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Donald Trump stated on September 29, 2020 in First presidential debate:

"You said you went to Delaware State but you forgot the name of your college."

By Noah Y. Kim • September 30, 2020

Adam Kinzinger stated on February 15, 2015 in an appearance on ABC's 'This Week':

The current debate over authorizing military action against the Islamic State "would be the first time Congress would place limits on the commander-in-chief's ability to be commander-in-chief."

By Steve Contorno • February 19, 2015

Sergey Lavrov stated on December 16, 2014 in an interview with the French television network France 24:

"Congress is a very special group of people. More than 80 percent of them never left the United States."

By Louis Jacobson • December 17, 2014

Senate Leadership Fund stated on July 25, 2026 in an ad:

Maine Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Troy Jackson hit a female colleague.

By Amy Sherman • July 28, 2026

Donald Trump stated on September 30, 2025 in a speech to military brass:

“You never heard Biden say” the U.S. has “the strongest military anywhere in the world.”

By Louis Jacobson • October 2, 2025

Donald Trump stated on March 26, 2025 in an interview with Newsmax:

“We have automobile plants being built at levels we've never seen … and they're going up fast.”

By Louis Jacobson • March 28, 2025

Threads posts stated on January 29, 2025 in a Threads post:

A Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol rioter pardoned by President Donald Trump was “killed when she used her 2A rights with a shotgun while being served for eviction.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 31, 2025

Elizabeth Warren stated on January 29, 2025 in a Senate confirmation hearing:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “made $2.5 million off suing one of the entities that (he would be regulating) and plans to keep getting a take of every lawsuit in the future.”

By Sara Swann • January 30, 2025

Donald Trump stated on October 31, 2024 in a social media post:

“I never mentioned” wanting to end the Affordable Care Act.

By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2024

Donald Trump stated on October 9, 2024 in a Truth Social post:

Vice President Kamala Harris’ “60 Minutes” interview may be “a major Campaign Finance Violation.”

By Sara Swann • October 12, 2024

Kamala Harris stated on September 10, 2024 in the ABC News presidential debate:

“Donald Trump said he was going to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices. He never did. We did.”

By Jacob Gardenswartz • September 30, 2024

Elissa Slotkin stated on September 11, 2024 in a TV ad:

Mike Rogers supported “laws that could eliminate IVF and birth control.”

By Caleb McCullough • September 13, 2024

X posts stated on September 3, 2024 in a video posted on X:

On June 7, 2011, Kamala Harris was involved in a San Francisco hit-and-run crash that injured a woman named Alicia Brown.

By Loreben Tuquero, Madison Czopek • September 5, 2024

Dave McCormick stated on August 8, 2024 in an X post:

“Bob Casey and Kamala Harris want to BAN fracking.”

By Caleb McCullough • August 16, 2024

Kelly Daughtry stated on April 1, 2024 in a campaign advertisement:

“Brad Knott was a lawyer for Joe Biden.”

By Paul Specht • April 25, 2024

Instagram posts stated on April 1, 2024 in an Instagram post:

Texas found that 95,000 noncitizens were registered to vote.

By Sofia Ahmed • April 4, 2024

Cavalier Johnson stated on February 25, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:

In Milwaukee, we “never defunded the police.”

By Ricardo Torres • March 15, 2024

Kamala Harris stated on January 22, 2024 in Speech:

"After Roe was dismantled, extremists evoked a law from 1849 to stop abortion” in Wisconsin.

By Hope Karnopp • January 23, 2024

Nick LaLota stated on November 18, 2023 in a social media post:

Under New York’s Clean Slate Act “violent crimes … will now be automatically sealed after a set time - like they never happened.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 1, 2024

Kamala Harris stated on July 21, 2023 in in a speech in Jacksonville, Florida:

"Some states have “tried to ban teaching Latino and Hispanic history.”

By Marta Campabadal Graus • August 7, 2023

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