 11, 2015 in Atlantic, Iowa, during a campaign event.:

Says President Barack Obama did not invite a Republican senator to dine at the White House until his fifth year in office.

By Jason Noble • November 23, 2015
Rick Santorum
stated on October 31, 2015 in a speech at the Republican Party of Iowa's Growth and Opportunity Party in Des Moines:

"I am the only person in this field who is against amnesty. Every other person in this field wants to allow people who are here illegally to be able to stay here, in one form or another."

By Jason Noble • November 8, 2015