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Lizzie Pannill Fletcher
stated on November 20, 2019 in a tweet:

"In Texas, Latinas make less than $0.45 for every dollar a man makes. That makes us 49th in the nation."

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By Madlin Mekelburg • November 27, 2019

Robin Vos
stated on November 10, 2019 in a TV interview:

Says 1,000 people failed gun background checks in Wisconsin in 2018, but "almost none of them were prosecuted for trying to do a background check and illegally buy a weapon."

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By Eric Litke • November 26, 2019

Kellyanne Conway
stated on November 20, 2019 in a radio interview.:

"We now have the first decline in overdose deaths due to drugs in 30 years - since 1990."

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By Warren Fiske • November 26, 2019

Nancy Pelosi
stated on November 17, 2019 in an interview on "Face the Nation":

President Trump "hasn’t built any new (border) wall" during his time in office.

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By Chris Nichols • November 23, 2019

Nikki Fried
stated on October 29, 2019 in a pre-legislative media forum:

While previous clemency boards granted restoration of civil rights to thousands of Floridians, "so far this year, under this clemency board, four (felons) have gotten their rights back."

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By Amy Sherman • November 21, 2019

Mike Pence
stated on November 20, 2019 in a tweet:

"Since President (Donald Trump’s) election, 36,000 jobs have been created in WI."

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By Eric Litke • November 21, 2019

David McKinley
stated on October 13, 2019 in an article in a local newspaper:

"$53 million a week is coming across the border in drugs."

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By Matthew Digby, Minh Do • November 18, 2019

Sid Miller
stated on November 9, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"Confederate veterans were conferred with many of the same benefits of other United States military veterans by Acts of Congress back in 1929 and 1957."

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By Madlin Mekelburg • November 15, 2019

William Taylor
stated on November 13, 2019 in impeachment inquiry testimony:

"The Russians are violating all of the rules, treaties, understandings that they committed to that actually kept the peace in Europe for nearly 70 years."

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November 14, 2019

Donald Trump Jr.
stated on November 7, 2019 in an interview on ABC's "The View":

"It’s only a federal crime for the" inspector general to out a whistleblower.

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By Louis Jacobson • November 11, 2019

Mark Pocan
stated on August 19, 2019 in a tweet:

"In WI, over 79% of Title X patients rely on Planned Parenthood for their basic health care."

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By Mica Soellner • November 8, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on November 4, 2019 in a campaign email to Vermont media:

"President Trump has lifted the prospect of voters across Vermont, overseeing a 11,742 decline of Vermont residents on food stamps."

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By Xander Landen • November 7, 2019

Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
stated on September 29, 2019 in a tweet:

Says Thom Tillis voted to support Trump’s emergency declaration to fund the border wall even though it would "raid $80 million from North Carolina."

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By Julianna Rennie • November 6, 2019

Pete Buttigieg
stated on October 30, 2019 in an interview:

"When it comes to electability, every single time my party has won the presidency in the last 50 years, it’s been with a candidate who was new on the national scene, hadn’t spent a lot of time in Washington, and represented a new generation of leadership."

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By Miriam Valverde • November 5, 2019

Jack Salzwedel
stated on October 8, 2019 in a public forum:

"There’s more African American males in the penal system right now than there were (enslaved) at the height of slavery."

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By D.L. Davis • November 1, 2019

Mike Parson
stated on September 8, 2019 in a campaign announcement:

"Wages are on the rise — in fact we were the top small-business wage growth state in the nation."

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By Joe Noser • October 31, 2019

Joe Biden
stated on October 16, 2019 in answering questions from reporters:

"I entered as one of the poorest men in Congress, left one of the poorest men in government, in Congress and as vice president."

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October 30, 2019

Richard Durbin
stated on October 22, 2019 in remarks at a committee hearing:

Says that in Illinois, "fewer than 20% of those actually deported have been charged with any serious crime."

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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • October 27, 2019

Rand Paul
stated on October 11, 2019 in an interview on ABC's "The View":

"Most people below $50,000 don’t pay any income tax. The top 1 percent in our country pay 40%."

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By Louis Jacobson • October 17, 2019

Andrew Yang
stated on September 21, 2019 in Iowa Steak Fry speech:

Says about universal basic income, "Thomas Paine was for it at our founding ... Martin Luther King, champion in the ‘60s, called it a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans… It passed the U.S. House of Representatives twice in 1971."

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By Miriam Valverde • October 16, 2019

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