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Bloggers stated on October 21, 2018 in a post on Facebook:
"Soros Letter Reveals Plot to ‘Take Down Borders’ with Migrant Caravan Invasions"  
By Tessa Weinberg• November 1, 2018
Facebook posts stated on November 07, 2020 in a Facebook post:
The media called the 2016 election for Hillary Clinton.
By Ciara O'Rourke• November 11, 2020
Instagram posts stated on November 08, 2022 in a post:
“Many elections in Bexar are being called with 0% of precincts reporting! I smell MAJOR FRAUD!”
By Gabrielle Settles• November 11, 2022
Instagram posts stated on March 08, 2024 in an Instagram post:
The 2020 election was the only time in American history that an election took more than 24 hours to count.
By Sofia Ahmed• March 14, 2024
Donald Trump stated on November 06, 2025 in remarks at a dinner:
Walmart’s 2025 package of Thanksgiving dinner ingredients shows a “25% reduction in costs for Thanksgiving between (President Joe) Biden and me.”
By Louis Jacobson• November 14, 2025
Michael Moore stated on November 02, 2012 in a tweet:
Says during George W. Bush’s administration "we were losing millions of jobs per month," while under Barack Obama we have "three years of gaining hundreds of thousands of jobs per month."
By Louis Jacobson• November 2, 2012
X posts stated on May 15, 2024 in an X post:
Video shows Slovakia Prime Minister Fico speaking against the World Health Organization the week before he was the target of an assassination attempt.
By Loreben Tuquero• May 16, 2024
Kurt Browning stated on May 23, 2011 in a guest column published in the 'St. Petersburg Times':
"Early voting remains at 96 hours."
By Aaron Sharockman• May 23, 2011
Karl Rove stated on March 16, 2014 in a panel discussion on "Fox News Sunday":
Russian annexation of Crimea "removes a million residents of the Ukraine that have provided the margin of victory for (Viktor) Yanukovych, the pro-Moscow prime minister in his last election."
By Louis Jacobson• March 19, 2014
Republican Party of Wisconsin stated on April 03, 2019 in a tweet:
"FYI: the last statewide recount in WI was in 2016. After that recount, the vote margin changed by only 131 out of the 2.7 million votes cast." 
By D.L. Davis• April 7, 2019
Republican Party of Wisconsin stated on July 07, 2020 in a tweet:
Says “Democratic Mayors in some of Wisconsin's largest cities closed voting locations in April to cause chaos.”
By Haley BeMiller• July 14, 2020
William Barber stated on April 22, 2016 in a speech announcing the Moral Monday march:
"80 percent of North Carolinians are for the living wage"
By Will Doran• April 28, 2016
Linda Curtis stated on March 04, 2010 in a Web post:
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's "concession speech came with less than 20 percent of the precincts having been counted."
By W. Gardner Selby• March 15, 2010
Facebook posts stated on November 20, 2012 in a post on Facebook:
A precinct in the Allen West-Patrick Murphy recount has "7 registered voters in Guatemalan community and the tally showed 900 voted!!!!!"
By Amy Sherman• November 20, 2012
Paul Sadler stated on July 31, 2012 in a runoff night statement.:
Ted Cruz is "unknown to the vast majority of Texans."  
By W. Gardner Selby• August 20, 2012
Scott Walker stated on October 14, 2014 in an interview:
The gender gap in his support is "not unique to me" and "there’s not a huge gap from where Republicans have been in presidential, gubernatorial and US Senate elections" in recent years.
By Craig Gilbert, Dave Umhoefer• October 31, 2014
Bernie Sanders stated on November 06, 2015 in a Democratic presidential candidates' forum in Rock Hill, S.C.:
"Over half of the black workers in this country earn less" than $15 an hour.
By Louis Jacobson• November 12, 2015
Threads posts stated on July 07, 2024 in a Threads post:
Video shows “huge green coloured meteor” on July 7, 2024, in Budapest, Hungary.
By Grace Abels• July 9, 2024
Bloggers stated on November 07, 2018 in a post on Facebook:
Every single candidate President Obama campaigned for lost in the midterms.  
By Samantha Putterman• November 14, 2018
Debbie Wasserman Schultz stated on November 13, 2011 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
After losing 750,000 jobs a month before this administration, the U.S. economy under Barack Obama has had 20 straight months of growth, has added 2.8 million jobs in the private sector and added "millions of jobs in manufacturing."
By Louis Jacobson• November 15, 2011

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By Willoughby Mariano• November 7, 2010

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When it comes to voting, Virginia is early to rise and early to bed

By Sean Gorman• January 31, 2013

What we know about Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, why Joe Biden traded him to free Brittney Griner

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