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stated on June 9, 2026 in a primary night speech

Sen. Susan Collins votes “with Donald Trump 95% of the time.”

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stated on June 7, 2026 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"

The ongoing ballot counting in California means “they’re cheating on the election."

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stated on June 4, 2026 in X posts

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt “got 0 out of 24,000 votes in a late night (Los Angeles) ballot drop.”

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stated on June 5, 2026 in social media posts

This image shows a person stuffing ballots into a California ballot box.

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stated on June 7, 2026 in X posts

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman had conceded the race as of June 7.

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stated on May 31, 2026 in social media posts

A video shows workers removing President Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center.

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stated on June 27, 2026 in a campaign speech

President Donald Trump and U.S. Rep. Mike Collins “doubled health insurance premiums for more than a million Georgians and threw 300,000 Georgians off their insurance altogether.”

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stated on July 8, 2026 in remarks at a press conference

The AI industry needs "more energy than the entire country produces right now ... In fact some people say almost double."

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stated on July 8, 2026 in remarks to reporters

President Joe Biden "raised the cost of housing by 40 and 50% — the cost of (a) rental — because they were housing illegal aliens in all of those empty units."

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stated on July 10, 2026 in a debate

Jay Collins sponsored a bill to give AI hyperscale data centers “permanent tax incentives.”

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stated on July 1, 2026 in remarks to reporters

"You know why I'm profiting? Because the stock market's going up. ... I'm profiting because I have a lot of money and a lot of cash."

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stated on June 14, 2026 in an X post

Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers “took a $14 million payout as a pharma lobbyist.”

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