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Latest Fact-Checks By Samantha Putterman

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Vote No on 3
Vote No on 3
stated on September 7, 2024 a TV ad:
Florida’s Amendment 3 is “the monopoly amendment.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • September 27, 2024
Vote No on 4
Vote No on 4
stated on September 10, 2024 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
Social Media
Social Media
stated on September 21, 2024 a video:
Sen. JD Vance admitted he has a ‘rent-a-dog’ from the Trump campaign to make him “seem like a dog person.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • September 22, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on September 20, 2024 an X post:
First lady Jill Biden led a Cabinet meeting for President Joe Biden and her signature appears on presidential stationery.
False
By Samantha Putterman • September 21, 2024
Tim Walz
Tim Walz
stated on September 14, 2024 a speech:
“In Project 2025, you’re going to have to register with a new federal agency when you get pregnant.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • September 17, 2024
Yes on 4
Yes on 4
stated on September 10, 2024 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
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on August 28, 2024 an ad:
Project 2025 would defund K-12 schools.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • September 6, 2024
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on August 25, 2024 an interview:
“JD Vance actually sent a letter last year to the Department of Justice saying, ‘enforce the Comstock Act.’”
True
By Samantha Putterman • August 30, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on August 28, 2024 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
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on August 28, 2024 a post on X:
“This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • August 29, 2024
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
stated on August 7, 2024 un anuncio de radio de campaña:
El senador Rick Scott no apoya las excepciones al aborto.
False
By Samantha Putterman, Marta Campabadal Graus • August 16, 2024
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell
stated on August 7, 2024 an ad:
Sen. Rick Scott does not support abortion exceptions.
False
By Samantha Putterman, Marta Campabadal Graus • August 14, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 2024 a press conference:
Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.
False
By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • August 9, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on August 6, 2024 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
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 31, 2024 an NABJ conference appearance:
Kamala Harris was “Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden, she made a turn and she went, she became a Black person.”
Pants on Fire!
By Samantha Putterman • July 31, 2024
JD Vance
JD Vance
stated on July 28, 2024 an interview:
Vice President Kamala Harris is “calling for an end to the child tax credit.”
Pants on Fire!
By Samantha Putterman • July 30, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 18, 2024 a campaign event:
Project 2025 calls for restricting “access to IVF and contraception.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • July 24, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on July 13, 2024 una publicación en X:
Donald Trump escenificó el tiroteo en su mitin en Butler, Pensilvania.
Pants on Fire!
By Samantha Putterman, Marta Campabadal Graus • July 15, 2024
Social Media
Social Media
stated on July 13, 2024 social media posts:
Donald Trump staged the shooting at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Pants on Fire!
By Samantha Putterman • July 14, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 6, 2024 a moderated conversation:
Black women in the U.S. are “three to four times more likely to die in connection with childbirth than other women."
True
By Samantha Putterman • July 11, 2024
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