Latest Mostly True Fact-checks Tony Evers stated on December 28, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter: “After 30 years of Wisconsin’s checking account running a deficit, we've ended every fiscal year I've been governor with a positive balance. Today, we have a $4.5 billion positive balance, and a record-high balance in our state savings account." Kathy Hochul stated on November 19, 2024 in a public event: We’ve created 732,000 jobs since I've been governor. Eric Hovde stated on October 8, 2024 in Public appearance: “Milwaukee is one of the sex trafficking capitals in our country.” Tammy Baldwin stated on October 11, 2024 in Interview: Says opponent Eric Hovde “supports a $4 trillion tax plan that would disproportionately advantage the well-off and profitable corporations” Kelly Ayotte stated on September 25, 2024 in a debate: “There was a bill to basically create a ban to make sure we never become a sanctuary state, that no locality passes those regulations, and (former Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig) opposed that bill.” Donald Trump stated on September 20, 2024 in a 2024 campaign ad: Kamala Harris “supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners and illegal aliens.” Coalition to Protect Kids NY stated on September 29, 2024 in a campaign website: "The ERA could also mandate that schools allow biological males to compete in girls' sports." Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee stated on September 20, 2024 in Campaign ad: Says Wisconsin GOP U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde "brags about being in the 1%." Julie Su stated on August 15, 2024 in News conference: “400,000 workers are now in a union that were not in a union when (Biden) became president.” Eric Hovde stated on September 3, 2024 in TV interview: "Typically you have three to four debates in a U.S. Senate race. (Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis. has) given me one debate, almost a month after early voting has started." Kamala Harris stated on July 20, 2024 in remarks at a fundraiser in Provincetown, Mass.: Donald Trump “took away protections against discrimination for LGBTQ patients under the Affordable Care Act.” Pete Buttigieg stated on August 11, 2024 in an interview on CNN State of the Union: Gov. Tim Walz delivered paid family leave in Minnesota but “Republicans are blocking” a Biden-Harris proposal. Lindsey Graham stated on August 6, 2024 in una publicación en X: El gobernador de Minnesota, Tim Walz, firmó una ley dando educación universitaria gratuita “a los inmigrantes ilegales”. Lindsey Graham stated on August 6, 2024 in an X post: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed “legislation giving free college … to illegal immigrants.” Joe Biden stated on August 2, 2024 in a written statement: "Since Vice President Harris and I took office … incomes have risen faster than prices." Pete Buttigieg stated on July 28, 2024 in an interview on Fox News Sunday: “Even before the pandemic, America went into a manufacturing recession.” Kamala Harris stated on July 18, 2024 in a speech in North Carolina: “Today, America has record energy production and we are energy independent.” Donald Trump Jr. stated on July 17, 2024 in Speech: After being shot at a Milwaukee rally in 1912, former President Teddy Roosevelt “finished his speech and he kept fighting.” Kamala Harris stated on July 17, 2024 in a campaign video: "Unlike Mike Pence, (JD) Vance said he would have carried out Trump's plan to overturn the 2020 election." Joe Biden stated on July 9, 2024 in a speech in Washington D.C.: In 2020, “only nine NATO allies were spending 2%” of their GDP on defense. “This year, 23 will spend at least 2%.” Van Wanggaard stated on April 15, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter: Says Gov. Tony Evers is asking the GOP to release money for PFAS, but "vetoed (a bill outlining) how to spend the money." Joe Biden stated on May 8, 2024 in a Biden for President campaign ad: If the Affordable Care Act were terminated, “that would mean over a hundred million Americans will lose protections for preexisting conditions.” Joe Biden stated on June 4, 2024 in a speech: “Due to the arrangements that I've reached with (Mexico) President Obrador, the number of migrants coming … to our shared border unlawfully in recent months has dropped dramatically.” Ron Johnson stated on May 19, 2024 in TV interview: Says in his three election campaigns, the early polls were "wildly incorrect, all three times." Tammy Baldwin stated on May 5, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter: “When I worked on the Affordable Care Act, I wrote the amendment that allows all young people to stay on their parents’ health insurance until they turn 26. Overnight, millions of young Americans got health care.” 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.” Greta Neubauer stated on April 11, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter: “The GOP has failed to invest in our campuses, making WI fall to 42nd in the nation in state support.” Joe Biden stated on April 9, 2024 in an interview with Univision: Starting in 2025 "no matter what your total bills are for prescription drugs,” Medicare Part D users will never pay “more than $2,000 a year, because some of these cancer drugs are 10(,000 to) 15,000 bucks a year.” Joe Biden stated on April 8, 2024 in a Facebook post: “Support for Roe is higher today in America than it has ever been." Jonathan Becker stated on February 16, 2024 in a letter to college presidents: After a 2022 law, “the vast majority of colleges in New York State do not have on-campus poll sites.”
Tony Evers stated on December 28, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter: “After 30 years of Wisconsin’s checking account running a deficit, we've ended every fiscal year I've been governor with a positive balance. Today, we have a $4.5 billion positive balance, and a record-high balance in our state savings account." Kathy Hochul stated on November 19, 2024 in a public event: We’ve created 732,000 jobs since I've been governor. Eric Hovde stated on October 8, 2024 in Public appearance: “Milwaukee is one of the sex trafficking capitals in our country.” Tammy Baldwin stated on October 11, 2024 in Interview: Says opponent Eric Hovde “supports a $4 trillion tax plan that would disproportionately advantage the well-off and profitable corporations” Kelly Ayotte stated on September 25, 2024 in a debate: “There was a bill to basically create a ban to make sure we never become a sanctuary state, that no locality passes those regulations, and (former Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig) opposed that bill.” Donald Trump stated on September 20, 2024 in a 2024 campaign ad: Kamala Harris “supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners and illegal aliens.” Coalition to Protect Kids NY stated on September 29, 2024 in a campaign website: "The ERA could also mandate that schools allow biological males to compete in girls' sports." Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee stated on September 20, 2024 in Campaign ad: Says Wisconsin GOP U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde "brags about being in the 1%." Julie Su stated on August 15, 2024 in News conference: “400,000 workers are now in a union that were not in a union when (Biden) became president.” Eric Hovde stated on September 3, 2024 in TV interview: "Typically you have three to four debates in a U.S. Senate race. (Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis. has) given me one debate, almost a month after early voting has started." Kamala Harris stated on July 20, 2024 in remarks at a fundraiser in Provincetown, Mass.: Donald Trump “took away protections against discrimination for LGBTQ patients under the Affordable Care Act.” Pete Buttigieg stated on August 11, 2024 in an interview on CNN State of the Union: Gov. Tim Walz delivered paid family leave in Minnesota but “Republicans are blocking” a Biden-Harris proposal. Lindsey Graham stated on August 6, 2024 in una publicación en X: El gobernador de Minnesota, Tim Walz, firmó una ley dando educación universitaria gratuita “a los inmigrantes ilegales”. Lindsey Graham stated on August 6, 2024 in an X post: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed “legislation giving free college … to illegal immigrants.” Joe Biden stated on August 2, 2024 in a written statement: "Since Vice President Harris and I took office … incomes have risen faster than prices." Pete Buttigieg stated on July 28, 2024 in an interview on Fox News Sunday: “Even before the pandemic, America went into a manufacturing recession.” Kamala Harris stated on July 18, 2024 in a speech in North Carolina: “Today, America has record energy production and we are energy independent.” Donald Trump Jr. stated on July 17, 2024 in Speech: After being shot at a Milwaukee rally in 1912, former President Teddy Roosevelt “finished his speech and he kept fighting.” Kamala Harris stated on July 17, 2024 in a campaign video: "Unlike Mike Pence, (JD) Vance said he would have carried out Trump's plan to overturn the 2020 election." Joe Biden stated on July 9, 2024 in a speech in Washington D.C.: In 2020, “only nine NATO allies were spending 2%” of their GDP on defense. “This year, 23 will spend at least 2%.” Van Wanggaard stated on April 15, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter: Says Gov. Tony Evers is asking the GOP to release money for PFAS, but "vetoed (a bill outlining) how to spend the money." Joe Biden stated on May 8, 2024 in a Biden for President campaign ad: If the Affordable Care Act were terminated, “that would mean over a hundred million Americans will lose protections for preexisting conditions.” Joe Biden stated on June 4, 2024 in a speech: “Due to the arrangements that I've reached with (Mexico) President Obrador, the number of migrants coming … to our shared border unlawfully in recent months has dropped dramatically.” Ron Johnson stated on May 19, 2024 in TV interview: Says in his three election campaigns, the early polls were "wildly incorrect, all three times." Tammy Baldwin stated on May 5, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter: “When I worked on the Affordable Care Act, I wrote the amendment that allows all young people to stay on their parents’ health insurance until they turn 26. Overnight, millions of young Americans got health care.” 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.” Greta Neubauer stated on April 11, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter: “The GOP has failed to invest in our campuses, making WI fall to 42nd in the nation in state support.” Joe Biden stated on April 9, 2024 in an interview with Univision: Starting in 2025 "no matter what your total bills are for prescription drugs,” Medicare Part D users will never pay “more than $2,000 a year, because some of these cancer drugs are 10(,000 to) 15,000 bucks a year.” Joe Biden stated on April 8, 2024 in a Facebook post: “Support for Roe is higher today in America than it has ever been." Jonathan Becker stated on February 16, 2024 in a letter to college presidents: After a 2022 law, “the vast majority of colleges in New York State do not have on-campus poll sites.”
Tony Evers stated on December 28, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter: “After 30 years of Wisconsin’s checking account running a deficit, we've ended every fiscal year I've been governor with a positive balance. Today, we have a $4.5 billion positive balance, and a record-high balance in our state savings account."
Kathy Hochul stated on November 19, 2024 in a public event: We’ve created 732,000 jobs since I've been governor.
Eric Hovde stated on October 8, 2024 in Public appearance: “Milwaukee is one of the sex trafficking capitals in our country.”
Tammy Baldwin stated on October 11, 2024 in Interview: Says opponent Eric Hovde “supports a $4 trillion tax plan that would disproportionately advantage the well-off and profitable corporations”
Kelly Ayotte stated on September 25, 2024 in a debate: “There was a bill to basically create a ban to make sure we never become a sanctuary state, that no locality passes those regulations, and (former Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig) opposed that bill.”
Donald Trump stated on September 20, 2024 in a 2024 campaign ad: Kamala Harris “supports taxpayer-funded sex changes for prisoners and illegal aliens.”
Coalition to Protect Kids NY stated on September 29, 2024 in a campaign website: "The ERA could also mandate that schools allow biological males to compete in girls' sports."
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee stated on September 20, 2024 in Campaign ad: Says Wisconsin GOP U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde "brags about being in the 1%."
Julie Su stated on August 15, 2024 in News conference: “400,000 workers are now in a union that were not in a union when (Biden) became president.”
Eric Hovde stated on September 3, 2024 in TV interview: "Typically you have three to four debates in a U.S. Senate race. (Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis. has) given me one debate, almost a month after early voting has started."
Kamala Harris stated on July 20, 2024 in remarks at a fundraiser in Provincetown, Mass.: Donald Trump “took away protections against discrimination for LGBTQ patients under the Affordable Care Act.”
Pete Buttigieg stated on August 11, 2024 in an interview on CNN State of the Union: Gov. Tim Walz delivered paid family leave in Minnesota but “Republicans are blocking” a Biden-Harris proposal.
Lindsey Graham stated on August 6, 2024 in una publicación en X: El gobernador de Minnesota, Tim Walz, firmó una ley dando educación universitaria gratuita “a los inmigrantes ilegales”.
Lindsey Graham stated on August 6, 2024 in an X post: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed “legislation giving free college … to illegal immigrants.”
Joe Biden stated on August 2, 2024 in a written statement: "Since Vice President Harris and I took office … incomes have risen faster than prices."
Pete Buttigieg stated on July 28, 2024 in an interview on Fox News Sunday: “Even before the pandemic, America went into a manufacturing recession.”
Kamala Harris stated on July 18, 2024 in a speech in North Carolina: “Today, America has record energy production and we are energy independent.”
Donald Trump Jr. stated on July 17, 2024 in Speech: After being shot at a Milwaukee rally in 1912, former President Teddy Roosevelt “finished his speech and he kept fighting.”
Kamala Harris stated on July 17, 2024 in a campaign video: "Unlike Mike Pence, (JD) Vance said he would have carried out Trump's plan to overturn the 2020 election."
Joe Biden stated on July 9, 2024 in a speech in Washington D.C.: In 2020, “only nine NATO allies were spending 2%” of their GDP on defense. “This year, 23 will spend at least 2%.”
Van Wanggaard stated on April 15, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter: Says Gov. Tony Evers is asking the GOP to release money for PFAS, but "vetoed (a bill outlining) how to spend the money."
Joe Biden stated on May 8, 2024 in a Biden for President campaign ad: If the Affordable Care Act were terminated, “that would mean over a hundred million Americans will lose protections for preexisting conditions.”
Joe Biden stated on June 4, 2024 in a speech: “Due to the arrangements that I've reached with (Mexico) President Obrador, the number of migrants coming … to our shared border unlawfully in recent months has dropped dramatically.”
Ron Johnson stated on May 19, 2024 in TV interview: Says in his three election campaigns, the early polls were "wildly incorrect, all three times."
Tammy Baldwin stated on May 5, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter: “When I worked on the Affordable Care Act, I wrote the amendment that allows all young people to stay on their parents’ health insurance until they turn 26. Overnight, millions of young Americans got health care.”
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.”
Greta Neubauer stated on April 11, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter: “The GOP has failed to invest in our campuses, making WI fall to 42nd in the nation in state support.”
Joe Biden stated on April 9, 2024 in an interview with Univision: Starting in 2025 "no matter what your total bills are for prescription drugs,” Medicare Part D users will never pay “more than $2,000 a year, because some of these cancer drugs are 10(,000 to) 15,000 bucks a year.”
Joe Biden stated on April 8, 2024 in a Facebook post: “Support for Roe is higher today in America than it has ever been."
Jonathan Becker stated on February 16, 2024 in a letter to college presidents: After a 2022 law, “the vast majority of colleges in New York State do not have on-campus poll sites.”
