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Desiree Rogers
stated on June 10, 2020 an interview on CNN

In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.”

By Jon Greenberg • June 16, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 18, 2020 a Facebook post

“The poor are, ironically, the most likely to be employed in the industries deemed ‘essential’ while their upper-class peers are freed to bunker down for weeks until the first death wave passes.”

By Jessica Calefati • April 21, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 31, 2020 a Facebook post

“On February 7, the WHO warned about the limited stock of PPE. That same day, the Trump administration announced it was sending 18 tons of masks, gowns and respirators to China.”

By Bill McCarthy • April 2, 2020

Pat Toomey
stated on March 28, 2020 a video on Twitter

“My mask will keep someone else safe and their mask will keep me safe.”

By Daniel Funke, Jessica Calefati • April 1, 2020

Amy Klobuchar
stated on February 20, 2020 an MSNBC interview

“The majority of hunters now want universal background checks, the majority of Trump voters.”

By Bill McCarthy • February 20, 2020

Cory Booker
stated on January 9, 2020 public comments

National polls have “never predicted who will be president from our party. Carter was in the single digits a few months before caucuses. Bill Clinton was. Obama — 20 points behind in the national polls roughly.”

By Brooklyn Draisey • February 6, 2020

Pete Buttigieg
stated on January 26, 2020 a Fox News town hall in Des Moines

"More than 80% of Republicans think we ought to at least be doing universal background checks."

By Amy Sherman • January 29, 2020

Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 14, 2020 a debate

"Look at the men on this stage. Collectively, they have lost 10 elections. The only people on this stage who have won every single election that they’ve been in are the women, Amy and me."

By Louis Jacobson • January 15, 2020

Amy Klobuchar
stated on December 20, 2019 the sixth Democratic presidential debate

Says Pete Buttigieg ran statewide in Indiana and "lost by 20 points."

By Aaron Sharockman • December 20, 2019

Bernie Sanders
stated on December 19, 2019 the Democratic debate in Los Angeles

Real wages "went up last year 1.1%."

By Jon Greenberg • December 20, 2019

Pete Buttigieg
stated on October 15, 2019 a Democratic presidential debate

Americans "say that what they want is a choice" to join a single-payer system like Medicare rather than ending private insurance.

By Louis Jacobson • October 16, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on October 7, 2019 a statement to the press

Minneapolis "city government preemptively informed the Target Center that it would be responsible for $530,000 in security and other costs" related to a Trump rally, "more than 26 times the estimated security costs for a 2009 Target Center health care rally held by President Barack Obama."

By Amy Sherman • October 8, 2019

Sheldon Whitehouse
stated on September 6, 2019 an op-ed

"One unnamed donor gave $17 million to the Leo-affiliated Judicial Crisis Network to block the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland and to support Gorsuch; then a donor — perhaps the same one — gave another $17 million to prop up Kavanaugh."

By John Kruzel • September 11, 2019

Arlen Parsa
stated on September 1, 2019 a tweet

Thirty-four of the 47 men depicted in the famous "Declaration of Independence" painting were slaveholders.

September 10, 2019

Michael Bloomberg
stated on August 11, 2019 an interview on CBS's "Face the Nation"

"If you go back, you can see Wayne LaPierre, who runs the NRA, testifying in front of Congress in favor of background checks 15 or 20 years ago."

By Bill McCarthy • August 13, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on July 9, 2019 Twitter

"Food Stamp participation hits 10 year low."

By Stefanie Pousoulides • July 16, 2019

Cory Booker
stated on July 5, 2019 an interview

"In 2017, we had more marijuana possession arrests in our country than all other violent crimes combined."

July 11, 2019

Bernie Sanders
stated on June 26, 2019 an opinion article

"The wealthiest three families now own more wealth than the bottom half of the country."

July 3, 2019

Seth Moulton
stated on June 2, 2019 a CNN town hall

"The VA negotiates prescription drug prices. Medicare doesn't do that."

By Stefanie Pousoulides • June 7, 2019

Tulsi Gabbard
stated on June 1, 2019 a veterans event in California

Says immigrant military service members applying for U.S. citizenship "are getting rejected at higher numbers than those who are not veterans."

By Miriam Valverde • June 7, 2019

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