In July 2021, as Missouri led the nation in COVID cases, Jason Smith told his constituents Biden wanted to knock down their doors to force vaccines on them. Weeks later he admitted he'd taken the vaccine himself and that it works.
Lindell's 2021 Cyber Symposium promised '100 percent, non-subjective evidence' that Trump won. It produced no evidence, a $5 million arbitration award against him that an appeals court later threw out, and the platform he's running for governor on today.
At the Hancock County Fair, Zach Lahn defended Iowa's privatized Medicaid system and defended an attack ad built from edited TV news clips. The state audit he's brushing past found privatization drove an 891% increase in illegal denials of care.
Facebook took down Roger Marshall's post for misstating CDC data on how deadly COVID-19 was. He also took hydroxychloroquine and urged Kansans over 65 to ask their doctors about it, against a federal warning.
In 2010, Tracey Mann said the president needed to 'come forth with his papers.' The Hutchinson News took back its endorsement three days after making it. His campaign called it a slip — but he had said it twice, a month apart.
Virginia's 5th District congressman told Newsmax the vaccine contained human fetal parts and that doctors should have used ivermectin. Neither thing is true. Meanwhile more than 32,000 people in his district are losing health coverage because of a bill he voted for.
Tuberville claims Fauci 'killed millions' and wants every one of the '20 to 30,000' Alabamians he says were lost to sue him. Alabama's entire COVID death toll is about 21,100 — and a Republican-led House investigation found no evidence linking Fauci to wrongdoing, the AP reports.
Steube sued to stop proxy voting and promised in writing never to use it. Nine months later he filed a false letter with the House clerk so he could go speak at a political conference in Orlando.
Salazar posed with oversized checks for a children's hospital, a university, an airport and a road project — all paid for by bills she voted no on. Caught on camera, she said she forgot. She is still counting that money as hers today.