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Search results for "In Tennessee, a Black woman Republican is going to beat a White man Democrat."

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Fact-checks (21308)

Violence Policy Center stated on September 08, 2014 in an annual study:
Georgia ranks No. 9 in the rate of women murdered by men.
By April Hunt• November 19, 2014
Bloggers stated on April 26, 2015 in posts on social media:
"Florida Sheriff: Blacks should learn to act like white people in order to stay alive."
By Amy Sherman• April 2, 2017
Erica Smith stated on December 06, 2019 in :
Says she's beating Democratic opponent Cal Cunningham and is also the first black, female US Senate candidate to be beating an incumbent Senator (Thom Tillis) in "every poll out of the gate."
By Paul Specht• January 10, 2020
Facebook posts stated on August 22, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Elderly people were “beat up by a BLM hate group” for being white.
By Samantha Putterman• September 2, 2020
Viral image stated on May 16, 2019 in a Facebook post:
"Donald Trump has been in public eye for over 30 years and he was never once accused of being racist by anyone until he decided to run against the Democrats."
By Ciara O'Rourke• May 22, 2019
Marsha Blackburn stated on March 22, 2022 in an interview:
Ketanji Brown Jackson "gave a lecture talking about critical race theory as one of the components to consider when you are making decisions on the bench."
By Tom Kertscher• March 22, 2022
Marsha Blackburn stated on October 11, 2018 in an attack ad:
Says Phil Bredesen "lured illegal immigrants to Tennessee."  
By Jon Greenberg• October 25, 2018
Michael Skolnik stated on June 16, 2015 in comments on CNN:
"For most black people in the history of this country … it was illegal to pass as a white person. You were actually put in jail if you tried to pass."
By Anna Bruzgulis• June 18, 2015
Facebook posts stated on February 08, 2022 in a Facebook post:
“MSNBC announced Trump won 2020 election.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• February 10, 2022
Facebook posts stated on July 05, 2019 in a post on Facebook:
"White man asked black friend to impregnate his wife to fight ‘white privilege.’"  
By Ciara O'Rourke• July 11, 2019
E.W. Jackson stated on June 19, 2013 in a speech.:
"In 1960, most black children were raised in two-parent, monogamous families." Today "we have only 20 percent of black children being raised in two-parent, monogamous families..."
By Sean Gorman• July 1, 2013
Herman Cain stated on March 15, 2011 in a talk at a conservative think tank:
Said Planned Parenthood’s early objective was to "help kill black babies before they came into the world."
By Willoughby Mariano• April 8, 2011
Bloggers stated on January 10, 2021 in a story:
"Trump signs Insurrection Act - General Flynn to be appointed vice president."
By Samantha Putterman• January 11, 2021
Facebook posts stated on July 25, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Black Lives Matter "injures 1000 police officers kills 36 people and does $8 billion in damage."
By Tom Kertscher• August 7, 2020
Barack Obama stated on November 02, 2016 in a rally in North Carolina:
The list of voters that North Carolina Republicans "tried to purge was two-thirds black and Democratic."
By Lauren Carroll• November 7, 2016
Dane County Republican Party stated on August 25, 2017 in a news release:
"The KKK was founded as the military arm of the Democratic Party." 
By D.L. Davis• October 23, 2017
Instagram posts stated on June 14, 2020 in an Instagram post:
Says photo of beaten woman is Aracely Henriquez, a pregnant woman who George Floyd assaulted during an armed robbery.
By Samantha Putterman• June 16, 2020
Patricia Farley stated on March 14, 2017 in a news conference in the Capitol:
"A woman working full-time is paid 79 to 80 cents for every dollar a man is paid, and it's even less for women of color, and on average $11,000 per year is lost simply because she isn't a man."
By Allison Graves• March 14, 2017
Viral image stated on November 15, 2022 in an Instagram post:
“Florida man arrested for using a lost U.S. nuke to power his home for more than 27 years.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• November 16, 2022
Sean Hannity stated on January 27, 2022 in a radio show segment:
“There's never been a president (before Joe Biden) that has made race and gender the defining factor” for a Supreme Court nomination.
By Bill McCarthy• January 28, 2022

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By Eric Litke• September 23, 2020

Michelle Obama didn’t mention Trump by name at 2016 DNC. In 2020 encore, she didn’t pull punches

By Bill McCarthy• August 18, 2020

Before Supreme Court ruling, Texans defined marriage as between one man, one woman

By W. Gardner Selby• June 26, 2015

Fact-checking misinformation about the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis

By PolitiFact Staff • May 29, 2020

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By Louis Jacobson• August 1, 2019

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By Amy Sherman• January 27, 2020

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Donald Trump retweets anti-Muslim videos from far-right Britain First

By Manuela Tobias, Miriam Valverde• November 29, 2017

In Context: Bill Maher on women

By Willoughby Mariano• March 19, 2012

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