GOP Senate hopeful Eric Hovde has run afoul of the nitpickers at PolitiFact for correctly stating Democratic incumbent Tammy Baldwin’s record on the national debt. The Thursday fact-check from Hope Karnopp defended Baldwin by claiming his statistics are unfair because the economy is larger than it has been historically and Baldwin is “just one vote in Congress.”
Hovde’s exact attack line, which was given a “half-true” rating, is “Since the end of the 2020 fiscal year, President Biden and Senator Baldwin have added over $7.3 trillion of debt, more than the first 228 years of our nation’s history combined.”
You might think numbers are numbers and a simple math question could provide clarity to the question, but Karnopp warns, “The national debt is a complicated subject, so we called in two economics experts to explain it as Hovde’s campaign…
