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Featured Statements

Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2024 in a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina:

“We’re losing 300,000 people a year to fentanyl that comes through our border. We had it down to the lowest number and now it’s worse than it’s ever been.”

By Jacob Gardenswartz • August 16, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2024 in a speech at a campaign rally in Charlotte, North Carolina:

“Vice President, Kamala Harris cast the tie-breaking vote to cut, as you know, Medicare by $273 billion. She cast a vote to cut Medicare.”

By Jacob Gardenswartz • August 15, 2024
Donald Trump
stated on June 8, 2024 in a Truth Social post:

Lower insulin prices were the work of the Trump administration, not “Crooked Joe Biden. He had NOTHING to do with it.”

By Jacob Gardenswartz • July 12, 2024
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.”

By Jacob Gardenswartz • June 12, 2024