North Carolina

PolitiFact North Carolina is a project of WRAL to help you find the truth in North Carolina politics. Reporters and researchers from PolitiFact North Carolina examine statements by North Carolina elected officials and candidates and anyone else who speaks up on matters of public importance. We research their statements and then rate the accuracy on our Truth-O-Meter:

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0% 28 Checks
mostly-true
0% 54 Checks
Half True
0% 81 Checks
mostly-false
0% 95 Checks
false
0% 122 Checks
Pants on Fire
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All Fact-checks for North Carolina

stated on January 16, 2026 in an email:
“Trump’s $2,000 tariff dividend is live but you must act.”
False
January 23, 2026
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 1, 2025 in a Facebook post:
A new North Carolina law “prohibits the use of wireless communication devices while driving.”
False
December 4, 2025
Richard Hudson
Richard Hudson
stated on November 24, 2025 in a newsletter:
“This Thanksgiving, turkey prices are at their lowest point since 2000.”
False
November 26, 2025
stated on November 17, 2025 in an interview posted to X:
“There’s about 1,400 criminal illegal aliens that, right now, are in North Carolina and Charlotte’s jails that they refuse to turn over to ICE law enforcement.”
False
November 24, 2025
Anderson Clayton
Anderson Clayton
stated on October 29, 2025 in a press release:
“North Carolina teachers are already the lowest paid teachers in the south.”
Mostly False
November 8, 2025
X posts
X posts
stated on August 16, 2025 in an X post:
“North Carolina has just approved a law permitting foreign doctors to practice without completing U.S. training or licensing exams.”
Mostly False
September 16, 2025
stated on September 6, 2025 in an X post:
Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper “bears direct responsibility” for the fatal stabbing of a woman on the Charlotte rail system.
False
September 12, 2025
stated on June 13, 2025 in an email:
“Democrats have 24 more seats (in Congress) than they would have if illegal aliens were not counted in the census.”
False
August 7, 2025
Josh Stein
Josh Stein
stated on June 6, 2025 in an X post:
“Guns are the leading cause of death for children in North Carolina.”
Mostly True
August 5, 2025
X posts
X posts
stated on July 8, 2025 in an X post:
Former Gov. Roy Cooper is scheduled to speak at a Winston-Salem coffee shop July 18 at 11 a.m. about the “future of North Carolina.”
False
July 10, 2025
stated on April 2, 2025 in a speech:
“Contractors are being rejected” from providing Hurricane Helene relief in North Carolina because of racial “quotas” required by the state.
False
May 30, 2025
stated on April 30, 2025 in a speech in the North Carolina House of Representatives:
“Google caved in to Trump. They erased Black History Month from the calendar.”
Mostly False
May 15, 2025
Brian Tyler Cohen
Brian Tyler Cohen
stated on April 12, 2025 in an X post:
Trump “just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene.”
Pants on Fire!
By Paul Specht • April 24, 2025
Sydney Batch
Sydney Batch
stated on February 28, 2025 in a podcast interview:
North Carolina “always had nonpartisan judicial races, and when the Republicans took over several years ago they changed it.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • March 28, 2025
Viral image
Viral image
stated on January 14, 2025 in a Facebook post:
Video shows a dam breaking Sept. 28, 2024, in North Carolina.
False
February 3, 2025
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on January 24, 2025 in a video on TikTok:
“JD Vance is in North Carolina, and he’s found furnished apartments to put the people in that have been living in tents.”
False
January 30, 2025
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 24, 2025 in remarks in North Carolina:
"The Biden administration kicked 2,000 displaced North Carolinians out of their temporary housing into freezing 20-degree weather," earlier in January.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Paul Specht • January 29, 2025
Roy Cooper
Roy Cooper
stated on December 3, 2024 in comments to reporters:
North Carolina Republicans “took money out of western North Carolina” with Hurricane Helene relief bill.
Half-True
By Paul Specht • January 29, 2025
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 21, 2025 in a Facebook post:
“FEMA has been directed back to North Carolina with $2 billion in emergency funds: ‘We transferred it from the programs that fund welfare for illegals. They don’t be needing it.’”
False
January 24, 2025
Dana Loesch
Dana Loesch
stated on January 6, 2025 in an X post:
Buncombe County “is still demanding property taxes on homes destroyed by Hurricane Helene based on pre-Helene assessments that no longer apply.”
Half-True
By Paul Specht • January 17, 2025
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