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Jared Moskowitz
stated on September 19, 2024 in una audiencia en la Cámara de Representantes:

“El Proyecto 2025 quiere deshacerse de la NOAA” y del Servicio Nacional de Meteorología.

By Maria Briceño • September 27, 2024
Jared Moskowitz
stated on September 19, 2024 in a House hearing:

“Project 2025 wants to get rid of NOAA” and the National Weather Service.

By Amy Sherman • September 26, 2024
Threads posts
stated on September 22, 2024 in a Threads post:

Florida "put Tom Walz instead of Tim Walz" on its ballots.

By Jeff Cercone • September 25, 2024
Ron DeSantis
stated on August 6, 2024 in an X post:

“In 2021, Minnesotans were roughly five times more likely to move to Florida than vice versa” because they were “fleeing” the state under Democratic Gov. Tim Walz.

By Samantha Putterman • August 8, 2024
Marco Rubio
stated on April 11, 2024 in an interview with Fox News:

“It's very misleading when (President Biden) says (inflation) used to be at 9%. This is compounding. It’s not like it went down from 9% to 3%. This is building month after month. The better way to think about it is that it’s 18%, 19% over the last three years."

By Louis Jacobson • April 17, 2024
Jeanette Nuñez
stated on March 15, 2024 in a news conference:

Miami’s immigration courts have the “largest backlog of any court in this country with 10% of the overall immigration cases,” and “more than 90%” of people lose their asylum claims.

By Samantha Putterman • March 21, 2024
Jonathan Martin
stated on March 4, 2024 in a Senate session:

“This is the era where people are given smartphones when they cross the border and enter our country.”

By Maria Briceño • March 7, 2024
Ron DeSantis
stated on January 4, 2024 in a CNN town hall:

In Florida, “income growth is top of the chart.”

By Louis Jacobson • January 8, 2024
Gavin Newsom
stated on November 19, 2023 in a statement on X:

In Florida, “any woman who has an abortion after six weeks — and any doctor who gives her care — will be guilty of a felony.”

By Amy Sherman • November 29, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy
stated on November 8, 2023 in Republican primary debate:

An exemption in a new Florida law “allowed Chinese nationals to buy land within a 20-mile radius of a military base, lobbied for by one of (Gov. Ron DeSantis’) donors.”

By Samantha Putterman • November 15, 2023
Ron DeSantis
stated on October 24, 2023 in a town hall in New Hampshire:

“The Republicans and Trump funded $400 million in March of 2020 for mail ballots.”

By Amy Sherman • October 31, 2023
Matt Gaetz
stated on October 1, 2023 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":

"Since the mid-'90s, this country has been governed by revolving continuing resolution and omnibus spending bill(s). … That is the reason we're $33 trillion in debt."

By Louis Jacobson • October 2, 2023
Nikki Haley
stated on September 27, 2023 in a GOP presidential primary debate in California:

“Ron DeSantis is against fracking. He is against drilling.”

By Amy Sherman • September 28, 2023
Chris Christie
stated on September 5, 2023 in a interview:

Under Gov. Ron DeSantis, “in the last five years, spending has gone up 30%" in Florida.

By Samantha Putterman • September 8, 2023
Ron DeSantis
stated on July 9, 2023 in an interview with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo:

Federal “agencies and government have grown 50% since 2019.”

By Louis Jacobson • July 13, 2023
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 7, 2023 in a roundtable discussion.:

“A place like California, they give (immigrants in the country illegally) benefits. They give unemployment checks.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 9, 2023
MAGA Inc
stated on May 12, 2023 in a TV ad:

“In Congress Ron DeSantis pushed a 23% national sales tax.”

By Amy Sherman • May 16, 2023
Jared Moskowitz
stated on March 26, 2023 in an interview on CNN:

Former President Donald Trump “instructed all the governors to shut down” because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Amy Sherman • April 3, 2023
DeSantis Watch
stated on February 8, 2023 in a Facebook post:

"Ron DeSantis voted to cut $473 billion from Medicare."

By Yacob Reyes • February 22, 2023
Gavin Newsom
stated on January 30, 2023 in a tweet:

"(Ron) DeSantis' bill would remove: background checks, instruction, training and oversight."

By Yacob Reyes • February 6, 2023
X posts
stated on January 25, 2023 in a tweet:

“Female student-athletes in Florida need to provide their schools with detailed information about their periods.”

By Samantha Putterman • February 3, 2023
Lindsay Cross
stated on January 3, 2023 in a press release:

"Florida's water is dirtier and sicker than when Gov. DeSantis first took office."

By Yacob Reyes • January 13, 2023
Chris Murphy
stated on November 27, 2022 in an interview on CNN:

“60% of counties in this country are refusing to implement the nation's gun laws.”

By Yacob Reyes • December 2, 2022
Florida Immigrant Coalition
stated on October 18, 2022 in un anuncio de campaña:

“Marco Rubio le ha votado en contra a los Dreamers”.

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • November 1, 2022
Val Demings
stated on September 23, 2022 in a tweet:

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio "has denied climate change."

By Yacob Reyes • October 11, 2022
Marco Rubio
stated on September 14, 2022 in an ad:

Val Demings "voted to allow transgender youth sports and teaching radical gender identity without parental consent."

By Tom Kertscher • October 5, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on August 22, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Sarasota, Florida, teachers told they cannot purchase books, accept donated reading materials, order from Scholastic or hold book fairs.

By Yacob Reyes • August 29, 2022
Charlie Crist
stated on May 4, 2022 in a press conference:

“It costs more to live in many Florida cities than New York City.”

By Yacob Reyes • May 16, 2022
Crystal Peoples-Stokes
stated on March 29, 2022 in a news release:

“Cities in notoriously ‘tough on crime’ states like Texas and Florida saw a more significant increase in violent crime than cities in NYS.”

By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 16, 2022
Joe Biden
stated on January 11, 2022 in a speech on voting rights in Georgia:

“In the 2020 election, President Trump voted from behind the desk in the White House in Florida.”

By Amy Sherman • January 13, 2022

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