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M.J. Hegar
M.J. Hegar
stated on July 22, 2020 in a speech:
Says 1 in 5 Texans did not have health insurance coverage before the pandemic, and now “nearly 1 in 3 Texans under the age of 65 don’t have access to health care insurance.”
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By Madlin Mekelburg • July 30, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on July 21, 2020 in a campaign speech:
On home health workers’ low pay and limited benefits, “40% are still on SNAP or Medicaid.”
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By Stephanie Stapleton • July 28, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 22, 2020 in a speech:
“Murders this year have spiked 27% in Philadelphia.”
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By Jessica Calefati • July 24, 2020
Public Citizen
Public Citizen
stated on June 29, 2020 in a tweet:
“Taxpayers spent $70,000,000 to develop this drug ( remdesivir)."
True
By Madeline Heim • July 23, 2020
Mike Gallagher
Mike Gallagher
stated on June 25, 2020 in a TV interview:
"The average family in America forks over more of their hard-earned income to their local hospital than to the IRS.”
True
By Madeline Heim • July 22, 2020
Sunny Hostin
Sunny Hostin
stated on July 15, 2020 in an episode of ABC's "The View":
“Homicides are intraracial. When you look at white-on-white crime, it's 84%. Right? Homicides. White people kill white people.”
True
By Bill McCarthy • July 17, 2020
Chris Hayes
Chris Hayes
stated on July 7, 2020 in a TV segment:
"Higher education is one of America's strongest export sectors. Over 1 million international students studied at American universities, (in the) 2018-19 school year. They contributed over $40 billion to the economy.”
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By Bill McCarthy • July 10, 2020
Ron McMullen
Ron McMullen
stated on June 23, 2020 in an op-ed:
Former U.S. Vice President Richard Mentor Johnson was a slave owner married to one of his slaves and father of two children with her.
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By Lyle Muller • July 8, 2020
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on June 11, 2020 in an interview:
The United States has not completed a “top-to-bottom review of our criminal justice system at the national level since 1965.”
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By Taylor Goldenstein • July 2, 2020
Dan Forest
Dan Forest
stated on June 22, 2020 in a tweet:
"North Carolina is one of four states" that hasn't opened gyms.
True
By Paul Specht • June 25, 2020
Priorities USA Action
Priorities USA Action
stated on June 22, 2020 in a digital ad:
Says President Trump said coronavirus testing makes the U.S. look bad, "so I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down.’"
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By Eric Litke • June 24, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 12, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says a 1942 Milwaukee YMCA brochure shows children playing a violent, racist carnival game
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By Eric Litke • June 22, 2020
Jeanette Kowalik
Jeanette Kowalik
stated on June 14, 2020 in an appearance on WISN-TV's "UpFront":
"Our health department, our city and our county declared racism as a public health crisis last year.”
True
By Lawrence Andrea • June 18, 2020
Monica Wallace
Monica Wallace
stated on June 8, 2020 in a newspaper interview:
Significantly more people died of Covid-19 in two months than died of overdoses all of last year or the year before.
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By John Pullano • June 18, 2020
Desiree Rogers
Desiree Rogers
stated on June 10, 2020 in an interview on CNN:
In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.”
True
By Jon Greenberg • June 16, 2020
George Borrello
George Borrello
stated on May 11, 2020 in a press release:
“Infection rates in Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties have consistently been among the lowest in the state.”
True
By Michael Hogan, Sean Mickey • June 12, 2020
Sara Meaney
Sara Meaney
stated on May 24, 2020 in a TV interview:
“Since the week ending March 14, Wisconsin actually saw a drop in tourism spending compared to last year of $1.7 billion.”
True
By D.L. Davis • June 12, 2020
Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
stated on March 4, 2020 in news release:
"If Roe is overturned, Wisconsin has a law on the books that would immediately make abortion a crime.”
True
By Madeline Heim • June 11, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 10, 2020 in a USA Today op-ed:
“Today, the gap between African American and white homeownership is larger than it was in the late 1960s.”
True
By Miriam Valverde • June 11, 2020
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on May 21, 2020 in news release:
“Research illustrates a clear correlation between vitamin D deficiencies and (higher) COVID-19 mortality rates.”
True
By Haley BeMiller • June 8, 2020
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