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West Virginia Democratic Party
stated on August 25, 2022 in a tweet:

“Carol Miller is a multi-millionaire worth over $16 million.”

By Emily Oiler • October 27, 2022
Joe Manchin
stated on August 28, 2022 in a tweet:

“WV families making less than $400K & small businesses will NOT be targeted by the IRS.”

By Amanda Boring • October 18, 2022
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on August 23, 2022 in a tweet:

“More fentanyl has crossed the border in the last two months under Biden than in 2019 under Trump.”

By Megan Bevins • October 3, 2022
Alex Mooney
stated on August 29, 2022 in a tweet:

“There have now been 16 straight months of OVER 150,000 illegal border crossings.”

By Maxwell Bruce • October 3, 2022
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on August 12, 2021 in an op-ed:

“In West Virginia, a gallon of gas is nearly one dollar more than it was a year ago, and we’re paying about 30 cents more for a gallon of milk than we did at this time last year.”

By Maxwell Ionno • October 5, 2021
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on March 4, 2021 in a press conference:

President Joe Biden’s American Relief Plan “has a lot of money in it for schools, but if you really look at it … it says that the school money is going to go out until the year 2028.”

By Lara Bonatesta • April 15, 2021
Paula Jean Swearengin
stated on September 10, 2020 in a tweet:

“West Virginia is near last in the U.S.” rankings of education, clean drinking water, and child mortality.

By Morgan Akers • November 6, 2020
Joe Manchin
stated on August 19, 2020 in an interview with the Washington Examiner:

“Now with the COVID-19 … more people are dependent on drugs or alcohol.”

By Delaney Geiger • October 28, 2020
David McKinley
stated on September 9, 2020 in a tweet:

"Nearly 800 million opioid pills were shipped to WV, amounting to 433 pills for every man, woman, and child in the state.”

By Camren Gandee • October 15, 2020
Carol Miller
stated on July 30, 2020 in a tweet:

“In West Virginia alone, overdoses have increased by 50% during the #COVID-19 pandemic.”

By Patrick Orsagos • August 19, 2020
Woody Thrasher
stated on August 21, 2019 in a tweet:

"West Virginia is sixth overall in the average number of at-risk youth."

By Alayna Degenhardt • December 6, 2019
Jim Justice
stated on June 10, 2019 in a press conference:

China today is "burning seven to eight times the amount of coal that we’re burning in the United States."

By Minh Do • December 4, 2019
David McKinley
stated on October 13, 2019 in an article in a local newspaper:

"$53 million a week is coming across the border in drugs."

By Matthew Digby • November 18, 2019
Richard Ojeda
stated on August 25, 2019 in a tweet:

The United States is "#1 in oil consumption" in the world.

By Autumn Cecil • October 1, 2019
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on August 27, 2019 in a tweet:

"Women’s unemployment has been lower under President Trump than it’s been in nearly 70 years."

By Caroline Cassedy • September 26, 2019
Bernie Sanders
stated on June 12, 2019 in a speech at George Washington University:

"In 2014 ... in McDowell County, W.Va., one of the poorest counties in the nation, life expectancy for men was 64 years. In Fairfax County, Va., a wealthy county, just 350 miles away, life expectancy was nearly 82 years, an 18 year differential. The life expectancy gap for women in the two counties was 12 years."

By Patrick Orsagos • July 18, 2019
West Virginia Democratic Party
stated on April 2, 2019 in a tweet:

"Black women make only around 63 cents while Native American women earn 58 cents, and Hispanic women make just 54 cents in comparison to every dollar a man makes."

By Rebecca Jerome • May 16, 2019
Joe Manchin
stated on March 29, 2019 in a tweet:

"19% of WVians rely on SNAP," or food stamps.

By Patrick Downey • May 10, 2019
Joe Manchin
stated on April 17, 2019 in a tweet:

"Nearly 20 million Americans ... have gained health insurance since (the Affordable Care Act) passed in 2010."

By Garrett Spikes • May 10, 2019
Nikki Bowmar
stated on March 30, 2019 in a comment in a newspaper article:

Small businesses in West Virginia make up "99 percent of the total number of businesses in the state" and employ "nearly 50 percent of the state’s workforce."

By Stephanie Alvaro • April 24, 2019
Joe Manchin
stated on March 18, 2019 in a press release:

"It is estimated that more than 20 veterans die by suicide every day."

By Garrett Spikes • April 24, 2019
Mitch Carmichael
stated on February 14, 2019 in an interview with WV MetroNews:

In West Virginia, "our students enter in at fourth grade the first time they’re tested, 37th or 38th in the nation—which is not good, but it’s not horrible. By the time they’re in the 8th grade, they’re 46th or 47th, and then upon 11th grade testing they’re near last."

By Al Bernardi • April 3, 2019
Jeremiah Samples
stated on February 28, 2019 in testimony before the West Virginia state Senate:

"We have had an increase of 67 percent (in) the number of children taken into state custody since 2014."

By Catherine Harrington • April 3, 2019
Jim Justice
stated on January 8, 2019 in a tweet:

"This is the largest cumulative surplus for the first six months of any fiscal year in state history."

By Kyle Coughlin • March 6, 2019
Carol Miller
stated on February 15, 2019 in a tweeted video:

"Just two weeks ago, Customs and Border Protection seized enough fentanyl to kill every person in West Virginia 32 times over."

By Catherine Harrington • March 6, 2019
Joe Manchin
stated on January 2, 2019 in a tweet:

The partial government shutdown in early 2019 affected "18,000 federal employees in West Virginia."

By Patrick Downey • February 20, 2019
Patrick Morrisey
stated on January 6, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Obamacare premiums "have gone up 160 percent in West Virginia in 4 yrs."

By Garrett Spikes • February 7, 2019
Shelley Moore Capito
stated on January 3, 2019 in an op-ed:

"Our economy is growing at its fastest pace in nearly four years. Unemployment is at an all-time low."

By Erica Anderson • February 4, 2019
Joe Manchin
stated on January 8, 2019 in an interview on Bloomberg television:

"President Trump has the strongest support percentage-wise in our state than any other state in the nation. He won West Virginia by almost 43 percentage points and he's been carrying close to 60 percent approval."

By Stephanie Alvaro • January 28, 2019
Jim Justice
stated on November 9, 2018 in a tweet:

"As of September 2018, there are 6,683 WV children in foster care — 1,415 of whom are legally eligible for adoption."

By Matt Minard • January 10, 2019

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