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Peggy Hubbard
stated on September 19, 2022 in a post:

Martha's Vineyard declared itself as a sanctuary city until the buses arrived.

By Gabrielle Settles • September 27, 2022
Elaine Luria
stated on September 14, 2022 in a tweet.:

“Jen Kiggans’ campaign confirmed today that she would support a national abortion ban.”

By Warren Fiske • September 26, 2022
National Republican Senatorial Committee
stated on September 9, 2022 in News release:

“Mandela Barnes…wants to release 50% of the prison population when 68% is classified as ‘violent offenders.’”

By Laura Schulte • September 21, 2022
Joe Biden
stated on September 18, 2022 in an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes":

“This year, it's going to be over $1.5 trillion (that we’ve) reduced the debt."

By Louis Jacobson • September 20, 2022
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 6, 2022 in a tweet.:

“I had zero emails that were classified.”

By Jon Greenberg • September 13, 2022
Raphael Warnock
stated on August 29, 2022 in a speech in Albany, Ga.:

The child tax credit passed under President Joe Biden “has helped 97% of the families with children who are living in poverty.”

By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2022
Herschel Walker
stated on August 22, 2022 in a tweet:

Joe Biden and Raphael Warnock "are spending $1.5 billion on ‘urban forestry’ and raising taxes on those making under $200k to pay for it.”

By Tori Gantz • September 1, 2022
Cheri Beasley
stated on August 2, 2022 in a campaign ad:

“Sixty-four members of Congress — Republicans and Democrats — have broken a law to stop insider stock trading, yet Washington refuses to do anything about it.”

By Paul Specht • September 1, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on August 7, 2022 in posts:

“The Earth just started spinning faster than ever before and scientists are gravely concerned.”

By Kristin Hugo • August 31, 2022
Charlie Kirk
stated on August 24, 2022 in a Tweet:

“Harvard is sitting on top of a $54 billion hedge fund they call an ‘endowment’ that they pay zero taxes on. Yale has $31 Billion. Stanford $29 Billion. Princeton $26 Billion.”

By Madison Czopek • August 31, 2022
Joni Ernst
stated on August 24, 2022 in a newsletter:

“The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says with the supersized staff, the IRS audit rate ‘would rise for ALL taxpayers’ regardless of income, and would even result in audits of innocent Americans who have paid their taxes and don’t owe the IRS anything.”

By Lyle Muller • August 30, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on August 22, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Sarasota, Florida, teachers told they cannot purchase books, accept donated reading materials, order from Scholastic or hold book fairs.

By Yacob Reyes • August 29, 2022
Miguel Cardona
stated on August 21, 2022 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"Adjusted for inflation, over the last 25 years teachers have made a $29 increase in their salary."

By Louis Jacobson • August 24, 2022
Tony Evers
stated on July 24, 2022 in TV interview:

"We are number one in the country as far as our spending (COVID-19 relief) money on businesses as it relates to the percentage of federal funds that we receive."

By D.L. Davis • August 16, 2022
Catherine Cortez Masto
stated on June 17, 2022 in an ad:

"Adam Laxalt fought an investigation into the oil industry, then they funded his campaign."

By Tom Kertscher • August 12, 2022
Power to the Patients
stated on April 19, 2022 in a television ad:

About a federal hospital price transparency requirement, “Nobody’s enforcing that law.”

By Julie Appleby • August 9, 2022
Adam Laxalt
stated on July 30, 2022 in a tweet:

A Democratic bill negotiated between Sens. Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer would "increase taxes on millions of Americans across every income bracket."

By Louis Jacobson • August 3, 2022
Kari Lake
stated on July 7, 2022 in an ad:

"Karrin Taylor Robson gave illegals tuition discounts and made us pay for it."

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • August 1, 2022
Janet Yellen
stated on July 24, 2022 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"We've cut the deficit by a record $1.5 trillion this year."

By Louis Jacobson • July 28, 2022
One Nation
stated on July 16, 2022 in ads:

Raphael Warnock and Catherine Cortez Masto “voted to allow hundreds of millions of dollars of COVID relief funds to be squandered” on leisure projects.

By Tom Kertscher • July 28, 2022
Ron Johnson
stated on June 28, 2022 in Twitter:

"Thanks to failed Dem policies, beer is 9.1% more expensive."

By Laura Schulte • July 18, 2022
Planned Parenthood Votes
stated on June 30, 2022 in an ad:

Mehmet Oz “wants to make abortion a crime in Pennsylvania.”

By Tom Kertscher • July 18, 2022
Cavalier Johnson
stated on May 27, 2022 in News conference:

The RNC is “a $200 million economic infusion into our communities.”

By Vanessa Swales • July 8, 2022
Tim Ryan
stated on June 15, 2022 in an ad:

J.D. Vance "wants to defund law enforcement."

By Tom Kertscher • June 30, 2022
Mandela Barnes
stated on May 27, 2022 in News release:

Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, his prospective opponent, has received $1.2 million from the gun lobby.

By Laura Schulte • June 28, 2022
Jonathan Turley
stated on June 24, 2022 in an interview on Fox News:

“The majority of citizens in the country will have no change at all because … most of the population resides in states that have already protected abortion rights.”

By Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2022
Catherine Cortez Masto
stated on June 14, 2022 in an ad:

Adam Laxalt "supports eliminating Nevada's protections for legal abortions."

By Tom Kertscher • June 23, 2022
Joe Biden
stated on June 16, 2022 in an interview with the Associated Press:

“In every other major industrial country in the world … inflation is higher.”

By Louis Jacobson • June 22, 2022
Joni Ernst
stated on May 28, 2022 in a newsletter:

$3 million per day in "your tax dollars" are being spent to guard "unused border wall materials."

By Nina Baker • June 16, 2022
Jim Lamon
stated on June 2, 2022 in a statement posted on Twitter:

Blake Masters “unironically quoted a Nazi, called World War II an unjust war, called the Unabomber one of his intellectual influencers, and shared an article attacking Israel as the North Korea of the Middle East.”

By Ellie Borst • June 16, 2022

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