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12. The @USChamber, which is now financing these ads, SUPPORTED THE THIRD ROUND OF COVID RELIEF CHECKS. https://t.co/bUwvzeHqjg — PolitiTweet.org

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11. Who is paying for these ads? Many of the misleading ads are financed by the @Senate_Fund, McConnell's Super PAC. @Senate_Fund recently received a $3 million donation from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which represents virtually every major corporation in the United States. — PolitiTweet.org

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10. There are similar attack ads currently being run against Democratic Senate candidates in Ohio. And the @NRSC has made the same claim against Democratic Senate candidates in New Hampshire, Arizona, and Nevada. https://t.co/bUwvzeHqjg — PolitiTweet.org

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9. @marcorubio voted TWICE to provide COVID relief to prisoners and is now running this classy ad attacking his opponent, @valdemings https://t.co/bUwvzeHqjg https://t.co/2OclaFZ3hq — PolitiTweet.org

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8. "This amendment will cause harm to the families of incarcerated individuals, joint filers who would receive only half of the payment that the families are owed while the spouse is incarcerated… Children should not be forced to go hungry because a parent is incarcerated." — PolitiTweet.org

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7. Only after Biden took office and proposed a third round of COVID relief did Republicans propose excluding prisoners from receiving checks. And, this time, Democrats opposed it. Because it needlessly punished vulnerable families and children. https://t.co/bUwvzeHqjg — PolitiTweet.org

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6. Two months AFTER that court ruling, Republicans approved another round of COVID relief ($600). And, even after the federal court ruling, Republicans did not include any language excluding prisoners. https://t.co/bUwvzeHqjg — PolitiTweet.org

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5. A month after it passed, the Trump administration issued a rule excluding prisoners. But that guidance was challenged in federal court and a federal judge ruled in October 2020 that the Trump administration could not exclude prisoners. https://t.co/bUwvzeHqjg — PolitiTweet.org

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4. The first round, the CARES Act, passed the Senate on a 96-0 vote. It provided stimulus checks of $1200. It was signed into law by President Trump. There was no language in the legislation that excluded prisoners from receiving the checks. https://t.co/bUwvzeHqjg — PolitiTweet.org

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3. The ad claims that Warnock voted "to send almost a billion in COVID relief checks to hundreds of thousands of convicted criminals in prison." But lets back up. Since the start of the pandemic, there have been three rounds of direct COVID relief. https://t.co/bUwvzeHqjg — PolitiTweet.org

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2. The Senate Leadership Fund (SFL), the Super PAC controlled by Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), is running ads claiming that Warnock "chose felons over Georgia families." If that's true, so did every incumbent Republican Senator and President Trump https://t.co/bUwvzepOUG — PolitiTweet.org

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1. The GOP have identified CRIME as the key to success in the Congressional midterms But Dems haven't really done anything to reform the criminal justice system or reduce police power So the GOP is pouring money into a brazenly misleading attack 🧵 https://t.co/bUwvzeHqjg — PolitiTweet.org

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The National Republican Senatorial Committee says it DOESN’T MATTER whether Walker paid for a woman to have an abortion. The groups refers to the issue as “nonsense about what has or hasn’t happened in Herschel Walker’s past.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Walker’s nuclear reaction shows that he understands the story represents an extisential threat to his campaign. It can’t just be casually dismissed. — PolitiTweet.org

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Filing a lawsuit is also risky because it allows other news outlets — including Georgia TV and newspapers — to cover the story without independently confirming it. They can cover the fact that Walker filed suit. — PolitiTweet.org

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Walker claims this story is a defamatory lie and he will file suit tomorrow. I’ll be interested to see if he does. The woman produced a lot of documentary evidence to support her claim. — PolitiTweet.org

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I wonder if this is now the most popular Tweet about property insurance ever — PolitiTweet.org

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The fact that they enlisted a former counter intelligence agent to recruit migrants tells you a lot about the nature of DeSantis' Martha's Vineyard stunt — PolitiTweet.org

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13. For more accountability journalism that follows the money, subscribe to Popular Informatio. It's free to sign up. https://t.co/TfpCItdVSo — PolitiTweet.org

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12. Overall, DeSantis has received at least $700,000 from the insurance industry this cycle. https://t.co/el450oM7QI — PolitiTweet.org

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11. That opposition was reportedly led by @StateFarm. On August 1, 2022, DeSantis collected "nearly 200 separate checks from insurance agents or their firms," totaling about $150,000. The effort, according to Politico, was "coordinated by State Farm." https://t.co/el450oM7QI — PolitiTweet.org

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10. Why didn't DeSantis do more to fix the property insurance market in Florida? Follow the State Farm money. Strengthening the public reinsurance fund was opposed by "large insurance companies that can buy reinsurance from their own subsidiaries." https://t.co/el450oM7QI — PolitiTweet.org

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9. And that's exactly what happened. Despite the reinsurance fund, many insurers continued to apply for double-digit rate increases. https://t.co/el450oM7QI https://t.co/LoAVQPZABT — PolitiTweet.org

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8. But the law provided "no guarantees" that the savings created by the taxpayer-financed reinsurance program would be passed to consumers. Advocates warned it was "an industry bail-out that won’t result in savings to consumers." https://t.co/el450oM7QI — PolitiTweet.org

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7. In May, DeSantis called a special session, purportedly to address the property insurance crisis. The session resulted in lowering the threshold for the industry to access taxpayer-financed reinsurance by $2 billion. This didn't meaningfully address the problem. — PolitiTweet.org

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6. But Citizens has limited resources. It currently has $13.5 billion available to pay out claims. If Citizens runs out of money, Florida law "allows [Citizens] to assess non-customers to pay out claims." A "hurricane tax." https://t.co/el450oM7QI — PolitiTweet.org

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5. The collapsing market has left many Floridians reliant on the Citizens Property Insurance Corp., a state-run agency that is supposed to be the "insurer of last resort." It now provides property insurance for more than 1 million Floridians. https://t.co/el450oM7QI — PolitiTweet.org

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4. In the last five years, six Florida insurance companies have gone out of business "without responding to a hurricane, and four more are in the process of liquidation." https://t.co/el450oM7QI — PolitiTweet.org

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3. Florida property faces catastrophic risks from weather events that worsen each year due to climate change. Floridians pay an average of "$4,231 a year per [property insurance] policy, compared to a US average of $1,544." https://t.co/el450oM7QI — PolitiTweet.org

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@RonDeSantisFL 2. Florida's property insurance system was in crisis even though the state had not been struck by a major hurricane since 2018. Then Hurricane Ian slammed into Florida's west coast, killing at least 74 people and inflicting tens of billions of dollars in property damage. — PolitiTweet.org