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Cavalier Johnson
Cavalier Johnson
stated on December 21, 2021 News release:
“In 2021, 65 people in Milwaukee have lost their lives due to reckless driving accidents, and more than 9,000 cars have been stolen, double the amount in 2020.”
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • February 4, 2022
Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams
stated on January 31, 2022 an interview on CNN:
“In Texas, because of the laws they passed, a 95-year-old World War II veteran is being denied the right to vote by mail because he can't produce a registration number he got back in the 1950s.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • February 3, 2022
Carla Sands
Carla Sands
stated on January 19, 2022 an ad:
Joe Biden's “$4 trillion” Build Back Better bill is "the largest expansion of welfare programs in 60 years."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 1, 2022
Viral image
Viral image
stated on January 4, 2022 a Facebook post:
“Joe Biden holds the all-time record for the most money received from Pharma while in Congress! $8,550,422.”
Half-True
By Sara Swann • January 28, 2022
Alma Adams
Alma Adams
stated on January 11, 2022 a tweet:
“From 1917 to 1994, half of the bills that were successfully filibustered in the Senate were civil rights legislation.”
Half-True
By Paul Specht • January 24, 2022
Glenn Youngkin
Glenn Youngkin
stated on January 17, 2022 a speech.:
Virginia’s “education standards for math and reading are now the lowest in the nation.”
Half-True
By Warren Fiske • January 21, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 12, 2022 a post:
“India has nearly 1.4 billion citizens. Nearly 800 million of them live in extreme poverty — less than $1.90 per day. Yet EVERY singly (sic) Indian citizen is required to have a valid form of ID to vote in national elections.”
Half-True
By Monique Curet • January 19, 2022
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on January 12, 2022 a blog post:
“Fully vaccinated Australians in hospital for COVID-19 surpass unvaccinated”
Half-True
By Madison Czopek • January 14, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 11, 2022 a speech on voting rights in Georgia:
“In the 2020 election, President Trump voted from behind the desk in the White House in Florida.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • January 13, 2022
Doug Wilder
Doug Wilder
stated on January 3, 2022 a radio interview.:
“When I became mayor of the City of Richmond in 2004, the crime rate was at its highest. When I left in 2008, it was at its lowest.”
Half-True
By Warren Fiske • January 10, 2022
Erica Smith
Erica Smith
stated on December 30, 2021 a tweet:
“Corporate profit margins are at their highest point in 70 years. … They’re overcharging us for gas, medicine, and groceries, and pocketing the difference.”
Half-True
By Paul Specht • January 7, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 19, 2021 a Facebook post:
“Most Americans on minimum wage earn less than a Dickensian allegory for destitution.”
Half-True
By Jeff Cercone • January 3, 2022
Jon Erpenbach
Jon Erpenbach
stated on December 12, 2021 TV interview:
The push for high-speed internet for rural areas, from the start, “was a Democratic thing.”
Half-True
By Madeline Heim • December 28, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 19, 2021 social media posts:
“More people, aged 18-45, died of Fentanyl overdoses in 2020 than covid, car accidents, cancer, + suicide combined.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 23, 2021
Abby Finkenauer
Abby Finkenauer
stated on December 9, 2021 a tweet:
Chuck Grassley was “voting to slash Medicare” when voting against the debt ceiling bill.
Half-True
By Lyle Muller • December 17, 2021
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on November 30, 2021 Twitter:
Says Joe Biden “shut down travel from 8 countries in response to the Omicron variant, but he refuses to require a #COVID19 test for illegal immigrants crossing our Southern border.”
Half-True
By Laura Schulte • December 14, 2021
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on November 16, 2021 a Senate hearing:
The United States had 589 coal-fired plants 10 years ago, and “we're down to 504. … We are the only nation that has reduced our reliance (on) coal energy."
Half-True
By Duncan Slade • December 10, 2021
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on December 7, 2021 a press release:
The Build Back Better Act “includes $34.5 billion in cuts” for charity care funding to hospitals.
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • December 10, 2021
Community Oncology Alliance
Community Oncology Alliance
stated on November 29, 2021 a radio ad:
"An independent analysis shows that payments for cancer care will be slashed by close to 45% causing cancer clinics to close and massively raising your healthcare costs.”
Half-True
By Julie Appleby • December 7, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on October 28, 2021 Facebook posts:
A chart shows China and India are leading in per capita carbon dioxide emissions.
Half-True
By Becca Schimmel • December 2, 2021
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