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Alexis Waiss

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Alexis Waiss is a reporter for PolitiFact Arizona and a student at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She is an assignment editor and senior reporter for the university’s student-run news organization, The State Press.

awaiss@asu.edu

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Kari Lake
stated on October 19, 2022 a tweet

The COVID-19 vaccine for children is proving to be “not only ineffective, it’s also proving to be dangerous.”

False

By Alexis Waiss • November 9, 2022

Kari Lake
stated on October 12, 2022 a press conference

Katie Hobbs “has voted to double our gas tax.”

Mostly True

By Alexis Waiss • November 3, 2022

Kris Mayes
stated on September 25, 2022 a tweet

Abraham Hamadeh says he will “lock up doctors, nurses, pharmacists” and “punish women for abortion.”

Half-True

By Alexis Waiss • November 2, 2022

Arizona Democratic Party
stated on September 13, 2022 a tweet

Abraham Hamadeh misled "about his legal experience.”

Half-True

By Alexis Waiss • October 18, 2022

Tom Horne
stated on August 21, 2022 a tweet

Under Kathy Hoffman, “student test scores plummeted. Even before COVID, under the current regime, over half of Arizona students were not proficient in reading or math.”

Mostly False

By Alexis Waiss, Renee Romo • September 19, 2022

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