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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 15, 2020 a speech at a Florida event:
“24 of every 100 kids in school today speak Spanish.”
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By Amy Sherman • September 23, 2020
NumbersUSA
NumbersUSA
stated on September 13, 2020 a Facebook post:
“Nearly 2 out of 3 Americans want to reduce legal immigration from 1 million per year down to 500,000 or less.”
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By Miriam Valverde • September 21, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on September 10, 2020 a Facebook post:
“This is what Kamala Harris thinks about young Americans … ‘They are stupid!’”
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By Samantha Putterman • September 17, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on September 7, 2020 a Facebook post:
“In 1983, Joe Biden voted in favor of taxing 50% of Social Security” and in 1993, Biden “was the deciding vote in raising the percentage taxed on Social Security from 50% to 85%.”
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By Amy Sherman • September 14, 2020
Lucy McBath
Lucy McBath
stated on September 9, 2020 an ad:
Says Karen Handel voted with Donald Trump, "gutting health care for millions, supporting horrific child separation policies" and for "abortion bans."
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By Tom Kertscher • September 14, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 7, 2020 a Labor Day event:
Says Donald Trump “let federal contractors double offshoring jobs in his first 18 months in office.”
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By Jon Greenberg • September 14, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 9, 2020 a speech in Warren, Mich.:
The “U.S. trade deficit is at an all-time high under Trump in the last three years.”
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By Louis Jacobson • September 11, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 7, 2020 a press conference:
"Under Operation Warp Speed, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April.”
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By Louis Jacobson • September 9, 2020
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
stated on August 21, 2020 an ad:
After a bridge collapse killed six people, Carlos Gimenez extended a $130 million contract to the construction company, where one of his sons worked and for which another lobbied.
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By Tom Kertscher • September 4, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on August 31, 2020 a speech:
"When I was vice president, violent crime fell 15% in this country. ... The murder rate now is up 26% across the nation this year under Donald Trump."
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By Miriam Valverde • September 3, 2020
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on August 26, 2020 Twitter:
In contrast to how a Black man who was shot by police was treated, Kenosha police officers "let an armed white supremacist walk right past them after shooting people."
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By Haley BeMiller • September 1, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 29, 2020 a Facebook post:
“If you go to Antifa.com, it takes you directly to Joe Biden’s webpage...what’s that tell ya…try it yourself.”
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • September 1, 2020
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on August 18, 2020 a press conference:
Says crime is on the rise in Austin and a new study showed that it “is the No. 1 city in America in the year-to-year percentage increase in murders, with a percentage increase of more than 64% for the first half of this year.”
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By Madlin Mekelburg • August 31, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 19, 2020 a Facebook post:
“Two mail in ballots in PA (were) sent to the same person with their names on both a week and a half apart.”
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By Samantha Putterman • August 28, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 24, 2020 a Facebook post:
Says Jacob Blake, shot by police in Kenosha, had a warrant for sexual assault and prior convictions for gun use
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By Eric Litke • August 27, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 24, 2020 Facebook post:
“Police training in Wisconsin is 21 weeks. A cosmetology license takes 40 weeks.”
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By Haley BeMiller • August 27, 2020
Duty and Honor
Duty and Honor
stated on August 7, 2020 a campaign ad:
Sen. Steve Daines “voted to give billions in tax breaks to big drug companies even as they raised prices.”
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By Noah Y. Kim • August 25, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on August 19, 2020 a Facebook post:
“This USPS employee was caught taking down Trump signs. These people are also responsible for the mail in ballots they are pushing so hard.”
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By Ciara O'Rourke • August 21, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 3, 2018 a Facebook post:
Says Condoleezza Rice said, “If you are taught bitterness and anger, then you will believe you are a victim. You will feel aggrieved and the twin brother of aggrievement is entitlement. So now you think you are owed something and you don’t have to work for it and now you’re on a really bad road to nowhere because there are people who will play to that sense of victimhood, aggrievement and entitlement, and you still won’t have a job.”
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By Ciara O'Rourke • August 19, 2020
Eva Longoria Baston
Eva Longoria Baston
stated on August 17, 2020 the Democratic National Convention:
"Social Security beneficiaries count on the post office to get their checks.”
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By Samantha Putterman • August 18, 2020
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