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Latest Fact-Checks By Samantha Putterman

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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 • 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 • 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 • 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
Threads posts
Threads posts
stated on July 27, 2024 a Threads post
C-sections are coded as abortions in hospitals.
False
By Samantha Putterman • July 5, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 4, 2024 a speech
“Due to the arrangements that I've reached with (Mexico) President Obrador, the number of migrants coming … to our shared border unlawfully in recent months has dropped dramatically.”
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • June 5, 2024
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 19, 2024 a speech
Donald Trump wants to terminate the Affordable Care Act.
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • June 3, 2024
Jared Polis
Jared Polis
stated on May 15, 2024 an X post
Tariffs are a “direct, regressive tax on Americans” and President Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods will “hit every family.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • May 17, 2024
Paul Renner
Paul Renner
stated on April 4, 2024 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
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 1, 2024 a campaign event
Former President Donald Trump told Time magazine that “states should monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans.”
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • May 3, 2024
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on May 1, 2024 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
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 23, 2024 a news conference
Florida’s Amendment 4 "will mandate abortion until the moment of birth.”
False
By Samantha Putterman • April 30, 2024
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