Latest Fact-Checks In Wisconsin

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Americans for Prosperity
Americans for Prosperity
stated on July 28, 2025 X
“The (Evers) Era locked Wisconsin families into a 400‑year property tax increase.”
Mostly True
By Hope Karnopp • August 15, 2025
stated on June 2, 2025 Radio interview
“The state of Illinois has a lower income tax rate than we do, and a flat tax. It’s almost half of what the top bracket here in Wisconsin is.”
Mostly True
By Hope Karnopp • June 25, 2025
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
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on January 26, 2025 a TV interview
We’re one of the very few nations that allowed birthright citizenship.”
Mostly True
By Hope Karnopp • February 4, 2025
Eric Hovde
Eric Hovde
stated on October 8, 2024 Public appearance
“Milwaukee is one of the sex trafficking capitals in our country.”
Mostly True
By Ricardo Torres • October 29, 2024
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
Julie Su
Julie Su
stated on August 15, 2024 News conference
“400,000 workers are now in a union that were not in a union when (Biden) became president.”
Mostly True
By Ricardo Torres • September 23, 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
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
Van Wanggaard
Van Wanggaard
stated on April 15, 2024 X, formerly Twitter
Says Gov. Tony Evers is asking the GOP to release money for PFAS, but "vetoed (a bill outlining) how to spend the money."
Mostly True
By Laura Schulte • June 14, 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
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on May 5, 2024 X, formerly Twitter
“When I worked on the Affordable Care Act, I wrote the amendment that allows all young people to stay on their parents’ health insurance until they turn 26. Overnight, millions of young Americans got health care.”
Mostly True
By Madeline Heim • May 17, 2024
Greta Neubauer
Greta Neubauer
stated on April 11, 2024 X, formerly Twitter
“The GOP has failed to invest in our campuses, making WI fall to 42nd in the nation in state support.”
Mostly True
By Hope Karnopp • April 24, 2024
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on March 3, 2024 TV interview
“We just had 100% increase in layoffs.”
Mostly True
By Ricardo Torres • March 29, 2024
Cavalier Johnson
Cavalier Johnson
stated on February 25, 2024 X, formerly Twitter
In Milwaukee, we “never defunded the police.”
Mostly True
By Ricardo Torres • March 15, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on February 1, 2024 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
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
Robin Vos
Robin Vos
stated on September 15, 2023 News release
Gov. Tony Evers and Democrats "rejected our (Iowa model redistricting) proposal to enact the very plan they originally endorsed."
Mostly True
By Vanessa Swales • December 22, 2023
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