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Latest Fact-Checks In Ohio

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Tim Ryan
stated on September 27, 2022 in a campaign ad:
“I voted with Trump on trade.”
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 4, 2022
Tim Ryan
stated on July 19, 2022 in an ad:
Instead of fighting opioid addiction, a nonprofit founded by J.D. Vance paid his “top political adviser” and funded “political polling.”
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By Tom Kertscher • July 27, 2022
Aftab Pureval
stated on August 28, 2018 in a campaign ad:
Says Steve Chabot “voted to strip insurance protections for pre-existing conditions.”  
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By Stephen Koff • September 12, 2018
Jim Renacci
stated on July 10, 2018 in a press conference:
Says Sherrod Brown “votes 97 percent with Chuck Schumer, almost 95 plus percent with Elizabeth Warren.”
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By Amy Sherman • July 31, 2018
Jim Renacci
stated on April 25, 2018 in a radio interview:
“President Trump is still supported by almost 85 percent of the Republican Party in the state of Ohio, and that’s from recent polling, and still…
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By Amy Sherman • May 4, 2018
Sherrod Brown
stated on April 9, 2018 in a speech to the City Club of Cleveland:
“Right now in Ohio 200,000 people are getting opioid treatment because they have insurance under the Affordable Care Act.”
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By Amy Sherman • April 20, 2018
Richard Cordray
stated on April 2, 2018 in a campaign website:
“Since 1999, firearm deaths in Ohio have risen 58 percent.”
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By Amy Sherman • April 12, 2018
Mary Taylor
stated on January 29, 2018 in a speech:
Says Mike DeWine “flip-flopped on the gun issue and has earned an F from the NRA.”
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By Amy Sherman • March 6, 2018
Tim Ryan
stated on February 20, 2018 in an interview on CNN:
“Seventy to 80 percent of NRA members support a universal background check.”
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By Amy Sherman • February 27, 2018
JD Vance
stated on December 31, 2017 in an interview on Face the Nation:
Says “50 percent of venture capital goes to California. Most of the rest of it goes to New York and Massachusetts.”
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By Amy Sherman • February 20, 2018
Richard Cordray
stated on December 14, 2017 in a speech:
On taxes, “if you go back and look 50 years ago, individuals paid about 7 percent of the total and corporations paid 5 percent. Fast…
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By Amy Sherman • January 30, 2018
Ted Strickland
stated on October 20, 2016 in the Ohio Senate debate:
Says Rob Portman “said the auto rescue was a lousy deal for Ohio.”
Mostly True
By Allison Graves • October 21, 2016
Donald Trump
stated on August 1, 2016 in a rally in Columbus, Ohio:
Russia and China are “doing naval exercises together someplace.”  
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By Nadia Pflaum • August 4, 2016
Sherrod Brown
stated on July 28, 2016 in a speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention:
Says Donald Trump “proposes tax cuts, too — $3 trillion for millionaires like himself and $2 trillion for corporations like his.”  
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By Nadia Pflaum • August 1, 2016
Ted Cruz
stated on April 3, 2016 in ad paid for by campaign for Ted Cruz:
Says a company that got tax breaks from the state later “laid off 100 Ohioans, even as its CEO cut a half-million-dollar check to Kasich’s…
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By Nadia Pflaum • April 12, 2016
Tim McGinty
stated on March 4, 2016 in his campaign website:
Says he “tore down hundreds of abandoned homes that served as havens for crime and reduce(d) the value of our neighborhoods.”  
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By Nadia Pflaum • March 4, 2016
Rob Portman
stated on July 11, 2013 in a news conference call:
“I was filibustered.”
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By Stephen Koff • July 29, 2013
Tim Ryan
stated on June 11, 2013 in a House of Representatives floor speech:
“If you are born poor in America, we rank ninth or tenth in our citizens’ ability to climb up through that ladder and get themselves…
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By Sabrina Eaton • June 26, 2013
Bob Gibbs
stated on May 17, 2013 in a tweet:
“If Obamacare is fully implemented, 30 million people will still be without health insurance.”
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By Sabrina Eaton • June 10, 2013
Mike Foley
stated on April 23, 2013 in news release:
Ohio’s lost more jobs in March than any other state in the nation.
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By Robert Higgs • May 13, 2013
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