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Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on April 21, 2023 in an interview with Noticias Telemundo:
"Latino small businesses are 1 in 4 new businesses, but only 1% of venture capital funding goes to Latino businesses."
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May 16, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on May 5, 2023 in an interview with Newsmax:
“Donald Trump himself wrote a book where he was talking about the need to increase the age of eligibility for Social Security to 70.”
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By Amy Sherman • May 12, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy
Vivek Ramaswamy
stated on April 30, 2023 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed “a last-minute exception into an anti-discrimination law for anyone who also operates a theme park more than 25 acres in Florida,” benefiting Walt Disney Co.
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By Louis Jacobson, Matthew Crowley • May 4, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 2, 2023 in a Facebook post:
“Texas Republicans just voted to give a Republican appointee the power to single-handedly CANCEL election results in the state’s largest Democratic county.”
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By Amy Sherman • May 4, 2023
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on April 5, 2023 in a tweet:
“Fentanyl is the leading cause of death for Americans 18-45.”
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By Aarón Torres • April 24, 2023
X posts
X posts
stated on April 18, 2023 in a Tweet:
Missouri’s attorney general has a website “where people can report trans individuals and the people who help them.”
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By Grace Abels • April 20, 2023
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 13, 2023 in a speech:
Florida has “the second lowest tax burden per capita in the United States.”
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • April 19, 2023
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on April 14, 2023 in a speech to the National Action Network:
“One in 5 Americans has lost a family member to gun violence.”
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By Louis Jacobson • April 18, 2023
Joaquin Castro
Joaquin Castro
stated on April 28, 2023 in a tweet:
“Title 42 and other Trump-era holdovers are forcing migrants into dangerous, overcrowded conditions in Mexico.”
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • April 5, 2023
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on March 10, 2023 in a news release:
Sullivan County “has the highest opioid death rate in all of New York state” yet “it’s the only county in the Hudson Valley not included in the federal High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” program.
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By Conor Amendola • April 4, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on March 29, 2023 in an Instagram post:
“The UK has had ZERO school shootings since” it changed its gun laws after a 1996 school shooting.
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March 31, 2023
Ashbey Beasley
Ashbey Beasley
stated on March 27, 2023 in a statement to the media:
“Gun violence is the number one killer of children and teens — it has overtaken cars.”
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By Amy Sherman • March 29, 2023
Rebuild by Design
Rebuild by Design
stated on March 1, 2023 in a report:
“Every single county in New York has experienced a federal climate disaster between 2011-2021.”
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By Cameron Carr • March 29, 2023
William Barclay
William Barclay
stated on March 7, 2023 in a tweet:
“A proposal in Syracuse would pay gang members $100-$200 per week to stay out of trouble.”
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By Marnique O. Panepento • March 29, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 27, 2023 in An address at the White House:
“We cut Black child poverty in half in 2021 because of the child tax credit.”
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By Matthew Crowley • March 22, 2023
Walgreens
Walgreens
stated on March 6, 2023 in a statement:
Walgreens’ position “has always been” to “dispense Mifepristone in any jurisdiction where it is legally permissible to do so.”
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By Samantha Putterman • March 15, 2023
Joan Ballweg
Joan Ballweg
stated on January 24, 2023 in Twitter:
"Wisconsin has seen over 63 billion dollars of federal pandemic-related funding funnel into our state over (Gov. Tony Evers') tenure."
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By D.L. Davis • March 14, 2023
Erin Paré
Erin Paré
stated on February 18, 2023 in a tweet:
Wake County is the only large county in North Carolina that elects its commissioners at-large countywide.
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By Paul Specht • March 10, 2023
Elise Stefanik
Elise Stefanik
stated on February 3, 2023 in a news release:
New York City Mayor Eric Adams proposes to “ban chocolate milk.”
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By Cameron Carr, Marnique O. Panepento • March 8, 2023
Stanley Litow
Stanley Litow
stated on February 7, 2023 in a news release:
“Lifetime earnings of someone with a college degree is over a million dollars more than those entering the workforce without one.”
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By Elizabeth Egan, Marnique O. Panepento • March 8, 2023
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