Paul Specht
PolitiFact North Carolina writer
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Paul Specht is a correspondent for PolitiFact North Carolina at WRAL. Previously he worked at the News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., where he covered state government. Specht joined the N&O politics desk in 2017. Before that, he covered government and development news in and around Raleigh. He graduated from Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C., in 2010 with a degree in communications.
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Latest Fact-Checks by Paul Specht
- Claim about Trump rejecting Helene relief for North Carolina lacks context s April 24, 2025
- Democrat wrongly says NC ‘always had nonpartisan judicial races’ until Republicans took over March 28, 2025
- Fact-check: Trump misleads about North Carolina storm victims and FEMA housing January 29, 2025
- Roy Cooper says Hurricane Helene relief bill ‘took money’ from hurricane victims. Not exactly. January 29, 2025
- Are North Carolina’s Helene victims still required to pay property taxes? Yes, and here’s why. January 17, 2025
- No evidence N.C. law enforcement stole generators donated for Hurricane Helene victims January 6, 2025
- How much temporary housing has FEMA provided to NC-based Helene victims? December 10, 2024
- No evidence of officials threatening to ‘keep’ children of Helene victims who can’t find shelter November 18, 2024
- Misleading: State House Speaker says White House didn’t call him after Helene hit North Carolina October 31, 2024
- NC Democrat falsely claims her Republican opponent campaigned for ‘largest ever’ school funding cut October 25, 2024
Latest Stories by Paul Specht
- Fact-check: Is replacing Joe Biden on the ticket ‘unlawful’? Election law experts say it’s not July 22, 2024
- United Facts of America: Experts say facts alone won’t bridge the partisan divide September 27, 2022
- Would Tom Hanks have qualified for a coronavirus test in the US? March 12, 2020
- Fact-checking Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address February 5, 2020
- What we know about Shadow, Acronym and the Iowa caucuses February 4, 2020
- A new look for the PolitiFact website February 2, 2020
- PolitiFact answers the Senate’s impeachment questions January 31, 2020
- AdWatch: Dan Bishop claims Jeff Jackson ‘embraced’ a sex offender. Here’s the context. November 4, 2024
- Fact-checking 5 misleading claims about Helene relief efforts in North Carolina October 5, 2024
- Are noncitizens straining North Carolina services? Here are the facts. September 9, 2024
- Does Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson become governor if Gov. Roy Cooper leaves the state? July 27, 2024
- Trump and some in GOP are promoting a Biden bribery allegation. It is from 2020 and unverified. June 16, 2023
- A voter guide to North Carolina’s Senate primaries May 13, 2022
- The race for North Carolina’s U.S. Senate seat: A guide April 13, 2022
- The ‘shaking’ COVID-19 vaccine side-effect videos and what we know about them January 20, 2021
- In NC, can someone commit voter fraud using only ‘a phone book’? January 29, 2020
- Reports of the ‘born alive’ abortion scenario are rare May 30, 2019