“Jim Justice “broke his pledge, raised the gas tax.”
PolitiFact says: Justice signed a gasoline tax increase in 2017, about six years before he signed a taxpayer protection pledge. He couldn’t have broken a pledge he hadn’t signed yet.
GOP Senate candidate. 4 claims checked by other fact-checking organisations, from 2022 to 2023. The ratings are theirs, in their own words.
PolitiFact says: Justice signed a gasoline tax increase in 2017, about six years before he signed a taxpayer protection pledge. He couldn’t have broken a pledge he hadn’t signed yet.
PolitiFact says: Since his initial campaign for governor in 2016, Justice sometimes expressed skepticism about the right-to-work policy. But there is no evidence that Justice definitively opposes it now, and it remains in place.
PolitiFact says: Mooney’s statement cherry picks and exaggerates a comment Justice made in a 2022 briefing. Even then, he did not say he wanted to ban all sporting rifles for all ages.
PolitiFact says: Customs and Border Protection data shows that the number of southwest border encounters has exceeded 150,000 per month for 18 consecutive months.