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Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 17, 2018 in a poll:
"Tony Evers says that tax dollars should pay for the abortions just like they pay for tonsillectomies."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • September 26, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 20, 2018 in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity:
Under the North American Free Trade Agreement, "we lost thousands of plants."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 24, 2018
Cort VanOstran
Cort VanOstran
stated on August 21, 2018 in a press release:
Says "Rep. Ann Wagner, a three-term incumbent, has never held a town hall in the Second District."
Mostly True
By Titus Wu, Sten Spinella • September 22, 2018
Josh Hawley
Josh Hawley
stated on September 19, 2018 in a video:
Says "Claire McCaskill receives the second-most contributions from insurance companies in the entire Senate."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 21, 2018
Patrick Morrisey
Patrick Morrisey
stated on September 4, 2018 in a campaign ad:
Says he "beat (President Barack) Obama at the Supreme Court, saving coal jobs."
Mostly True
By Anja Martin • September 20, 2018
West Virginia Republican Party
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on September 4, 2018 in a tweet:
"In 2017, the number of new business registrations in West Virginia grew nearly 11 percent (8,318 new businesses registered for the year). This comes off the heels of a 12 percent increase in new business registrations during 2016."
Mostly True
By Alanna Longnecker, Adrianne Uphold • September 20, 2018
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on August 16, 2018 in a public forum:
"Special education categorical aid" from the state "hasn’t been raised in over a decade."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • September 20, 2018
Phil Bredesen
Phil Bredesen
stated on August 24, 2018 in 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."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • September 18, 2018
House Majority PAC
House Majority PAC
stated on September 12, 2018 in 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 in a TV ad:
Says Leah Vukmir was "just about the only legislator who stood with the insurance companies" and "voted against oral chemotherapy."  
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • September 14, 2018
Republican Governors Association
Republican Governors Association
stated on September 12, 2018 in an ad:
Says Andrew Gillum "wants to increase Florida taxes by a billion dollars."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • September 14, 2018
Patrick Morrisey
Patrick Morrisey
stated on August 21, 2018 in 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.’"
Mostly True
By Kristen Mohammadi • September 13, 2018
Aftab Pureval
Aftab Pureval
stated on August 28, 2018 in a campaign ad:
Says Steve Chabot "voted to strip insurance protections for pre-existing conditions."  
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • September 12, 2018
Joe Scarborough
Joe Scarborough
stated on September 11, 2018 in 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."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 12, 2018
Congressional Leadership Fund
Congressional Leadership Fund
stated on August 17, 2018 in A campaign ad:
Says Joe Radinovich "was cited 30 times for not paying court fines."
Mostly True
By Stephen Koff • September 10, 2018
Michael Lee
Michael Lee
stated on August 28, 2018 in 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 in 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 in 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."
Mostly True
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 in 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."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • September 5, 2018
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