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Larry Kudlow
stated on March 4, 2025 in on-air remarks:

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is “polling very well. It’s very popular.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 6, 2025

Chris Coons
stated on July 30, 2023 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

“Consumer confidence is the highest it’s been in years.”

By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on September 12, 2019 in the Democratic debate in Houston:

"Over 90% of the American people think we have to get assault weapons off the street — period."

By Amy Sherman • September 12, 2019

Jess McIntosh
stated on June 30, 2019 in a TV panel:

"Fifty percent of Republicans are in favor of Medicare for All."

By Bill McCarthy • July 2, 2019

Michael Moore
stated on February 1, 2019 in an interview:

"Seventy percent of the American public agree with" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "on having the top marginal (tax) rate for the rich" at 70 percent, and "that's a Fox News Poll saying that."

By Tom Kertscher • February 6, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on September 29, 2018 in a rally in Wheeling, W.Va.:

"Even in California now, they don’t want to be sanctuary cities anymore. They want out."

By Kenna Richards • November 15, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on May 4, 2018 in the NRA convention:

"I doubled my African-American poll numbers. We went from 11 to 22 in one week."

By John Kruzel • May 7, 2018

Steve Bullock
stated on March 7, 2018 in an interview in Milwaukee:

"A quarter of our guns are sold outside of the background checks."

By Tom Kertscher • March 16, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on February 1, 2018 in a Tweet:

"45.6 million people watched (the State of the Union), the highest number in history. @FoxNews beat every other Network, for the first time ever, with 11.7 million people tuning in."

By Manuela Tobias • February 1, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on September 30, 2017 in a tweet:

In the Alabama Senate runoff, "the candidate I endorsed (Luther Strange) went up MANY points after endorsement!"

By Louis Jacobson • October 2, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on June 18, 2017 in a tweet:

"The new Rasmussen Poll, one of the most accurate in the 2016 Election, just out with a Trump 50% Approval Rating. That's higher than O's #'s!"

By Katie Sanders, Louis Jacobson • June 19, 2017

Al Gore
stated on June 4, 2017 in an interview on ABC "This Week":

"A majority of President Trump's supporters and voters wanted (the United States) to stay in" the Paris Agreement.

By John Kruzel • June 5, 2017

Restoration PAC
stated on March 21, 2017 in a video:

Says Tammy Baldwin "supported legislation allowing citizens to withhold funding for our troops."

By Tom Kertscher • April 5, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on February 16, 2017 in a news conference:

The media has "a lower approval rate than Congress."

By Jon Greenberg • February 16, 2017

Ted Cruz
stated on April 11, 2016 in a campaign speech:

"The polling shows over and over again that, unlike Donald Trump, that with me as the nominee, we beat Hillary Clinton."

By Chris Nichols • April 12, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on April 7, 2016 in an interview on CNN:

"Poll after poll after poll shows me beating Hillary."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 11, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on December 7, 2015 in a campaign statement:

Says 25 percent of U.S. Muslims "agreed that violence against Americans here in the United States is justified as a part of the global jihad."

By Lauren Carroll, Louis Jacobson • December 9, 2015

Carly Fiorina
stated on August 9, 2015 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

"If you look at the results of Obamacare, what you see is emergency room visits are up over 50 percent."

By Louis Jacobson • August 10, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on June 29, 2015 in an interview on NPR:

The Supreme Court’s views "are radically out of step with public opinion" regarding its decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.

By Lauren Carroll • July 1, 2015

Rick Santorum
stated on June 7, 2015 in comments on "Fox News Sunday":

If Fox News' presidential debate rules had been in place during the 1992 election, "Bill Clinton wouldn't have been on the stage."

By Jon Greenberg • June 7, 2015

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