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Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on August 18, 2020 in a press conference:
Says crime is on the rise in Austin and a new study showed that it “is the No. 1 city in America in the year-to-year percentage increase in murders, with a percentage increase of more than 64% for the first half of this year.”
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By Madlin Mekelburg • August 31, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 19, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“Two mail in ballots in PA (were) sent to the same person with their names on both a week and a half apart.”
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By Samantha Putterman • August 28, 2020
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Facebook posts
stated on August 24, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says Jacob Blake, shot by police in Kenosha, had a warrant for sexual assault and prior convictions for gun use
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By Eric Litke • August 27, 2020
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Facebook posts
stated on August 24, 2020 in Facebook post:
“Police training in Wisconsin is 21 weeks. A cosmetology license takes 40 weeks.”
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By Haley BeMiller • August 27, 2020
Duty and Honor
Duty and Honor
stated on August 7, 2020 in a campaign ad:
Sen. Steve Daines “voted to give billions in tax breaks to big drug companies even as they raised prices.”
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August 25, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on August 19, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“This USPS employee was caught taking down Trump signs. These people are also responsible for the mail in ballots they are pushing so hard.”
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August 21, 2020
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Facebook posts
stated on June 3, 2018 in a Facebook post:
Says Condoleezza Rice said, “If you are taught bitterness and anger, then you will believe you are a victim. You will feel aggrieved and the twin brother of aggrievement is entitlement. So now you think you are owed something and you don’t have to work for it and now you’re on a really bad road to nowhere because there are people who will play to that sense of victimhood, aggrievement and entitlement, and you still won’t have a job.”
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August 19, 2020
Eva Longoria Baston
Eva Longoria Baston
stated on August 17, 2020 in the Democratic National Convention:
"Social Security beneficiaries count on the post office to get their checks.”
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By Samantha Putterman • August 18, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 16, 2020 in a Wall Street Journal op-ed:
“For the past three years, the state senator who represents Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco, has led a push to abolish single-family zoning in California.”
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By Chris Nichols • August 17, 2020
Susan Collins
Susan Collins
stated on August 1, 2020 in a campaign ad:
Says Sara Gideon’s husband’s law firm “took up to $2 million” from the same federal program she “falsely” attacked Susan Collins over.
Half-True
August 14, 2020
Doug Jones
Doug Jones
stated on August 6, 2020 in a campaign ad:
Says Tommy Tuberville “is for privatizing Social Security and cutting Medicare.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • August 13, 2020
Paul Sperry
Paul Sperry
stated on August 12, 2020 in a tweet:
“DEVELOPING: Kamala’s sister takes hydroxychloroquine.”
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August 13, 2020
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Facebook posts
stated on August 9, 2020 in a post on Facebook:
Trump’s plan “would suspend the 7.65% your employer matches. See? You will NOT get that, nor will your wage or salary increase by 7.65%”
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By Jon Greenberg • August 10, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 9, 2020 in in a post on Facebook:
“Let me splain how ‘no payroll taxes’ helps you, it doesn’t. It helps employers.”
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By Jon Greenberg • August 10, 2020
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Facebook posts
stated on August 10, 2020 in a post on social media:
“Killing the payroll tax means killing Social Security.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • August 10, 2020
Bryan Steil
Bryan Steil
stated on July 30, 2020 in a tweet:
“3.8% of Wisconsin’s coronavirus funding has been spent.”
Half-True
By Haley BeMiller • August 7, 2020
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos
stated on July 29, 2020 in a congressional hearing:
“The retail market we participate in is extraordinarily large and competitive. Amazon accounts for less than 1% of the $25 trillion global retail market, and less than 4% of U.S. retail.”
Half-True
By Emily Venezky • August 6, 2020
Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams
stated on July 23, 2020 in an MSNBC interview:
“Right now, we are about 4% behind the (census) response rate where we were in 2010. But for Black and Latino and Native American communities, they’re behind by 10%.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • July 31, 2020
Jim Justice
Jim Justice
stated on July 27, 2020 in a press conference:
West Virginia is the state with the oldest population.
Half-True
By Patrick Orsagos • July 29, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 24, 2020 in social media posts:
Social media posts claim the U.S. Postal Service “says you should give mail in ballots at least 14 days roundtrip. So, if you plan to vote by mail, election day isn’t November 3. It’s October 20th.”
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • July 28, 2020
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