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stated on February 22, 2020 in a tweet:
"Not once in his entire career in Washington, D.C., which started way back in 1991, has Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders ever voted yes on sanctions against Russia."
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February 27, 2020
Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien
stated on February 25, 2020 in a CNN interview:
Says Bernie Sanders has said “things like women get cancer from having too many orgasms, or toddlers should run around naked and touch each others' genitals to insulate themselves from porn … He's written about women's rape fantasies."
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By Bill McCarthy • February 26, 2020
Glenn Grothman
Glenn Grothman
stated on January 16, 2020 in a tweet:
"In #WI, over 44,000 jobs depend on trade with Mexico and Canada."
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By D.L. Davis • February 26, 2020
Daniel Lipinski
Daniel Lipinski
stated on February 14, 2020 in a TV interview:
Says the Affordable Care Act “took money out of the Medicare trust fund.”
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • February 23, 2020
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on February 19, 2020 in a State of the State Address:
"Back in 2005, when we did that first point-in-time count, there were over 188,000 thousand people that were deemed homeless in the state of California. … That’s 35,000 more than we have today.”
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By Chris Nichols • February 21, 2020
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on February 19, 2020 in the Democratic debate in Nevada:
The budget hole in Bernie Sanders’ plans “is bigger than the size of the entire economy of the United States."
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By Jon Greenberg • February 20, 2020
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg
stated on February 19, 2020 in a Democratic presidential primary debate in Las Vegas:
“When we discovered, I discovered, that we were doing many, many, too many stop and frisks, we cut 95% of it out.”
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By Miriam Valverde • February 20, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 7, 2020 in campaign talking points issued days before the New Hampshire primary:
“Pete Buttigieg is a favorite candidate of Wall Street and the health care industry.”
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By Victoria Knight • February 19, 2020
Breitbart
Breitbart
stated on February 12, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“Amy Klobuchar vows to resettle 500 percent more refugees, none in her neighborhood.”
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By Miriam Valverde • February 17, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on December 15, 2018 in a Facebook post:
Says Maxine Waters said: “I say, we knock off Trump and then, go after Pence. We have the power.”
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February 10, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 4, 2020 in the State of the Union:
“Under my administration, 7 million Americans have come off of food stamps, and 10 million people have been lifted off of welfare.”
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By Samantha Putterman • February 6, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 4, 2020 in the State of the Union:
“I have also overseen historic funding increases for high-quality child care, enabling 17 states to help more children, many of which have reduced or eliminated their waitlists altogether.”
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By Amy Sherman • February 5, 2020
Scott Jenkins
Scott Jenkins
stated on January 13, 2020 in remarks:
“There are more guns in this country than there are citizens.”
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By Warren Fiske • February 5, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 4, 2020 in his State of the Union:
“Over 130 legislators in this chamber have endorsed legislation that would bankrupt our nation by providing free taxpayer-funded health care to millions of illegal aliens, forcing taxpayers to subsidize free care for anyone in the world who unlawfully crosses our borders."
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By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • February 5, 2020
Veronica Escobar
Veronica Escobar
stated on February 4, 2020 in a speech:
“The president has exploded the debt by more than $3 trillion — all to give billion-dollar tax cuts to the wealthiest few.”
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By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 2, 2020 in an interview on Fox News:
“Cory Booker and all these people couldn't get any of the things that (Michael) Bloomberg's getting now" with respect to DNC debate rules.
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By Bill McCarthy • February 3, 2020
Phil Scott
Phil Scott
stated on January 21, 2020 in :
“In 2018, the providers the state paid through the ACO reduced the amount of money spent on healthcare services by $7.7 million.”
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By Katie Jickling • February 3, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 28, 2020 in comments at a campaign rally:
"Earnings for the bottom 10% are rising faster than earnings for the top 10%.”
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By Jon Greenberg • February 3, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 21, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says a 392-year-old shark was discovered in the Arctic Ocean  
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By Samantha Putterman • January 28, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 12, 2020 in a Facebook post:
The percent of millionaires in Congress is 50% while the percent among the U.S. public is 1 percent
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By Amy Sherman • January 22, 2020
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