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Ron Johnson
stated on May 19, 2024 in TV interview:

Says in his three election campaigns, the early polls were "wildly incorrect, all three times."

By Hope Karnopp • June 5, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
stated on May 5, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:

“When I worked on the Affordable Care Act, I wrote the amendment that allows all young people to stay on their parents’ health insurance until they turn 26. Overnight, millions of young Americans got health care.”

By Madeline Heim • May 17, 2024
Kamala Harris
stated on May 1, 2024 in a speech:

In his Time magazine interview, Donald Trump “said states have the right to monitor pregnant women to enforce these bans, and states have the right to punish pregnant women for seeking out abortion care.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 2, 2024
Greta Neubauer
stated on April 11, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:

“The GOP has failed to invest in our campuses, making WI fall to 42nd in the nation in state support.”

By Hope Karnopp • April 24, 2024
Joe Biden
stated on April 9, 2024 in an interview with Univision:

Starting in 2025 "no matter what your total bills are for prescription drugs,” Medicare Part D users will never pay “more than $2,000 a year, because some of these cancer drugs are 10(,000 to) 15,000 bucks a year.”

By Amy Sherman • April 18, 2024
Joe Biden
stated on April 8, 2024 in a Facebook post:

“Support for Roe is higher today in America than it has ever been."

By Louis Jacobson • April 10, 2024
Jonathan Becker
stated on February 16, 2024 in a letter to college presidents:

After a 2022 law, “the vast majority of colleges in New York State do not have on-campus poll sites.”

By David Scibilia • April 8, 2024
Donna Brazile
stated on March 24, 2024 in remarks on ABC's "This Week":

The current Congress is “the least productive in our lifetime.”

By Matthew Crowley • April 3, 2024
Scott Walker
stated on March 3, 2024 in TV interview:

“We just had 100% increase in layoffs.”

By Ricardo Torres • March 29, 2024
Carl Weisbrod
stated on March 3, 2024 in an op-ed:

“The average commute time for people who drive to work in (New York City) is 43 minutes, the longest in the nation.”

By Mary McNaughton • March 25, 2024
Brad Holyman-Sigal
stated on February 26, 2024 in a press release:

“Nearly a quarter million birds in New York City, and more than one billion across the country, die each year from collisions with buildings.”

By Jefrey Canova • March 24, 2024
Simon Rosenberg
stated on March 8, 2024 in a post on X:

“Since 1989 and a new age of globalization began, 51 million jobs have been created in America. 49 million, 96%, have been created under Democratic presidents.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 21, 2024
Cavalier Johnson
stated on February 25, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:

In Milwaukee, we “never defunded the police.”

By Ricardo Torres • March 15, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on March 3, 2024 in an Instagram post:

A new Missouri bill “would put teachers on the sex offense registry if they ‘contribute to social transition’” of transgender students, including by using gender-affirming pronouns.

By Grace Abels • March 11, 2024
Alejandro Mayorkas
stated on March 3, 2024 in a CNN interview:

“Since May of last year, we have removed or returned more individuals than in any year since 2015.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • March 8, 2024
Katie Britt
stated on March 7, 2024 in the Republican response to the State of the Union address:

President Joe Biden “bans TikTok for government employees but creates an account for his own campaign.”

By Loreben Tuquero • March 8, 2024
Joe Biden
stated on February 22, 2024 in in a campaign reception:

If you went “anywhere in the world,” you could get a prescription filled for 40% to 60% less than it costs in the U.S.

By Samantha Putterman • March 4, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
stated on February 1, 2024 in Facebook post:

“Big drug companies charge as little as $7 for an inhaler overseas and nearly $500 for the exact same one here in the US.”

By D.L. Davis • February 23, 2024
Linda Rosenthal
stated on February 6, 2024 in a quote in a news article:

“Each year, more than $1 billion is stolen from” workers in New York state through wage theft.

By Jefrey Canova • February 21, 2024
Charles Schumer
stated on January 29, 2024 in a press release:

“TSA found with metal detectors nearly 7,000 firearms at airports last year — an all-time high.”

By David Scibilia • February 21, 2024
Donna Brazile
stated on February 4, 2024 in a roundtable on ABC's "This Week":

Under President Joe Biden, “Black unemployment is the lowest in American history.”

By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2024
Cindi Duchow
stated on November 9, 2023 in Wisconsin Assembly:

"Unfortunately during COVID, the clerks in Madison and Milwaukee told their constituents that they were actually indefinitely confined and did not have to come and vote, which was incorrect."

By D.L. Davis • January 26, 2024
Ron DeSantis
stated on January 18, 2024 in a CNN town hall in Henniker, N.H.:

“Florida state government (has the) lowest number of state employees per capita in the country.”

By Louis Jacobson • January 23, 2024
Robin Vos
stated on September 15, 2023 in News release:

Gov. Tony Evers and Democrats "rejected our (Iowa model redistricting) proposal to enact the very plan they originally endorsed."

By Vanessa Swales • December 22, 2023
Julian Bradley
stated on December 8, 2023 in X, formerly Twitter:

"Wisconsin Republicans have passed multiple billion dollar middle-class tax cuts this year, but each time we have, Governor Tony Evers has vetoed the relief."

By Hope Karnopp • December 19, 2023
Asa Hutchinson
stated on December 11, 2023 in comments at Stand with Crypto Alliance at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire:

China is allowed to do crypto mining in the U.S.

By Rebecca Catalanello • December 15, 2023
Ron DeSantis
stated on December 12, 2023 in a CNN town hall:

Florida “had a year-over-year reduction” in overdose deaths.

By Amy Sherman • December 14, 2023
Joe Biden
stated on December 5, 2023 in a post on X:

“We’ve created close to 800,000 manufacturing jobs since I’ve taken office.”

By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2023
Katrina Shankland
stated on November 15, 2023 in X, formerly Twitter:

“I have been a state legislator for 11 years, passing over 170 bills into law and delivering for Wisconsin families.”

By Hope Karnopp • December 8, 2023
Jodi Emerson
stated on November 7, 2023 in Wisconsin Assembly:

"On most campuses, you cannot destroy a chalked message unless you were the one that wrote it. You can't dump water on it, you can't even walk over it."

By Hope Karnopp • December 5, 2023