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Did Eric Hovde say most senior citizens shouldn’t vote? [1]

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Date: 2024-06-04 17:06:57+00:00

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No.

A TV ad misstated what Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde said about older voters.

Hovde is running in the November 2024 election against U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis.

In an April interview, Hovde described what he claimed were voting irregularities involving Wisconsin nursing home residents in the 2020 presidential election. A partisan investigation found no evidence of malicious intent behind a few cases of mentally incompetent people voting.

Hovde said: “If you’re in a nursing home, you only have five, six months’ life expectancy. Almost nobody in a nursing home is in a point to vote.”

In fact, many people in nursing homes can and do vote, oftentimes with assistance.

But in a WinSenate ad posted May 25, the narrator claimed that Hovde said “most seniors shouldn’t vote.” That’s not what he said.

WinSenate, a liberal super PAC, has spent $3.76 million attacking Hovde, according to Open Secrets.



This fact brief is responsive to conversations such as this one.

Sources

YouTube: Anti-Hovde ad

IHeart: Pro-Terrorism Mob at Major American University – Guy Benson Show

Open Secrets: WinSenate PAC Recipients, 2024

Washington Post: Democratic Senate group reserves $239 million in ads to defend seats in seven states

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