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Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on November 20, 2019 in a radio interview.:
"We now have the first decline in overdose deaths due to drugs in 30 years - since 1990."  
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By Warren Fiske • November 26, 2019
Jason Miyares
Jason Miyares
stated on August 13, 2019 in a radio interview.:
"On average, 65% of gun deaths in America are from suicides."  
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By Warren Fiske • August 21, 2019
Philip Van Cleave
Philip Van Cleave
stated on August 8, 2019 in a radio interview.:
"Criminals don’t go through (gun) background checks. I think it’s like 3% go through a background check."  
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By Warren Fiske • August 13, 2019
Sheila Bynum-Coleman
Sheila Bynum-Coleman
stated on July 26, 2019 in 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."  
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By Warren Fiske • August 6, 2019
Creigh Deeds
Creigh Deeds
stated on June 11, 2019 in radio interview.:
Red-flag laws have been "shown to reduce the number of suicides by firearms."  
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By Warren Fiske • June 19, 2019
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on May 29, 2019 in a radio interview.:
"The e-cigarette vaping phenomenon has wiped out all the progress we’ve made on reducing youth smoking."
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • June 12, 2019
Levar Stoney
Levar Stoney
stated on May 14, 2019 in 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."
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By Warren Fiske • May 21, 2019
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on April 16, 2019 in a speech.:
"Disparities in infant mortality between white America and black America (are) greater today, in 2019,  than in the year 1850..."
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By Warren Fiske • April 23, 2019
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on February 26, 2019 in a speech.:
"Women earn on average 80-cents on the dollar compared to white men doing similar jobs."
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By Warren Fiske • March 13, 2019
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on January 9, 2019 in 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."
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • January 15, 2019
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on November 28, 2018 in 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."  
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • December 4, 2018
Corey Stewart
Corey Stewart
stated on July 21, 2018 in a debate.:
Tim Kaine: "opposes everything President Trump does."
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By Warren Fiske • September 26, 2018
Bryce Reeves
Bryce Reeves
stated on December 4, 2016 in 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."
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By Sean Gorman • December 19, 2016
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on October 4, 2016 in the 2016 Vice Presidential debate:
Says Tim Kaine "actually tried to raise taxes by about $4 billion." 
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • October 5, 2016
Jack Berry
Jack Berry
stated on September 15, 2016 in a debate.:
In Richmond, Va., there’s "more moving vans coming in than going out."
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By Sean Gorman • September 26, 2016
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
stated on August 29, 2016 in an interview.:
"Undocumented workers crossing the border right now is at a 12-year low."
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By Sean Gorman • September 6, 2016
Scott Rigell
Scott Rigell
stated on August 9, 2016 in a Facebook post:
"At $587 apiece, USA would need to bring home about 33.1 BILLION gold medals to pay off our national debt."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • August 19, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2016 in 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."
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By Sean Gorman • July 28, 2016
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on June 21, 2016 in a TV interview.:
Says Donald Trump has "bankrupt four separate businesses."
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By Linda Qiu, Sean Gorman • July 11, 2016
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on June 19, 2016 in 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." 
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • July 6, 2016
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