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Tony Evers
stated on December 28, 2022 in Twitter:

“Wisconsin is the nation’s top cranberry producer — in fact, our farmers harvest around 60 percent of the country’s crop.”

By Laura Schulte • February 2, 2023
Tammy Baldwin
stated on December 8, 2022 in Twitter:

"Latina workers make 54 cents for every dollar earned by white, non-Hispanic men."

By D.L. Davis • December 16, 2022
Elizabeth Warren
stated on August 28, 2022 in an interview on CNN:

"40% of the folks who have student loans do not have a college diploma, four-year diploma. These are people who are truck drivers and who are nail technicians and nurses’ aides.”

By Jon Greenberg • September 13, 2022
Instagram posts
stated on August 24, 2022 in an Instagram post:

Image claims to show a list of "Republican members of Congress whose PPP loans were forgiven."

By Andy Nguyen • August 30, 2022
League of Conservation Voters
stated on August 13, 2022 in Twitter:

Says Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson “called climate change ‘bull----’ during a record heatwave” and “raked in over $700k in fossil fuel cash.”

By Laura Schulte • August 19, 2022
Mark Pocan
stated on October 3, 2021 in Twitter:

“The annual Pentagon budget hovers over $750 billion annually, twice that of the much debated Build Back Better Act that costs about $350 billion annually as currently proposed.”

By Laura Schulte • October 14, 2021
Mandela Barnes
stated on August 16, 2021 in Twitter:

In Afghanistan, “over 100 billion dollars spent on military contracts.”

By D.L. Davis • August 31, 2021
Mandela Barnes
stated on May 23, 2021 in Twitter:

“Since 1978, CEO compensation rose over 1,000% and only 11.9% for average workers.”

By Madeline Heim • June 2, 2021
Tim Kaine
stated on May 24, 2021 in an op-ed on CNBC:

“New Haven, Conn., had to issue bonds for a bridge after using funds for that bridge to pay for a police misconduct settlement."

By Jon Greenberg • May 27, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on March 30, 2021 in a Facebook post:

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz was the lone vote in the House against an anti-human trafficking bill.

By Amy Sherman • March 31, 2021
Tom Wolf
stated on February 22, 2021 in a speech:

“We’re the only major gas-producing state in the US that doesn’t have a severance tax.”

By Jessica Calefati • February 25, 2021
Pat Toomey
stated on January 19, 2021 in a hearing:

“There will be several thousand dollars in payments going to families with six-figure incomes who’ve had no income interruption whatsoever.”

By Jessica Calefati • January 21, 2021
Sherrod Brown
stated on January 8, 2021 in an interview with Ohio reporters:

Summer “protesters outside the White House were met with tear gas, rubber bullets, a full militarized response. While ... rioters were able to breach the Capitol.”

By Jon Greenberg • January 11, 2021
Pat Toomey
stated on December 27, 2020 in an interview:

“In my state, as in many other states, we have governors who are closing down businesses again.”

By Jessica Calefati • December 30, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on October 31, 2020 in a rally:

"I’ve released 22 years of my tax returns. You can go online and look. (Donald Trump) hasn’t released one.”

By Bill McCarthy • October 31, 2020
Joe Biden
stated on September 13, 2020 in an op-ed on the CNN website:

“Iran has stockpiled 10 times as much enriched uranium as it had” in 2016.

By Jon Greenberg • September 17, 2020
Chris Larson
stated on August 24, 2020 in Facebook post:

Police are "20.8 times more likely to kill than be killed by a criminal."

By Madeline Heim • August 27, 2020
Cory Booker
stated on July 30, 2020 in an interview:

Says the U.S. Senate is “dominated by millionaires” and that he is “not one of them.”

By Jessica Calefati • August 13, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on July 22, 2020 in a speech:

“Murders this year have spiked 27% in Philadelphia.”

By Jessica Calefati • July 24, 2020
Desiree Rogers
stated on June 10, 2020 in an interview on CNN:

In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.”

By Jon Greenberg • June 16, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on March 18, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“The poor are, ironically, the most likely to be employed in the industries deemed ‘essential’ while their upper-class peers are freed to bunker down for weeks until the first death wave passes.”

By Jessica Calefati • April 21, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on March 31, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“On February 7, the WHO warned about the limited stock of PPE. That same day, the Trump administration announced it was sending 18 tons of masks, gowns and respirators to China.”

By Bill McCarthy • April 2, 2020
Pat Toomey
stated on March 28, 2020 in a video on Twitter:

“My mask will keep someone else safe and their mask will keep me safe.”

By Jessica Calefati • April 1, 2020
Amy Klobuchar
stated on February 20, 2020 in an MSNBC interview:

“The majority of hunters now want universal background checks, the majority of Trump voters.”

By Bill McCarthy • February 20, 2020
Cory Booker
stated on January 9, 2020 in public comments:

National polls have “never predicted who will be president from our party. Carter was in the single digits a few months before caucuses. Bill Clinton was. Obama — 20 points behind in the national polls roughly.”

By Brooklyn Draisey • February 6, 2020
Pete Buttigieg
stated on January 26, 2020 in a Fox News town hall in Des Moines:

"More than 80% of Republicans think we ought to at least be doing universal background checks."

By Amy Sherman • January 29, 2020
Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 14, 2020 in a debate:

"Look at the men on this stage. Collectively, they have lost 10 elections. The only people on this stage who have won every single election that they’ve been in are the women, Amy and me."

By Louis Jacobson • January 14, 2020
Amy Klobuchar
stated on December 20, 2019 in the sixth Democratic presidential debate:

Says Pete Buttigieg ran statewide in Indiana and "lost by 20 points."

By Aaron Sharockman • December 20, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on December 19, 2019 in the Democratic debate in Los Angeles:

Real wages "went up last year 1.1%."

By Jon Greenberg • December 19, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
stated on October 15, 2019 in a Democratic presidential debate:

Americans "say that what they want is a choice" to join a single-payer system like Medicare rather than ending private insurance.

By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2019

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