Latest Fact-Checks By Warren Fiske

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Morgan Griffith
stated on February 11, 2019 in a newsletter.:

"Our country has succeeded in reducing greenhouse emissions in previous years."

Half-True

By Warren Fiske • February 26, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on February 11, 2019 in 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
stated on February 7, 2019 in 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
stated on January 29, 2019 in :

"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
stated on January 15, 2019 in a floor speech.:

"There is no tax increase in the governor’s budget plan."

Mostly False

By Warren Fiske • January 29, 2019

Ralph Northam
stated on January 9, 2019 in 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
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

Jerry Falwell Jr.
stated on January 1, 2019 in 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
stated on December 7, 2018 in :

On resigning as attorney general if he decides to run for governor.

No Flip

By Warren Fiske • December 18, 2018

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

Clean Virginia
stated on November 16, 2018 in website post.:

"Virginians pay the 11th-highest power bills in the nation."

Half-True

By Warren Fiske • November 27, 2018

Rob Wittman
stated on November 2, 2018 in 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

Dave Brat
stated on October 21, 2018 in a radio interview.:

On Abigail Spanberger: "She got $2.2 million from ActBlue...That is the George Soros resistance group."

Pants on Fire!

By Warren Fiske • November 2, 2018

Dave Brat
stated on October 11, 2018 in Facebook post.:

Abigail Spanberger "wants a tax increase of $32 trillion - that’s with a `T,’ to pay for her socialist health care plan."

False

By Warren Fiske • October 23, 2018

Abigail Spanberger
stated on September 28, 2018 in a TV ad.:

Says Dave Brat "voted against protecting pre-existing conditions."

Half-True

By Warren Fiske • October 11, 2018

Corey Stewart
stated on July 21, 2018 in a debate.:

Tim Kaine: "opposes everything President Trump does."

Mostly True

By Warren Fiske • September 26, 2018

Tim Kaine
stated on July 21, 2018 in a debate.:

"The national economy was strong in its largest expansion of private sector jobs before President Trump came into office."

True

By Warren Fiske • September 25, 2018

Corey Stewart
stated on July 21, 2018 in a debate.:

"It is only under President Trump that we have become the largest producer of oil and gas resources."

False

By Warren Fiske • September 11, 2018

Larry Pratt
stated on December 15, 2016 in a radio interview.:

Says President Barack Obama "has not condemned" shootings targeting police.

Pants on Fire!

By Warren Fiske • December 27, 2016

Newt Gingrich
stated on December 2, 2016 in a radio interview.:

"We adopted the modern Social Security system at a time when the average person died before they were old enough to get Social Security."

True

By Warren Fiske • December 12, 2016

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