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Latest Fact-Checks In North Carolina

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Donald Trump
stated on April 15, 2026 in an interview with Fox Business News:
“Thom Tillis is no longer a senator.”
False
By Louis Jacobson • April 15, 2026
Guilford-Rockingham Alliance
stated on January 20, 2026 in an attack ad:
NC state Sen. Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, “killed a bill banning sex-change surgeries for minors.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • March 3, 2026
NC True Conservatives PAC
stated on January 20, 2026 in a video advertisement:
Says Sam Page “got busted calling Trump’s (immigration) plan unrealistic.”
False
By Paul Specht • February 25, 2026
Major Gross Profit
stated on January 16, 2026 in an email:
“Trump’s $2,000 tariff dividend is live but you must act.”
False
By Paul Specht • January 23, 2026
Facebook posts
stated on December 1, 2025 in a Facebook post:
A new North Carolina law “prohibits the use of wireless communication devices while driving.”
False
By Paul Specht • December 4, 2025
Richard Hudson
stated on November 24, 2025 in a newsletter:
“This Thanksgiving, turkey prices are at their lowest point since 2000.”
False
By Paul Specht • November 26, 2025
Tricia McLaughlin
stated on November 17, 2025 in an interview posted to X:
“There’s about 1,400 criminal illegal aliens that, right now, are in North Carolina and Charlotte’s jails that they refuse to turn over to ICE law enforcement.”
False
By Paul Specht • November 24, 2025
Anderson Clayton
stated on October 29, 2025 in a press release:
“North Carolina teachers are already the lowest paid teachers in the south.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • November 8, 2025
X posts
stated on August 16, 2025 in an X post:
“North Carolina has just approved a law permitting foreign doctors to practice without completing U.S. training or licensing exams.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • September 16, 2025
Michael Whatley
stated on September 6, 2025 in an X post:
Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper “bears direct responsibility” for the fatal stabbing of a woman on the Charlotte rail system.
False
By Paul Specht, Will Doran • September 12, 2025
John Blust
stated on June 13, 2025 in an email:
“Democrats have 24 more seats (in Congress) than they would have if illegal aliens were not counted in the census.”
False
By Paul Specht • August 7, 2025
Josh Stein
stated on June 6, 2025 in an X post:
“Guns are the leading cause of death for children in North Carolina.”
Mostly True
By Paul Specht • August 5, 2025
X posts
stated on July 8, 2025 in an X post:
Former Gov. Roy Cooper is scheduled to speak at a Winston-Salem coffee shop July 18 at 11 a.m. about the “future of North Carolina.”
False
By Paul Specht, Will Doran • July 10, 2025
Brenden Jones
stated on April 2, 2025 in a speech:
“Contractors are being rejected” from providing Hurricane Helene relief in North Carolina because of racial “quotas” required by the state.
False
By Paul Specht • May 30, 2025
Marcia Morey
stated on April 30, 2025 in a speech in the North Carolina House of Representatives:
“Google caved in to Trump. They erased Black History Month from the calendar.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • May 15, 2025
Brian Tyler Cohen
stated on April 12, 2025 in an X post:
Trump “just denied North Carolina’s request for FEMA relief from Hurricane Helene.”
Half-True
By Paul Specht • April 24, 2025
Sydney Batch
stated on February 28, 2025 in a podcast interview:
North Carolina “always had nonpartisan judicial races, and when the Republicans took over several years ago they changed it.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • March 28, 2025
Viral image
stated on January 14, 2025 in a Facebook post:
Video shows a dam breaking Sept. 28, 2024, in North Carolina.
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • February 3, 2025
TikTok posts
stated on January 24, 2025 in a video on TikTok:
“JD Vance is in North Carolina, and he’s found furnished apartments to put the people in that have been living in tents.”
False
By Madison Czopek • January 30, 2025
Donald Trump
stated on January 24, 2025 in remarks in North Carolina:
“The Biden administration kicked 2,000 displaced North Carolinians out of their temporary housing into freezing 20-degree weather,” earlier in January.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Paul Specht • January 29, 2025
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