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Latest Fact-Checks In West Virginia

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Kayla Young
stated on November 5, 2025 in an X post:
West Virginia is “the only state losing population.”
False
By Trent Ao • November 21, 2025
Alex Mooney
stated on November 2, 2023 in a post on X:
Jim Justice “broke his pledge, raised the gas tax.”
False
By Ayden Norcross • November 21, 2023
Donald Trump
stated on November 11, 2023 in a rally in New Hampshire:
New Hampshire has “a worse drug problem per capita than any other state.”
False
By Amy Sherman • November 15, 2023
Alex Mooney
stated on August 21, 2023 in a campaign website:
Jim Justice “supports banning sporting rifles for law-abiding citizens.”
False
By Ayden Norcross • October 24, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on March 13, 2022 in a Facebook post:
“A West Virginia inspection sticker on an Uber” proves the car was not in Ukraine.
False
By Gabrielle Settles • March 17, 2022
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
stated on December 20, 2021 in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe":
“I represent more, or just as many or more, people than Joe Manchin does.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • December 22, 2021
Joe Manchin
stated on March 7, 2021 in remarks on ABC's "This Week":
“Very few … if any” states have a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
False
By Harrison Dover, Sammie Smith • April 28, 2021
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on April 5, 2019 in a tweet:
“West Virginia spends more tax dollars on public education than all but 13 other states and the District of Columbia.”
False
By Mylana Chico, Rebecca Jerome • May 10, 2019
Andrew Byrd
stated on February 25, 2019 in a legislative debate:
“The states that have passed (campus carry laws) have seen enrollment drop significantly.”
False
By Erica Anderson, Molly DeCarli • April 16, 2019
Patrick Morrisey
stated on October 13, 2018 in a campaign ad:
Says Joe Manchin “supported Obama and Clinton’s campaigns to kill coal jobs.”
False
By Joseph Kennedy • November 5, 2018
E. Gordon Gee
stated on September 20, 2018 in an interview with the Daily Athenaeum:
In public approval, “the press is rated right now below that of Congress, and that is very low; it’s in the single digits.”
False
By Mary Alice Truitt • October 29, 2018
Joe Manchin
stated on September 16, 2018 in remarks at a teachers' rally:
West Virginia has “more veterans per capita” than any state.
False
By Emily Martin • October 11, 2018
Joe Manchin
stated on September 14, 2018 in tweet:
Says Patrick Morrisey undertook “efforts to put educators in jail.”
False
By Kristen Mohammadi • October 11, 2018