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Latest Fact-Checks In Ohio

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Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on September 27, 2022 a campaign ad:
“I voted with Trump on trade.”
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 4, 2022
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on July 19, 2022 an ad:
Instead of fighting opioid addiction, a nonprofit founded by J.D. Vance paid his “top political adviser” and funded “political polling.”
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • July 27, 2022
Aftab Pureval
Aftab Pureval
stated on August 28, 2018 a campaign ad:
Says Steve Chabot "voted to strip insurance protections for pre-existing conditions."  
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • September 12, 2018
Jim Renacci
Jim Renacci
stated on July 10, 2018 a press conference:
Says Sherrod Brown "votes 97 percent with Chuck Schumer, almost 95 plus percent with Elizabeth Warren."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • July 31, 2018
Jim Renacci
Jim Renacci
stated on April 25, 2018 a radio interview:
"President Trump is still supported by almost 85 percent of the Republican Party in the state of Ohio, and that's from recent polling, and still has a 58 percent approval rating in Ohio."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • May 4, 2018
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on April 9, 2018 a speech to the City Club of Cleveland:
"Right now in Ohio 200,000 people are getting opioid treatment because they have insurance under the Affordable Care Act."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 20, 2018
Richard Cordray
Richard Cordray
stated on April 2, 2018 a campaign website:
"Since 1999, firearm deaths in Ohio have risen 58 percent."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 12, 2018
Mary Taylor
Mary Taylor
stated on January 29, 2018 a speech:
Says Mike DeWine "flip-flopped on the gun issue and has earned an F from the NRA."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 6, 2018
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on February 20, 2018 an interview on CNN:
"Seventy to 80 percent of NRA members support a universal background check."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • February 27, 2018
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on December 31, 2017 an interview on Face the Nation:
Says "50 percent of venture capital goes to California. Most of the rest of it goes to New York and Massachusetts."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • February 20, 2018
Richard Cordray
Richard Cordray
stated on December 14, 2017 a speech:
On taxes, "if you go back and look 50 years ago, individuals paid about 7 percent of the total and corporations paid 5 percent. Fast forward 50 years: individuals still 7 percent, corporations (are) down to 2 percent."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • January 30, 2018
Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland
stated on October 20, 2016 the Ohio Senate debate:
Says Rob Portman "said the auto rescue was a lousy deal for Ohio."
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • October 21, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 1, 2016 a rally in Columbus, Ohio:
Russia and China are "doing naval exercises together someplace."  
Mostly True
By Nadia Pflaum • August 4, 2016
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on July 28, 2016 a speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention:
Says Donald Trump "proposes tax cuts, too -- $3 trillion for millionaires like himself and $2 trillion for corporations like his."  
Mostly True
By Nadia Pflaum • August 1, 2016
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on April 3, 2016 ad paid for by campaign for Ted Cruz:
Says a company that got tax breaks from the state later "laid off 100 Ohioans, even as its CEO cut a half-million-dollar check to Kasich’s super PAC."  
Mostly True
By Nadia Pflaum • April 12, 2016
Tim McGinty
Tim McGinty
stated on March 4, 2016 his campaign website:
Says he "tore down hundreds of abandoned homes that served as havens for crime and reduce(d) the value of our neighborhoods."  
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By Nadia Pflaum • March 4, 2016
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on July 11, 2013 a news conference call:
"I was filibustered."
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • July 29, 2013
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on June 11, 2013 a House of Representatives floor speech:
"If you are born poor in America, we rank ninth or tenth in our citizens’ ability to climb up through that ladder and get themselves into the middle class."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • June 26, 2013
Bob Gibbs
Bob Gibbs
stated on May 17, 2013 a tweet:
"If Obamacare is fully implemented, 30 million people will still be without health insurance."
Mostly True
By Sabrina Eaton • June 10, 2013
Mike Foley
Mike Foley
stated on April 23, 2013 news release:
Ohio’s lost more jobs in March than any other state in the nation.
Mostly True
By Robert Higgs • May 13, 2013
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