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Wisconsin Republican Legislative leaders
stated on January 30, 2019 news release

"Not a dollar would be paid out until jobs in the Foxconn development area were created."

By D.L. Davis • February 1, 2019

Tammy Baldwin
stated on January 2, 2019 a tweet

"Wisconsin lost over 600 farms last year & our farmers can't afford the #TrumpShutdown."

By D.L. Davis • January 9, 2019

Jim Justice
stated on September 19, 2018 a tweet

"WV's tourism industry grew at a rate 30% above the national rate in 2017. This increase reversed a four-year decline in which travel-generated spending fell more than $600 million."

By Matt Minard • December 14, 2018

Jim Justice
stated on November 5, 2018 a tweet

"Hunters contribute more than $500 million" to West Virginia.

By Douglas Soule • December 10, 2018

Gavin Newsom
stated on November 29, 2018 a press conference at the border

There was "an estimated $5.3 million of economic loss just for a few hours of shutting down the border. You’re talking about millions and millions of dollars — billions of dollars — of economic consequence, if we continue with this rhetoric around shutting down the border without considering what that means."

By Chris Nichols • December 3, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on September 20, 2018 an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity

Under the North American Free Trade Agreement, "we lost thousands of plants."

By Louis Jacobson • September 24, 2018

West Virginia Republican Party
stated on September 4, 2018 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."

By Alanna Longnecker, Adrianne Uphold • September 20, 2018

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.’"

By Kristen Mohammadi • September 13, 2018

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."

By Adrianne Uphold • September 6, 2018

Beto O'Rourke
stated on July 26, 2018 an ad in the Houston Defender

Says "black Americans have 10 times less wealth than white Americans."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 23, 2018

Mike Pence
stated on July 22, 2018 an opinion piece for the Philadelphia Inquirer

"[The] unemployment rate in the Philadelphia metro area is now at its lowest level ever recorded."

By Sarah Anne Hughes • July 23, 2018

Steve Adler
stated on April 25, 2018 a tweet

Says Austin is the "safest big city in Texas with an unemployment rate under 3% that has been named the best place to live in the entire United States two years running."

By W. Gardner Selby • April 26, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on April 26, 2018 an interview on "Fox & Friends"

"Kanye (West) looks and he sees black unemployment at the lowest it’s been in the history of our country. He sees Hispanic unemployment at the lowest it’s been in the history of our country. He sees (women’s unemployment) the lowest it’s been in now almost 19 years."

By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2018

Paul Mango
stated on May 7, 2017 a campaign video

"Today, we (in Pennsylvania) have higher unemployment and lower job growth than most."

By Colin Deppen • April 9, 2018

Alex Mooney
stated on March 25, 2018 a Wall Street Journal op-ed

"From 2000-10, U.S. manufacturing employment shrank by a third after holding steady for 30 years."

By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on March 6, 2018 in a press conference

Says the U.S. steel and aluminum industry is "a fraction of what it once was."

By John Kruzel • March 13, 2018

Stacey Evans
stated on January 26, 2018 campaign website

Georgia "has the lowest minimum wage in the country."

By Miriam Valverde • February 5, 2018

Joe Kennedy
stated on January 30, 2018 response to State of the Union address

"Top CEOs (are) making 300 times the average worker."

By John Kruzel • January 31, 2018

Edward Cox
stated on January 9, 2018 a radio interview

"Of all the 62 counties in New York state, all of them, unemployment is going up except for the five counties of New York City."

By Dan Clark • January 17, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 8, 2018 a tweet

"African American unemployment is the lowest ever recorded in our country. The Hispanic unemployment rate dropped a full point in the last year and is close to the lowest in recorded history. Dems did nothing for you but get your vote!"

By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2018

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