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Following along with the Florida delegation at the RNC

Florida

A Florida delegate in Cleveland. (Alex Leary/Tampa Bay Times)

Louis Jacobson

By Louis Jacobson July 18, 2016

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio – Florida delegates to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland kicked off their quadrennial confab with a breakfast featuring four speakers. PolitiFact took a look at some of their talking points.

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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."

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stated on April 8, 2024 in a video posted on Truth Social:

"All legal scholars, both sides, wanted, and in fact demanded” that Roe v. Wade be overturned.

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stated on April 8, 2024 in a Facebook post:

“Support for Roe is higher today in America than it has ever been."

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stated on April 8, 2024 in a video posted on Truth Social:

Democrats support abortion measures that result in the “execution” of babies “after birth.”

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stated on March 30, 2024 in a post on X:

“Since Joe Biden took office, crime has skyrocketed across our country.”

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stated on March 24, 2024 in remarks on ABC's "This Week":

The current Congress is “the least productive in our lifetime.”

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stated on March 22, 2024 in an X post:

A March 7 U.S. security alert … means the U.S. was “behind this gruesome terror attack on Russian civilians.”

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stated on March 14, 2024 in an interview with Fox News:

Says “100% of net job creation under the Biden administration has gone to the foreign-born.”

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Nicole Shanahan

stated on March 26, 2024 in her vice presidential announcement speech:

If elected, “I will be the youngest vice president in American history.”

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stated on March 24, 2024 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Montana Democrats are "suing to say, ‘You should be allowed to be registered to vote in two states.'”

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stated on March 18, 2024 in a Truth Social post:

The $454 million bond is “unprecedented, and practically impossible for ANY Company.”

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Simon Rosenberg

stated on March 8, 2024 in a post on X:

“Since 1989 and a new age of globalization began, 51 million jobs have been created in America. 49 million, 96%, have been created under Democratic presidents.”

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stated on March 16, 2024 in a rally in Vandalia, Ohio:

"Your Social Security will be destroyed by the people coming in. There's too many of them. It's not sustainable."

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stated on February 27, 2024 in an interview on CNBC:

Citizens Property Insurance “is not solvent.”

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stated on March 9, 2024 in a rally in Rome, Georgia:

"In February alone, nearly 1 million jobs held by native-born Americans disappeared."

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Donald Trump
stated on April 16, 2024 in statement to the media in New York City:

“This trial that I have now, that’s a Biden trial.”

By Amy Sherman • April 19, 2024
X posts
stated on April 18, 2024 in an X post:

Video shows hecklers April 16 booing Joe Biden’s motorcade in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania.

By Jeff Cercone • April 19, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on April 12, 2024 in a post:

Michelle Obama announced she is "running for President in 2024 as a man."

By Grace Abels • April 19, 2024
Threads posts
stated on April 18, 2024 in a Threads post:

Former President Donald Trump didn’t attend daughter Ivanka Trump’s graduation.

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 19, 2024
Kamala Harris
stated on April 15, 2024 in a moderated conversation:

“As many as 75% of school shootings resulted from a gun that was not secured.”

By Samantha Putterman • April 19, 2024
Viral image
stated on April 13, 2024 in a Facebook post:

“BREAKING: Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that Russia will support Iran if the United States attacks Iran’s soil in support of Israel.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • April 19, 2024
Stephen King
stated on April 15, 2024 in an X post:

“The 1864 Arizona law forbidding abortions, upheld by the State Supreme Court, also sets the age of consent for females at 10 years.”

By Sofia Ahmed • April 19, 2024
National Center for Public Policy Research .
stated on April 5, 2024 in Proxy statement:

"Kohl’s has contributed $1,000,000 to the (Black Lives Matter) movement and related causes since 2020."

By Ricardo Torres • April 19, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on April 13, 2024 in una publicación en Instagram:

Video muestra a Israel "bajo ataque desde Yemen, Iraq, el libano y Irán".

By Maria Briceño • April 19, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on April 15, 2024 in a Facebook post:

The government owes you $8,832 and a $2,000 spending card.

By Jeff Cercone • April 18, 2024