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Devin LeMahieu
Devin LeMahieu
stated on January 10, 2021 in a TV interview:
"It takes quite a while on Election Day to load those ballots, which is why we have the 1 a.m. or 3 a.m. ballot dumping in Milwaukee."
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By Eric Litke • January 15, 2021
Sarah Godlewski
Sarah Godlewski
stated on January 9, 2021 in Twitter:
“It wasn’t all women that lost jobs (in the December jobs report), it was mostly Black and Latina women. In fact, white women gained employment.”
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By Nusaiba Mizan • January 15, 2021
Jake Tapper
Jake Tapper
stated on January 13, 2021 in remarks in a CNN broadcast:
The second presidential impeachment of Donald Trump was “the most bipartisan impeachment in American history.”
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 13, 2021
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on January 8, 2021 in an interview with Ohio reporters:
Summer “protesters outside the White House were met with tear gas, rubber bullets, a full militarized response. While ... rioters were able to breach the Capitol.”
True
By Jon Greenberg • January 11, 2021
Kim Reynolds
Kim Reynolds
stated on January 7, 2021 in a news conference:
Before COVID-19, “more Iowans (were) working than at any other time in our state history."
True
January 11, 2021
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on January 6, 2021 in a Senate floor speech:
"This election actually was not unusually close."
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2021
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on January 7, 2021 in a speech:
In more than 60 cases, judges “looked at the allegations that Trump was making and determined they were without any merit.”
True
By Amy Sherman, Miriam Valverde • January 8, 2021
Mike Gallagher
Mike Gallagher
stated on January 3, 2021 in a statement:
“Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state.”
True
By Eric Litke • January 4, 2021
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on December 27, 2020 in an interview:
“In my state, as in many other states, we have governors who are closing down businesses again.”
True
By Jessica Calefati • December 30, 2020
Chris Larson
Chris Larson
stated on November 9, 2020 in Twitter:
“Jurisdictions representing about 80% of WI residents have passed referendums or resolutions in favor of fair maps.”
True
By Laura Schulte • December 21, 2020
Mike Gallagher
Mike Gallagher
stated on December 7, 2020 in a tweet:
"New data shows in-person learning isn't driving spikes in cases."
True
By Eric Litke • December 18, 2020
Tim Carpenter
Tim Carpenter
stated on December 11, 2020 in a news release:
“Wisconsin is one of the few states that doesn’t allow absentee ballots to be processed before Election Day.”
True
By Eric Litke • December 15, 2020
JB Pritzker
JB Pritzker
stated on November 17, 2020 in remarks at a news conference:
“Republican elected officials, a network of propaganda publications in the state and some radio shock jocks” were spreading “a lie” about his daughter breaking COVID-19 restrictions.
True
By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • December 6, 2020
Mandy Cohen
Mandy Cohen
stated on December 1, 2020 in a press conference:
Says COVID-19 has killed more North Carolinians in a year than the flu has in 10 years.
True
By Paul Specht • December 4, 2020
Ralph Northam
Ralph Northam
stated on December 3, 2020 in a radio interview.:
“People of color and those of not, they use marijuana at the same rate. People of color are three times more likely to get arrested and convicted.”
True
By Warren Fiske • December 3, 2020
X posts
X posts
stated on November 18, 2020 in tweets:
When Donald Trump lost the Iowa caucus to Ted Cruz in 2016, "he immediately cried that Cruz cheated.”
True
November 20, 2020
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on November 15, 2020 in a TV interview:
"We heard from the Department of Homeland Security ... that this was probably the most secure election that’s ever been run in the United States.”
True
By Madeline Heim • November 17, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 31, 2020 in a rally:
"I’ve released 22 years of my tax returns. You can go online and look. (Donald Trump) hasn’t released one.”
True
By Bill McCarthy • October 31, 2020
Theresa Greenfield
Theresa Greenfield
stated on October 30, 2020 in comments at a campaign rally:
Farm bankruptcies are "at an eight-year high."
True
By Lyle Muller • October 31, 2020
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on October 14, 2020 in a debate:
Says Dan Forest has “missed almost half of the Board of Education meetings during the pandemic."
True
By Paul Specht • October 30, 2020
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