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Gavin Newsom

Gavin Newsom

Gavin Newsom was elected governor of California in 2018. He is the state's former lieutenant governor and served as mayor of San Francisco. He is a Democrat.

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Latest Fact-Checks By Gavin Newsom

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Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on August 17, 2025 a podcast episode:
“Democrats have voted for national independent redistricting. Republicans have not.”
Mostly True
By Loreben Tuquero • August 21, 2025
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on July 18, 2025 an X post:
Florida: #51 in mental health care, #1 in home insurance costs, #1 in elder fraud, #1 in rent hikes.
Half-True
By Ella Moore, Samantha Putterman • July 23, 2025
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on July 14, 2025 a podcast interview:
“California provides $83.1 billion more than we receive from the federal government. Texas? Receives $71.1 billion more than they provide to the federal government. 71% of the U.S. GDP comes from blue counties.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • July 18, 2025
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on June 10, 2025 posts on X:
California has lower homicide rates than Alabama, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • June 16, 2025
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on May 14, 2025 una conferencia de prensa:
Que California ofrezca acceso asequible a cuidado de salud para los inmigrantes ilegalmente en EE.UU.
Half Flip
By Amy Sherman • May 21, 2025
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on May 14, 2025 in a press conference:
On California offering affordable health care access for immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
Half Flip
By Amy Sherman • May 16, 2025
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on November 30, 2023 a debate:
"When (Ron DeSantis) was in Congress, he supported amnesty."
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • December 5, 2023
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on November 19, 2023 a statement on X:
In Florida, “any woman who has an abortion after six weeks — and any doctor who gives her care — will be guilty of a felony.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • November 29, 2023
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on September 27, 2023 an interview with Sean Hannity:
“We are more energy independent today” under President Joe Biden.
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 28, 2023
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on June 12, 2023 a TV interview:
"Per capita, more Floridians move to California than Californians moving to Florida.”
Mostly True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 19, 2023
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on May 7, 2023 a tweet:
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott “cut $211 million in mental health funding.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Sarah Bahari • May 9, 2023
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on January 30, 2023 a tweet:
"(Ron) DeSantis' bill would remove: background checks, instruction, training and oversight."
Half-True
By Yacob Reyes • February 6, 2023
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on January 23, 2023 a tweet:
“The USA has a gun homicide rate 26 times higher than our peers.”
Mostly True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 25, 2023
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on August 9, 2021 a tweet:
“California is moving folks out of encampments, into safe housing and getting them the mental health services they need.”
Half-True
By Sasha Hupka • September 11, 2021
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on March 9, 2021 a State of the State Address:
“California’s [COVID-19] death rate has remained one of the lowest per capita in the nation: 134 deaths per 100,000, compared to 158 nationally, 153 in Texas and 247 in New York.”
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • March 10, 2021
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on February 19, 2020 a State of the State Address:
"Back in 2005, when we did that first point-in-time count, there were over 188,000 thousand people that were deemed homeless in the state of California. … That’s 35,000 more than we have today.”
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • February 21, 2020
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on June 23, 2019 an interview on "Axios on HBO":
"The vast majority" of San Francisco’s homeless people "also come in from — and we know this — from Texas. Just (an) interesting fact."
Pants on Fire!
By Chris Nichols • August 14, 2019
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on June 18, 2019 a tweet:
Says "For the first time in our state’s history, the Pride flag has been raised at our State Capitol!!"
False
By Chris Nichols • June 18, 2019
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on April 17, 2019 a news release:
California is leading the nation in holding drug companies accountable and fighting prescription drug prices.  
Half-True
By Samantha Young • April 25, 2019
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on March 13, 2019 a news conference:
California has "the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere, the largest death row in the United States of America — two times the size of the next largest state: Florida."
True
By Chris Nichols • March 13, 2019
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Latest Fact-Checks About Gavin Newsom

Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on January 15, 2025 an Instagram post:
“Gavin Newsom directed the removal of Elon Musk from the command post and ordered Cal Fire firefighters to return donated starlinks.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • January 29, 2025
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on November 9, 2024 an Instagram post:
Fox News reported California Gov. Gavin Newsom “will withhold” California’s federal income tax.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • November 20, 2024
Threads posts
Threads posts
stated on November 10, 2024 a Threads post:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom “is considering plans to secede from the union.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • November 11, 2024
Viral image
Viral image
stated on November 2, 2023 an Instagram post:
Video shows California Gov. Gavin Newsom falling down airplane stairs.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • November 8, 2023
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on October 2, 2023 an Instagram post:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is “not human.”
Pants on Fire!
By Ciara O'Rourke • October 5, 2023
Viral image
Viral image
stated on August 22, 2023 a Facebook post:
Fox News reported that California Gov. Gavin Newsom said former President Donald Trump “is not eligible for future presidential elections & has asked the California’s State Assembly to pass a bill that will remove Trump’s name on any future ballots.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • August 25, 2023
Viral image
Viral image
stated on November 15, 2022 an Instagram post:
Photo shows “ballots not counted in California and this is only one polling location. Yet Gavin Newsom was declared governor minutes after polling stations closed.”
Mostly False
By Ciara O'Rourke • November 17, 2022
Steve Kirsch
Steve Kirsch
stated on November 9, 2021 an article:
“Gavin Newsom is out of sight likely because he has Guillain-Barre syndrome from his booster shot.”
False
By Monique Curet • November 10, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on August 3, 2021 an Instagram post:
“Due to the new ‘delta variant’ California will be mailing in ballots for recall election.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • August 6, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 22, 2021 a Facebook post:
“Ambassador Susan Rice Tribunal, Gavin Newsom indicted.”
Pants on Fire!
By Tom Kertscher • July 26, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on September 19, 2020 a Facebook post:
“Guess who is the marketing CEO of Zoom? Pelosi’s daughter/Newsome’s cousin.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • September 23, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on September 12, 2020 a Facebook post:
Map shows that wildfires stop at the US.-Canada border.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • September 15, 2020
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on August 31, 2020 social media posts:
California voters who go to the polls to vote in person will be “TURNED AWAY & CANNOT VOTE” unless they change their voting preference to “NO to mail in voting.”
Pants on Fire!
By Chris Nichols • September 1, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 26, 2020 a tweet:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom “is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one" and the election is "Rigged."
Pants on Fire!
By Chris Nichols • May 26, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 14, 2020 a Facebook post:
If masks prevent coronavirus, governors would have given them to prison inmates instead of releasing them.
False
By Tom Kertscher • May 19, 2020
John Cox
John Cox
stated on October 8, 2018 a campaign debate:
Says Gavin Newsom "didn’t solve the homeless problem at all" as mayor of San Francisco, "and it’s gotten worse."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • October 8, 2018
Antonio Villaraigosa
Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on March 5, 2018 a news release:
California’s single-payer healthcare proposal would "force seniors off of Medicare."
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • March 8, 2018
Antonio Villaraigosa
Antonio Villaraigosa
stated on September 20, 2017 a newspaper article:
California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom was "for (high-speed rail), before he’s against it, and then he’s for it again."
Mostly True
By Chris Nichols • September 29, 2017
Firearms Policy Coalition
Firearms Policy Coalition
stated on June 16, 2016 an email blast.:
California’s Proposition 63 would "CRIMINALIZE the sharing of ammunition between friends who may be hunting or shooting together."
Mostly False
By Chris Nichols • July 12, 2016
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