Latest Fact-Checks In Elections

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Jay Ashcroft
Jay Ashcroft
stated on April 14, 2020 a radio interview
“When you look at Wisconsin, in their largest city they normally have roughly 500 polling places. They just had their election a week ago, and they had five. That is ludicrous.”
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By Sara Dingmann • May 15, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 7, 2020 a Facebook post
“Conservative Supreme Court Justices vote remotely to deny Wisconsin voters their right to vote remotely.”
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By Eric Litke • April 9, 2020
David Lewis
David Lewis
stated on March 26, 2020 a tweet
“Pelosi tried to block voter ID/absentee ballot protections.”
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By Paul Specht • April 7, 2020
Brad Parscale
Brad Parscale
stated on February 25, 2020 a Tweet
“Did you see President Trump’s RECORD TURNOUT? Iowa - 32,389 Republicans.”
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By Rylee Wilson • March 20, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on February 24, 2020 a post on Facebook
"Cuba has a lung cancer vaccine we in the US had no access to because we sanctioned Cuba.”
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By Jon Greenberg • March 4, 2020
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on February 26, 2020 a CNN town hall
“I certainly supported Barack Obama and Joe Biden. ... I was there both times for them.”
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By Miriam Valverde • March 3, 2020
Jerry Tillman
Jerry Tillman
stated on November 15, 2019 a speech
Says the U.S. Constitution "doesn’t say anything about (redistricting) being fair. … it’s set up to be partisan."
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By Paul Specht • November 26, 2019
John Carter
John Carter
stated on February 18, 2019 a speech
"I was the first elected Republican in Williamson County history."
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By Madlin Mekelburg • March 22, 2019
Club for Growth
Club for Growth
stated on March 10, 2019 in a TV ad
Says Beto O’Rourke did his father-in-law’s "bidding on the El Paso City Council, pushing a downtown redevelopment scheme to bulldoze a poor Hispanic neighborhood while enriching developers like his father-in-law."
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By Madlin Mekelburg • March 14, 2019
Chuck McGrady
Chuck McGrady
stated on February 13, 2019 a press conference
Says "nearly half" of House Republicans have supported a nonpartisan redistricting bill.
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By Paul Specht • February 15, 2019
Matthew Rothschild
Matthew Rothschild
stated on January 3, 2019 a radio interview
The NRA is "one of the biggest lobbyists here in the capital. They spend a ton of money during elections. …  they spent more than a million dollars here in Wisconsin on the 2018 elections. Most of that was for Walker, or more specifically against Evers."
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By D.L. Davis • January 24, 2019
Terry Van Duyn
Terry Van Duyn
stated on November 27, 2018 a speech
"Over 1,000 people were denied a ballot on Election Day" in the 2016 North Carolina primaries.
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By Paul Specht • December 11, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 7, 2018 in a press conference
"This election marks the largest Senate gains for a president's party in a first midterm election since at least President Kennedy's in 1962."
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By John Kruzel • November 8, 2018
Kathy Manning
Kathy Manning
stated on October 23, 2018 a debate
"I'm not taking any corporate PAC money."
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By Will Doran • October 28, 2018
Yes on 10 campaign
Yes on 10 campaign
stated on September 28, 2018 a TV advertisement
California’s rent control measure Proposition 10 would have "No effect on homeowners"
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By Chris Nichols • October 5, 2018
Congressional Leadership Fund
Congressional Leadership Fund
stated on September 19, 2018 a TV ad
Says Kansas U.S. House candidate Paul Davis was caught with a stripper during a drug raid and later voted to "allow strip clubs to open near homes, churches, schools and daycare facilities."
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By Samantha Putterman • October 1, 2018
Mike Bishop
Mike Bishop
stated on September 19, 2018 a campaign ad
Says Michigan congressional candidate Elissa Slotkin "just parachuted into the district to run for Congress" and "admitted that she doesn’t know our area."
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By Samantha Putterman • September 19, 2018
Dan Kohl
Dan Kohl
stated on September 4, 2018 TV ads
"I'm not a politician."
Half-True
September 6, 2018
Republican Party of Wisconsin
Republican Party of Wisconsin
stated on August 1, 2018 a radio ad
Claims that Democratic candidate for governor Matt Flynn "told one child predator to ‘wait and see,’ when he should have turned him in to authorities."
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By Ahmed Elbenni • August 10, 2018
Republican Party of Wisconsin
Republican Party of Wisconsin
stated on August 1, 2018 a news release
Says Mahlon Mitchell "received a massive raise on the backs of hard-working firefighters and turned the union into his own personal political slush fund."
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By D.L. Davis • August 9, 2018
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