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Latest Fact-Checks In Florida

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Byron Donalds
stated on September 28, 2026 in an ad:
“Just months after” the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, David Jolly “was in Washington, pressuring Congress to expand drilling off the Florida coast, over $5 million in billings.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • October 1, 2026
Jay Collins
stated on April 20, 2026 in a campaign document:
U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds voted “against three pay raises for military service members, including the largest pay raise for the military in 22 years.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • April 23, 2026
Byron Donalds
stated on March 8, 2026 in an interview:
Florida school districts are the “biggest” drivers of increased property taxes.
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • March 19, 2026
James Uthmeier
stated on November 6, 2025 in X post:
“Evidence suggests that 1 in 25 women who consume (abortion) pills are hospitalized.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • November 14, 2025
Casey Askar
stated on July 21, 2020 in in an ad:
“When Byron Donalds wanted a state job, he lied, claiming he wasn’t a felon despite convictions for drugs and felony theft.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 27, 2025
Casey Askar
stated on July 21, 2020 in in an ad:
“When Byron Donalds wanted a state job, he lied, claiming he wasn’t a felon despite convictions for drugs and felony theft.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • October 25, 2025
Rick Scott
stated on June 8, 2025 in a television interview:
Four million more people live in Florida, but New York gets $20 billion more for Medicaid, because it covers illegal immigrants and adults without chronic illness.
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • June 22, 2025
Jared Moskowitz
stated on May 1, 2025 in an interview on CNN:
Canadian tourism to Florida has declined by 80%.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Loreben Tuquero • May 7, 2025
Randy Fine
stated on January 28, 2025 in a senate special session:
Florida’s in-state college tuition waiver for immigrants in the country illegally costs the state $41 million.
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • February 6, 2025
Byron Donalds
stated on October 13, 2024 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
“Wages adjusted for inflation were massively up under Donald Trump for Black men. … The (Black-white) wage gap in 2019 was actually shrinking under Donald Trump’s administration.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2024
Vote No on 4
stated on September 10, 2024 in a TV ad:
“Unlike other amendments, Amendment 4 has no definitions. … Without definitions these words can mean almost anything.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • September 23, 2024
Yes on 4
stated on September 10, 2024 in a TV ad:
Florida’s six-week abortion law has “no real exceptions. Not for her health. Not even for rape.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • September 13, 2024
Ron DeSantis
stated on August 28, 2024 in a press conference:
The proposal to put golf courses, hotels in Florida state parks “was something that was leaked. … a lot of that stuff was half-baked and was not ready for prime time.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • August 29, 2024
Jason Pizzo
stated on May 30, 2024 in a post on X:
“Trump can’t vote for himself in the November election.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 31, 2024
Greg Steube
stated on April 14, 2024 in an X post:
Immigrants in the country illegally cost “Florida taxpayers $566 million for 54,000 hospital visits.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 2, 2024
Ron DeSantis
stated on February 27, 2024 in an interview on CNBC:
Citizens Property Insurance “is not solvent.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • March 14, 2024
TikTok posts
stated on December 15, 2023 in a TikTok:
“Almost a million people, mostly Democrats, have been kicked off the voter roll here in Florida” because of efforts to place a proposed amendment on abortion access on the state’s 2024 ballot.
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • January 5, 2024
Gavin Newsom
stated on November 30, 2023 in a debate:
“When (Ron DeSantis) was in Congress, he supported amnesty.”
Mostly False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • December 5, 2023
Pink
stated on November 13, 2023 in an X post:
These 13 books “have been banned from schools in Florida.”
Mostly False
By Jeff Cercone • November 20, 2023
DeSantis Watch
stated on November 8, 2023 in a Spanish-language radio ad:
Ron DeSantis “wants to cut Social Security and Medicare.”
Mostly False
By Maria Briceño, Marta Campabadal Graus • November 16, 2023
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