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Trump's Pants on Fire for claiming 'serious voter fraud' occurred in Virginia

President-elect Donald Trump has peppered his Twitter account with a charge that the presidential election was marred by voter fraud in Virginia and two other states that he lost. → Read More

Corey Stewart stretches Ed Gillespie's statements on Donald Trump

Although Corey Stewart was ousted as Donald Trump’s campaign chairman in Virginia this fall, he’s still anchoring his gubernatorial campaign to the GOP president-elect. In the wake of Trump’s victory, the chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors took aim at Ed Gillespie who, like Stewart, is seeking the Republican nomination for governor. → Read More

Kai Degner falsely says Declaration of Independence was penned on hemp

The substance of The Declaration of Independence can get you into trouble if Kai Degner, a Democratic congressional candidate, has it right. → Read More

Joe Morrissey hits and misses in claim about Redskins' training camp

Joe Morrissey says Richmond fumbled in 2013 when it signed a long-term deal to bring the Washington Redskins’ summer training camp to the city. → Read More

Tim Kaine wrongly says Donald Trump wants end to NATO

Tim Kaine says Donald Trump would toss NATO in the trash. → Read More

Tim Kaine correctly notes Richard Nixon released tax returns despite audit

Mike Pence told Tim Kaine at the vice presidential debate that Donald Trump will release his tax returns -- once an audit of the GOP presidential has concluded. But the Democratic vice presidential candidate responded that explanation didn’t meet the → Read More

Tim Kaine correctly notes Richard Nixon released tax returns despite audit

Mike Pence told Tim Kaine at the vice presidential debate that Donald Trump will release his tax returns -- once an audit of the GOP presidential has concluded. But the Democratic vice presidential candidate responded that explanation didn’t meet the → Read More

PolitiFact - Tim Kaine correctly notes Richard Nixon released tax returns despite audit

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter. → Read More

Kaine accurately recalls the time Gadhafi had a tent put up on Trump's estate

Tim Kaine says Donald Trump has a fondness for dictators, including the late Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi. During a speech in Wilmington, N.C., Kaine said Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, even was willing to host to the Libyan president, in 2009, two years before rebels killed Gadhafi during a NATO air campaign in that country. → Read More

Trump solely blames Obama for doubling of debt

Donald Trump says this White House is leaving behind a lot of red ink. → Read More

Gary Johnson says unauthorized immigrant border crossings at '12-year low'

Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson scoffs at Donald Trump’s call for the U.S. should build a wall on the southwest border to keep immigrants out. → Read More

Donald Trump wrong that Virginia saw "huge increase" in illegal immigration under Tim Kaine

Donald Trump depicted Tim Kaine’s 2006-10 tenure as governor of Virginia as a painful time of tax hike proposals and rising unemployment. → Read More

Tim Kaine wrongly says Richard Nixon released tax returns during campaign

Tim Kaine has been goading Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to release his tax returns to the public, just as the Democratic ticket did recently. Kaine, a U.S. senator from Virginia and the Democratic vice presidential nominee, said Trump’s refusal to release his forms is a break from past GOP nominees, including one who Kaine said was not known for his ethics. → Read More

Tim Kaine wrongly says Richard Nixon released tax returns during campaign

Tim Kaine has been goading Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to release his tax returns to the public, just as the Democratic ticket did recently. Kaine, a U.S. senator from Virginia and the Democratic vice presidential nominee, said Trump’s refusal to release his forms is a break from past GOP nominees, including one who Kaine said was not known for his ethics. → Read More

Rep. Scott Rigell: 33.1 billion Rio Olympic gold medals would pay off U.S. national debt

U.S. Rep. Scott Rigell says paying off the national debt would require an Olympic feat. → Read More

Rep. Scott Rigell: 33.1 billion Rio Olympic gold medals would pay off U.S. national debt

U.S. Rep. Scott Rigell says paying off the national debt would require an Olympic feat. → Read More

Mike Pence half right that Obama has been "raising taxes"

Mike Pence, the Republican vice presidential nominee, says Americans are paying higher taxes under President Barack Obama. → Read More

Tim Kaine says Va. closed a background check loophole while he was governor

Tim Kaine says he steered Virginia through some dark days as governor, but none was worse than April 16, 2007. That was the day a gunman murdered 32 students and faculty members at Virginia Tech before he took his own life. In the aftermath, Kaine says he turned his attention to Virginia’s gun laws. → Read More

Donald Trump says Tim Kaine proposed $4 billion tax increase during first week as governor

Donald Trump told Virginians this week that Tim Kaine, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, did a → Read More

Corey Stewart misleadingly says Hillary Clinton, Ralph Northam 'label police as racists'

Corey Stewart, Donald Trump’s Virginia campaign chairman, recently laid blame on Democrats for the July 7 sniper shootings that left five Dallas police officers dead and nine wounded. → Read More