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Latest Fact-Checks In Florida

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Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
stated on August 7, 2024 in an ad:
Sen. Rick Scott does not support abortion exceptions.
False
By Samantha Putterman, Marta Campabadal Graus • August 14, 2024
Byron Donalds
stated on August 6, 2024 in una entrevista:
“Tim Walz firmó una ley para dar licencia de conducir a inmigrantes ilegales en Minnesota”.
True
By Maria Briceño, Marta Campabadal Graus • August 9, 2024
Byron Donalds
stated on August 6, 2024 in an interview:
“Tim Walz signed into law driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants in Minnesota.”
True
By Maria Briceño, Marta Campabadal Graus • August 9, 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.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • August 8, 2024
TikTok posts
stated on July 9, 2024 in a TikTok video:
“Miami Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa” had a “front-row seat” reserved at Donald Trump’s Miami rally.
False
By Jeff Cercone • July 10, 2024
Viral image
stated on July 7, 2024 in a Facebook post:
Video shows “Florida beach tornado” July 7, 2024
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • July 8, 2024
Viral image
stated on June 12, 2024 in an Instagram post:
Video shows “U.S. Navy deploys in Miami due to Russian warships 6/12.”
False
By Ciara O'Rourke • June 14, 2024
Marco Rubio
stated on May 19, 2024 in an interview:
The number of people in the U.S. illegally is “upwards of 20, 25, maybe 30 million.”
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • June 11, 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
Paul Renner
stated on April 4, 2024 in an interview:
For health risk exceptions in Florida’s abortion amendment, “You’re not even talking to a doctor to make that determination.”
False
By Maria Briceño, Samantha Putterman • May 10, 2024
Rick Scott
stated on May 4, 2024 in an X post:
“Joe Biden flew hundreds of thousands of illegals into Florida last year.”
False
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • May 9, 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
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.”
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • May 2, 2024
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 23, 2024 in a news conference:
Florida’s Amendment 4 “will mandate abortion until the moment of birth.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • April 30, 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.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • April 17, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on April 2, 2024 in an Instagram post:
Says 326,000 migrants were flown to Florida with taxpayer dollars under President Joe Biden’s secret migrant flight program.
False
By Sofia Ahmed • April 12, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on March 21, 2024 in an Instagram post:
Video shows legislators “dancing in Congress” while the border is “overrun.”
False
By Jeff Cercone • March 22, 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.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • March 21, 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
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.”
Half-True
By Maria Briceño • March 7, 2024
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