Statements we say are Pants on Fire!

Sheila Bynum-Coleman

Kirk "Cox joined special interests to deny teachers raises."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Tuesday, September 24th, 2019

Dave Brat

On Abigail Spanberger: "She got $2.2 million from ActBlue...That is the George Soros resistance group."  

— PolitiFact Virginia on Friday, November 2nd, 2018

Larry Pratt

Says President Barack Obama "has not condemned" shootings targeting police.

— PolitiFact Virginia on Tuesday, December 27th, 2016

Donald Trump

There was "serious voter fraud" in Virginia. 

— PolitiFact Virginia on Tuesday, November 29th, 2016

Pat Robertson

Margaret Sanger "wanted a black Christian leader to be like a Judas goat and lead the blacks to genocide. Remember that? And they picked Martin Luther King as their spokesman."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, November 14th, 2016

Donald Trump

On gift taking, "Bob McDonnell took a fraction of what (Tim) Kaine took."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Sunday, July 24th, 2016

Hillary Clinton

"I am the only candidate who ran in either primary who said, ‘I will not raise taxes on the middle class.’"

— PolitiFact Virginia on Saturday, July 23rd, 2016

Donald Trump

Says Bernie Sanders is going to "tax you people at 90 percent."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Tuesday, October 20th, 2015

Dick Black

Says Jill McCabe "supports late term abortions. Larger baby parts are more profitable."  

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, August 10th, 2015

Alfonso Lopez

On assault weapon violence: "Ducks have more protection than people in Virginia."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, January 26th, 2015

Ed Gillespie

"This administration is slashing the Navy to pay for more Obamacare."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Sunday, August 3rd, 2014

Chain email

Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine voted "to let the U.N. take OUR guns."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Sunday, June 15th, 2014

Laura Ingraham

U.S. Reps. Eric Cantor and Luis Gutierrez were "touring the country last year … joined at the hip, working together in a bipartisan fashion indeed for the goal of immigration reform."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Friday, June 6th, 2014

Next Generation Climate Action Committee

Says Ken Cuccinelli wants "to eliminate all forms of birth control."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Sunday, October 27th, 2013

Terry McAuliffe

Ken Cuccinelli "tried to shut down" state government.

— PolitiFact Virginia on Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013

Eric Cantor

Under Obamacare, "The IRS will have access to the American people’s protected health care information."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, August 19th, 2013

Terry McAuliffe

Says an investigative report concluded Ken Cuccinelli "should have been prosecuted" for disclosure violations, but Virginia's law was too weak.

— PolitiFact Virginia on Saturday, July 20th, 2013

Susan B. Anthony List

New Virginia regulations on abortion clinics "provide the same sanitary environment we expect of dental offices."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Sunday, April 28th, 2013

National Association for Gun Rights

U.S. Rep. Scott Rigell "wants gun owners in a federal registration system."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, March 18th, 2013

Eric Cantor

"The National Science Foundation spent $1.2 million paying seniors to play World of Warcraft to study the impact it had on their brain."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Friday, February 22nd, 2013