Latest Fact-Checks By D.L. Davis

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Susan Crawford
Susan Crawford
stated on March 12, 2025 in TV debate:
"Brad Schimel said that he wanted to be part of Donald Trump's support network."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • March 28, 2025
Cavalier Johnson
Cavalier Johnson
stated on January 19, 2025 in TV interview:
“After the referendum, Milwaukee Public Schools has a larger tax levy than the City of Milwaukee.”
True
By D.L. Davis • March 3, 2025
Social Media
Social Media
stated on December 1, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:
“Trump won 18-to-24-year-olds in Wisconsin."
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • January 6, 2025
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on October 18, 2024 in TV debate:
Says opponent Eric Hovde “opposes efforts to negotiate with the big pharmaceutical companies to lower the price of prescription drugs.”
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • October 31, 2024
Eric Hovde
Eric Hovde
stated on October 18, 2024 in TV debate:
Ballot drop boxes 'were only used for a pandemic.'
False
By D.L. Davis • October 25, 2024
Eric Hovde
Eric Hovde
stated on September 5, 2024 in Campaign ad:
Says Democratic opponent Tammy Baldwin "gave stimulus checks to illegals."
False
By D.L. Davis • October 11, 2024
Robert Cowles
Robert Cowles
stated on July 12, 2024 in Radio address:
“The most recent State Budget increased funding for the Department of Tourism by 98 percent.”
True
By D.L. Davis • September 16, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 16, 2024 in News release:
"The Trump administration handed out taxpayer dollars to a foreign company. Hundreds of homes and farms were bulldozed, and over $500 million in taxpayer dollars were wasted preparing for Foxconn."
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • July 13, 2024
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on April 15, 2024 in Podcast:
"Every Senate Democrat has voted to support unlimited abortions up to the moment of birth.”
False
By D.L. Davis • May 17, 2024
Lisa Subeck
Lisa Subeck
stated on February 16, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:
“The United States is an outlier, one of only about half a dozen countries, without any guarantee of paid leave for new parents and/or other health care needs.”
True
By D.L. Davis • April 16, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
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.”
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • February 23, 2024
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on January 7, 2024 in TV interview:
“The law in Wisconsin (on abortion time limit) is 20 weeks. That is way outside the international bounds.”
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • February 9, 2024
Cindi Duchow
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."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • January 26, 2024
Ron Tusler
Ron Tusler
stated on September 12, 2023 in X, formerly Twitter:
Wisconsin Republicans are backing “a nonpartisan redistricting plan based off the Iowa Model. ... Republicans, Democrats, and the Governor pushed this plan last time redistricting happened in 2020.”
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • December 8, 2023
Rebecca Cooke
Rebecca Cooke
stated on September 1, 2023 in X, formerly Twitter:
"Derrick Van Orden is one of the only members of Congress who participated in the deadly January 6th insurrection. He now serves in the building he tried to burn down."
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • October 11, 2023
LaKeshia Myers
LaKeshia Myers
stated on June 6, 2023 in News release:
During the spring 2020 election in Milwaukee, a reduction to only five polling locations “came days before the election and was done without proper notice to voters.”
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • September 8, 2023
Kelda Helen Roys
Kelda Helen Roys
stated on April 26, 2023 in Twitter:
Infertility is treated differently than other issues and "often excluded from insurance coverage"
True
By D.L. Davis • May 26, 2023
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on March 9, 2023 in Podcast:
“When a basketball player or football or baseball player from another team plays in Wisconsin, that one game's salary, they pay Wisconsin income tax on it. ... So, if for some reason we do not have the Brewers in Wisconsin all of those player salaries that generate dollars for the State of Wisconsin go away."
True
By D.L. Davis • May 12, 2023
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on February 23, 2023 in TV interview:
"WOW county swing suburban voters (in Wisconsin) don't vote for Donald Trump.”
True
By D.L. Davis • April 18, 2023
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on March 8, 2023 in Twitter:
The money for upgrades to the Milwaukee Brewers stadium in Evers’ budget is "a bipartisan plan."
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • March 28, 2023
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