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PolitiFact Virginia Editor

Warren Fiske is the editor of PolitiFact Virginia.

Featured Statements

Glen Sturtevant
stated on March 16, 2023 in a candidate's forum:

On red flag laws.

By Warren Fiske • March 24, 2023
Winsome Earle-Sears
stated on February 2, 2023 in a radio interview.:

Brown v. Board of Education “was never about sending Black children to white schools. It was about parents being able to decide where to send their children to school.”

By Warren Fiske • February 22, 2023
Mark Obenshain
stated on January 31, 2023 in a floor speech.:

“You know how many children are dying across Virginia because of fentanyl poisoning? A heck of a lot more than are dying at the hands of guns.”

By Warren Fiske • February 7, 2023
Louise Lucas
stated on January 18, 2023 in a tweet.:

Glenn Youngkin is “the first sitting Governor in the modern era to have their party have less legislative seats than when they were elected.”

By Warren Fiske • January 31, 2023
Glenn Youngkin
stated on January 23, 2023 in a speech.:

Virginia tax receipts “in just the last four years alone have grown 50%.”

By Warren Fiske • January 25, 2023
Aaron Rouse
stated on December 23, 2022 in a TV ad.:

“Kevin Adams wants to ban abortion.”

By Warren Fiske • January 5, 2023
Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee
stated on December 4, 2022 in a tweet.:

“The Virginia GOP education agenda (would) erase slavery from VA history.”

By Warren Fiske • December 14, 2022
Cliff Hayes
stated on November 23, 2022 in a TV interview.:

“When you compare us to the European Union, we're something like 23 times more likely” to have homicides and handgun killings.

By Warren Fiske • December 2, 2022
Glenn Youngkin
stated on October 31, 2022 in a campaign rally,:

In his election as governor, “We won cities that no Republican had ever won.”

By Warren Fiske • November 11, 2022
Yesli Vega
stated on October 20, 2022 in an interview.:

They were “never my comments” that a woman can’t get pregnant from rape.

By Warren Fiske • November 4, 2022