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Latest Fact-Checks In California

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Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on June 10, 2025 in posts on X:
California has lower homicide rates than Alabama, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2025
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on June 12, 2023 in a TV interview:
"Per capita, more Floridians move to California than Californians moving to Florida.”
Mostly True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 19, 2023
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on January 23, 2023 in a tweet:
“The USA has a gun homicide rate 26 times higher than our peers.”
Mostly True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 25, 2023
Karen Bass
Karen Bass
stated on December 18, 2022 in in an interview:
“Literally five (homeless) people a day die on our streets” in the city of Los Angeles.
Mostly True
By Andy Nguyen • December 20, 2022
Ro Khanna
Ro Khanna
stated on December 12, 2022 in an interview:
The U.S. "trade deficit with China has gone from about $80 billion a year in the 1990s to $400 billion a year.”
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • December 19, 2022
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on June 1, 2021 in an interview on MSNBC:
"Sadly during the course of the pandemic one-third of our small businesses have closed."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • June 7, 2021
Alex Padilla
Alex Padilla
stated on March 22, 2021 in remarks in a Senate hearing:
“In a majority of states, new voters are able to obtain a rifle quicker than they’re able to cast their first ballot.”
Mostly True
By Gabrielle Settles, Louis Jacobson • March 29, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 22, 2020 in a Facebook post:
During the 1918 flu pandemic, San Francisco residents formed the “Anti-Mask League.” San Francisco “was ultimately one of the cities that suffered the most with a high death rate.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 24, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 8, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says a California surfer was “alone, in the ocean,” when he was arrested for violating the state’s stay-at-home order.
Mostly True
By Ciara O'Rourke • April 9, 2020
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on November 17, 2019 in an interview on "Face the Nation":
President Trump "hasn’t built any new (border) wall" during his time in office.
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • November 23, 2019
Xavier Becerra
Xavier Becerra
stated on August 26, 2019 in a news conference:
 "Every time we go to court," against the Trump administration, "for the most part, we win." 
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • September 25, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on June 27, 2019 in her exchange on busing during the Democratic presidential debate:
Says "I was part of the second class to integrate Berkeley, California, public schools." 
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols, Stefanie Pousoulides • July 2, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on June 1, 2019 in a speech at the California Democratic Party Convention:
President Trump’s tariffs are "taking $1.4 billion out of working people’s pockets every month."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • June 10, 2019
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 1, 2019 in news articles and blogs:
Americans "would run out of avocados in three weeks" if imports from Mexico were stopped due to a border closure. 
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • April 3, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on March 26, 2019 in a tweet:
"In 30 states, average teacher pay is less than the living wage for a family of four."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • April 1, 2019
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on March 6, 2019 in a news release:
"College debt has increased 170 percent since 2006 and now exceeds $1.5 trillion dollars, which is second only to mortgage debt and surpasses even credit card debt."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • March 21, 2019
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on December 11, 2018 in an NPR interview:
California’s budget surplus is about "$30 billion"
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • December 18, 2018
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on November 29, 2018 in a press conference at the border:
There was "an estimated $5.3 million of economic loss just for a few hours of shutting down the border. You’re talking about millions and millions of dollars — billions of dollars — of economic consequence, if we continue with this rhetoric around shutting down the border without considering what that means."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • December 3, 2018
House Majority PAC
House Majority PAC
stated on October 9, 2018 in a TV ad:
Says U.S. Rep. Mimi Walters "votes with Donald Trump 99 percent of the time."
Mostly True
By Samantha Putterman • October 16, 2018
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on October 8, 2018 in a gubernatorial debate:
"Only Duterte’s Philippines and Trump’s United States of America have money bail."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 9, 2018
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