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Barack Obama stated on November 02, 2011 in a campaign ad:

"Because of Barack Obama 32 million new people will have healthcare."

By Molly Moorhead• November 2, 2011

Joe Biden stated on January 11, 2022 in a speech on voting rights in Georgia:

“In the 2020 election, President Trump voted from behind the desk in the White House in Florida.”

By Amy Sherman• January 13, 2022

Donald Trump stated on April 09, 2025 in a memo:

The 2020 election was “rigged” and Chris Krebs, former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency director, “baselessly” dismissed “election malfeasance.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• April 10, 2025

Viral image stated on January 30, 2022 in a photo on Facebook:

“Over 65% of the country believes that (the) 2020 election was fraudulent. That number was around 35% a year ago.”

By Sara Swann• February 2, 2022

Donald Trump stated on October 22, 2020 in a debate:

Michigan has been “like a prison” during the coronavirus.

By Clara Hendrickson• October 23, 2020

Facebook posts stated on November 22, 2020 in a Facebook post:

The number of people who have died in the U.S. in 2020 is on par with years prior to COVID-19.

By Samantha Putterman• December 11, 2020

Tim Walz stated on August 06, 2024 in a rally in Philadelphia:

“Violent crime was up under Donald Trump.”

By Louis Jacobson• August 7, 2024

Donald Trump stated on January 06, 2021 in a speech on the Ellipse outside the White House:

"We won. We won in a landslide. This was a landslide.”

By Daniel Funke• January 7, 2021

Donald Trump stated on July 24, 2024 in a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina:

Kamala Harris “wants to defund the police.”

By Amy Sherman• July 30, 2024

Donald Trump stated on July 27, 2024 in a rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota:

During the 2020 Minnesota riots after George Floyd’s murder, Gov. Tim Walz didn’t call in the National Guard, “so, I sent in the National Guard to save Minneapolis.”

By Amy Sherman• August 7, 2024

Rebecca Kleefisch stated on June 08, 2022 in Campaign email:

“Joe Biden’s margin of the less than 21,000 votes in Wisconsin was the tightest of any state in 2020.”

By Laura Schulte• June 23, 2022

Donald Trump stated on January 23, 2024 in a speech in New Hampshire:

Democrats “used COVID to cheat” in the 2020 election.

By Amy Sherman• January 30, 2024

Donald Trump stated on March 02, 2024 in a speech:

“Eighty-two percent of the country understands that (the 2020 election) was a rigged election.”

By Paul Specht• March 7, 2024

Dinesh D'Souza stated on November 06, 2024 in a post on X:

The 2024 election results show that Joe Biden’s 80 million votes in 2020 were a “lie.”

By Madison Czopek• November 6, 2024

Facebook posts stated on June 16, 2024 in a post:

Cristiano Ronaldo was the only European soccer captain who did not wear a rainbow armband at Euro 2020.

By Grace Abels• June 21, 2024

Donald Trump stated on April 01, 2024 in Radio interview:

In 2020, Trump “did much better” in the Wisconsin election than 2016, and “after the wrongdoing was found, people said, ‘Well, he actually did win.’”

By Hope Karnopp• April 1, 2024

Kim Reynolds stated on January 07, 2021 in a news conference:

Before COVID-19, “more Iowans (were) working than at any other time in our state history."

By Sarah Watson• January 11, 2021

Facebook posts stated on February 01, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“Myanmar used Dominion Voting Systems.”

By Ciara O'Rourke• February 2, 2021

Facebook posts stated on March 18, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“Finally, a judge has ruled Dominion voting machines were designed to create fraud.”

By Tom Kertscher• March 23, 2021

Jared Moskowitz stated on March 26, 2023 in an interview on CNN:

Former President Donald Trump “instructed all the governors to shut down” because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Amy Sherman• April 3, 2023

Ted Cruz, presidential possible, has 'Time for Truth' book coming

By W. Gardner Selby• March 5, 2015

Ted Cruz, win or lose, has the Texas Truth-O-Meter

By W. Gardner Selby• May 3, 2016

PolitiFact’s coronavirus coverage in one place

By Daniel Funke• February 10, 2020

Top Flip-O-Meter fact checks 2020 -- Wisconsin

By Haley BeMiller• December 28, 2020

Fact-checking false claims about the 2020 election

By Daniel Funke• November 20, 2020

PolitiFact’s complete coverage of the 2020 Democratic National Convention

By Katie Sanders, PolitiFact Staff • August 21, 2020

Top election fact checks -- Wisconsin

By Haley BeMiller• December 24, 2020

9 key fact-checks about the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin

By D.L. Davis• January 4, 2021

46 minutes of falsehoods: Trump rehashes baseless election claims in White House video

By Bill McCarthy• December 3, 2020

Top 10 fact checks of 2020 -- Wisconsin

By Eric Litke• December 24, 2020

Top 10 Kenosha-related fact checks of 2020

By Eric Litke• December 28, 2020

The scariest misinformation of 2020

By Angie Drobnic Holan• October 31, 2020

10 most popular social media fact-checks of 2020

By Daniel Funke• December 30, 2020

Lie of the Year 2020: Readers' Choice Poll

By Josie Hollingsworth• December 16, 2020

6 things we’ve learned from one year of coronavirus misinformation

By Daniel Funke• March 12, 2021

We fact-checked the Democrats' closing push in Iowa before the caucuses

By Josie Hollingsworth, Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• January 27, 2020

Voting Counts: Michigan’s primary went smoothly, but revealed potential problems for November vote

By Clara Hendrickson• September 9, 2020

How Ted Nugent’s claim about voter turnout, suppression presents a false choice

By Amy Sherman• January 26, 2022

Pants on Fire in Review 2020 -- Wisconsin