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Kamala Harris
stated on May 1, 2024 in a speech:

In his Time magazine interview, Donald Trump “said states have the right to monitor pregnant women to enforce these bans, and states have the right to punish pregnant women for seeking out abortion care.”

By Louis Jacobson • May 2, 2024
Ron DeSantis
stated on January 18, 2024 in a CNN town hall in Henniker, N.H.:

“Florida state government (has the) lowest number of state employees per capita in the country.”

By Louis Jacobson • January 23, 2024
Ron DeSantis
stated on December 12, 2023 in a CNN town hall:

Florida “had a year-over-year reduction” in overdose deaths.

By Amy Sherman • December 14, 2023
MAGA Inc
stated on October 28, 2023 in a TV ad in Iowa:

Gov. Ron DeSantis “actually sponsored the bill to make Puerto Rico a state.”

By Amy Sherman • November 1, 2023
Kamala Harris
stated on July 20, 2023 in a speech to the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority:

Florida “decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery.”

By Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa • July 24, 2023
Gavin Newsom
stated on June 12, 2023 in a TV interview:

"Per capita, more Floridians move to California than Californians moving to Florida.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 19, 2023
Ron DeSantis
stated on May 25, 2023 in a radio interview:

Donald Trump "wanted to amnesty 2 million illegal aliens in 2018 when he was president."

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 5, 2023
Ron DeSantis
stated on May 5, 2023 in an interview with Newsmax:

“Donald Trump himself wrote a book where he was talking about the need to increase the age of eligibility for Social Security to 70.”

By Amy Sherman • May 12, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy
stated on April 30, 2023 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed “a last-minute exception into an anti-discrimination law for anyone who also operates a theme park more than 25 acres in Florida,” benefiting Walt Disney Co.

By Matthew Crowley • May 4, 2023
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 13, 2023 in a speech:

Florida has “the second lowest tax burden per capita in the United States.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • April 19, 2023
Rita Harris
stated on December 14, 2022 in a press release:

Florida Senate Bill 2A does not provide "immediate relief" to homeowners dealing with high property insurance rates and "will force some … constituents to pay up to 20% more."

By Yacob Reyes • December 19, 2022
Val Demings
stated on October 31, 2022 in a campaign ad:

Sen. Marco Rubio "helped write the law to raise prescription prices."

By Yacob Reyes • November 7, 2022
Charlie Crist
stated on October 4, 2022 in a campaign ad:

"When I was your governor, we reduced insurance rates by 10%."

By Yacob Reyes • October 19, 2022
Yuh-Line Niou
stated on September 28, 2022 in a tweet:

Sen. Marco Rubio and U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis “voted against aid for Hurricane Sandy.”

By Amy Sherman • September 30, 2022
Val Demings
stated on July 13, 2022 in a campaign ad:

Sen. Marco Rubio has "one of the worst attendance records in the Senate."

By Yacob Reyes • July 14, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on May 17, 2022 in a Facebook post:

“Florida Highway Patrol has a semi-truck … The FHP uses a fleet of three such ‘hidden in plain sight’ trucks to snitch on bad drivers.”

By Yacob Reyes • May 26, 2022
Ron DeSantis
stated on September 13, 2021 in remarks at an event in Gainesville, Fla.:

People who “have recovered (from COVID-19) have very strong immunity.”

By Jon Greenberg • September 15, 2021
Ron DeSantis
stated on March 13, 2021 in in an interview on Fox News:

"When I became governor, we banned sanctuary cities and we also did E-Verify."

By Amy Sherman • March 19, 2021
Ron DeSantis
stated on August 10, 2020 in during a televised roundtable discussion on education:

“The fact is that in terms of the risk to schoolkids, this is lower risk than seasonal influenza.”

By Phil Galewitz • August 20, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on May 12, 2020 in a headline in a Facebook post:

“Beachgoers trash Florida beaches with 13,000 pounds of litter after beaches reopen.”

By Amy Sherman • May 18, 2020
Val Demings
stated on January 29, 2020 in the impeachment trial:

“All of the aid has not arrived” to Ukraine.

By Amy Sherman • February 3, 2020
Frederica Wilson
stated on December 12, 2019 in a hearing:

Says Betsy DeVos is the "most unpopular person in our government."

By Amy Sherman • January 6, 2020
Nikki Fried
stated on October 29, 2019 in a pre-legislative media forum:

While previous clemency boards granted restoration of civil rights to thousands of Floridians, "so far this year, under this clemency board, four (felons) have gotten their rights back."

By Amy Sherman • November 21, 2019
Greg Steube
stated on May 28, 2019 in a press release:

"It’s estimated that in 2018 alone, dead people received $1 billion in benefits from Medicare, Medicaid, social security payments, and federal pensions."

By Amy Sherman • June 13, 2019
Gary Farmer
stated on March 7, 2019 in a Florida Senate meeting:

"Some patients who are on transplant lists for kidney or other organs are being dropped from the list simply because they are shown as a licensed card holder" for medical marijuana.

By Amy Sherman • March 27, 2019
Matt Gaetz
stated on February 7, 2019 in an interview on CNN:

"In 1992, the Democratic Party had in their platform provisions that said that illegal aliens were coming in this country, committing felonies, sent back and then they were right back across the border to do the same thing."

By Amy Sherman • February 13, 2019
Marco Rubio
stated on November 8, 2018 in a tweet:

"#Broward elections department has a history of violating the law."

By Amy Sherman • November 12, 2018
Scott Galloway
stated on November 7, 2018 in a tweet:

"The number of people who just got their voting rights restored in Florida is greater than the populations of Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, Maine and New Hampshire."

By Amy Sherman • November 8, 2018
Ron DeSantis
stated on October 24, 2018 in a debate at Broward College:

Says Andrew Gillum was "singing a different tune" about charter schools at the Florida debate.

By Amy Sherman • October 29, 2018
Andrew Gillum
stated on September 30, 2018 in CBS4 interview:

Says Tallahassee "is experiencing a five-year low in our crime rate."

By Amy Sherman • October 8, 2018

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