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Joe Biden
stated on October 21, 2021 in a town hall in Baltimore:

“We’ve created more jobs in the first eight months of my administration than any president in American history — total number of jobs created.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 22, 2021
Glenn Youngkin
stated on September 2, 2021 in a newspaper column.:

“Virginia has the lowest standards for math and reading of all 50 states.”

By Warren Fiske • October 20, 2021
YouTube videos
stated on October 17, 2021 in a Facebook post:

COVID-19 “surges among most vaxxed communities, says Harvard study.”

By Tom Kertscher • October 19, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on October 7, 2021 in remarks in Elk Grove Village, Ill.:

People who are vaccinated for the coronavirus “cannot spread it to you."

By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2021
Viral image
stated on October 7, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“Roe was the end of women dying from abortions.”

By Madison Czopek • October 13, 2021
TikTok posts
stated on September 5, 2021 in a TikTok post:

“Paris police beat a woman for shopping at a mall with no vaccine passport.”

By Gabrielle Settles • October 12, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on October 4, 2021 in a speech:

“Raising the debt limit is usually a bipartisan undertaking.”

By Amy Sherman • October 6, 2021
Carol Miller
stated on July 28, 2021 in an article in RealClearEnergy:

“We became a net exporter of natural gas in 2017, and until recently, our exports have exceeded our imports.”

By Elisa Contreras • October 5, 2021
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 3, 2021 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"The pharmaceutical industry has 1,400 lobbyists on Capitol Hill right now trying to stop" Medicare drug price negotiation.

By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2021
Glenn Grothman
stated on September 22, 2021 in Twitter:

Says the U.S. National Archives put a ‘harmful content’ warning on our nation’s Founding documents.

By Laura Schulte • September 30, 2021
Viral image
stated on September 18, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“The NAACP wants” the Confederate Memorial Carving “sandblasted off Stone Mountain.”

By Tom Kertscher • September 27, 2021
Instagram posts
stated on September 23, 2021 in an Instagram post:

Says Joe Biden said: “If Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean, or rose up 300 feet, it wouldn’t matter a whole lot in terms of our interests.”

By Tom Kertscher • September 24, 2021
Gary Palmer
stated on September 13, 2021 in remarks during a House hearing:

“As a result of the massive decline in natural gas prices, we’re saving 11,000 lives per year in the U.S.”

By Jon Greenberg • September 23, 2021
Terry McAuliffe
stated on September 17, 2021 in a tweet.:

“Time and again Glenn Youngkin has made it clear: He would ban abortion as governor.”

By Warren Fiske • September 23, 2021
Jennifer Granholm
stated on September 8, 2021 in an interview on CNN:

“West Virginia University just came out with a study that showed that there will be almost 20,000 jobs created in clean energy in West Virginia if (President Joe Biden’s) agenda is passed.”

By Duncan Slade • September 21, 2021
Gwen Moore
stated on September 3, 2021 in Twitter:

“President Biden has created more jobs in his first 7 months than any POTUS in history.”

By Laura Schulte • September 21, 2021
Richard Ojeda
stated on August 15, 2021 in a tweet:

The United States spent “2 trillion dollars to train and equip the Afghan military over the past 20 years. They fell in a week.”

By Zach DeLuca • September 21, 2021
Richard Hudson
stated on September 1, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Says U.S. left 33 Black Hawks to the Taliban, which has more than “85%” of all countries.

By Paul Specht • September 19, 2021
Viral image
stated on September 15, 2021 in an Instagram post:

Says a new Apple update will “scan U.S iPhones for images.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • September 16, 2021
Bernie Sanders
stated on August 29, 2021 in a speech:

“It is a result of the $300 per month that working parents are now receiving for their young children that we have reduced childhood poverty in the United States by 50%.”

By Lauren White • September 15, 2021
Breitbart
stated on September 13, 2021 in an article:

“Polling center tells some Republicans they ‘already voted’" in the California recall election.

By Tom Kertscher • September 14, 2021
Gavin Newsom
stated on August 9, 2021 in a tweet:

“California is moving folks out of encampments, into safe housing and getting them the mental health services they need.”

By Sasha Hupka • September 11, 2021
Bjorn Lomborg
stated on September 3, 2021 in an column in the Wall Street Journal:

“The frequency of hurricanes making landfall in the continental U.S. has declined slightly since 1900...There aren’t more powerful hurricanes either.”

By Jon Greenberg • September 9, 2021
Occupy Democrats
stated on September 1, 2021 in on social media:

Texas “ranks 50th in baby wellness checks, ranks 50th in clinical care for infants, ranks 50th in uninsured women, ranks 43rd in maternal mortality, ranks 44th in school funding per child, and ranks 46th in child hunger.”

By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2021
Tweets
stated on August 30, 2021 in on social media:

“Near Morgantown, WV, a Moderna shipment truck crashed, hazmat dispatched, airspace shut down and now apparently Emergency Response is claiming the Department of Defense took it over.”

By Duncan Slade • September 2, 2021
The Gateway Pundit
stated on August 29, 2021 in an Instagram post:

“New Israeli study finds fully vaccinated people are at ‘greater risk of hospitalization’ and 13 times more likely to catch COVID-19 than those who have recovered and have natural immunity.”

By Tom Kertscher • September 1, 2021
Joe Biden
stated on August 20, 2021 in a press conference:

There has been “no question of our credibility from our allies around the world” regarding how the U.S. is withdrawing from Afghanistan.

By Miriam Valverde • August 26, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on August 24, 2021 in a Facebook post:

“Washington public school forces unvaccinated teens to wear ankle monitors” as a condition of playing team sports.

By Emily Tian • August 25, 2021
Instagram posts
stated on August 19, 2021 in an Instagram post.:

"Twitter has suspended the account of Afghanistan’s elected President… and have allowed the Taliban to keep their accounts."

By Jason Asenso • August 23, 2021
Facebook posts
stated on August 16, 2021 in social media posts:

The U.S. is “now importing 800,000 barrels of oil from Russia,” but that could have been prevented if the Keystone XL pipeline hadn’t been cancelled.

By Louis Jacobson • August 23, 2021

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