Warming up the crowd for Trump in Park City, Tracey Mann said the Democratic Socialists of America had 'completely taken over the Democrat Party' and told Republicans to 'tie every Democrat up and down the ballot to this insanity.' The DSA has endorsed one candidate in Kansas this year, for the state House.
In a new ad, Ashley Moody says she voted to stop taxing tips and Social Security, and that her opponent backed a $4 trillion tax hike on a diner full of working people. PolitiFact found the law didn't end either tax, most of its tax cuts went to high earners, and Angie Nixon's campaign says she wants to repeal only the parts for the rich.
Scott Perry's campaign ad claims his opponent exposed herself to a neighborhood child, flashing an 'AFFIDAVIT' on screen. WITF found the claim has no evidence behind it, the document is a notarized statement from a Perry supporter, and no charges were filed. The ad also repeats a claim about an immigrant that was already debunked.
Roger Marshall, Jon Husted, Susan Collins, Juan Ciscomani, Jeff Crank, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, Jason Smith and Derrick Van Orden are touting rural health grants in the final weeks of the campaign. KFF says the fund covers barely a third of what the same law takes out of rural Medicaid, and it runs out.
At a Mobile County GOP dinner advertised as open to the public, a Lagniappe reporter asked about Tuberville's 2020 pledge to donate 'every dime' of his Senate salary to veterans. Tuberville had sheriff's deputies escort him out. There is still no record he kept the promise.
Two weeks before Election Day, ColomForSenate.com — the Hyde-Smith campaign site built to look like Scott Colom's — pops up an uncaptioned mugshot from a 2001 misdemeanor arrest when he was a high school senior. Asked about it, her campaign manager repeated a 'sex change surgeries' claim the site's own source doesn't support.
Abbott's office insists 'no permits have been approved.' Watchdogs found stormwater approvals, fast-tracked air permits and public notices for data centers starting the day after his order — and the agency suspended the stormwater permits the day after the watchdogs went public.
Two weeks before Election Day, Collins told a Maine TV station she had no way to anticipate Kavanaugh's vote to overturn Roe. Her own 2018 floor speech named the concern, and Trump had promised justices who would do it.
Ramaswamy's ad has Acton's estranged mother call her a liar about her childhood. Court records show the mother's husband was charged with raping Acton and the children were taken from them. After the backlash, Ramaswamy put $4 million behind it.