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Byron Donalds
stated on October 13, 2024 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

“Wages adjusted for inflation were massively up under Donald Trump for Black men. … The (Black-white) wage gap in 2019 was actually shrinking under Donald Trump's administration.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2024

Charlie Kirk
stated on August 6, 2024 in a Threads post:

“During Covid, Tim Walz rationed access to monoclonal antibody treatments based on skin color.”

By Jeff Cercone • August 14, 2024

JD Vance
stated on March 14, 2024 in an interview with Fox News:

Says “100% of net job creation under the Biden administration has gone to the foreign-born.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 27, 2024

Dave Murphy
stated on November 7, 2023 in Wisconsin Assembly:

"Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo signed a three-year contract for $186 million. He and his family, being African American, could receive benefits under affirmative action.”

By Ricardo Torres • January 17, 2024

Dean Phillips
stated on November 13, 2023 in a speech at Dartmouth College:

"Half of American high school students are not familiar with the Holocaust."

By Louis Jacobson • November 20, 2023

Jim Jordan
stated on January 29, 2023 in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press":

"I got a list of 20 jurisdictions that defunded the police to the tune of over $1 billion total."

By Yacob Reyes • February 1, 2023

JD Vance
stated on September 4, 2022 in an interview:

“Tim Ryan called police the new Jim Crow.”

By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2022

Candace Owens
stated on May 3, 2022 in a tweet:

“79% of Planned Parenthood clinics are in minority neighborhoods. This is not by accident. That is by its founder, Margaret Sanger's, eugenicist design."

By Samantha Putterman • May 18, 2022

Aaron Lieberman
stated on April 28, 2022 in an ad:

"Kari Lake has been appearing at rallies with neo-Nazis," while "two federal juries have found" Katie Hobbs "guilty of racial discrimination."

By Tom Kertscher • May 12, 2022

Rick Scott
stated on November 8, 2021 in in a CNN interview:

"In 2015, when Terry McAuliffe was governor, the Virginia Department of Education promoted incorporating critical race theory lens in education...They were trying to indoctrinate kids.”

By Gabrielle Settles • November 16, 2021

Instagram posts
stated on November 3, 2021 in an Instagram post:

"Arizona Department of Education gives green light on face mask and vaccine mandates, as well as implementing Critical (Race) Theory.”

By Jeff Cercone • November 10, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on October 13, 2021 in a Facebook post:

"Tennessee new law passed 48 hours ago now makes it illegal to teach Black history in the grades K-12."

By Tom Kertscher • October 19, 2021

FreedomWorks
stated on September 28, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“The Democrats want you American taxpayers to shell out $3 billion for ‘non-racist’ trees.”

By Tom Kertscher • September 29, 2021

TikTok posts
stated on August 26, 2021 in a TikTok video:

"Verizon promotes defunding the police and (the) idea that America is fundamentally racist."

By Tom Kertscher • September 27, 2021

Kayleigh McEnany
stated on July 6, 2021 in a TV segment:

“We know most of our forefathers, all of our main Founding Fathers were against slavery, recognized the evils of it.”

By Bill McCarthy • July 9, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on April 20, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Maxine Waters could be “sentenced” for “jury tampering.”

By Sasha Hupka • April 23, 2021

Joe Biden
stated on March 1, 2021 in remarks with Mexico's president:

"The fastest-growing population in the United States is Hispanic."

By Louis Jacobson • March 3, 2021

Ted Cruz
stated on January 9, 2021 in a tweet:

Said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her allies “blocked a resolution condemning anti-Semitism — which I passed unanimously in the Senate.”

By Landon Allison, Julia Schneider • February 18, 2021

Donald Trump
stated on October 22, 2020 in the final 2020 presidential debate:

“President Obama would never give them long-term funding, and I did … I saved historically Black colleges and universities.”

By Bill McCarthy • October 27, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on October 24, 2020 in a campaign rally:

"We have a mayor in D.C. who formed a commission with recommendations. Her recommendation is: Take down the Washington Monument, close up the Lincoln Monument."

By Bill McCarthy • October 26, 2020

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