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The Senate Leadership Fund ad cites Brown’s votes on March 6, 2021, and March 22, 2024, as evidence that Brown, who generally supports LGBTQ+ rights, voted to allow transgender athletes in girls’ sports. Brown spokesperson Matt Keyes described both votes as "poison pill" amendments — designed to render legislation ineffective — to broader funding bills.
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PolitiFact has scrutinized more than a dozen recent statements from Vance and Walz since each man became his party’s VP nominee. Here’s how accurate their talking points have proven so far.
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JD Vance, former President Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, was one of the first conservative politicians to elevate the falsehoods that Haitian migrants have eaten pets.
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U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno joined fellow Ohioan, Republican Sen. J.D. Vance, in claiming Haitian migrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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A real increase in immigration and a false claim about migrants eating pets have catapulted Springfield, Ohio, to the national spotlight. PolitiFact traveled to Springfield to follow the misinformation’s aftermath.
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Politifact: Bernie Moreno misleads on Sherrod Brown votes for aid for migrants with non-legal statusA Bernie Moreno campaign ad said U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown voted to “give illegals taxpayer-funded stimulus checks, health care, even Social Security." Politifact found that claim to be false.