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Kamala Harris stated on March 6, 2019 in a news release:

"College debt has increased 170 percent since 2006 and now exceeds $1.5 trillion dollars, which is second only to mortgage debt and surpasses even credit card debt."

By Chris Nichols • March 21, 2019

Beto O'Rourke stated on March 14, 2019 in a campaign stop in Iowa:

"Nearly half of public school teachers in Texas are working a second or a third job, not for kicks, not for extra spending cash, but just to make ends meet."

By Miriam Valverde • March 19, 2019

Jay Inslee stated on February 20, 2019 in an interview:

"The forest fires were so grotesque last year that we had the worst air in the world in Washington."

By Tom Kertscher • March 8, 2019

Heidi Heitkamp stated on February 24, 2019 in a roundtable on ABC's "This Week":

"We have record bankruptcies in farming country."

By Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2019

Matt Gaetz stated on February 7, 2019 in an interview on CNN:

"In 1992, the Democratic Party had in their platform provisions that said that illegal aliens were coming in this country, committing felonies, sent back and then they were right back across the border to do the same thing."

By Amy Sherman • February 13, 2019

José Oliva stated on January 30, 2019 in AP legislative day in Tallahassee:

Health care is the "No. 1 reason for bankruptcy."

By Amy Sherman • January 31, 2019

Donald Trump stated on September 5, 2018 in an exchange with reporters:

"We’re making (Medicare) stronger. We’re making Social Security stronger."

By Jon Greenberg • September 6, 2018

Donald Trump stated on July 20, 2018 in a tweet:

"The price of soybeans has fallen 50% since 5 years before the election. A big reason is bad (terrible) trade deals with other countries."

By Jon Greenberg • July 24, 2018

Mo Brooks stated on May 16, 2018 in a congressional hearing:

"You’re going to have an increase in the amount of ice in Antarctica because of global warming."

By Louis Jacobson • May 21, 2018

Donald Trump stated on April 5, 2018 in a speech in West Virginia:

"In many places, like California, the same person votes many times. You probably heard about that. They always like to say 'oh that's a conspiracy theory.' Not a conspiracy theory, folks. Millions and millions of people."

By Amy Sherman • April 6, 2018

Donald Trump stated on January 30, 2018 in State of the Union address:

Many gang members have taken advantage of "glaring loopholes and our laws to enter the country as illegal, unaccompanied, alien minors."

By Miriam Valverde • February 7, 2018

Donald Trump stated on October 18, 2017 in a tweet:

Insurance companies "have made a fortune with Obamacare."

By Jon Greenberg • October 23, 2017

Edward Cox stated on September 19, 2017 in a conversation with reporters:

New York has "the biggest outmigration of citizens of any state."

By Dan Clark • September 29, 2017

Kevin Nicholson stated on August 6, 2017 in a TV interview:

"Ronald Reagan was a verified Democrat until his mid-50s."

By D.L. Davis • September 21, 2017

Derrick Crowe stated on June 3, 2017 in as quoted in an Austin American-Statesman news story:

Says each of the past three years "has been the hottest on record."

By W. Gardner Selby • June 15, 2017

Mike McCabe stated on May 21, 2017 in an interview:

"When you look at all the state and local taxes we pay in Wisconsin, the wealthiest 1 percent pay the lowest overall tax rate."

By Tom Kertscher • June 2, 2017

Arnold Schwarzenegger stated on February 14, 2017 in a video:

"Here are some of the things that are more popular than Congress: hemorrhoids, Nickelback, traffic jams, cockroaches, root canals, colonoscopies, herpes. Even herpes, they couldn’t beat herpes in the polls."

By Chris Nichols • April 14, 2017

Greg Murphy stated on April 10, 2017 in a speech:

"Every day, four North Carolinians die from a medication or drug overdose."

By Will Doran • April 13, 2017

Philip Levine stated on March 2, 2017 in a post on Facebook:

Says Airbnb "decreases real estate values and increases costs for workforce housing."

By Amy Sherman • March 20, 2017

Greg Abbott stated on January 31, 2017 in his State-of-the-State address:

"Midland, Texas, now beats the San Francisco area in the percentage of jobs created by startups."

By W. Gardner Selby • February 24, 2017

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