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Social Media
stated on May 29, 2024 in social media posts:

Judge Juan Merchan told New York jurors the verdict in Donald Trump’s trial does not need to be unanimous.

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • May 29, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on May 15, 2024 in a speech at a police memorial service:

“Violent crime is near a record 50-year low.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 28, 2024

Jared Polis
stated on May 15, 2024 in an X post:

Tariffs are a “direct, regressive tax on Americans” and President Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods will “hit every family.”

By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • May 17, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on May 14, 2024 in an interview with Yahoo Finance:

Inflation “was 9% when I came to office.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 15, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on May 12, 2024 in a fundraising event in Seattle:

"China's in a situation where they have more retired than working."

By Louis Jacobson • May 14, 2024

Kamala Harris
stated on May 1, 2024 in a speech:

In his Time magazine interview, Donald Trump “said states have the right to monitor pregnant women to enforce these bans, and states have the right to punish pregnant women for seeking out abortion care.”

By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • May 2, 2024

Nancy Pelosi
stated on April 29, 2024 in an interview with MSNBC:

Former President Donald Trump “has the worst record of job loss of any president.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 2, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on April 26, 2024 in an interview with Howard Stern:

Says he “got arrested” while protesting in favor of desegregation.

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • April 29, 2024

Mike Johnson
stated on April 24, 2024 in an interview with CNN:

Said Columbia University has told students, “Well, if you’re Jewish, maybe you do want to stay home.”

By Louis Jacobson • April 29, 2024

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on March 31, 2024 in a post on X:

"The much-trumpeted job growth in the last year was ENTIRELY part-time jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • April 26, 2024

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
stated on April 21, 2024 in a post on X:

“Congress prohibits the NIH from researching the cause of mass shootings.”

By Louis Jacobson • April 23, 2024

Marco Rubio
stated on April 11, 2024 in an interview with Fox News:

“It's very misleading when (President Biden) says (inflation) used to be at 9%. This is compounding. It’s not like it went down from 9% to 3%. This is building month after month. The better way to think about it is that it’s 18%, 19% over the last three years."

By Louis Jacobson • April 17, 2024

Donald Trump
stated on April 8, 2024 in a video posted on Truth Social:

"All legal scholars, both sides, wanted, and in fact demanded” that Roe v. Wade be overturned.

By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • April 10, 2024

Joe Biden
stated on April 8, 2024 in a Facebook post:

“Support for Roe is higher today in America than it has ever been."

By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • April 10, 2024

Donald Trump
stated on April 8, 2024 in a video posted on Truth Social:

Democrats support abortion measures that result in the “execution” of babies “after birth.”

By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • April 8, 2024

Nancy Mace
stated on March 30, 2024 in a post on X:

“Since Joe Biden took office, crime has skyrocketed across our country.”

By Louis Jacobson • April 3, 2024

Donna Brazile
stated on March 24, 2024 in remarks on ABC's "This Week":

The current Congress is “the least productive in our lifetime.”

By Louis Jacobson, Matthew Crowley • April 3, 2024

X posts
stated on March 22, 2024 in an X post:

A March 7 U.S. security alert … means the U.S. was “behind this gruesome terror attack on Russian civilians.”

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Louis Jacobson • March 27, 2024

JD Vance
stated on March 14, 2024 in an interview with Fox News:

Says “100% of net job creation under the Biden administration has gone to the foreign-born.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 27, 2024

Nicole Shanahan
stated on March 26, 2024 in her vice presidential announcement speech:

If elected, “I will be the youngest vice president in American history.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 26, 2024

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