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John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on July 22, 2019 an advertisement
Says Royce West stood with Wendy Davis "to support painful late-term abortions."
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By Madlin Mekelburg • August 8, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 4, 2019 remarks in Morristown, N.J.
Asked what his administration would be doing about "the gun problem," said, "We have done much more than most administrations. … We’ve done, actually, a lot."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 8, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 5, 2019 a video on Twitter
"There are more assault rifles, as I understand it, in the hands of private citizens than in the hands of the United States military. We're talking about 5 to 10 million assault weapons in the hands of private citizens."  
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August 8, 2019
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on August 5, 2019 a tweet
"After (the assault weapon ban) passed in 1994, there was a big drop in mass shooting deaths. When the ban expired, they rose again."  
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By Jon Greenberg • August 7, 2019
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Viral image
stated on July 19, 2019 post on Facebook
"Ida B. Wells refused to give up her seat 71 years before Rosa Parks did. At age 33, she owned the first African American newspaper in Chicago, the Chicago Conservator. Why do you never hear about her? Because she was a Republican."
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August 6, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 1, 2019 a rally
"The homicide rate in Baltimore is significantly higher than El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala. ...  I believe it’s higher than Afghanistan."
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By John Kruzel • August 2, 2019
Kirsten Gillibrand
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on July 31, 2019 the Detroit debate
"When the Senate was debating middle-class affordability for child care," then-Sen. Joe Biden "voted against it, the only vote, but what he wrote (in) an op-ed was that he believed that women working outside the home would, quote, ‘create the deterioration of family.’ He also said that women who were working outside the home were, quote, ‘avoiding responsibility.’"  
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By Amy Sherman • August 2, 2019
Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson
stated on July 28, 2019 an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation"
"We are the only advanced industrialized nation that bases our educational funding on property taxes."
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By Bill McCarthy • July 31, 2019
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin
stated on July 11, 2019 a speech
Says President Trump "has ended up attracting larger numbers of people coming to the United States presenting themselves for asylum status at our border than we’ve ever seen."
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • July 28, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on July 22, 2019 a post on Medium
"The country is now in a manufacturing recession."  
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By Jon Greenberg • July 26, 2019
Donna Shalala
Donna Shalala
stated on July 21, 2019 an interview on CBSMiami with Jim DeFede
Says children at Homestead migrant facility "get 30 minutes over a month to talk to family members. If they were in a prison — a federal prison — they would get 300 minutes."
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By Amy Sherman • July 23, 2019
Dan Bishop
Dan Bishop
stated on July 17, 2019 a speech at a Trump rally
Says "Dan McCready took money from Ilhan Omar"
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By Paul Specht • July 22, 2019
North Carolina Healthcare Association
North Carolina Healthcare Association
stated on July 7, 2019 in a paid advertisement in the News & Observer
Says the changes to the State Health Plan "will DENY North Carolina state employees, retirees, and their families of in-network access to critical healthcare services."
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By Elizabeth Thompson • July 20, 2019
Weston Pagano
Weston Pagano
stated on June 24, 2019 an essay on Medium
Says Joe Biden "voted to expand deportations and indefinite detention for immigrants multiple times."
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By Amy Sherman • July 12, 2019
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on June 12, 2019 a Facebook post
Obama-era ban on whole and 2% milk in schools has caused "notable decline" in student milk consumption.
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By Eric Litke • July 12, 2019
Ken Cuccinelli
Ken Cuccinelli
stated on July 7, 2019 a Fox News Sunday interview
"Last year, we were in the range of 850,000 and that was the most in five years. … We are letting more people become citizens than has happened in years."
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By Miriam Valverde • July 11, 2019
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on July 8, 2019 a tweet
"Americans are traveling to Canada to pay 12 times less for insulin than they would here in the US."  
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By Jon Greenberg • July 11, 2019
Michael Burgess
Michael Burgess
stated on June 24, 2019 an MSNBC interview
Of shelters for immigrant children: "You know what? There's not a lock on the door. Any child is free to leave at anytime, but they don't. You know why? Because they are well taken care of."
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By Miriam Valverde • July 10, 2019
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Viral image
stated on July 3, 2019 posts on the Internet
When asked if the United States should have a military parade to "show off its might," President Dwight Eisenhower said, "Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak."
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By Daniel Funke, Louis Jacobson • July 3, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on June 13, 2019 an interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
"The Census is predicting a 6% undercount that will be targeted against nonwhites in this country — so Hispanics, African Americans, communities of color" if a citizenship question is asked.
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By Stefanie Pousoulides • July 1, 2019
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