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Beto O'Rourke
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..."
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • April 23, 2019
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on April 9, 2019 a TV interview.:
Other than University of Virginia’s 2019 basketball team, "We’ve not had a Virginia team even in the Final Four in over a decade. I think George Mason was the last one…"  
False
By Warren Fiske • April 16, 2019
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on April 1, 2019:
On a bill that would have eased third-trimester abortion resrictions  
Full Flop
By Warren Fiske • April 9, 2019
Kaye Kory
Kaye Kory
stated on April 15, 2019 radio interview.:
"Women in Virginia have been incarcerated at an increasingly high rate. It’s around (a) 300 percent increase in the past four or five years."  
False
By Warren Fiske • April 2, 2019
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on January 24, 2019 a speech.:
During his governorship, Virginia made "the largest investment ever in K-12 education."  
Mostly False
By Warren Fiske • March 26, 2019
Levar Stoney
Levar Stoney
stated on March 6, 2019:
On tax increases.
Half Flip
By Warren Fiske • March 19, 2019
Bobby Scott
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."
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • March 13, 2019
Chris Jones
Chris Jones
stated on February 23, 2019 a floor speech.:
Virginia House "Republicans have had more African-Americans on key committees than when the Democrats were in control."  
True
By Warren Fiske • March 5, 2019
Morgan Griffith
Morgan Griffith
stated on February 11, 2019 a newsletter.:
"Our country has succeeded in reducing greenhouse emissions in previous years."  
Half-True
By Warren Fiske • February 26, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 11, 2019 a rally.:
Says Gov. Ralph Northam "stated that he would even allow a newborn baby to come out into the world... then talk to the mother and talk to the father and then execute the baby."  
False
By Warren Fiske • February 20, 2019
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on February 7, 2019 a speech.:
"Today’s minimum wage worker making $7.25 an hour has less buying power than a minimum wage worker in the 1960s."
True
By Warren Fiske • February 13, 2019
Kathy Tran
Kathy Tran
stated on January 29, 2019:
"Right now, women are able to access an abortion in the later stages of their pregnancy under certain conditions with approval of their medical doctors. I’ve done nothing to change that."
False
By Warren Fiske • February 6, 2019
Eileen Filler-Corn
Eileen Filler-Corn
stated on January 15, 2019 a floor speech.:
"There is no tax increase in the governor’s budget plan."  
Mostly False
By Warren Fiske • January 29, 2019
Ralph Northam
Ralph Northam
stated on January 9, 2019 a speech.:
On extreme-risk guns laws, "This idea has passed Republican legislatures in other states and has been signed by Republican governors."  
True
By Warren Fiske • January 23, 2019
Tim Kaine
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."
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • January 15, 2019
Jerry Falwell Jr.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
stated on January 1, 2019 a newspaper interview.:
"This midterm (election), the president did better than the average president does in his first midterms."  
False
By Warren Fiske • January 8, 2019
Mark Herring
Mark Herring
stated on December 7, 2018:
On resigning as attorney general if he decides to run for governor. 
No Flip
By Warren Fiske • December 18, 2018
Terry McAuliffe
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."  
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • December 4, 2018
Clean Virginia
Clean Virginia
stated on November 16, 2018 website post.:
"Virginians pay the 11th-highest power bills in the nation."
Half-True
By Warren Fiske • November 27, 2018
Rob Wittman
Rob Wittman
stated on November 2, 2018 a radio interview.:
Says "85 percent (of immigrants) don’t show up for a scheduled court hearing or call to schedule a court hearing."  
False
By Warren Fiske • November 13, 2018
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