Latest Half-True Fact-checks in Wisconsin Clear Any Rating True Mostly True Half True Mostly False False Pants on Fire Full Flop Half Flip No Flip Any Speaker Any Date Range Last 3 Months Last 6 Months Last 12 Months 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 Any Category Jon Erpenbach dicho el Diciembre 12, 2021 en TV interview: The push for high-speed internet for rural areas, from the start, “was a Democratic thing.” Glenn Grothman dicho el Noviembre 30, 2021 en Twitter: Says Joe Biden “shut down travel from 8 countries in response to the Omicron variant, but he refuses to require a #COVID19 test for illegal immigrants crossing our Southern border.” Viral image dicho el Noviembre 15, 2021 en a Facebook post: Timothy Simpkins, a Black teen shooter, got 1 day in jail and $75,000 bail, while Kyle Rittenhouse, a white teen, got 2 months in jail and $2 million bail. “I think it’s pretty evident ... that white privilege is a myth.” Bryan Steil dicho el Octubre 28, 2021 en Twitter: Says President Joe Biden “is in talks to pay illegal immigrants $450,000.” Glenn Grothman dicho el Septiembre 22, 2021 en Twitter: Says the U.S. National Archives put a ‘harmful content’ warning on our nation’s Founding documents. Gwen Moore dicho el Septiembre 3, 2021 en Twitter: “President Biden has created more jobs in his first 7 months than any POTUS in history.” Kurt Bauer dicho el Junio 27, 2021 en TV interview: “We are not having replacement birth rates. We have had more people leaving the state than coming in over the last 30 years.” Jon Erpenbach dicho el Junio 15, 2021 en Twitter: “Wisconsin is 49th in public health spending.” Mark Pocan dicho el Mayo 20, 2021 en Twitter: During the pandemic, “I’ve been in D.C. voting regularly.” Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce dicho el Marzo 9, 2021 en Twitter: “Right to Work states have: faster private sector employment growth” Tom Nelson dicho el Abril 11, 2021 en Twitter: "Since 2010, student debt has increased by 102% and real wages have fallen by over 8%.” Jon Erpenbach dicho el Marzo 21, 2021 en TV interview: "There’s no strings attached to that money that we’d be getting as an incentive to expand Medicaid." Tony Evers dicho el Abril 21, 2021 en Twitter: A new state agreement with Foxconn “will save Wisconsin taxpayers $2.77 billion.” Tammy Baldwin dicho el Marzo 23, 2021 en News release: "Over the past decade, drug prices have risen at three times the rate of inflation." Tony Evers dicho el Marzo 30, 2021 en Twitter: “It took the Legislature nearly 300 days to act on a (COVID-19) bill during this pandemic.” Shelley Grogan dicho el Marzo 29, 2021 en a radio ad: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook." Amy Pechacek dicho el Diciembre 20, 2020 en News release: “We have reached our goal to clear the backlog of (unemployment) claims.” LaKeshia Myers dicho el Febrero 16, 2021 en News release: "Wisconsin is one of only nine states in the nation in which 17 year-olds are automatically treated as adults in the criminal justice system." Melissa Agard dicho el Febrero 10, 2021 en Twitter: "Youth usage of marijuana has actually gone down in states that have fully legalized.” Sarah Godlewski dicho el Febrero 6, 2021 en a tweet: “On average, 17% of a family’s income goes towards child care in Wisconsin.” Mark Born dicho el Enero 12, 2021 en Twitter: "The committee that advises @GovEvers and his department tasked with leading during this pandemic is recommending allowing prisoners to receive the vaccine before 65 year old grandma?” Tony Evers dicho el Enero 12, 2021 en Speech: "The Legislature spent the last decade passing laws deliberately making it even harder for people to access these critical supports when they need it most, exacerbating the problems with our already-outdated system.” Tammy Baldwin dicho el Noviembre 19, 2020 en Twitter: “Americans are paying the highest price in the world for Remdesivir because the Trump administration is allowing Gilead Sciences to jack up the prices on this #COVID19 treatment.” Instagram posts dicho el Noviembre 20, 2020 en an Instagram post: "Kyle Rittenhouse used his COVID-19 stimulus check to purchase the AR-15 he used in the fatal Kenosha shooting." Scott Fitzgerald dicho el Noviembre 8, 2020 en a TV interview: The 2020 election is in “recount territory” and “I’ve seen elections change as a result of” recounts. Robyn Vining dicho el Octubre 25, 2020 en a TV interview: “People are less likely to just vote for party now. … They’re looking at the personalities.” Joe Biden dicho el Septiembre 21, 2020 en a speech: Says President Donald Trump started a trade war that “led to a surge in farm bankruptcies.” Gwen Moore dicho el Agosto 26, 2020 en Twitter: In contrast to how a Black man who was shot by police was treated, Kenosha police officers "let an armed white supremacist walk right past them after shooting people." Facebook posts dicho el Agosto 24, 2020 en a Facebook post: Says Jacob Blake, shot by police in Kenosha, had a warrant for sexual assault and prior convictions for gun use Facebook posts dicho el Agosto 24, 2020 en Facebook post: “Police training in Wisconsin is 21 weeks. A cosmetology license takes 40 weeks.”
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Jon Erpenbach dicho el Diciembre 12, 2021 en TV interview: The push for high-speed internet for rural areas, from the start, “was a Democratic thing.” Glenn Grothman dicho el Noviembre 30, 2021 en Twitter: Says Joe Biden “shut down travel from 8 countries in response to the Omicron variant, but he refuses to require a #COVID19 test for illegal immigrants crossing our Southern border.” Viral image dicho el Noviembre 15, 2021 en a Facebook post: Timothy Simpkins, a Black teen shooter, got 1 day in jail and $75,000 bail, while Kyle Rittenhouse, a white teen, got 2 months in jail and $2 million bail. “I think it’s pretty evident ... that white privilege is a myth.” Bryan Steil dicho el Octubre 28, 2021 en Twitter: Says President Joe Biden “is in talks to pay illegal immigrants $450,000.” Glenn Grothman dicho el Septiembre 22, 2021 en Twitter: Says the U.S. National Archives put a ‘harmful content’ warning on our nation’s Founding documents. Gwen Moore dicho el Septiembre 3, 2021 en Twitter: “President Biden has created more jobs in his first 7 months than any POTUS in history.” Kurt Bauer dicho el Junio 27, 2021 en TV interview: “We are not having replacement birth rates. We have had more people leaving the state than coming in over the last 30 years.” Jon Erpenbach dicho el Junio 15, 2021 en Twitter: “Wisconsin is 49th in public health spending.” Mark Pocan dicho el Mayo 20, 2021 en Twitter: During the pandemic, “I’ve been in D.C. voting regularly.” Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce dicho el Marzo 9, 2021 en Twitter: “Right to Work states have: faster private sector employment growth” Tom Nelson dicho el Abril 11, 2021 en Twitter: "Since 2010, student debt has increased by 102% and real wages have fallen by over 8%.” Jon Erpenbach dicho el Marzo 21, 2021 en TV interview: "There’s no strings attached to that money that we’d be getting as an incentive to expand Medicaid." Tony Evers dicho el Abril 21, 2021 en Twitter: A new state agreement with Foxconn “will save Wisconsin taxpayers $2.77 billion.” Tammy Baldwin dicho el Marzo 23, 2021 en News release: "Over the past decade, drug prices have risen at three times the rate of inflation." Tony Evers dicho el Marzo 30, 2021 en Twitter: “It took the Legislature nearly 300 days to act on a (COVID-19) bill during this pandemic.” Shelley Grogan dicho el Marzo 29, 2021 en a radio ad: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook." Amy Pechacek dicho el Diciembre 20, 2020 en News release: “We have reached our goal to clear the backlog of (unemployment) claims.” LaKeshia Myers dicho el Febrero 16, 2021 en News release: "Wisconsin is one of only nine states in the nation in which 17 year-olds are automatically treated as adults in the criminal justice system." Melissa Agard dicho el Febrero 10, 2021 en Twitter: "Youth usage of marijuana has actually gone down in states that have fully legalized.” Sarah Godlewski dicho el Febrero 6, 2021 en a tweet: “On average, 17% of a family’s income goes towards child care in Wisconsin.” Mark Born dicho el Enero 12, 2021 en Twitter: "The committee that advises @GovEvers and his department tasked with leading during this pandemic is recommending allowing prisoners to receive the vaccine before 65 year old grandma?” Tony Evers dicho el Enero 12, 2021 en Speech: "The Legislature spent the last decade passing laws deliberately making it even harder for people to access these critical supports when they need it most, exacerbating the problems with our already-outdated system.” Tammy Baldwin dicho el Noviembre 19, 2020 en Twitter: “Americans are paying the highest price in the world for Remdesivir because the Trump administration is allowing Gilead Sciences to jack up the prices on this #COVID19 treatment.” Instagram posts dicho el Noviembre 20, 2020 en an Instagram post: "Kyle Rittenhouse used his COVID-19 stimulus check to purchase the AR-15 he used in the fatal Kenosha shooting." Scott Fitzgerald dicho el Noviembre 8, 2020 en a TV interview: The 2020 election is in “recount territory” and “I’ve seen elections change as a result of” recounts. Robyn Vining dicho el Octubre 25, 2020 en a TV interview: “People are less likely to just vote for party now. … They’re looking at the personalities.” Joe Biden dicho el Septiembre 21, 2020 en a speech: Says President Donald Trump started a trade war that “led to a surge in farm bankruptcies.” Gwen Moore dicho el Agosto 26, 2020 en Twitter: In contrast to how a Black man who was shot by police was treated, Kenosha police officers "let an armed white supremacist walk right past them after shooting people." Facebook posts dicho el Agosto 24, 2020 en a Facebook post: Says Jacob Blake, shot by police in Kenosha, had a warrant for sexual assault and prior convictions for gun use Facebook posts dicho el Agosto 24, 2020 en Facebook post: “Police training in Wisconsin is 21 weeks. A cosmetology license takes 40 weeks.”
Jon Erpenbach dicho el Diciembre 12, 2021 en TV interview: The push for high-speed internet for rural areas, from the start, “was a Democratic thing.”
Glenn Grothman dicho el Noviembre 30, 2021 en Twitter: Says Joe Biden “shut down travel from 8 countries in response to the Omicron variant, but he refuses to require a #COVID19 test for illegal immigrants crossing our Southern border.”
Viral image dicho el Noviembre 15, 2021 en a Facebook post: Timothy Simpkins, a Black teen shooter, got 1 day in jail and $75,000 bail, while Kyle Rittenhouse, a white teen, got 2 months in jail and $2 million bail. “I think it’s pretty evident ... that white privilege is a myth.”
Bryan Steil dicho el Octubre 28, 2021 en Twitter: Says President Joe Biden “is in talks to pay illegal immigrants $450,000.”
Glenn Grothman dicho el Septiembre 22, 2021 en Twitter: Says the U.S. National Archives put a ‘harmful content’ warning on our nation’s Founding documents.
Gwen Moore dicho el Septiembre 3, 2021 en Twitter: “President Biden has created more jobs in his first 7 months than any POTUS in history.”
Kurt Bauer dicho el Junio 27, 2021 en TV interview: “We are not having replacement birth rates. We have had more people leaving the state than coming in over the last 30 years.”
Mark Pocan dicho el Mayo 20, 2021 en Twitter: During the pandemic, “I’ve been in D.C. voting regularly.”
Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce dicho el Marzo 9, 2021 en Twitter: “Right to Work states have: faster private sector employment growth”
Tom Nelson dicho el Abril 11, 2021 en Twitter: "Since 2010, student debt has increased by 102% and real wages have fallen by over 8%.”
Jon Erpenbach dicho el Marzo 21, 2021 en TV interview: "There’s no strings attached to that money that we’d be getting as an incentive to expand Medicaid."
Tony Evers dicho el Abril 21, 2021 en Twitter: A new state agreement with Foxconn “will save Wisconsin taxpayers $2.77 billion.”
Tammy Baldwin dicho el Marzo 23, 2021 en News release: "Over the past decade, drug prices have risen at three times the rate of inflation."
Tony Evers dicho el Marzo 30, 2021 en Twitter: “It took the Legislature nearly 300 days to act on a (COVID-19) bill during this pandemic.”
Shelley Grogan dicho el Marzo 29, 2021 en a radio ad: Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook."
Amy Pechacek dicho el Diciembre 20, 2020 en News release: “We have reached our goal to clear the backlog of (unemployment) claims.”
LaKeshia Myers dicho el Febrero 16, 2021 en News release: "Wisconsin is one of only nine states in the nation in which 17 year-olds are automatically treated as adults in the criminal justice system."
Melissa Agard dicho el Febrero 10, 2021 en Twitter: "Youth usage of marijuana has actually gone down in states that have fully legalized.”
Sarah Godlewski dicho el Febrero 6, 2021 en a tweet: “On average, 17% of a family’s income goes towards child care in Wisconsin.”
Mark Born dicho el Enero 12, 2021 en Twitter: "The committee that advises @GovEvers and his department tasked with leading during this pandemic is recommending allowing prisoners to receive the vaccine before 65 year old grandma?”
Tony Evers dicho el Enero 12, 2021 en Speech: "The Legislature spent the last decade passing laws deliberately making it even harder for people to access these critical supports when they need it most, exacerbating the problems with our already-outdated system.”
Tammy Baldwin dicho el Noviembre 19, 2020 en Twitter: “Americans are paying the highest price in the world for Remdesivir because the Trump administration is allowing Gilead Sciences to jack up the prices on this #COVID19 treatment.”
Instagram posts dicho el Noviembre 20, 2020 en an Instagram post: "Kyle Rittenhouse used his COVID-19 stimulus check to purchase the AR-15 he used in the fatal Kenosha shooting."
Scott Fitzgerald dicho el Noviembre 8, 2020 en a TV interview: The 2020 election is in “recount territory” and “I’ve seen elections change as a result of” recounts.
Robyn Vining dicho el Octubre 25, 2020 en a TV interview: “People are less likely to just vote for party now. … They’re looking at the personalities.”
Joe Biden dicho el Septiembre 21, 2020 en a speech: Says President Donald Trump started a trade war that “led to a surge in farm bankruptcies.”
Gwen Moore dicho el Agosto 26, 2020 en Twitter: In contrast to how a Black man who was shot by police was treated, Kenosha police officers "let an armed white supremacist walk right past them after shooting people."
Facebook posts dicho el Agosto 24, 2020 en a Facebook post: Says Jacob Blake, shot by police in Kenosha, had a warrant for sexual assault and prior convictions for gun use
Facebook posts dicho el Agosto 24, 2020 en Facebook post: “Police training in Wisconsin is 21 weeks. A cosmetology license takes 40 weeks.”
