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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 Tusler
Ron Tusler
stated on September 12, 2023 X, formerly Twitter:
Wisconsin Republicans are backing “a nonpartisan redistricting plan based off the Iowa Model. ... Republicans, Democrats, and the Governor pushed this plan last time redistricting happened in 2020.”
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • December 8, 2023
Katrina Shankland
Katrina Shankland
stated on November 15, 2023 X, formerly Twitter:
“I have been a state legislator for 11 years, passing over 170 bills into law and delivering for Wisconsin families.”
Mostly True
By Hope Karnopp • December 8, 2023
Jodi Emerson
Jodi Emerson
stated on November 7, 2023 Wisconsin Assembly:
"On most campuses, you cannot destroy a chalked message unless you were the one that wrote it. You can't dump water on it, you can't even walk over it."
Mostly True
By Hope Karnopp • December 5, 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
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on May 30, 2023 Interview:
“Wisconsin has historically … and I think largely continues to be, a blue state.”
Mostly False
By Laura Schulte • October 31, 2023
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on September 2, 2023 a post on X:
“Just in the last four years, $80 billion in federal funding has come to West Virginia — $22 billion more than we've ever received.”
Mostly True
By Samuel Russ • October 5, 2023
LaKeshia Myers
LaKeshia Myers
stated on June 6, 2023 News release:
During the spring 2020 election in Milwaukee, a reduction to only five polling locations “came days before the election and was done without proper notice to voters.”
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • September 8, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on July 18, 2023 an interview:
“In some liberal states, you actually have post-birth abortions.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • July 21, 2023
X posts
X posts
stated on May 20, 2023 on social media:
A printer error in Nassau County, New York, turned every registered voter Democratic.
Mostly False
By Conor Amendola • June 19, 2023
Nick LaLota
Nick LaLota
stated on March 29, 2023 a press release:
“For every dollar in federal taxes my constituents pay, we get a mere 93 cents back.”
Mostly True
By Cameron Carr • June 19, 2023
Cameron Sexton
Cameron Sexton
stated on March 30, 2023 an interview:
Actions of the Tennessee state legislators who protested against gun violence were “at least equivalent” to the actions of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists.
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • April 13, 2023
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on February 14, 2023 an announcement video:
On running against Donald Trump for president.
Full Flop
By Amy Sherman • February 14, 2023
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on January 1, 2023 Twitter:
“Every pro-life Governor up for election in November won – by a large margin.”
Mostly True
By Madeline Heim • January 13, 2023
Melissa Agard
Melissa Agard
stated on January 3, 2023 TV interview:
"Historically, our spring elections (including for state Supreme Court) have a smaller turnout associated with them."
True
By D.L. Davis • January 10, 2023
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on July 24, 2022 TV interview:
"We are number one in the country as far as our spending (COVID-19 relief) money on businesses as it relates to the percentage of federal funds that we receive."
Half-True
By D.L. Davis • August 16, 2022
Francesca Hong
Francesca Hong
stated on May 18, 2022 a tweet:
"In the Wisconsin State Assembly this session, more than 75% of GOP bills received a public hearing. Meanwhile, the GOP allowed less than 2% of Democratic bills to have a hearing."
True
By Alan Hovorka • July 26, 2022
Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley
stated on June 24, 2022 an interview on Fox News:
“The majority of citizens in the country will have no change at all because … most of the population resides in states that have already protected abortion rights.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2022
Rebecca Kleefisch
Rebecca Kleefisch
stated on June 8, 2022 Campaign email:
“Joe Biden’s margin of the less than 21,000 votes in Wisconsin was the tightest of any state in 2020.”
False
By Laura Schulte • June 23, 2022
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on June 13, 2022 Campaign email:
“Wisconsin's archaic abortion ban is older than 20 states."
True
By Laura Schulte • June 22, 2022
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