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Chris Jacobs
stated on January 7, 2021 in a television interview:

“There were several states where outside actors dramatically changed the rules of the road, so to speak, two weeks out, one week out, on how elections would be run.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 13, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on January 4, 2021 in a Facebook post:

New York “is trying to pass a bill that would allow them to round up non mask wearers and people who don’t want to take the vaccine into concentration camps. Then with a court order they can force vaccinate you.”

By Samantha Putterman • January 5, 2021
Claudia Tenney
stated on December 8, 2020 in a Tweet:

“Dead people also voted.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • December 22, 2020
Rick Scott
stated on November 16, 2020 in a television interview:

Says Charles Schumer supports “putting everybody on the Medicare system. He wants the Green New Deal … reduce funding for the police.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • December 4, 2020
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on November 7, 2020 in a Tweet:

“Every single swing-seat House Democrat who endorsed #MedicareForAll won re-election or is on track to win re-election. Every. Single. One.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • November 17, 2020
Tweets
stated on October 29, 2020 in a tweet:

Queens voters received pre-marked ballots for Joe Biden.

By Hayat Norimine • November 1, 2020
Chris Jacobs
stated on October 21, 2020 in a debate:

"I am for protecting pre-existing conditions. … I actually co-sponsored legislation to do just that."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • October 30, 2020
Chris Jacobs
stated on October 22, 2020 in campaign mailer:

“While serving as Town Supervisor, Nate McMurray voted to raise taxes on homeowners.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • October 27, 2020
Andrew Cuomo
stated on September 30, 2020 in a press call:

"We're No. 46 out of 50 states... we're 46th in terms of percentage of deaths in nursing homes."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • October 16, 2020
Michael Caputo
stated on September 13, 2020 in a Facebook video:

"There are hit squads being trained all over this country” to violently oppose a second term for President Donald Trump.

By Bill McCarthy • September 17, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on September 14, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says a Twitter account for "Scarsdale NY Antifa" tweeted that "chapters of Antifa around Oregon have collaborated to ignite fires around the state."

By Bill McCarthy • September 15, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on September 1, 2020 in a television interview:

“There was tremendous cheating in New York”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • September 11, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on August 20, 2020 in a speech:

“Cuomo ended cash bail ... and now the crime rate has gone through the roof.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • August 29, 2020
Michael Caputo
stated on August 17, 2020 in a tweet:

“Does the #DemConvention know @NYGovCuomo forced nursing homes across NY to take in COVID positive patients and planted the seeds of infection that killed thousands of grandmothers and grandfathers?”

By Michelle Andrews • August 24, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on July 29, 2020 in a Tweet:

“New York Mail-In voting is in a disastrous state of condition. Votes from many weeks ago are missing - a total mess. They have no idea what is going on. Rigged Election.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • August 14, 2020
TikTok posts
stated on June 5, 2020 in on social media:

“Central Park actually used to be a town called Seneca Village” founded by African Americans in 1825.

By Hannah Roesch • August 12, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on July 26, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Florida is doing over five times better” than New Jersey and New York in COVID-19 deaths per million people.

By Tom Kertscher • July 31, 2020
Nick Freitas
stated on July 11, 2020 in a radio interview.:

“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez votes with President Trump more than Abigail Spanberger does.”

By Warren Fiske • July 21, 2020
Tom Reed
stated on July 9, 2020 in a news conference:

Opening the schools “is a local determination, but it’s not a state determination.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • July 18, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on June 30, 2020 in a Facebook post:

New York state “hospitals reporting thousands of fungus lung infections due to wearing a mask!!”

By Ciara O'Rourke • July 7, 2020
Chris Jacobs
stated on June 17, 2020 in an ad:

“As a lawyer working in Korea, Nate McMurray helped send American jobs to Asia”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 20, 2020
Chris Jacobs
stated on June 13, 2020 in remarks in a debate:

Says Nate McMurray said that “gun owners are part of the most insecure and dangerous club on earth,” that “the NRA are homegrown terrorists,” and that “abortion opponents are the American Taliban.”

By Meghan Hall • June 18, 2020
Monica Wallace
stated on June 8, 2020 in a newspaper interview:

Significantly more people died of Covid-19 in two months than died of overdoses all of last year or the year before.

By John Pullano • June 18, 2020
Andrew Cuomo
stated on May 20, 2020 in a news conference:

“Why did the state do that with COVID patients in nursing homes? It’s because the state followed President Trump’s CDC guidance.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 13, 2020
George Borrello
stated on May 11, 2020 in a press release:

“Infection rates in Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties have consistently been among the lowest in the state.”

By Michael Hogan • June 12, 2020
Beth Parlato
stated on May 7, 2020 in a video in a tweet:

Said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that “with all the technology we have, we don't need actual classrooms.”

By Meghan Hall • June 12, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on June 9, 2020 in a tweet:

"Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment ... Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?"

By Bill McCarthy • June 9, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on May 18, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Texas and Florida have a “balanced budget” while California is “in debt $54 billion and New York is “in debt $6.1 billion.”

By Amy Sherman • May 26, 2020
Andy Biggs
stated on May 7, 2020 in a letter:

"States like New York, Illinois and California have been vocal in their demands for funding to bail out their pension systems, which were failing long before the COVID-19 outbreak, and other programs that aren’t related to this crisis."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • May 19, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on May 14, 2020 in a Facebook post:

If masks prevent coronavirus, governors would have given them to prison inmates instead of releasing them.

By Tom Kertscher • May 19, 2020

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