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VIDEO: Our early fact-checking on claims in California governor’s debate

By Chris Nichols
May 9, 2018

PolitiFact California monitored Tuesday’s gubernatorial debate, which included claims on everything from California’s highest-in-the-nation poverty rate to immigration to infideltiy. 

Below is a video with some early ideas about how the candidates fared with the facts:

Send us your idea for a fact check!

Did you hear something at the debate that you think should be fact-checked? Email us at politifactca@capradio.org, or contact us on Twitter or Facebook.

What’s ahead

For more about the debate and early impressions of how the candidates fared with the facts, listen to PolitiFact California reporter Chris Nichols Wednesday on Capital Public Radio’s Insight program at 9 a.m.

Also on Wednesday, we’ll consider placing a formal Truth-O-Meter rating on claims from the debate and publish those fact checks online.

For all of our fact checks in the 2018 California governor’s race, visit our Tracking The Truth page.

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