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Nikki Fried
Nikki Fried
stated on October 29, 2019 in a pre-legislative media forum:
While previous clemency boards granted restoration of civil rights to thousands of Floridians,  "so far this year, under this clemency board, four (felons) have gotten their rights back."
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By Amy Sherman • November 21, 2019
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on November 20, 2019 in a tweet:
"Since President (Donald Trump’s) election, 36,000 jobs have been created in WI."
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By Eric Litke • November 21, 2019
David McKinley
David McKinley
stated on October 13, 2019 in an article in a local newspaper:
"$53 million a week is coming across the border in drugs."
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By Matthew Digby, Minh Do • November 18, 2019
Sid Miller
Sid Miller
stated on November 9, 2019 in a Facebook post:
"Confederate veterans were conferred with many of the same benefits of other United States military veterans by Acts of Congress back in 1929 and 1957."
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By Madlin Mekelburg • November 15, 2019
William Taylor
William Taylor
stated on November 13, 2019 in impeachment inquiry testimony:
"The Russians are violating all of the rules, treaties, understandings that they committed to that actually kept the peace in Europe for nearly 70 years."
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By Tom Kertscher • November 14, 2019
Donald Trump Jr.
Donald Trump Jr.
stated on November 7, 2019 in an interview on ABC's "The View":
"It’s only a federal crime for the" inspector general to out a whistleblower.
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By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2019
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on August 19, 2019 in a tweet:
"In WI, over 79% of Title X patients rely on Planned Parenthood for their basic health care."
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By Mica Soellner • November 8, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 4, 2019 in a campaign email to Vermont media:
"President Trump has lifted the prospect of voters across Vermont, overseeing a 11,742 decline of Vermont residents on food stamps."
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By Xander Landen • November 7, 2019
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
stated on September 29, 2019 in a tweet:
Says Thom Tillis voted to support Trump’s emergency declaration to fund the border wall even though it would "raid $80 million from North Carolina."
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By Julianna Rennie • November 6, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on October 30, 2019 in an interview:
"When it comes to electability, every single time my party has won the presidency in the last 50 years, it’s been with a candidate who was new on the national scene, hadn’t spent a lot of time in Washington, and represented a new generation of leadership."
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By Miriam Valverde • November 5, 2019
Jack Salzwedel
Jack Salzwedel
stated on October 8, 2019 in a public forum:
"There’s more African American males in the penal system right now than there were (enslaved) at the height of slavery." 
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By D.L. Davis • November 1, 2019
Mike Parson
Mike Parson
stated on September 8, 2019 in a campaign announcement:
"Wages are on the rise — in fact we were the top small-business wage growth state in the nation."
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By Joe Noser • October 31, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 16, 2019 in answering questions from reporters:
"I entered as one of the poorest men in Congress, left one of the poorest men in government, in Congress and as vice president."
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By Tom Kertscher • October 30, 2019
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on October 22, 2019 in remarks at a committee hearing:
Says that in Illinois, "fewer than 20% of those actually deported have been charged with any serious crime."
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • October 27, 2019
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on October 11, 2019 in an interview on ABC's "The View":
"Most people below $50,000 don’t pay any income tax. The top 1 percent in our country pay 40%."
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By Louis Jacobson • October 17, 2019
Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang
stated on September 21, 2019 in Iowa Steak Fry speech:
Says about universal basic income, "Thomas Paine was for it at our founding ... Martin Luther King, champion in the ‘60s, called it a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans… It passed the U.S. House of Representatives twice in 1971."
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By Miriam Valverde • October 16, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on October 15, 2019 in comments made during the Oct. 15 Democratic presidential primary debate:
 "Back when I was studying it, two out of three families that ended up in bankruptcy after a serious medical problem had health insurance."
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By Shefali Luthra • October 16, 2019
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on September 23, 2019 in a speech:
Says "90% of policemen are for" expanding background checks to all gun sales.
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • October 4, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on September 21, 2019 in a campaign appearance in Iowa:
"We’re no longer the wealthiest middle class in the world."
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By Amy Sherman • October 4, 2019
Sam Graves
Sam Graves
stated on August 29, 2019 in a newsletter:
"The average bridge in Missouri is 48 years old — most were only designed to last for 50 years."
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By Madison Czopek • October 2, 2019
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