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Tom Cotton, U.S. senator

“[A]t a time when we had 2 million illegal immigrants cross our border under Joe Biden’s tenure in office. That’s like adding the entire population of Nebraska to this country.”

FactCheck.org rated this: False

FactCheck.org says: The number of apprehensions at the southern border does not add to the U.S. population on a one-to-one basis. There are several reasons, including that most of those apprehended were immediately turned around.

Stacey Abrams, Democrat running for Georgia governor

“In Texas, because of the laws they passed, a 95-year-old World War II veteran is being denied the right to vote by mail because he can't produce a registration number he got back in the 1950s.”

PolitiFact rated this: Half True

PolitiFact says: The Harris County voter received two rejection letters when he applied for mail ballots. But he has since updated his registration and he is on track to receive a mail ballot for the March 1 primary in Texas.

Rick Scott, U.S. Senator

“(I) am proud that Senator Rubio and I were able to help secure an unprecedented $1 billion for Everglades restoration, the largest single amount ever allocated by the federal government.”

PolitiFact rated this: Voted against bill

PolitiFact says: Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., voted against the bipartisan infrastructure bill, saying it cost too much. Other lawmakers have also promoted the fruits of legislation they criticized and voted against.

Dr. Robert Malone, -

“On average, between 1 in 2,000 and 1 in 3,000 children that receive these vaccines will be hospitalized in the short term with vaccine-caused damage.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Unsupported

FactCheck.org says: A CDC study found that 14 of 42,504 children enrolled in v-safe required hospital care following vaccination. But "whether hospitalization was the result of vaccination could not be determined," the paper said.

Susan Collins, U.S. Senator

“President Biden “helped politicize the entire nomination process” by promising as a candidate in 2020 to appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court. Ronald Reagan's promise to appoint a woman “isn't exactly the same.”

FactCheck.org rated this: We Review The Facts

FactCheck.org says: Ronald Reagan pledged at a 1980 campaign event that a woman would fill "one of the first" of his Supreme Court vacancies, saying it’s “time for a woman to sit among our highest jurists.”