Whatley keeps telling voters insurers 'raised insurance premiums 183%' on Cooper's watch. The figure comes from a 2021 Heritage Foundation table covering 2013 to 2019, and by that table's own numbers nearly half of the increase came before Cooper became governor in 2017.
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Political ads have always been sleazy, but MAGA Republicans are no longer just stretching the truth: they are using AI and digital tools to manufacture lies.
Trump told a Republican convention that every adult gets $5,000 if Republicans keep the House and Senate. Mike Johnson says that isn't buying votes, and answers worries about the $1.2 trillion cost by pointing to the 'wasteful' spending his budget bill cut. The biggest of those cuts was to Medicaid, with food assistance and student loans behind it, and the law still adds $3.4 trillion to the deficit.
In a new op-ed, Downing says the expired ACA tax credits were a COVID-era fix for a sliver of the market. Congress extended them in 2022, most Montanans buying coverage on the exchange got them, and 11% of Montana's paying enrollees are already gone. He voted no on extending them — twice.
PolitiFact rated False an ad Donalds shared claiming Jolly 'wants more taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security.' Jolly says he doesn't support taxing Social Security, and a Florida governor has no power over those taxes, because Florida has no state income tax.
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MAGA Republican Gabe Evans is running a campaign ad hauling hay and claiming fifteen years of ranching in Colorado.
The ad, titled 'King James,' uses an AI-generated Talarico to deliver a monologue rewriting the Bible. It stitches together fragments of his real remarks, strips their context, changes some of his words, and scripts them into a speech that does not exist. Paxton's campaign did not answer when The Advocate asked why it manufactured footage instead of using real video.
Ramaswamy said it was legitimate to ask whether federal agents were aboard the 9/11 planes, and admitted he had no evidence. When the quote made news he said it was wrong. CNN's fact-checker reviewed the audio and found the only thing left out was a five-word fragment.
Greg Abbott's campaign used AI to swap an American flag for a transgender flag in a photo of his opponent talking to a child about a closed school. Ken Paxton scripted a speech his opponent never gave. Marsha Blackburn put hers in a prison jumpsuit. Cindy Hyde-Smith registered a domain in her opponent's name.
