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Nov 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
NPR 2 pm newscast. Anchor Lakshmi Singh: "An election-denying Republican is on the ballot to become on Arizona's next governor. She's challenged by a Democrat who spent the past 2 years defending the state's election integrity." 1/
To Ben Giles at KJZZ: "Republican Kari Lake, running in her first-ever campaign, rode the endorsement of former president Donald Trump to victory in Arizona's GOP primary...." 2/
Oct 14, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
A thread on @PolitiFact pouncing on Senator Rick Scott, which again spurs a sad exploration of their partisan checking patterns. This is the 7th Scott check in 2021. newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-g…
Overall, in 2021, Jon Greenberg has 28 fact checks on Republican politicians or entities, and just seven on all Democrats (compared to 7 on Scott). Four fact checks on Biden. Greenberg's two fact checks on Senate Democrats (Tim Kaine and Sherrod Brown) were both rated "True."