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Latest Fact-Checks On Ron Johnson

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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
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on November 17, 2024 TV interview:
“There's never been a placebo-controlled study on childhood vaccines.”
False
By Madeline Heim • January 2, 2025
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
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on April 15, 2024 Podcast:
"Every Senate Democrat has voted to support unlimited abortions up to the moment of birth.”
False
By D.L. Davis • May 17, 2024
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on December 11, 2023 TV interview:
Democrats have also used alternate slates of electors "repeatedly in all kinds of different states."
False
By Ricardo Torres • December 15, 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
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on April 24, 2023 Public appearance:
The COVID vaccine “has been proven to have negative efficacy.”
False
By Madeline Heim • June 7, 2023
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on April 24, 2023 Public statement:
Says Social Security is a “legal Ponzi scheme.”
Mostly False
By Vanessa Swales • May 5, 2023
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on July 14, 2022 Blog post:
“We finally achieved that energy independence… under the Trump administration. President Biden squandered (it) away.”
Mostly False
By Lawrence Andrea • November 1, 2022
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on October 4, 2022 Public statement:
"To call what happened on January 6 an armed insurrection, I just think is not accurate."
Pants on Fire!
By D.L. Davis • October 10, 2022
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on September 26, 2022 TV ad:
Says Mandela Barnes “supported a 20% increase in the gas tax.”
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • October 6, 2022
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on August 23, 2022 Twitter:
"Democrats' radical green energy policies caused record gas prices. "
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • September 16, 2022
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on August 7, 2022 News release:
"Last year the IRS audited Americans earning less than $25,000 a year at five times the rate of other groups."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • August 25, 2022
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on June 28, 2022 Twitter:
"Thanks to failed Dem policies, beer is 9.1% more expensive."
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • July 18, 2022
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on May 11, 2022 News release:
In the immediate wake of a fire and vandalism at the Madison headquarters of an anti-abortion group, Democrats had not condemned “activists who are engaging in this repugnant illegal activity.”
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • May 31, 2022
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on March 18, 2022 Twitter:
Gas prices are high “due to the Democrats’ war on fossil fuels.”
Mostly False
By Laura Schulte • March 29, 2022
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on February 4, 2022 News release:
Federal border officials are allowing undocumented immigrants who are “known criminals who possess an arrest warrant to fly on U.S. aircraft (which) threatens our homeland security.”
Mostly False
By Laura Schulte • March 4, 2022
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on January 26, 2022 Radio interview:
“All these athletes are dropping dead on the field” after receiving the COVID-19 vaccination.
False
By Laura Schulte • January 28, 2022
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on January 9, 2022 Public statement:
On not seeking a third term.
Full Flop
By Vanessa Swales • January 14, 2022
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on December 8, 2021 Radio interview:
Around the world, people who exercise their "health autonomy" and don't get vaccinated are being put "basically into internment camps."
Pants on Fire!
By Madeline Heim • December 13, 2021
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