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Facebook posts stated on December 15, 2024 in Facebook posts Residents in states across the U.S. are eligible for a $2,200 holiday stimulus payment. Threads posts stated on November 1, 2024 in una publicación en Threads "Informan que las boletas electorales de Ohio muestran el nombre de Donald Trump mal escrito". X posts stated on October 31, 2024 in X posts “Ballots in Ohio are showing Trump’s name misspelled!” Senate Leadership Fund stated on September 3, 2024 in a campaign ad U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown “supported allowing puberty blockers and sex-change surgeries for minor children.” Senate Leadership Fund stated on September 24, 2024 in a campaign ad U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown voted to “allow transgender biological men to compete in girls’ sports.” JD Vance stated on October 1, 2024 in a debate Says immigrants with temporary protections in Springfield, Ohio, are “illegal immigrants.” Donald Trump stated on September 18, 2024 in a speech in New York When Haitians go to school in Springfield, Ohio, they “take the place of our children in school” and “each one will have a private interpreter." Sherrod Brown stated on September 4, 2024 in a TV interview Of Bernie Moreno, “Now, he’s arguing for a national abortion ban, no exceptions.” Bernie Moreno stated on September 9, 2024 in an Instagram post “Illegal” Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are “reportedly killing and eating pets.” X posts stated on September 14, 2024 in una publicación en X Este es “vídeo de una inmigrante haitiana que asesinó y se comió al gato de sus vecinos” en Springfield, Ohio. Instagram posts stated on September 9, 2024 in Instagram posts A Haitian woman was arrested in Springfield, Ohio, for eating a cat. Donald Trump stated on September 10, 2024 in at a Sept. 10 presidential debate "In Springfield (Ohio), they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats. They're eating, they're eating the pets of the people that live there.” Social Media stated on September 6, 2024 in in social media posts Haitian immigrants are eating pets and wildlife in Springfield, Ohio. Bernie Moreno stated on August 20, 2024 in a campaign ad U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown voted to “give illegals taxpayer funded stimulus checks, health care, even Social Security." Instagram posts stated on July 22, 2024 in an Instagram post There are nine states “where Biden’s name can’t be removed and no one can be added. That’s over 130 electoral votes in the toilet.” Instagram posts stated on March 27, 2024 in an Instagram post A March 26 bridge fire in Ohio is related to the collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge. Facebook posts stated on November 9, 2023 in a Facebook post “There is a serial killer in Cincinnati.” Seven bodies were found “chopped up.” Protect Women Ohio stated on October 30, 2023 in a video Ohio’s Issue 1 “allows for abortion after viability for…financial reasons.” Facebook posts stated on March 31, 2023 in a Facebook post U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, “sends Biden straight to jail.” Facebook posts stated on February 27, 2023 in a post “The five people that died in that plane crash … were supposed to go to Ohio to test the water, the soil and the air quality in East Palestine.” Load more
Facebook posts stated on December 15, 2024 in Facebook posts Residents in states across the U.S. are eligible for a $2,200 holiday stimulus payment.
Threads posts stated on November 1, 2024 in una publicación en Threads "Informan que las boletas electorales de Ohio muestran el nombre de Donald Trump mal escrito".
Senate Leadership Fund stated on September 3, 2024 in a campaign ad U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown “supported allowing puberty blockers and sex-change surgeries for minor children.”
Senate Leadership Fund stated on September 24, 2024 in a campaign ad U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown voted to “allow transgender biological men to compete in girls’ sports.”
JD Vance stated on October 1, 2024 in a debate Says immigrants with temporary protections in Springfield, Ohio, are “illegal immigrants.”
Donald Trump stated on September 18, 2024 in a speech in New York When Haitians go to school in Springfield, Ohio, they “take the place of our children in school” and “each one will have a private interpreter."
Sherrod Brown stated on September 4, 2024 in a TV interview Of Bernie Moreno, “Now, he’s arguing for a national abortion ban, no exceptions.”
Bernie Moreno stated on September 9, 2024 in an Instagram post “Illegal” Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are “reportedly killing and eating pets.”
X posts stated on September 14, 2024 in una publicación en X Este es “vídeo de una inmigrante haitiana que asesinó y se comió al gato de sus vecinos” en Springfield, Ohio.
Instagram posts stated on September 9, 2024 in Instagram posts A Haitian woman was arrested in Springfield, Ohio, for eating a cat.
Donald Trump stated on September 10, 2024 in at a Sept. 10 presidential debate "In Springfield (Ohio), they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats. They're eating, they're eating the pets of the people that live there.”
Social Media stated on September 6, 2024 in in social media posts Haitian immigrants are eating pets and wildlife in Springfield, Ohio.
Bernie Moreno stated on August 20, 2024 in a campaign ad U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown voted to “give illegals taxpayer funded stimulus checks, health care, even Social Security."
Instagram posts stated on July 22, 2024 in an Instagram post There are nine states “where Biden’s name can’t be removed and no one can be added. That’s over 130 electoral votes in the toilet.”
Instagram posts stated on March 27, 2024 in an Instagram post A March 26 bridge fire in Ohio is related to the collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Facebook posts stated on November 9, 2023 in a Facebook post “There is a serial killer in Cincinnati.” Seven bodies were found “chopped up.”
Protect Women Ohio stated on October 30, 2023 in a video Ohio’s Issue 1 “allows for abortion after viability for…financial reasons.”
Facebook posts stated on March 31, 2023 in a Facebook post U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, “sends Biden straight to jail.”
Facebook posts stated on February 27, 2023 in a post “The five people that died in that plane crash … were supposed to go to Ohio to test the water, the soil and the air quality in East Palestine.”
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