Latest Stories By Louis Jacobson

He dropped out of the 2024 presidential race, but Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who had pushed to “make America Florida,” is still aiming to shape national policy. DeSantis is proposing an alternative method of proposing U.S. Constitutional amendments that would let states call a convention if enough of them ask Congress.  In a Jan. 29 […]

PolitiFact has hit a milestone: We published our 1,000th rated fact-check of Donald Trump. In classic Trump fashion, he claimed in his New Hampshire primary victory speech Jan. 23 that Democrats used the COVID-19 pandemic to “cheat” in the 2020 presidential election.  Unsurprisingly to our regular readers, his claim was Pants on Fire. It’s not […]

PolitiFact has published its 1,000th fact-check of Donald Trump. In addition to our data analysis, we decided to back at the 10 Trump fact-checks that our readers clicked the most. The list included statements about immigrants, crime, terrorism, Hillary Clinton, gasoline prices and his own popularity.  Here is the list in descending order: 1. “My […]

MANCHESTER, N.H. — On the surface, this year’s primary has proceeded as usual. Candidates spoke to packed rooms, with the cleverest booking spaces just smaller than the expected turnout to stoke the excitement. Presidential candidates dropped by the Red Arrow Diner here, including former President Donald Trump and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley. The […]

As former President Donald Trump petitions the courts to be held legally immune for his actions as president, he’s begun comparing presidents and police officers. In a Jan.19 Truth Social post, Trump argued that “a president of the United States must have full immunity, without which it would be impossible for him/her to properly function.” […]

MANCHESTER, N.H. — Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., has been campaigning aggressively in New Hampshire, hoping to convince Democratic voters that a new face is needed to keep the party in control of the White House in 2024. In a series of events in the state on Jan. 18, Phillips, who is challenging incumbent Joe Biden […]

HENNIKER, N.H. — A key argument former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is making as she runs for the Republican presidential nomination is practical. She says that although polls show that a matchup between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump would be a nail-biter, she would cruise to victory. Haley repeated that argument […]

HENNIKER, N.H. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis set himself a high bar in a Jan. 16 town hall while campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination. He mentioned three policies he’d like to implement that current Supreme Court jurisprudence frowns upon.  In the town hall aired on CNN at New England College, DeSantis endorsed these policies: […]

President Joe Biden wasted little time jumping on a remark by former President Donald Trump, in which Trump invoked Herbert Hoover, who was president during the Great Depression’s onset in 1929. Trump told former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs that he was hoping that the economy would crash within the year, while Biden is president.  […]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley sparred over whether to raise the Social Security retirement age during a CNN Republican presidential primary debate in Des Moines, Iowa. Haley said life expectancy is longer today, so the age to start collecting Social Security benefits should be older than the current 65 […]

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley tried to highlight some weaknesses in Florida’s economic performance during a presidential debate against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. DeSantis often lists the ways Florida is the nation’s top-ranked state, from gross domestic product to education to entrepreneurship. (We fact-checked his list.) “But if he’s gonna talk about his economy, […]

Gov. Ron DeSantis used his annual message to the state Legislature to leave voters in Florida — and maybe caucusgoers in Iowa, too — with an inescapable message: We’re No. 1. DeSantis whisked into Tallahassee from the campaign trail on Jan. 9 to mark the first day of Florida’s 60-day session, six days before the […]