Latest Fact-Checks By Warren Fiske

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Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in Richmond, 1-25-2022

Supreme Court ruling is at odds with Earle-Sears’ claim about Brown v. Board of Education

February 22, 2023

Brown v. Board of Education “was never about sending Black children to white schools. It was about parents being able to decide where to send…

More Virginia children die from guns than fentanyl

February 7, 2023

“You know how many children are dying across Virginia because of fentanyl poisoning? A heck of a lot more than are dying at the hands…

Lucas falsely inflates Youngkin’s special election setback

January 31, 2023

Glenn Youngkin is “the first sitting Governor in the modern era to have their party have less legislative seats than when they were elected.”

Youngkin is near the mark on tax growth claim

January 25, 2023

Virginia tax receipts “in just the last four years alone have grown 50%.”

Virginia state senate candidate makes misleading claim about an abortion ban

January 5, 2023

“Kevin Adams wants to ban abortion.”

Slavery in Virginia was not ‘erased’ from Youngkin’s proposed history standards

December 14, 2022

“The Virginia GOP education agenda (would) erase slavery from VA history.”

Gun homicides 22 times more frequent in U.S. than European Union

December 2, 2022

“When you compare us to the European Union, we're something like 23 times more likely” to have homicides and handgun killings.

Youngkin overstates his 2021 vote from Virginia cities

November 11, 2022

In his election as governor, “We won cities that no Republican had ever won.”

Vega downplays her comments disassociating rape and pregnancy

November 4, 2022

They were “never my comments” that a woman can’t get pregnant from rape.

Richmond mayor contradicts his own statements about picking police chiefs

November 2, 2022

“I don’t get involved in the hiring and firing of police chiefs.”

Spanberger voted to send stimulus checks to inmates. So did Republicans

October 18, 2022

Abigail Spanberger supported “nearly $1 billion in stimulus checks for prisoners, including domestic terrorists.”

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