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Feb 10 2022
Analysis
Opposition to Stacey Abrams unites Georgia’s divided GOP
In their bid to win the Republican nomination in the Georgia governor’s race, incumbent Brian Kemp and challenger David Perdue are often at odds — except when it comes to Stacey Abrams.
The rivals united this week in condemning Abrams, the leading Democrat running for governor, for hypocrisy after a photo surfaced of her posing maskless with students at an Atlanta-area elementary school
Associated Press Fact CheckJul 11 2022
News
Fox News attacks Biden for “surging” gasoline prices as they fall for 27th consecutive day
Fox News’ website continued promoting its worn-out campaign to blame President Joe Biden for higher gasoline prices nationwide despite publicly available data showing that prices have plunged over the past month.
According to petroleum industry analyst Patrick De Haan, today marks the 27th consecutive day that average gas prices have declined nationwide. Independent estimates from
Media MattersOct 19 2021
News
GOP Rep. Jeff Fortenberry indicted
Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska has been indicted, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.
The office's verified Twitter account posted on Tuesday afternoon, "Federal grand jury indictment charges U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry with one count of scheming to falsify and conceal material facts and two counts of making false statements to
CNN DigitalNov 02 2020
Fact Check
Fact check: In bid to win Michigan, Trump makes false claims about the state's auto industry
Trying to win the critical swing state of Michigan, President Donald Trump is closing his campaign with a series of false claims about the state's famed auto industry.
Trump was dishonest about the industry again on Sunday -- both on Twitter and at a campaign rally in Macomb County. Let's go through his claims one by one.
CNN DigitalNov 02 2021
Background
Claims of 'voter fraud' have a long history in America. And they are false
Texas’s lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, was supposed to be a whole lot poorer by now.
On 11 November, eight days after the presidential election and four days after the networks called the race for Joe Biden, the conservative talk radio host turned Republican politician launched a bounty hunt. Any tipsters who could provide evidence of voter fraud that led to a criminal conviction
The GuardianDec 06 2020
Fact Check
Video Doesn’t Show ‘Suitcases’ of Illegal Ballots in Georgia
The Trump campaign is falsely claiming that surveillance camera footage captured election workers in Georgia adding thousands of illegal ballots that were brought into an Atlanta facility in suspicious “suitcases” on election night.
The campaign presented the video to Georgia state lawmakers on Dec. 3. President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, wrote on Twitter the same day: “The
FactCheck.orgJun 30 2022
News
Why China’s 2022 Party Congress Will Be a Landmark
President Xi Jinping looks set to disrupt the transition of power in China by securing a precedent-defying third term as leader of the Communist Party at its 20th congress this year. In the runup, Xi has stressed such ambitious goals as narrowing the country’s wide wealth gap and more aggressively asserting its interests globally. In any case, he has few challengers: An anti-corruption
BloombergApr 26 2022
News
The one Republican Trump can't touch
It’s been nearly three months since Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, called for Chris Sununu’s head, boasting he was trying to help find someone to primary New Hampshire’s three-term Republican governor.
He isn’t having much luck.
In state after state, Trump has turned the GOP primaries into a referendum on the party’s loyalty to him, endorsing primary
PoliticoJun 29 2022
Opinion
Redistricting battle further positions DeSantis for 2024 presidential bid
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is a political enigma. The Harvard and Yale-educated attorney has accomplished what numerous conservative politicians — among them Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), and fellow-Floridian Marco Rubio — have tried and failed to do in the wake of Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party: position himself as the ultimate insider with the outsider cred to
The HillJul 30 2020
News
Ilhan Omar Paid Her Husband’s Firm $600,000 in Three Weeks
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) funneled an additional $606,000 to her husband's firm in the first three weeks of July alone, according to new campaign filings.
Federal Election Commission records released Thursday show that over the first three weeks of July, Omar's campaign sent $606,000 to the E Street Group, a D.C.-based consulting firm run by Tim Mynett, Omar's husband. The money
Washington Free Beacon