All Half-True statements involving Tim Kaine

Retroactive law needed to get 16 million

Says "Donald Trump proposes to deport 16 million people, 11 million who are here without documents, and both Donald Trump and Mike Pence want to get rid of birthright citizenship."

— PolitiFact National on Friday, October 7th, 2016

Stockpile as much as you want

Tim Kaine

Says Hillary Clinton "went toe-to-toe with Russia as secretary of state to do the New START agreement to reduce Russia's nuclear stockpile."

— PolitiFact National on Thursday, October 6th, 2016

Not literally said, but message delivered

Tim Kaine

"When Donald Trump spoke in Phoenix, he looked the audience in the eye and he said ‘no, we're building a wall and we're deporting everybody.’ He said, quote, ‘they will all be gone. They will all be gone.’ This is one of the ones where you can go to the tape on it and see what Donald Trump has said."

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, October 4th, 2016

Repeating the most favorable number

Tim Kaine

Says that during President Barack Obama’s tenure, the United States has created "15 million new jobs."

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, October 4th, 2016

Trump has been all over the map

Tim Kaine

"First, Donald Trump said wages are too high, and both Donald Trump and Mike Pence think we ought to eliminate the federal minimum wage."

— PolitiFact National on Tuesday, October 4th, 2016

Holton played big symbolic role

Tim Kaine

Says his father-in-law, former Gov. Linwood Holton, "integrated Virginia public schools."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, August 15th, 2016

Not a full flip-flip, but not that consistent either

Tim Kaine

"I haven't switched my position" on the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

— PolitiFact National on Sunday, August 7th, 2016

Many lost cash in Trump-named projects

Tim Kaine

Florida retirees and families "lost tens of thousands of dollars" in deposits on failed Trump condo projects, but he "pocketed their money and walked away."

— PolitiFact Florida on Thursday, July 28th, 2016

He's actually a registered Democrat

Tim Kaine

"John McCain’s chief economic adviser during the ’08 race … estimated that Trump’s promises would cause America to lose 3.5 million jobs."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

A real estimate, but the highest of several

Tim Kaine

Independent analysts "found that Trump's tax plan, given to the wealthy and big corporations, would rack up $30 trillion in debt."

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

Updated with new ruling to reflect GDP

Tim Kaine

George Allen and his colleagues in the Senate "turned the biggest surplus in the history of the United States into the biggest deficit in the history of the United States."

— PolitiFact Virginia on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

Don't know enough about history (but better with the present)

Tim Kaine

Virginia ranked near the bottom of the nation 50 years ago in per capita income but is in the top 10 today. It had a "very low" rate of higher education attainment but is now above the national average.

— PolitiFact Virginia on Thursday, May 12th, 2011

Mid-term marks below average but above Reagan's in first term

Tim Kaine

Obama’s mid-term approval ratings are similar to other presidents who went on to re-election.

— PolitiFact Virginia on Monday, January 10th, 2011

Both sides agreed on obstruction

Tim Kaine

Republicans tried to block the deficit commission.

— PolitiFact National on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Result of registration advantage, not necessarily groundswell

Tim Kaine

The primary election results show Democrats are strong in Kentucky because the Democratic candidates "both got more votes than Rand Paul did."

— PolitiFact National on Sunday, May 23rd, 2010