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PolitiFact Cries FOUL at 'Misleading' GOP Ads on Transgender Topics
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PolitiFact Cries FOUL at 'Misleading' GOP Ads on Transgender Topics Screenshot from PolitiFact On Friday, PolitiFact posted a story headlined “Why Republicans are focusing on transgender issues in competitive 2026 campaigns.” The headline could have been “Republicans are using misleading anti-transgender rhetoric.” That was their argument. Caleb McCullough began: A recent Kansas ad targeting Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Adam Hamilton, a United Methodist pastor, shows him standing in front of footage of dancing drag queens and says he “preaches the gospel of woke.” The ad, one of many using anti-transgender rhetoric to attack Democrats in competitive midterm elections, misleadingly stitches together clips to make the case that Hamilton is out of touch with voters on social issues. When the ad quotes Hamilton saying, “How we define gender… we have a whole array of sexualities,” it is combining separate sentences he said in an interview to create a quote he never said. PolitiFact link
First report: Why Republicans are focusing on transgender issues in competitive 2026 campaigns — pbs.org, 15d
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