“West Virginia has one of the greatest percentages of veterans in any state.”
What PolitiFact found
The most recent data available, from 2018, shows that 7.98% of West Virginians are veterans, ranking it seventh among the 50 states.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Jim Justice (Governor of West Virginia) made this claim around 14 September 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 October 2020, 31 days later. Its rating was “True”.
Jim Justice has 11 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 3 true.
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