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First Texas Democrat to top 4 million

In 2018, when he ran for senator, "young voter turnout in early voting was up 500%. We won more votes than any Democrat has in the history of the state of Texas."

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, June 24th, 2019

Context is key, so is population size

John Cornyn

"Texas remains one of the most severely impacted states from drug trafficking. Nearly 3,000 Texans died from drug related deaths in 2017 – with half being overdoses involving opioids."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, June 21st, 2019

Errors in state data were the problem

Greg Abbott

"Turns out the critics of the Texas maternal mortality rate were just lying. It’s less than half of what the critics said. It’s about 1/10 of 1%."

— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, June 11th, 2019

Personal support is not the same thing

Beto O'Rourke

"For more than a year, I have been saying that it’s time for Congress to act and begin impeachment proceedings."

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, June 10th, 2019

No data supports this claim

Dan Patrick

"We will have more people enter our country illegally than were born in this country in one year."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, June 5th, 2019

Hurricane Harvey played a role

Ben Carson

More than 100,000 people are waiting for public housing in Houston and people who are in the country illegally are taking their spaces.

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, May 30th, 2019

It depends which debt you consider

Donna Campbell

"Local Government debt in Texas has increased nearly 40% in the past 5 years."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, May 24th, 2019

Just 29% of claims he was discussing were denied

Dan Crenshaw

Says about 80% to 90% of people seeking asylum do not have a valid claim.

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, May 17th, 2019

Stronger predictor than income, education

Beto O'Rourke

"Race is the No. 1 indicator for where toxic and polluting facilities are today."

— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, May 14th, 2019

Bonuses play a big role

Greg Abbott

Says he met a teacher in Dallas "who was only in his third year of teaching and already making more than $90,000 a year in salary."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, May 10th, 2019

Texas among state with most monuments to start with

Brandon Creighton

"Texas actually leads in the number of (Confederate) monuments removed."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, May 10th, 2019

Dry of nuance

Beto O'Rourke

"60 million Americans live in a place where the water they drink is unsafe."

— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, May 7th, 2019

Census says Maryland, D.C. are in the South

Greg Casar

Says one year ago, "no cities in the South had guaranteed paid sick days."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, May 3rd, 2019

Similar trend happening nationally

Bennett Sandlin

Says 74% of people in Texas are "crammed into 4% of the land."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, April 26th, 2019

Actual number likely much higher

Dan Patrick

"Since 2011, we have documentation of 1,671 dead bodies we have recovered in Texas, many in Brooks County."

— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019

Reporting wasn't required before 2013

Donna Howard

"There have been zero reported instances of any child born alive after an abortion in Texas."

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, April 18th, 2019

This is a constitutional mandate

Dan Patrick

"Like every budget passed by the Senate since I have been lieutenant governor, Senate Bill 1 is within the spending limit set by the Texas Constitution."

— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, April 16th, 2019

This number alone says very little

Paul Bettencourt

"194,000 criminal aliens booked into Texas jails from 2011-2019 were charged with more than 299,000 criminal offenses."

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, April 8th, 2019

This number has been declining

Donna Campbell

Abortion providers perform almost 60,000 procedures in Texas every year.

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, April 5th, 2019

Some prosecutions happened before 2005

Julián Castro

Says that the George W. Bush administration in 2005 revived a long-standing law when it "decided to charge those that crossed the border with criminal violations, rather than civil ones."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, April 5th, 2019