Keep digging, Wendy.
Wendy Davis is taking her campaign insisting her life story is true to Spanish-language media. Davis appeared on Univisión’s Sunday morning news show Al Punto to discredit the reports claiming she lied about her life story, calling them “really absurd” and saying she felt “insulted” on behalf of other single mothers.
Davis sat down with host Jorge Ramos to discuss the Dallas Morning News story unraveling some mistruths about her life story. She first addressed the claim that she was a “single teen mother”–a claim since debunked, since Davis divorced at age 21. She suggested that she felt like a single mother “the moment when [I] became the sole caregiver,” and that is when “the marriage is over,” so “in reality” she was single at 19 despite not being divorced. She added that she was the “sole caregiver” for her daughter for four and a half years and lived in poverty for many of those.