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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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