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On Tim Kaine: "In exchange for campaign contributions, he appointed a radical jihadi to the Virginia Immigration Commission."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, October 3rd, 2016
Illegal immigration flat while Kaine was governor
Donald Trump
As governor, Tim Kaine "oversaw a huge increase in illegal immigration, a tremendous increase."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, August 29th, 2016
Trump never said that
Tim Kaine
Donald Trump says "all Mexicans are rapists."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, August 8th, 2016
No meat
Dave Brat
"A few weeks ago, (the) education committee in Congress is deciding what’s going to be in your local salad bar."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016
Mixing Hillary and Bill
Bryce Reeves
Gov. Terry McAuliffe "has made several statements that he would love to be in a Cabinet secretary position with the Clinton administration."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, June 27th, 2016
All bark, no bite
Rob Wittman
"On average, each U.S. military working dog saves the lives of between 150 and 200 servicemen and women over the span of his career."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Tuesday, June 14th, 2016
Predates Jim Crow by five decades
Levar Stoney
Virginia’s banning of felons from voting is a "Jim Crow-era law."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, June 6th, 2016
Garland didn't hear the case
John Whitbeck
Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland "voted to uphold" D.C.’s ban on handguns.
— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, April 4th, 2016
Hard to squeeze truth from this claim
The Trump Winery near Charlottesville, Va. is the "largest winery on the East Coast."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, March 21st, 2016
Trump has thousands of donors
Corey Lewandowski
"Mr. Trump is self-financing his campaign, so we don’t have any donors."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, February 22nd, 2016
No evidence of profit
John O'Bannon
Says "some Planned Parenthood chapters have been selling the body parts of aborted fetuses for profit."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, February 8th, 2016
Old data
Ed Gillespie
"More businesses are closing than opening in Virginia today."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, February 1st, 2016
Off by about $6,055
Thomas Garrett Jr.
"A (state) trooper with 10 years on the force is getting $500 a year more than a trooper with 10 minutes on the force."
King eschewed party labels
Philip Van Cleave
Martin Luther King Jr. "was a Republican."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, January 25th, 2016
Misstates research
Tarina Keene
More than 100,000 women in Texas "have attempted to self-induce abortion in the past year alone."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Tuesday, January 19th, 2016
Doesn't wash
Occupy Democrats
Says Virginia Del. Mark Cole "wants schools to check children’s genitals before using bathroom."
— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, January 18th, 2016
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