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Gavin Newsom stated on July 18, 2025 in an X post:

Florida: #51 in mental health care, #1 in home insurance costs, #1 in elder fraud, #1 in rent hikes.

By Ella Moore, Samantha Putterman • July 23, 2025

Gavin Newsom stated on June 10, 2025 in posts on X:

California has lower homicide rates than Alabama, Arkansas and Oklahoma.

By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2025

Instagram posts stated on December 18, 2023 in an Instagram post:

“Illegal immigrants now have the right to vote in New York."

By Madison Czopek • January 19, 2024

Joe Biden stated on August 29, 2023 in a speech at the White House:

“According to the Congressional Budget Office,” the Inflation Reduction Act “will save the federal government $160 billion over the next 10 years because Medicare will be paying less for the prescription drugs they’re making available to seniors.”

By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2023

Gavin Newsom stated on June 12, 2023 in a TV interview:

"Per capita, more Floridians move to California than Californians moving to Florida.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 19, 2023

Francis Suarez stated on May 21, 2023 in a TV interview:

“Just last year,” Miami-Dade Public Schools “had over 14,000 new children, 10,000 of which came from four countries of Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 23, 2023

Gavin Newsom stated on January 23, 2023 in a tweet:

“The USA has a gun homicide rate 26 times higher than our peers.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 25, 2023

Facebook posts stated on August 21, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Fox News sought the legal "right to tell lies."

By Yacob Reyes • August 31, 2022

Joe Biden stated on October 6, 2021 in remarks at the White House:

“Raising the debt limit is paying our old debts. It has nothing to do with new spending.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 13, 2021

Facebook posts stated on June 30, 2021 in a Facebook post:

News organizations and sponsors ignored the accomplishments of Kim Rhode, a six-time Olympic medalist, because of her support of the Second Amendment.

By Samantha Putterman • July 9, 2021

Doug LaMalfa stated on March 2, 2021 in a constituent email.:

Voting-rights legislation proposed by Democrats in Congress called H.R. 1 “would force states to restore the voting rights of convicted felons—including violent felons convicted of murder or rape.”

By Chris Nichols • March 4, 2021

Andrew Cuomo stated on January 29, 2021 in a news conference:

“But we’re below the national average in number of deaths in nursing homes.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • February 9, 2021

Nancy Pelosi stated on April 16, 2020 in a statement:

“Even President Trump’s own EPA has admitted that this rule (on air pollutants) threatens to cause serious health problems including brain damage and death and to inflict billions of dollars of economic damage on our struggling economy.”

By Miriam Valverde • April 23, 2020

Gavin Newsom stated on February 19, 2020 in a State of the State Address:

"Back in 2005, when we did that first point-in-time count, there were over 188,000 thousand people that were deemed homeless in the state of California. … That’s 35,000 more than we have today.”

By Chris Nichols • February 21, 2020

Sean Casten stated on December 11, 2019 in a Facebook livestream appearance:

"From 2000 to 2016, every major drug that was introduced came out of" National Institutes of Health funding.

By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • December 22, 2019

Mike Pence stated on May 12, 2018 in a speech at Hillsdale College:

"Religion in America isn’t receding. It’s just the opposite. Faith is gaining new life across America every day."

By Louis Jacobson • May 16, 2018

Pat McCrory stated on March 28, 2016 in a speech in Clayton, N.C.:

"We have not taken away any rights that have currently existed in any city in North Carolina" with the passage of HB2.

By Will Doran • March 30, 2016

Facebook posts stated on September 10, 2014 in posts on Facebook:

"Fox admits they lie" and, under the First Amendment, "have the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports on public airwaves."

By Linda Qiu • September 10, 2014

Loretta Weinberg stated on February 7, 2012 in an interview on NJTV:

Says a 1915 referendum on women’s right to vote "went down in New Jersey. And it took the Legislature to pass it."

By Erin O'Neill • February 16, 2012

NJ-CAN stated on August 9, 2011 in a petition:

Says the state’s pension and health benefits reform includes "the destruction of public sector collective bargaining rights."

By Bill Wichert • August 15, 2011

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