“Eight of the top ten murder states, in terms of the increase in murder rates, are all red states.”
Gavin Newsom
California governor (D). remarks in an interview on the “No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen” podcast. Claim dated 9 Apr 2023.
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What Washington Post found
Many of the same states have been on the top ten list for years
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Gavin Newsom (California governor (D)) made this claim around 9 April 2023. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 April 2023, 4 days later. Its rating was “Not the whole story”.
Gavin Newsom has 14 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 11 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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