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Because the Democratic Nationwide Conference kicks off in Chicago this week, Wisconsin Watch shall be looking out for startling and doubtful claims to examine, similar to we did for the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee final month.
Dozens of prime time speeches by high Democratic Occasion officers will lead as much as the nomination acceptance speech by Vice President Kamala Harris. The DNC hadn’t introduced a full checklist as of Monday morning, however Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson has hinted that he may get a talking slot. U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin spoke on the 2020 conference when it was held in a restricted capability in Milwaukee as a result of COVID and is now working for re-election, so we’ll be watching to see if she has a primetime talking slot.
From claims about former President Donald Trump and Baldwin’s challenger, U.S. Senate Republican nominee Eric Hovde, to a wide range of points, our truth briefs have already debunked a few of the claims you may hear repeated throughout the DNC, and affirmed others.
On Donald Trump
Many claims made on the DNC are prone to be assaults on Trump, together with some we’ve fact-checked.
No, Trump didn’t decrease taxes on billionaires and lift them on everybody else.
That declare was made by Wisconsin Democratic Occasion Chair Ben Wikler.
The 2017 tax reduce legislation signed by Trump reduce revenue tax charges primarily throughout the board. For instance, from 2017 to 2018, the common charge dropped from 4% to three.4% for the underside half of revenue earners and from 26.8% to 25.4% for the highest 1%, in accordance with the Tax Basis.
No, Trump doesn’t wish to criminalize girls who get an abortion.
Trump has mentioned within the present marketing campaign that states ought to determine whether or not, in sure situations, to prosecute girls who get an abortion.
The criminalization declare was made in a TV advert that includes a Wisconsin girl by American Bridge twenty first Century, a Democratic tremendous PAC, and alluded to a remark Trump made in 2016.
Sure, Trump vowed to take away peaceable protesters from the U.S.
Vice President Kamala Harris made that declare whereas campaigning in Eau Claire.
Certainly one of Trump’s statements, in Could: “One factor I do is, any pupil that protests, I throw them in a foreign country.”
Trump agreed after his 2016 election to pay $25 million to settle three lawsuits alleging fraud by his for-profit Trump College. He didn’t admit to wrongdoing.
Harris alluded to the settlement whereas campaigning in West Allis.
On Eric Hovde
Hovde, who ran for the U.S. Senate in 2012 and is difficult U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., in November, has been attacked by Baldwin and her allies for issues he has mentioned. However in some instances the claims took what he mentioned out of context.
No, Hovde didn’t say that farmers don’t work arduous.
A Baldwin TV advert made that assault on Hovde, mischaracterizing what Hovde mentioned in a 2012 interview when he described historic adjustments in U.S. occupations.
“We don’t have interaction in arduous labor like we did, we don’t have as many accidents on the job, most of us now are concerned in some kind of white-collar occupation, and even professions which are concerned with handbook labor,” Hovde mentioned. “It’s a lot safer, way more protecting. Consider farming. Take a look at the outdated bodily toil that it might take in your physique, now you’re largely driving round on a tractor.”
No, Hovde didn’t say most senior residents shouldn’t vote.
The declare in opposition to Hovde was made in a TV advert by WinSenate, a liberal tremendous PAC.
Hovde described in an interview what he claimed have been voting irregularities involving Wisconsin nursing house residents within the 2020 presidential election. A partisan investigation discovered no proof of malicious intent behind a couple of instances of mentally incompetent individuals voting.
Hovde mentioned: “If you happen to’re in a nursing house, you solely have 5, six months’ life expectancy. Virtually no person in a nursing house is in some extent to vote.”
Throughout his 2012 run, Hovde lamented the variety of kids “born out of wedlock,” saying it’s “a direct path to a lifetime of poverty. There’s been quite a few research that present that it results in increased drug charges.”
No, Hovde will not be “100% anti-choice” on abortion.
Hovde mentioned in 2012 he was completely against abortion rights, however has modified his place, contradicting a declare that Baldwin made in an interview.
Hovde mentioned in February he helps exceptions for rape, incest and the lifetime of the mom. In April, he mentioned that “girls, early on in a being pregnant, ought to have a proper to select.” And he mentioned that Wisconsin voters ought to determine when in a being pregnant abortion needs to be unlawful.
Different points
Sure, about 90% of Individuals assist entry to contraception.
As Baldwin claimed, some 91% of registered voters mentioned in a nationwide ballot launched in June that contraception needs to be authorized (73% mentioned they really feel strongly, 18% mentioned considerably strongly).
Democrats in June superior a invoice to safeguard entry to contraceptives, however it fell quick within the Senate.
13 of the 21 African American girls who’ve served on the U.S. Courts of Appeals have been nominated by Biden. He additionally nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to function the primary Black girl on the U.S. Supreme Courtroom.
Sure, Medicaid enlargement in states improved well being outcomes.
Research have proven that Medicaid enlargement, funded and made optionally available to states via the Inexpensive Care Act, results in improved well being outcomes. For instance, one examine discovered a major discount in mortality in states that expanded Medicaid eligibility.
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