Latest Fact-Checks In Elections

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Susan Crawford
Susan Crawford
stated on March 12, 2025 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
Social Media
Social Media
stated on February 18, 2025 X, formerly Twitter
The Chicago Cubs owner is bankrolling Brad Schimel.
Mostly True
By Madeline Heim • February 25, 2025
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on October 11, 2024 Interview
Says opponent Eric Hovde “supports a $4 trillion tax plan that would disproportionately advantage the well-off and profitable corporations”
Mostly True
By Laura Schulte • October 24, 2024
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
stated on September 20, 2024 Campaign ad
Says Wisconsin GOP U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde "brags about being in the 1%."
Mostly True
By Ricardo Torres • October 10, 2024
Eric Hovde
Eric Hovde
stated on September 3, 2024 TV interview
"Typically you have three to four debates in a U.S. Senate race. (Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis. has) given me one debate, almost a month after early voting has started."
Mostly True
By Hope Karnopp • September 17, 2024
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on August 11, 2024 an interview on CNN State of the Union
Gov. Tim Walz delivered paid family leave in Minnesota but “Republicans are blocking” a Biden-Harris proposal.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • August 16, 2024
Donald Trump Jr.
Donald Trump Jr.
stated on July 17, 2024 Speech
After being shot at a Milwaukee rally in 1912, former President Teddy Roosevelt “finished his speech and he kept fighting.”
Mostly True
By Madeline Heim • July 18, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 17, 2024 a campaign video
"Unlike Mike Pence, (JD) Vance said he would have carried out Trump's plan to overturn the 2020 election."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • July 18, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 9, 2024 a speech in Washington D.C.
In 2020, “only nine NATO allies were spending 2%” of their GDP on defense. “This year, 23 will spend at least 2%.”
Mostly True
By Madison Czopek • July 12, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 4, 2024 a speech
“Due to the arrangements that I've reached with (Mexico) President Obrador, the number of migrants coming … to our shared border unlawfully in recent months has dropped dramatically.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • June 5, 2024
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on May 19, 2024 TV interview
Says in his three election campaigns, the early polls were "wildly incorrect, all three times."
Mostly True
By Hope Karnopp • June 5, 2024
Jonathan Becker
Jonathan Becker
stated on February 16, 2024 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.”
Mostly True
By David Scibilia • April 8, 2024
Katie Britt
Katie Britt
stated on March 7, 2024 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.”
Mostly True
By Loreben Tuquero • March 8, 2024
Cindi Duchow
Cindi Duchow
stated on November 9, 2023 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
Asa Hutchinson
Asa Hutchinson
stated on December 11, 2023 comments at Stand with Crypto Alliance at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire
China is allowed to do crypto mining in the U.S.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Rebecca Catalanello • December 15, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on December 12, 2023 a CNN town hall
Florida “had a year-over-year reduction” in overdose deaths.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • December 14, 2023
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on November 10, 2023 X, formerly Twitter
"In order to be a poll worker on the conservative side, you have to register through the Republican Party of Wisconsin."
Mostly True
By Hope Karnopp • December 4, 2023
Bryan Steil
Bryan Steil
stated on September 28, 2023 Public appearance
“Washington, D.C., allows noncitizens to vote in (municipal elections)" so a Russian citizen, after living in Washington for 30 days can "vote for mayor in Washington, D.C. And they don’t even need to show their ID to do it.”
Mostly True
By Ricardo Torres • December 4, 2023
LaKeshia Myers
LaKeshia Myers
stated on June 6, 2023 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
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 2, 2023 a Facebook post
“Texas Republicans just voted to give a Republican appointee the power to single-handedly CANCEL election results in the state’s largest Democratic county.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 4, 2023
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