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Statement: Says Andrew Gillum was "singing a different tune" about charter schools at the Florida debate.
Speaker: ron desantis
About the speaker: Ron DeSantis announced on May 24, 2023 that he is running for president in the Republican primary. DeSantis won the race for Florida governor in 2018 and 2022. DeSantis was first elected to Congress in 2012 and resigned in September 2018 to focus on his campaign. He represented Florida's 6th Congressional District which is south of St. Augustine and north of Orlando and includes Daytona Beach. DeSantis initially ran for U.S. Senate in 2016 but dropped out after Marco Rubio decided to seek re-election.
Date: October 24, 2018
Location: florida
Topics: education
Context: a debate at Broward College
Fact-check justification: DeSantis says Gillum was "singing a different tune" about charter schools at the Florida debate. That was a reference to Gillum’s answer to a question about whether he would cut any dollars from charter schools. But Gillum was downplaying his previous comments on charters, saying he would not propose any change to the "current status quo." He went on to say he was "going to put money into our public system where over 90 percent of our kids are still being educated." During the primary, Gillum had tougher words. He said Florida should "end this for-profit regime" immediately, in regard to charter schools managed by for-profit entities, and he called for an "end" of moving more public dollars to for-profit charters. What DeSantis omits is that Gillum hasn’t called for an end to all charter schools — he is targeting those that are managed by for-profit entities. We rate this  .
Statement: Democrats have "lost more than 900 state legislators" since Barack Obama has been president.
Speaker: cokie roberts
About the speaker: Cokie Roberts is a political journalist and commentator for ABC News. She also is a contributor to National Public Radio's Morning Edition. She previously was co-anchor of ABC's Sunday morning show This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts and also worked for PBS.
Date: January 25, 2015
Topics: candidate biography;elections;punditfact
Context: comments on ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: Roberts said Obama sought to inspire Democrats across the country in his State of the Union address in part because the party lost "more than 900 state legislators" since he took office. We ran the numbers, and Roberts’  checks out. Using data from the National Conference of State Legislatures, Democrats have lost 910 seats in statehouses across the country since 2009. We rate her  .
Statement: Twenty-six out of every 100 students" in K-12 speak Spanish.
Speaker: joe biden
About the speaker: Joe Biden is the president of the United States. A Democrat, Biden served as a Delaware senator from 1973 (elected at the age of 29) until 2009. During his time in the Senate, he served as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, chair of the International Narcotics Control Caucus and chair of the Judiciary Committee. He subsequently served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2016. Biden launched unsuccessful presidential campaigns in 1988 and 2008. He received a degree in history and political science from the University of Delaware and his J.D. from Syracuse School of Law. 
Date: June 15, 2023
Topics: census;children;population
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Census data also shows that 26% of K-12 students are Hispanic, but that doesn't mean they all speak Spanish. Biden’s statement is partially accurate but omits important details. We rate it . RELATED : All of our fact-checks of Joe Biden RELATED : Read our Spanish-language fact-checks Read this fact-check in Spanish .
Statement: The Chicago Bears have had more starting quarterbacks in the last 10 years than the total number of tenured (UW) faculty fired during the last two decades.
Speaker: robin vos
About the speaker: Wisconsin state Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, has represented western Racine County in the state Assembly since 2004. In November 2012, he was elected Assembly speaker. Vos previously served on the Racine County Board of Supervisors, from 1994 to 2004.
Date: May 26, 2016
Location: wisconsin
Topics: education
Context: a an online opinion-piece
Fact-check justification: But Vos specifically used the word "fired," which means faculty dismissed for just cause. That doesn’t include resignations. Our rating Vos said the Chicago Bears have had more starting quarterbacks in the past 10 years than the number of UW faculty members who have been fired in the past 20 years. Six faculty members have been fired in the past two decades, while there have been nine different starting quarterbacks for the Bears in the past decade. We rate his  .
Statement: Says Section 1325 of U.S. immigration law was "put into place in 1929, by a segregationist.
Speaker: julián castro
About the speaker: Julián Castro is a former U.S. secretary of Housing & Urban Development. He was the youngest member of Barack Obama’s cabinet, serving from 2014 to 2017. Just before he became secretary of HUD, he was the mayor of San Antonio, elected in 2009. Castro received a bachelor’s degree in political science and communications from Stanford University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. In 2019, he announced he was running for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out on Jan. 2, 2020.
Date: June 30, 2019
Location: texas
Topics: immigration
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: Castro said Section 1325 immigration policy, which makes it a crime to enter the country illegally, was "put into place in 1929, by a segregationist." Technically Blease — a white supremicist who advocated for segregationist policies and lynching —  was not the author of the statute on illegal entry into the United States as it exists in today’s immigration code.  But it was the first policy criminalizing all unlawful entry at the nation's southern border, and is considered the foundation of the 1952 policy that  evolved into today's Section 1325.  We rate this  .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information.
Statement: Unfortunately everyone needs to cut back in these tough economic times. That's why I voted to cut my own pay along with the pay of our state employees.
Speaker: matt patten
About the speaker: Matt Patten, a Democrat from Strongsville, is a state representative from the 18th Ohio House District.
Date: October 22, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: state budget;voting record
Context: a campaign mailer
Fact-check justification: The rationale was that if a legislator has be re-elected before being eligible for the pay raise, there is no guarantee that they would ever see the money. We ruled in those cases that voters actually granted the pay raise when they sent them back for another term. That same rationale applies here. Patten and other House Democrats are making an issue out of a vote that purported to cut lawmakers’ pay by 5 percent. Therefore, we find this  to be .
Statement: This Congress made history as the least productive, most unpopular Congress in the history of this proud nation.
Speaker: pete gallego
About the speaker: Pete Gallego, initially elected to the Texas House in 1990, won election to the U.S. House in November 2012. He lost his re-election bid in 2014. In July 2018, he ran in a special election to represent Texas Senate District 19.
Date: December 10, 2014
Location: texas
Topics: congress;polls and public opinion
Context: his farewell U.S. House speech
Fact-check justification: Gallego said: "This Congress made history as the least productive, most unpopular Congress in the history of this proud nation." This  lacked caveats: There wasn’t polling on the popularity of Congress for most of its existence and productivity has only be yard-sticked since 1947. That said, it looks like the 113th Congress was the least productive Congress in nearly 70 years and the least popular one since relevant polls launched in the 1970s. We rate this statement .  – The statement is accurate but needs clarification or additional information. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check.sources.
Statement: The people that went to school with (Barack Obama), they never saw him, they don't know who he is.
Speaker: donald trump
About the speaker: Donald Trump is the former president of the United States. He was elected the 45th president of the United States on Nov. 8, 2016.  He has been a real estate developer, entrepreneur and host of the NBC reality show, "The Apprentice." Trump's statements were awarded PolitiFact's 2015, 2017 and 2019 Lie of the Year. In November 2022, he announced he would run for president in 2024.
Date: February 10, 2011
Location: national
Topics: candidate biography;education;obama birth certificate
Context: a speech at the CPAC conference
Fact-check justification: Trump is certainly right that presidential candidates are heavily scrutinized. As even a basic online search confirms, Obama's school years were, too. Trump's  that people who went to school with Obama "never saw him, they don't know who he is" is . Or, to borrow Trump's phrase, it's crazy. We rule Trump's statement .
Statement: Tom Suozzi raised taxes "by hundreds of millions of dollars" as Nassau County executive.
Speaker: national republican congressional committee
About the speaker: National Republican Congressional Committee
Date: August 10, 2016
Location: new york
Topics: taxes
Context: a blog post on the NRCC website
Fact-check justification: The National Republican Congressional Committee said in an online post that former Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi raised taxes by "hundreds of millions of dollars." During his time in office, Suozzi raised taxes by more than $200 million by collecting more in property taxes and instituting an energy-use tax. The $40 million collected from the short-lived energy-use tax combined with the $160 million increase in property taxes brings the total above that threshold. We rate this  as .
Statement: The runnerup to Caitlyn Jenner for ESPN's Arthur Ashe Courage Award was "Army veteran Noah Galloway, who lost an arm and leg to a roadside bomb in Iraq.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: June 2, 2015
Topics: pop culture;sports;punditfact
Context: posts on Facebook
Fact-check justification: At all times, there are many worthy candidates. This year, we are proud to honor Caitlyn Jenner embracing her identity and doing so in a public way to help move forward a constructive dialogue about progress and acceptance." Several websites, from Snopes , to Deadspin to the Washington Post , have reached the same conclusion as PunditFact: Galloway is a real person, but this runnerup story is bogus. The  rates .
Statement: Antifa Fascist Fangirl Tulsi Gabbard posing with Evan Duke, leader of Portland Antifa and Occupy ICE.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: October 22, 2019
Topics: fake news;facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post  to show, "Antifa Fascist Fangirl Tulsi Gabbard posing with Evan Duke, leader of Portland Antifa and Occupy ICE." Gabbard is in the picture along with a group of people; they were in North Dakota protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The picture includes a man named Evan Duke, who appears to support the antifa movement. But Duke and an antifa group in Portland told PolitiFact that Duke has not led Portland Antifa nor Occupy ICE. Gabbard has said that she "denounced antifa." Though the photograph itself is real, the Facebook post presents the image out of context and with factual inaccuracies. We rate it .
Statement: Stabilizing the recent financial crisis "will cost less than 1 percent of GDP," which is less than the 2.5 percent to fix the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s.
Speaker: barack obama
About the speaker: Barack Obama is the former president of the United States. Obama also served as a U.S. senator from Illinois. He was born in 1961 in Hawaii, where his parents met as students at the University of Hawaii. Obama's father is from Kenya and his mother is from Kansas. He graduated from Columbia University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. Obama previously served in the Illinois state Senate and was an instructor at the University of Chicago Law School. He and his wife, Michelle, have two daughters, Malia and Sasha.
Date: October 27, 2010
Location: national
Topics: bankruptcy;economy;federal budget;financial regulation;regulation
Context: an interview on Comedy Central's "Daily Show with Jon Stewart"
Fact-check justification: So where does this leave us? Obama has repeated a defensible estimate of the cost of the two financial crises. But there are lots of other estimates that would be equally if not more valid, and those wouldn't be as favorable to the White House's case. The figures Obama cited don't include many of the ancillary (and often intangible) costs of the recovery, and there's no way of knowing for sure that current cost estimates won't go up in future years. On balance, we rate his comment .
Statement: Photos show Manila Bay before and during Rodrigo Duterte's administration.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: October 23, 2021
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Duterete’s administration," the post sharing two images says. "Look at the difference. "  The first image shows a beach packed with debris. The second shows people walking on the clean sand.   But both photos were taken during Duterte’s time as president.
Statement: An impersonator in a Joe Biden mask gave an interview as Joe Biden.
Speaker: viral image
About the speaker: Graphics, pictures and charts shared on social media give chain emails a run for their money when it comes to spreading too-good-to-be-true claims all over the Internet. A common form is is the "Internet macro," which uses an easily recognized and repurposed image (called a meme) wth superimposed text to make a funny but political argument. Sometimes these images are passed across social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit so widely that the original source is nearly impossible to determine.
Date: October 6, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: As Biden speaks and moves around in his seat, the line of the shadow also changes.   The beginning of the CNBC interview also includes an opening montage that’s been edited out of the version posted on YouTube. It shows Biden mingling with other patrons and, away from whatever lighting was shining on Biden during the interview, the shadow isn’t there.   There is no  that someone wearing a Biden mask has given interviews to the media pretending to be the presidential nominee.   We rate these posts .
Statement: After Britain's vote to leave the European Union, "within 24 hours, Americans lost $100 billion from our 401(k)s.
Speaker: hillary clinton
About the speaker: Hillary Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president. She served as U.S. Secretary of State during the first four years of the Obama administration. She is formerly a U.S. senator from New York, first elected in 2000. She was a candidate for president in 2008. She previously served as first lady when her husband, Bill Clinton, served two terms as president. She was born in Chicago in 1947, graduated from Wellesley College and earned a law degree at Yale Law School. She and her husband have one daughter.
Date: June 27, 2016
Location: national
Topics: economy;retirement
Context: Cincinnati, Ohio
Fact-check justification: After Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, "within 24 hours, Americans lost $100 billion from our 401(k)s," Clinton said.  Experts told us that Clinton’s calculation was a reasonable approximation of the loss of 401(k) assets amid market turmoil following the Brexit vote. That being said, those losses are very likely impermanent. 401(k) accounts are long-term investments designed to withstand brief shocks like this. The  is accurate but needs additional information, so we rate Clinton’s   .
Statement: Barack Obama said that Iran has a "right" to nuclear technology, including weapons.
Speaker: ted cruz
About the speaker: Ted Cruz is a U.S. Senator from Texas, first elected in 2012. Cruz also was a candidate for president of the United States in 2016. He is the former solicitor general for the state of Texas, previously serving as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a domestic policy advisor on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, according to his campaign biography.
Date: May 17, 2023
Location: texas
Topics: iran;nuclear
Context: a speech at the Hudson Institute
Fact-check justification: Cruz credited Obama with saying that Iran has a "right" to nuclear technology, including weapons. Obama in 2009 said Iran "should have the right to access peaceful nuclear power if it complies with its responsibilities under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty." He did not say it had the right to nuclear weapons. Experts we spoke to said it is possible, although not easy, to use materials used for peaceful nuclear power to build nuclear weapons. The U.S. under Obama in 2015 entered a global agreement that dismantled much of Iran’s nuclear program and opened its facilities to international inspections. As recently as 2018, Obama said Iran should be prevented from obtaining nuclear weapons.  We rate Cruz’s statement .
Statement: I signed the largest single tax cut in the history of Florida, a $25 billion tax cut over five years, directed at property tax cuts.
Speaker: charlie crist
About the speaker: Charlie Crist lost the race for Florida governor as the Democratic candidate in 2022. He served as a U.S. congressman from St. Petersburg since 2017 and resigned Aug. 31, 2022 to focus on his campaign.  As a Republican, Crist served as governor from 2007 to 2011. Crist left the Republican Party in 2010 to mount a campaign for the U.S. Senate as an independent. Crist lost the race to Marco Rubio. In 2012, he endorsed President Barack Obama and announced that he had registered as a Democrat. He lost his race as a Democratic candidate for governor in 2014.
Date: September 25, 2009
Location: national
Topics: taxes;florida
Context: speaking to a group of Michigan Republicans
Fact-check justification: The Crist-led changes to Florida's property tax structure certainly required the lowering of tax rates and assessment values throughout Florida. But there are all kinds of holes in projecting the size and scope of the legislation's impact. Here's the bottom line: While the tax structure changes passed by the Legislature, signed by Crist and approved by voters undoubtedly will result in less property taxes being paid by Florida residents, the specific financial impact of the initiatives remains quite unclear. Experts say projections can be . But given the decline in home values, we know Crist will have difficulty reaching his  of $25 billion over five years. In the absence of additional data, and with the knowledge that Save Our Homes has cut property tax bills for Florida residents $32 billion or more, we can't agree with Crist that the 2007 and 2008 changes constitute the largest tax cut in state history. We rule Crist's statement .
Statement: We are $20 trillion in debt. The Congressional Budget Office projects an additional $129 trillion of accumulated deficits over the next 30 years.
Speaker: ron johnson
About the speaker: Ron Johnson is a Republican U.S. senator from Wisconsin. A businessman and accountant, Johnson defeated Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold in the 2010 election. He is seeking re-election in 2016.
Date: June 26, 2017
Location: national
Topics: debt;deficit;federal budget
Context: the New York Times
Fact-check justification: Johnson wrote, "We are $20 trillion in debt. The Congressional Budget Office projects an additional $129 trillion of accumulated deficits over the next 30 years." Johnson’s figures are plausible. Even the official CBO figure of $107 trillion in 30 years -- while smaller than Johnson's $129 trillion -- is a huge number. But the attribution is sloppy. While the figure is based on CBO data, it is not an actual, current projection by CBO. We rate the statement .
Statement: Six institutions in our country now control two thirds of the capital.
Speaker: marcy kaptur
About the speaker: Marcy Kaptur represents Ohio's Ninth Congressional District in the House of Representatives. She was first elected to the House in 1982. She is the senior-most woman in the 111th Congress.
 
Date: November 23, 2010
Location: ohio
Topics: economy;financial regulation
Context: an MSNBC interview
Fact-check justification: We agree with Johnson. And had Kaptur said something like that, she would have rated higher on the -O-Meter. A basic tenet PolitiFact uses to evaluate statements is that words matter. In this case, by using the word "capital," rather than "assets," she turned the accuracy of her statement upside down. That’s why we rate her statement as .
Statement: The caliphate has crumbled and ISIS has been defeated.
Speaker: mike pence
About the speaker: Mike Pence is the former vice president of the United States. A Republican, Pence was elected governor of Indiana in 2012. Pence previously served for 12 years as a congressman from Indiana representing the Sixth Congressional District; he was first elected in 2000. During his time in the U.S. House of Represenatives, he served as House Republican Conference chairman and chairman of the House Republican Study Committee. Pence was born in Columbus, Ind. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1981 from Hanover College and a law degree in 1986 from Indiana University. After accepting Donald Trump's offer to be running mate, Pence ended his 2016 campaign to be re-elected as Indiana governor. 
Date: January 16, 2019
Location: national
Topics: foreign policy;military;terrorism
Context: a speech
Fact-check justification: Pence said, "The caliphate has crumbled and ISIS has been defeated." Experts agree that ISIS caliphate is essentially gone. However, the crumbled caliphate does not mean that ISIS has been "defeated," not by a long shot. Even the White House itself acknowledged that reality just three months ago. We rate the statement .