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11 Jun 2021
Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), who is running for governor again, started his first day on the campaign trail this week by repeating the false claim that he “inherited the largest deficit” and turned it into a “gigantic surplus” while in office.
McAuliffe stated the falsehood Wednesday on MSNBC, the day after he easily secured the Democrat nomination for the state’s off-year governor’s race happening in November. He again posted the claim on social media Thursday:
I inherited the largest budget deficit in the history of the state from the Republicans.
In just four years, I turned it around and created a record number of jobs. I’ve led Virginia out of crisis before and I’m ready to do it again.
“And it’s not just the number of countries, it’s the number of people too. The number of illegal immigrants from beyond Mexico and the Northern Triangle has skyrocketed from 9,416 in January to over 50,000 in May according to preliminary estimates,” he writes in the short analysis.
Mr. Pigott titled his work “Biden’s border crisis goes global,” and it was released Wednesday.
He’s uneasy with the outcome of Vice President
Kamala Harris’ fact-finding mission this week to several Central American nations, a journey which did not include a stop at the southern U.S. border with Mexico.
“So when Harris claims she is addressing the ‘root causes’ of Biden’s border crisis by avoiding the border, she is not telling the truth. People from around the world, including cartels and terrorist organizations, are exploiting Biden’s policies to enter the United States,” Mr. Pigott says.
Former governor and long-time democratic fixture, Terry McAuliffe, will take on Republican businessman Glenn Youngkin in the November general election for Virginia governor.