Latest Stories By Amy Sherman

Florida Gov Ron DeSantis’ presidential announcement lurched before it launched — technical problems had the Twitter Spaces audio cutting in and out for 15 minutes, sometimes leaving long silences. When the audio finally steadied, DeSantis promised success. “If you nominate me, you can set your clock to Jan. 20, 2025, at high noon,” he said, […]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has filed paperwork for a 2024 presidential run, officially kick-starting his bid for the Republican nomination. His candidacy has been widely expected, and for months, he has touted his platform: to make Florida the blueprint for the U.S. DeSantis has emphasized policies he’s enacted that target illegal immigration, limit gender-affirming care […]

When Ron DeSantis ran for governor in 2018, he ran on a sparse policy platform. He didn’t say much about his approach to illegal immigration. His website listed only two policy goals on immigration: enact E-Verify to ensure a legal workforce and ban “sanctuary cities.”  DeSantis campaigned praising then-President Donald Trump’s immigration policies — in […]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is diving into a battle with his former ally Donald Trump for the Republican nomination for president selling himself as a young leader who can battle against “woke” policies about race and gender and stem the flow of illegal immigration — without Trump’s baggage. DeSantis’ argument is that the U.S. should […]

El gobernador de Florida, Ron DeSantis, se está enfrentando a su ex-aliado Donald Trump en la batalla por la nominación presidencial republicana. Él se está postulando como un líder joven que puede batallar en contra de las políticas “woke” sobre temas de raza y género y como el candidato que puede detener la inmigración ilegal. […]

Cuando Ron DeSantis se postuló para gobernador en 2018, lo hizo con una plataforma política escasa. No dijo mucho sobre su enfoque de la inmigración ilegal. Su sitio web enumeraba solo dos objetivos políticos respecto a la inmigración: establecer el uso de E-Verify para garantizar una fuerza de trabajo legal y prohibir las “ciudades santuario.”  […]

In a raucous town hall where an audience of invited Republicans often cheered him on, former President Donald Trump insisted he didn’t know the woman who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict against him, suggested the U.S. might as well default on its debt and dodged questions about whether he would sign […]

For roughly 10 years, a little-known organization designed to keep U.S. states’ voter rolls in order delivered as promised. The Electronic Registration Information Center, a partnership among more than half of the states, drew Republican-led and Democratic-led states alike. From 2013 until February 2023, the center’s database of states’ combined voter rolls flagged more than […]

In Tucker Carlson’s final show on Fox News, he covered topics that might make any of his 3 million viewers anxious. More Black people will be selling weed in the nation’s cities, he said. Democrats are inviting immigrants to pour across the border to help them win elections, he said. Low-income housing is being forced […]

El presidente Joe Biden se postula para la reelección en 2024, enfrentando una revancha potencial con el ex-presidente Donald Trump.  PolitiFact ha verificado más de 260 declaraciones de Biden desde el 2007, cuando él era un senador de Estados Unidos de Delaware buscando la nominación presidencial Demócrata.  Estas son algunas de nuestras verificaciones más recientes […]

President Joe Biden is running for re-election in 2024, facing a potential rematch with former President Donald Trump. PolitiFact has fact-checked more than 260 statements by Biden since 2007, when he was a U.S. senator from Delaware seeking the Democratic presidential nomination.  See Figure 1 on PolitiFact.com We have also tracked Biden’s progress on 99 […]

Hours after appearing in a Manhattan courtroom devoid of television cameras, with limited photography and encircled by agitated protesters in the streets outside, Donald Trump returned home to Mar-a-Lago, his luxurious estate in Palm Beach, Florida.  There, on a ballroom stage with bright lights and a bank of cameras, he faced a supportive crowd and delivered […]