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PolitiFact Rates True Claim About Brown False For Second Day In a Row

PolitiFact is at it again. For the second day in a row, the website has condemned Senate Republicans’ Senate Leadership Fund for an attack ad against Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown. On Thursday, they twisted themselves into a rhetorical pretzel as they rated the PAC “false” for claiming Brown supports men being able to compete in women’s sports, and on Friday they did it again, claiming it is “mostly false” to say Brown supports puberty blockers and sex changes for children.

Once again, Seth Richardson was assigned the task of trying to debunk the ad. He writes, “The Senate Leadership Fund supplied a closed-caption transcript of the news segment, in which a reporter asked Brown about legislation from Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, that aimed to ban gender-affirming care for minors.”

After explaining that the bill would have made it a felony to “provide…

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