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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 31, 2020 a speech:
“I am not banning fracking.”
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By Jessica Calefati • September 1, 2020
Doug Jones
Doug Jones
stated on August 10, 2020 an interview:
In April, when asked how he would handle the COVID-19 pandemic, Tommy Tuberville "said he didn't have a clue" and after winning the Republican nomination in July, "he still said he didn't have a clue."
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By Tom Kertscher • August 27, 2020
Ryan Holets
Ryan Holets
stated on August 25, 2020 in a speech at the Republican National Convention:
“Drug overdose deaths decreased in 2018 for the first time in 30 years.”
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By Julie Appleby • August 27, 2020
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on August 25, 2020 a speech at the RNC:
Says Joe Biden “voted for the Iraq War … He supported war in Serbia, Syria, Libya.”
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By Miriam Valverde • August 26, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 23, 2020 an interview with ABC News:
Says Donald Trump “proposes cutting a half a billion dollars of local police support.”
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By Jon Greenberg • August 25, 2020
Eugene DePasquale
Eugene DePasquale
stated on August 8, 2020 a tweet:
Says Donald Trump's payroll tax deferral “could leave American workers liable for thousands of dollars during tax season and could potentially leave programs like Social Security and Medicare weakened.”
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By Jon Greenberg • August 24, 2020
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on August 10, 2020 during a televised roundtable discussion on education:
“The fact is that in terms of the risk to schoolkids, this is lower risk than seasonal influenza.”
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By Phil Galewitz • August 20, 2020
Abigail Spanberger
Abigail Spanberger
stated on August 4, 2020 a TV ad.:
“When I ran for Congress, I promised to refuse money from corporate PACs. I’ve kept that promise.”
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By Warren Fiske • August 19, 2020
Carol Miller
Carol Miller
stated on July 30, 2020 a tweet:
“In West Virginia alone, overdoses have increased by 50% during the #COVID-19 pandemic.”
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By Patrick Orsagos • August 19, 2020
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on August 18, 2020 a Democratic convention speech:
The United States is “the only major industrial economy to have its unemployment rate triple” since the coronavirus pandemic began.
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By Louis Jacobson • August 19, 2020
Really American
Really American
stated on August 12, 2020 a tweeted video:
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy “gave $400,000 to Republicans just this year” and has “between $30 and $75 million in assets of direct competitors to the United States Postal Service.”
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By Daniel Funke • August 18, 2020
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on August 4, 2020 remarks at a news conference:
When COVID-19 struck, the Illinois Department of Employment Security “was hit with something no one expected: 10 to 20 times the claims, even during the worst recession of my lifetime.”
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • August 14, 2020
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on August 2, 2020 a TV interview:
“Depending on which study you look at, either 68% or 5 out of 6 individuals ... are making more on unemployment than they did on the job.”
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By Nusaiba Mizan • August 13, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 6, 2020 an interview with members of NAHJ and NABJ:
Asked about asylum seekers in camps in Mexico, “This is the first time ever you've had to seek asylum in a third country.”
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By Miriam Valverde • August 12, 2020
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on June 5, 2020 on social media:
“Central Park actually used to be a town called Seneca Village” founded by African Americans in 1825.
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By Hannah Roesch, Julia Schneider • August 12, 2020
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Democratic Party of Wisconsin
stated on August 2, 2020 a tweet:
“34% of Wisconsin renters are at risk of eviction.”
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By D.L. Davis • August 12, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 6, 2020 an interview with journalism associations:
“If the vaccine came out tomorrow, how in the heck would we get it to people? There is no game plan.”
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By Amy Sherman • August 11, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on August 5, 2020 a Facebook post:
Photos show six fires around the world “in the last 24 hours.”
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By Ciara O'Rourke • August 7, 2020
Mandy Cohen
Mandy Cohen
stated on July 28, 2020 a press conference:
There’s a “direct correlation” between North Carolina’s mask requirement and COVID-19 stabilization.
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By Paul Specht • August 5, 2020
Brett Giroir
Brett Giroir
stated on August 2, 2020 an interview on NBC's Meet the Press:
“There have been five randomized controlled, placebo controlled trials that do not show any benefit to hydroxychloroquine.”
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • August 5, 2020
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