Fact Check Posts – Page 2

Kellyanne Conway
stated on November 20, 2019 a radio interview.

"We now have the first decline in overdose deaths due to drugs in 30 years - since 1990."

By Warren Fiske • November 26, 2019

Jason Miyares
stated on August 13, 2019 a radio interview.

"On average, 65% of gun deaths in America are from suicides."

By Warren Fiske • August 21, 2019

Philip Van Cleave
stated on August 8, 2019 a radio interview.

"Criminals don’t go through (gun) background checks. I think it’s like 3% go through a background check."

By Warren Fiske • August 13, 2019

Sheila Bynum-Coleman
stated on July 26, 2019 a website post.

"African Americans are three to four times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and nine times more likely to be imprisoned."

By Warren Fiske • August 6, 2019

Creigh Deeds
stated on June 11, 2019 radio interview.

Red-flag laws have been "shown to reduce the number of suicides by firearms."

By Warren Fiske • June 19, 2019

Tim Kaine
stated on May 29, 2019 a radio interview.

"The e-cigarette vaping phenomenon has wiped out all the progress we’ve made on reducing youth smoking."

By Warren Fiske • June 12, 2019

Levar Stoney
stated on May 14, 2019 a radio interview.

"Richmond was one of the only cities in the state that did not (increase) their real estate tax to those pre-recession rates."

By Warren Fiske • May 21, 2019

Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 16, 2019 a speech.

"Disparities in infant mortality between white America and black America (are) greater today, in 2019, than in the year 1850..."

By Warren Fiske • April 23, 2019

Bobby Scott
stated on February 26, 2019 a speech.

"Women earn on average 80-cents on the dollar compared to white men doing similar jobs."

By Warren Fiske • March 13, 2019

Tim Kaine
stated on January 9, 2019 a TV interview.

"We took a deal to the president just last February, less than a year ago -- $25 billion over 10 years in border security done the right way - and the president blew up the deal."

By Warren Fiske • January 15, 2019

Terry McAuliffe
stated on November 28, 2018 a radio interview.

During his governorship: "Every single city and county in Virginia, their unemployment dropped, and in most of the rural communities, it dropped more than 50 percent."

By Warren Fiske • December 4, 2018

Corey Stewart
stated on July 21, 2018 a debate.

Tim Kaine: "opposes everything President Trump does."

By Warren Fiske • September 26, 2018

Bryce Reeves
stated on December 4, 2016 a radio interview.

"If you’re a single mom, and you’ve two kids in the city of Richmond, you can almost make $50,000 a year on the public dole."

By Sean Gorman • December 19, 2016

Mike Pence
stated on October 4, 2016 the 2016 Vice Presidential debate

Says Tim Kaine "actually tried to raise taxes by about $4 billion."

By Warren Fiske • October 5, 2016

Jack Berry
stated on September 15, 2016 a debate.

In Richmond, Va., there’s "more moving vans coming in than going out."

By Sean Gorman • September 26, 2016

Gary Johnson
stated on August 29, 2016 an interview.

"Undocumented workers crossing the border right now is at a 12-year low."

By Sean Gorman • September 6, 2016

Scott Rigell
stated on August 9, 2016 a Facebook post

"At $587 apiece, USA would need to bring home about 33.1 BILLION gold medals to pay off our national debt."

By Sean Gorman • August 19, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2016 a speech.

In first week as governor, Tim Kaine "proposed a nearly $4 billion tax increase, $4 billion, including a tax increase on people earning as little as $17,000 a year."

By Sean Gorman • July 28, 2016

Mark Warner
stated on June 21, 2016 a TV interview.

Says Donald Trump has "bankrupt four separate businesses."

By Linda Qiu, Sean Gorman • July 11, 2016

Mark Warner
stated on June 19, 2016 a radio interview.

"The average time someone used to hold a share of stock back in the ’60s was eight years. Now, the average time is four months."

By Warren Fiske • July 6, 2016

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