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Phil Bredesen
Phil Bredesen
stated on August 24, 2018 a press release:
Says Marsha Blackburn "at the behest of the pharmaceutical industry, co-sponsored a law that weakened DEA enforcement efforts against drug distribution companies that were supplying corrupt doctors and pharmacists who peddled narcotics to the black market."  
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By Jon Greenberg • September 18, 2018
House Majority PAC
House Majority PAC
stated on September 12, 2018 campaign ad:
Says Dino Rossi "stripped" health care "from 45,000 children."
Mostly True
By Manuela Tobias • September 18, 2018
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 10, 2018 a TV ad:
Says Leah Vukmir was "just about the only legislator who stood with the insurance companies" and "voted against oral chemotherapy."  
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By Tom Kertscher • September 14, 2018
Republican Governors Association
Republican Governors Association
stated on September 12, 2018 an ad:
Says Andrew Gillum "wants to increase Florida taxes by a billion dollars."
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By Amy Sherman • September 14, 2018
Patrick Morrisey
Patrick Morrisey
stated on August 21, 2018 a Donald Trump rally in Charleston, W.Va.:
Says Joe Manchin "strongly supported and voted for Hillary Clinton after she said, ‘We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of work.’"
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By Kristen Mohammadi • September 13, 2018
Aftab Pureval
Aftab Pureval
stated on August 28, 2018 a campaign ad:
Says Steve Chabot "voted to strip insurance protections for pre-existing conditions."  
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By Stephen Koff • September 12, 2018
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on September 11, 2018 a newspaper column:
"President Trump’s Republican Party will create more debt in one year than was generated in the first 200 years of America’s existence."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 12, 2018
Congressional Leadership Fund
Congressional Leadership Fund
stated on August 17, 2018 A campaign ad:
Says Joe Radinovich "was cited 30 times for not paying court fines."
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By Stephen Koff • September 10, 2018
Michael Lee
Michael Lee
stated on August 28, 2018 Tweet:
Teacher pay has increased under Republican leadership every year for the past 5 years.  In fact, even according to the national teacher's unions own rankings, NC ranked number 2 in the U.S. for fastest rising teacher pay 2016-2017.
Mostly True
By Rashaan Ayesh • September 7, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 6, 2018 a rally in Billings, Mont.:
"When Abraham Lincoln made the Gettysburg Address speech, the great speech, do you know he was ridiculed? He was ridiculed."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2018
West Virginia Republican Party
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on September 7, 2018 a tweet:
"Thanks to President Trump and Republicans over the past year through July, U.S. manufacturing added 327,000 jobs, the most of any 12-month period since April 1995, when the figure added a healthy 345,000 positions."
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By Adrianne Uphold • September 6, 2018
JD Wooten
JD Wooten
stated on August 24, 2018:
"My opponent, Rick Gunn, blocked the expansion of Medicaid — costing half a million people health insurance, including at least 23,000 veterans."
Mostly True
By Bill McCarthy • September 5, 2018
Andrew Gillum
Andrew Gillum
stated on August 29, 2018 an MSNBC interview:
Says he was sued by the NRA and the gun lobby "all because in my city we refused to repeal an ordinance which said you couldn’t shoot guns in city parks."
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By Miriam Valverde • September 5, 2018
Mike McCabe
Mike McCabe
stated on July 6, 2018 a TV interview:
Says Minnesota is "imprisoning half as many people as Wisconsin, and yet our states have virtually identical crime rates."
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By Samantha West • September 5, 2018
Nate McMurray
Nate McMurray
stated on August 18, 2018 a statement on his campaign website:
"Evidence is mounting that marijuana legalization reduces opioid addiction numbers."
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • August 31, 2018
Tim Moore
Tim Moore
stated on August 24, 2018 the legislature:
North Carolina is one of "very few states" that give the governor sole discretion to pick judges.
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By Rashaan Ayesh • August 29, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on August 28, 2018 an online video ad:
Says Beto O’Rourke "voted against" Hurricane Harvey "tax relief."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 29, 2018
M.J. Hegar
M.J. Hegar
stated on August 21, 2018 an interview on Spectrum Cable's "Capital Tonight":
Says U.S. Rep. John Carter "hasn’t held a town hall in five years."
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By W. Gardner Selby • August 29, 2018
Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy
stated on August 15, 2018 a speech:
"Half of everyone that’s here illegally (in the U.S.) came here legally on a visa and have overstayed their visa."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • August 24, 2018
West Virginia Republican Party
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on August 1, 2018 a tweet:
"Thanks to President Trump and Republican leadership, the number of people collecting food stamps has declined by more than two million."
Mostly True
By Patrick Orsagos • August 23, 2018
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