Statements we say are False

Ed Gillespie

"More businesses are closing than opening in Virginia today."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, February 1st, 2016

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."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, February 1st, 2016

Philip Van Cleave

Martin Luther King Jr. "was a Republican."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, January 25th, 2016

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

Occupy Democrats

Says Virginia Del. Mark Cole "wants schools to check children’s genitals before using bathroom."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, January 18th, 2016

Steven Landes

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

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, January 11th, 2016

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

Terry McAuliffe

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

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, December 21st, 2015

Ben Carson

Says Thomas Jefferson helped "craft" the Constitution.

— PolitiFact Virginia on Friday, November 27th, 2015

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

Donald Trump

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

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, October 26th, 2015

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

Donald Trump

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

— PolitiFact Virginia on Tuesday, October 20th, 2015

Mike Huckabee

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

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, October 19th, 2015

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

Richard Saslaw

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

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, October 12th, 2015

Dan Gecker

Glen Sturtevant is "against smaller class sizes."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, October 5th, 2015

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

Dave Brat

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

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, August 31st, 2015

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