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Jim Bognet
stated on June 12, 2020 a press release

U.S. Rep. Matt “Cartwright proposes to defund the Wilkes-Barre police.”

By Jessica Calefati • July 9, 2020

Viral image
stated on June 19, 2020 a viral image

NFL player “stood alone" while his whole team stayed in the locker room during the national anthem, “a real American patriot!”

July 1, 2020

Brian Fitzpatrick
stated on May 5, 2020 a radio interview

“For the World Health Organization, the international entity whose sole responsibility it is to alert the world of global pandemics like this, to miss this, is a huge problem.”

By Jessica Calefati • May 30, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on May 25, 2020 a tweet

“[U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb] said he would NOT vote for [Nancy Pelosi] for Speaker, and did.”

By Jessica Calefati • May 27, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on May 11, 2020 a Facebook post

“Gov. Wolf is not allowing companies that distribute U.S. flags to ship out orders to be placed at veteran’s graves for Memorial Day.”

By Jessica Calefati • May 19, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on May 14, 2020 a speech

“You have areas of Pennsylvania that are barely affected and [the governor wants] to keep them closed.”

By Jessica Calefati • May 18, 2020

Mike Turzai
stated on May 9, 2020 a video

“Guess what, [children are] not at risk unless they have an underlying medical issue.”

By Jessica Calefati • May 14, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on May 2, 2020 a Facebook post

Gas is under $1 in 13 states, but $2.27 in Pennsylvania, because of the governor.

May 7, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 18, 2020 a Facebook post

“The poor are, ironically, the most likely to be employed in the industries deemed ‘essential’ while their upper-class peers are freed to bunker down for weeks until the first death wave passes.”

By Jessica Calefati • April 21, 2020

Pat Toomey
stated on April 15, 2020 a Politico interview

“In a matter of days, and in some cases the moment may even have passed, that we’ve reached the peak of the rate of infections.”

By Jessica Calefati • April 16, 2020

Rick Santorum
stated on April 13, 2020 on CNN

"The president looks like he was ahead of the curve – as you know, he talks about this all the time – on shutting down travel from China."

By Jessica Calefati • April 14, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 16, 2020 a Facebook post

The government is closing businesses to stop the spread of coronavirus even though "the numbers are nothing compared to H1N1 or Ebola. Everyone needs to realize our government is up to something ...”

By Jessica Calefati • April 6, 2020

Brian Fitzpatrick
stated on March 23, 2020 comments he made on the radio

“We’ve got to give the American public a rough estimate of how long we think this is going to take, based mostly on the South Korean model, which seems to be the trajectory that we are on, thankfully, and not the Italian model.”

By Jessica Calefati • April 1, 2020

Pat Toomey
stated on March 28, 2020 a video on Twitter

“My mask will keep someone else safe and their mask will keep me safe.”

By Daniel Funke, Jessica Calefati • April 1, 2020

Bloggers
stated on February 28, 2020 a news article

“Swing State Hit With 2020 Voting Lawsuit - Accused Of Registering Over 1,500 Deceased People In Pennsylvania.”

By Jessica Calefati • March 27, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on February 19, 2020 a Facebook post

“Fact: Mike Bloomberg spent $12 million to re-elect a Senate Republican (Toomey) in 2016. Toomey beat the Dem (McGinty) by 1.5 points. If McGinty had won, Ds would have controlled the Senate after Doug Jones won and could have blocked Kavanaugh from the Supreme Court.”

By Amy Sherman • February 28, 2020

Viral image
stated on December 12, 2019 a Facebook post

Says a photo shows "a Trump rally in downtown Philly yesterday."

January 6, 2020

Julián Castro
stated on October 15, 2019 a debate

"Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania actually in the latest jobs data have lost jobs, not gained them."

By Louis Jacobson • October 16, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on August 13, 2019 a speech

"From 2010 to 2017, natural gas production plummeted by nearly 70 percent in New York, but it soared almost 1,000 percent in Pennsylvania."

By Jill Terreri Ramos • September 4, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on May 22, 2019 remarks in the Rose Garden

Says Pennsylvania Republican nominee for Congress Fred Keller "was a 50-50 shot" before his landslide victory.

By Louis Jacobson • May 22, 2019

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