Your task is to predict the verdict of a claim based on the provided question-answer pair evidence. The possible labels are: 'Supported', 'Refuted', 'Not Enough Evidence', 'Conflicting Evidence/Cherrypicking'. Justify your answer using the provided evidence and select the correct label.

Claim: Cal Cunningham, North Carolina’s 2020 Democratic Senate candidate, voted to raise taxes in the state by over $1 billion in 2001.

Q1: Did the North Carolina state legislature vote to increase taxes by over $1 billion in 2001?
A1: Yes, because According to reporting by The Charlotte Observer at the time, the two-year budget passed by Democratic state lawmakers and one House Republican in 2001 included a 1/2-cent statewide sales tax increase, for two years, that did not apply to food.
The overall tax increases amounted to $1 billion over two years.

Q2: When did Cal Cunningham serve as an elected Democratic state senator in North Carolina?
A2: Cal Cunningham won the  North Carolina District 23 State Senate election in 2000 and served a two year term from 2001 to 2003.

Q3: As a state senator did Cal Cunningham vote in favour of the 2001 North Carolina 2 year state budget which increased taxes by over $1 billion?
A3: In an August 10, 2020 interview with WLOS, Cunningham said "I think that was the right budget for North Carolina."
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justification: Confirmed in Q+A pairs

"the two-year budget passed by Democratic state lawmakers and one House Republican in 2001 included a 1/2-cent statewide sales tax increase, for two years, that did not apply to food.
The overall tax increases amounted to $1 billion over two years"

verdict: 'Supported'
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