Statements we say are False | PolitiFact Virginia

Partisan math

Steven Landes

Medicaid expansion "could cost the Commonwealth of Virginia over $1 billion a year..."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, January 11th, 2016

"Existing law" was changed in 2008

Ted Cruz

"Existing law right now requires 700 miles of double-layered border fencing" on the Mexico border.

— PolitiFact Virginia on Tuesday, December 29th, 2015

"Slip of the tongue"

Terry McAuliffe

Says he faced "a record budget deficit" in Virginia in 2014.

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, December 21st, 2015

An unhistorical claim

Ben Carson

Says Thomas Jefferson helped "craft" the Constitution.

— PolitiFact Virginia on Friday, November 27th, 2015

Doesn't add up

Bernie Sanders

The Koch Brothers are "spending more money than either the Democratic or Republican parties" in the 2016 elections.

— PolitiFact Virginia on Friday, November 6th, 2015

Not even close

Donald Trump

"Sixty-one percent of our bridges are in trouble."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, October 26th, 2015

No such data

Thomas Norment, Jr.

Says "only about 2 percent" of gun sales in Virginia are not subject to background checks.

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, October 26th, 2015

Said during reference to middle class

Donald Trump

"We have the highest tax rate anywhere in the world."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Tuesday, October 20th, 2015

Bad times come, but don't stay long

Mike Huckabee

The Washington D.C.-area "never has a recession."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, October 19th, 2015

Just the opposite

Glen Sturtevant

Dan Gecker voted to "double vehicle registration fees, costing (Chesterfield) county residents over $6 million annually."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, October 12th, 2015

Not even close

Richard Saslaw

Virginia’s current unemployment rate is "the lowest in Virginia history."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, October 12th, 2015

Trumped up charge

Dan Gecker

Glen Sturtevant is "against smaller class sizes."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, October 5th, 2015

That's not the case

Donald Trump

Under the Iran deal: "If Israel attacks Iran … we’re supposed to be on Iran’s side."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Friday, September 4th, 2015

The deal hasn't come up for a vote yet

Dave Brat

"I was one of the few, very few, who voted `no’ on the Iran deal."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, August 31st, 2015

Overstates coal region's woes

Israel O'Quinn

On unemployment rates: "We have counties in Southwest Virginia that are well into double digits and some that are pushing 20 percent."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, August 17th, 2015

Thoroughly wrong

Alex McMurtrie Jr.

State legislators "quietly shifted $2 billion from education to road building" in 2013.

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, May 18th, 2015

Rural legend

Robert Hurt

Says the estate tax, "in many cases," forces family farmers and small businesses owners to sell their holdings.

— PolitiFact Virginia on Sunday, May 3rd, 2015

Creative accounting

Dave Brat

Repealing Obamacare saves "our nation more than $2 trillion."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, April 13th, 2015

Pot shot

Susan Stimpson

Virginia House Speaker Bill Howell is "allied to group pushing MIXED SEX BATHROOMS in Stafford Schools."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, April 6th, 2015

Beyer beware

Don Beyer

"More than 7,000 Americans lost their lives to climate change-fueled events last year."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, March 23rd, 2015