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Latest Fact-Checks In California

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 2, 2018 in a tweet:
Sen. Kamala Harris is "supporting the animals of MS-13."
Pants on Fire!
By Chris Nichols • July 3, 2018
Ted Lieu
Ted Lieu
stated on June 16, 2018 in a tweet:
"Every day over 450,000 Americans sit in jail not because they've been convicted of anything, but because they are too poor to pay bail & don't have high powered attorneys."
Half-True
By Lucia Geng • June 29, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on June 23, 2018 in a campaign speech:
"We’ve already started (the border wall). We started it in San Diego."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • June 26, 2018
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on May 21, 2018:
Says the California state auditor "found (John) Chiang lost track of $31 billion dollars," as state controller.
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • June 1, 2018
John Cox
John Cox
stated on April 23, 2018 in a campaign TV ad:
GOP candidate for California governor Travis Allen "on the floor vote … refused to join Republicans opposing driver licenses for illegal aliens."  
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • May 29, 2018
John Cox
John Cox
stated on April 23, 2018 in a campaign ad:
Republican candidate for California governor Travis Allen "gave campaign donations to Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom and Barbara Boxer."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • May 25, 2018
John Chiang
John Chiang
stated on May 12, 2018 in a campaign ad:
Antonio Villaraigosa's "recklessness (as mayor of Los Angeles)  ... left no funding to test 7,000 rape kits, putting public safety at risk."
False
By Chris Nichols • May 16, 2018
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on May 8, 2018 in a campaign debate:
"In San Francisco, we were successful in reducing our street population 40 percent. We got 12,000 people off the street."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • May 10, 2018
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on April 23, 2018 in in a campaign ad:
Gavin Newsom was "the first to take on the National Rifle Association and win."
False
By Chris Nichols • April 27, 2018
John Chiang
John Chiang
stated on March 29, 2018 in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions:
"A majority of Americans now live in states where they have decided to legalize cannabis," including recreational and medical marijuana.
True
By Chris Nichols • April 20, 2018
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown
stated on April 11, 2018 in a letter to the Trump administration:
"Here are the facts: there is no massive wave of migrants pouring into California. Overall immigrant apprehensions on the border last year were as low as they’ve been in nearly 50 years (and 85 percent of the apprehensions occurred outside of California)."
True
By Chris Nichols • April 13, 2018
Scott Jones
Scott Jones
stated on April 2, 2018 in a news conference:
There are "paid protesters" involved in the Stephon Clark demonstrations.
False
By Chris Nichols • April 10, 2018
John Garamendi
John Garamendi
stated on April 2, 2018 in a CNN interview:
"The Coast Guard confiscated 200 tons of contraband, heroin, and so forth. At the border they collected 20 tons."
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • April 9, 2018
Travis Allen
Travis Allen
stated on March 8, 2018:
"Homelessness has skyrocketed across California. We have the nation’s highest homelessness rate and the nation’s highest homeless population."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • March 27, 2018
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on March 8, 2018:
"California is 49th out of 50 in the United States in per capita housing units. Only Utah can lay claim to being lowest in per capita production."
True
By Chris Nichols • March 21, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 13, 2018 in California just sued to stop the wall:
"The state of California is begging us to build walls in certain areas. They don’t tell you that."
Pants on Fire!
By Chris Nichols • March 13, 2018
Antonio Villaraigosa
Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on March 5, 2018 in a news release:
California’s single-payer healthcare proposal would "force seniors off of Medicare."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • March 8, 2018
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on March 7, 2018 in a speech in Sacramento:
"California won’t let law enforcement officers like you and your people transfer prisoners to ICE custody or even to communicate with ICE that you’re about to release them from your custody — people that ICE is looking for."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • March 7, 2018
Jackie Speier
Jackie Speier
stated on February 10, 2018 in a tweet:
"3 American women are murdered every day by their husband or boyfriend."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • February 19, 2018
Travis Allen
Travis Allen
stated on February 1, 2018 in an interview on Capital Public Radio:
"Californians are overwhelmingly against this concept of the illegal sanctuary state."
False
By Chris Nichols • February 7, 2018
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