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Hillary Clinton stated on August 22, 2016 in a tweet:

Says she "would bring 186,740 new jobs to Wisconsin" and "Donald Trump would cost Wisconsin 61,050 jobs."

By Tom Kertscher • September 16, 2016

Josh Earnest stated on August 3, 2016 in a White House press briefing:

"The mosquito population in South Florida is larger than it is in many other communities in the country."

By Joshua Gillin • August 5, 2016

Elizabeth Warren stated on July 25, 2016 in a speech at the Democratic convention:

"Donald Trump said he was excited for the 2008 housing crash that devastated millions of American families, because he thought it would help him scoop up more real estate on the cheap."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 26, 2016

Barack Obama stated on June 20, 2016 in a statement:

"As governor, in the face of partisan attacks, (Charlie Crist) had the courage to save jobs and lead his state into economic recovery."

By Joshua Gillin • June 23, 2016

Bernie Sanders stated on May 16, 2016 in a town hall in San Juan:

"Puerto Rico’s $70 billion debt is unsustainable and it is unpayable. And the reason why it is unsustainable has everything to do with the greed of Wall Street vulture funds."

By Linda Qiu • May 19, 2016

Hillary Clinton stated on May 4, 2016 in an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper:

"The market is making this decision. The market has driven down the cost of coal, so you have companies going bankrupt."

By Lauren Carroll • May 10, 2016

Bernie Sanders stated on February 2, 2016 in a campaign event in Keene, N.H.:

Says Goldman Sachs CEO said Congress would "have to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and give huge tax breaks to the wealthy and the large corporations."

By Clay Wirestone • February 5, 2016

Marco Rubio stated on December 13, 2015 in an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press":

"Three or four countries" out of roughly 60 in the anti-ISIS coalition "are providing military force."

By Louis Jacobson • December 13, 2015

Donald Trump stated on October 28, 2015 in the CNBC debate:

The CNBC debate was supposed to be three hours, and he "renegotiated it down to two hours."

By Lauren Carroll • November 2, 2015

Donald Trump stated on October 14, 2015 in comments at a rally.:

Says Bernie Sanders is going to "tax you people at 90 percent."

By Linda Qiu • October 20, 2015

Ann Coulter stated on January 22, 2014 in a broadcast of CNN's "Piers Morgan Live":

Says in 2000, Fox News broke the story of George W. Bush’s drunk driving arrest. "Who broke it? Fox News."

By Jon Greenberg • January 27, 2014

Senate Conservatives Fund stated on December 9, 2013 in as quoted by Politico:

"John Cornyn has voted to increase the debt, raise taxes, bail out Wall Street banks and fund Obamacare."

By W. Gardner Selby • December 12, 2013

Barack Obama stated on October 27, 2012 in a television ad:

Says "Mitt Romney’s plan rolls back regulations" on banks.

By Jon Greenberg • October 31, 2012

Priorities USA Action stated on October 8, 2012 in a campaign ad:

Says Romney wants to "take away early childhood education, slash K-12 funding, and cut college aid … to pay for a $250,000 tax break for multi-millionaires."

By Molly Moorhead • October 10, 2012

Barack Obama stated on October 8, 2012 in a campaign event outside Speaker John Boehner press conference in Derry, NH:

Says Mitt Romney plans to "fire" Big Bird.

By Maryalice Gill • October 9, 2012

Debbie Wasserman Schultz stated on September 12, 2011 in an interview before the CNN/Tea Party Express presidential debate:

Says CNN's Wolf Blitzer was wrong to say that "the wealthiest Americans, they pay the most in taxes already -- 50 percent of Americans don't even pay any federal income tax."

By Aaron Sharockman, Becky Bowers • September 16, 2011

Newt Gingrich stated on June 13, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate:

If today's economy was rebounding at the rate of the "Reagan recovery," it would have created the equivalent of 25 million new jobs and raised federal revenue by $800 billion a year.

By Louis Jacobson, Willoughby Mariano • June 14, 2011

Sherrod Brown stated on December 9, 2010 in a CNN interview:

The tax cut deal is giving "$700 billion to millionaires and billionaires."

By Stephen Koff • December 15, 2010

Charlie Crist stated on October 24, 2010 in a debate:

"The Recovery Act saved 60,000 jobs among law enforcement officials, firefighters in the state of Florida, plus another 20,000 educators."

By Becky Bowers • October 29, 2010

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