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Statement: There's not been a single book banned in the state of Florida.
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: May 24, 2023
Location: national
Topics: education;lgbtq;florida
Context: a Twitter Spaces event
Fact-check justification: DeSantis said, "There's not been a single book banned in the state of Florida."  His argument hinges on county school districts, and not the state, deciding which books to remove or restrict. But school districts are making book decisions to comply with state law.  The American Library Association says a "ban" is the removal of a book based on a person or group’s objection and experts we spoke to said a book is effectively banned in school when it’s pulled from a school library and cannot be taught.  A press release from DeSantis said in March that 23 districts had removed 175 titles, which contradicts his argument that not a single book was banned. We rate this statement . RELATED : Ron DeSantis is running for president in 2024. How accurate are his recent statements? RELATED : Fact-checking the Republican attacks against Gov. Ron DeSantis on Disney, taxes RELATED : Ask PolitiFact: Is Hakeem Jeffries right about the GOP’s stance on book-banning?
Statement: Says the Democratic Party created a debate schedule "to maximize the opportunity for voters to see our candidates.
Speaker: debbie wasserman schultz
About the speaker: Debbie Wasserman Schultz became the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee in 2011 and resigned in July 2016. The Florida Democrat was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2004 after serving in the state senate. She represents Congressional District 23 in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Date: January 17, 2016
Location: florida
Topics: debates;elections
Context: an interview on CNN Reliable Sources
Fact-check justification: Wasserman Schultz says the party came up with a debate schedule "to maximize the opportunity for voters to see our candidates." Wasserman Schultz’s best point is that the Democrats largely scheduled their debates with TV networks, which means viewers without cable can see them. But other than that, her statement is very disingenuous. There are six Democratic party debates compared with 11 scheduled for the Republicans, and half of the Democratic debates are on weekends -- including one the weekend before Christmas and another on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. If the Democrats had wanted to "maximize" opportunities for viewers, the party could have added more debates, scheduled them on weekdays and avoided holidays. We rate this  .
Statement: People come here to have babies. They come here to drop a child. It's called 'drop and leave.
Speaker: lindsey graham
About the speaker: Lindsey Graham is a U.S. senator from South Carolina. He was a candidate for the Republican nominee for president in 2016.
Date: July 28, 2010
Location: national
Topics: immigration;health care;legal issues
Context: an interview with Fox News' "On the Record with Greta Van Susteren"
Fact-check justification: However, we are not convinced that "drop and leave" is a phenomenon. The data suggests that the motivator for illegal immigrants is the search for work and a better economic standing over the long term, not quickie citizenship for U.S.-born babies. Graham appears to be conflating two things -- a pattern of wealthy foreigners engaging in "birth tourism" using legal visas, and illegal immigration of poorer people from Mexico. In our view, failing to make the distinction  the alleged problem and uses inflammatory rhetoric to obscure legitimate policy questions. On balance, we rate his comment .
Statement: As of the last 24 hours this is the protocol regarding masks: Masks should only be used by healthcare workers, caretakers or by people who are sick with symptoms like fever and cough.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: August 14, 2020
Topics: health care;public health;facebook fact-checks;health check;coronavirus
Context: a post on Facebook
Fact-check justification: A post says, "As of the last 24 hours this is the protocol regarding masks: Masks should only be used by healthcare workers, caretakers or by people who are sick with symptoms like fever and cough." The post was shared Aug. 14, and has more than 10,000 shares on Facebook. But the details in the image are months old, and the instructions are outdated.  WHO says governments should encourage the use of masks in places where there social distancing isn’t possible or where there is widespread community transmission. We rate this  .
Statement: Dan Helmer "believes in abolishing our private insurance system.
Speaker: tim hugo
About the speaker: Del. Tim Hugo, R-Fairfax County, has been a member of the Virginia House of Delegates since 1993. He is chairman of the chamber's Republican Caucus.
Hugo is the executive director of Free File Alliance, an association of tax filing companies. He previously worked in the U.S. House of Representaives as legislative director for Rep. Jennifer Dunn, R-Wash., and chief of staff for Rep. Bud Shuster, R-Pa.
Hugo has a BA from William & Mary.
 
 
Date: September 10, 2019
Location: virginia
Topics: health care;medicare
Context: a campaign mailer
Fact-check justification: Hugo says Helmer wants to abolish private health insurance. Helmer repeatedly said in a 2018 campaign that he supports a "Medicare-for -All option" that "allows Americans who doesn’t have or doesn’t like his insurance to opt into Medicare." In other words, private insurance would continue to exist. But Helmer used imprecise language that Hugo exploits with a semantic argument. Since Medicare for All means the government would be the sole health insurance provider, Hugo says it can’t have a private insurance option. Ergo, Helmer wants to end private insurance, according to Hugo’s campaign. Had Helmer used the proper term - public option - Hugo’s logic would have evaporated. But his poor phrasing left him open to interpretation, and Hugo has taken the liberty to misleadingly create a position for Helmer. We rate Hugo’s statement .
Statement: Bicycle ownership drops by half while obesity in Rhode Island rises by 154 percent
Speaker:  my city bikes
About the speaker: My City Bikes is a web site and a mobile app that advocates for health and bike riding.
Date: December 7, 2015
Location: rhode island
Topics: public health
Context: news release
Fact-check justification: But she did. That’s the way the headline is cast. Sadly, obesity is on the rise, but My City Bikes has no data on bike ownership in Rhode Island and yet it names Rhode Island in its headline and datelines its release in Providence.   The  is bogus. !
Statement: The truth is this tax [plan] raises middle-class taxes.
Speaker: kirsten gillibrand
About the speaker: Kirsten Gillibrand is a senator from New York. Gillibrand was appointed as senator in 2009 to fill Hillary Clinton’s vacated seat, as Clinton became U.S. Secretary of State under Barack Obama. Gillibrand won a special election in 2010 to retain her senate seat and won re-elections in 2012 and 2018. From 2007 to 2009, she served as the representative of New York’s 20th Congressional District. Gillibrand received a bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from UCLA School of Law. In 2019, she ran for the Democratic nomination for president and dropped out in August.
Date: December 15, 2017
Location: new york
Topics: taxes
Context: Buffalo
Fact-check justification: Gillibrand said the Republican "tax [plan] raises middle-class taxes." That's not  during the first years of the new tax provisions. If not for the sunset for the tax changes for individuals, we likely would have rated Gillibrand's statement  or perhaps . Middle-income taxpayers will either benefit or see no change in their tax liability through 2025. But her  could hold up after the bill's individual provisions expire that year. There's no guarantee a future Congress will extend those parts of the bill.  So for that reason, her statement is partially  but still ignores important details. We rate it .
Statement: For the new state budget, "Floridians have sent us $3 billion less of their funding.
Speaker: anitere flores
About the speaker: Anitere Flores is a Republican state representative from Miami.
Date: April 30, 2010
Location: florida
Topics: state budget;taxes
Context: a House floor speech
Fact-check justification: This year, the spending plan totaled $70.4 billion – almost $4 billion more. Bottom line: the state can still have a deficit while bringing in more funding, which is just the case this year. Flores misspoke when she said Floridians have sent the government less money. They've done just the opposite. Her statement earns a . UPDATE: Flores e-mailed PolitiFact after this item was published and said she inartfully worded her statement and meant to refer to the budget shortfall, not the amount of revenue the state brought in.
Statement: Lawmakers were paid for their off-season efforts to, for the first time, take the lead in drawing borders for two would-be cities.
Speaker: mary margaret oliver
About the speaker: Mary Margaret Oliver, a Democrat, is a state representative whose district includes portions of Decatur, Ga. A native of DeKalb County, Ga., she was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1987 and has also served in the Georgia Senate.
Date: March 31, 2015
Location: georgia
Context: a House floor debate
Fact-check justification: Once the governor signs the bills, about 100,000 people will decide this fall on whether to form one or both cities. The debate about those boundaries nearly killed those votes for the second year in a row. Oliver said that taxpayers paid for lawmakers to work out a deal for both sides. State records back up that . We rate Oliver’s statement .
Statement: Under President Bush in eight years, we added $4.9 trillion to the debt. Under President Obama, we've added $5.3 trillion to the debt in the 3.5 years he's been in office.
Speaker: kelly ayotte
About the speaker: Kelly Ayotte is a U.S. Senator representing New Hampshire as a Republican. She was the first woman to serve as her state's attorney general. Appointed to that position in 2004 by a Republican governor, she was twice reappointed by a Democratic governor.
Date: August 23, 2012
Location: new hampshire
Topics: debt
Context: Merrimack, N.H
Fact-check justification: Our ruling: Ayotte’s got her numbers right. According to the treasury department’s count, the debt has grown $5.3 trillion since Obama took office in 2009, compared to $4.9 trillion in Bush’s eight years. Still, analysts say these figures don’t paint a full picture of the root causes of the debt. In her statement, Ayotte doesn’t attribute direct credit or blame, but she did use the speech to blast Obama and his policies. We rate her  .
Statement: There's no such thing as a lone wolf. ... That was a phrase invented by the last administration to make Americans stupid.
Speaker: sebastian gorka
About the speaker: Sebastian Gorka is a former deputy assistant to President Donald Trump.
Date: August 8, 2017
Location: national
Topics: homeland security;terrorism
Context: an interview with MSNBC
Fact-check justification: Gorka said, "There's no such thing as a lone wolf. ... That was a phrase invented by the last administration to make Americans stupid." Contrary to what Gorka said, the concept of the lone wolf terrorist predates the Obama administration by decades. We found the term widely used by government officials, academics, and the media, all before Obama took office. We rate the statement .
Statement: The ceilings of the Virginia Senate and House chambers are "circled by gold-embossed tobacco leaves.
Speaker: tim kaine
About the speaker: Tim Kaine is a U.S. senator representing Virginia, elected to the Senate in 2012. He was the 2016 Democratic nominee for vice president.
Kaine was governor from 2006 to 2010, lieutenant governor from 2002 to 2006, mayor of Richmond from 1998 to 2001, and city councilman of Richmond beginning in 1994. He was also the chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 to 2011.
Kaine was born in St. Paul, Minn. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1979 from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and a law degree from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., in 1983. He took a year-long break during law school to work with the Jesuit order as a Catholic missionary in Honduras, becoming fluent in Spanish.
 
Date: May 20, 2019
Location: virginia
Topics: history
Context: a floor speech
Fact-check justification: Kaine said the ceilings of the Virginia Senate and House chambers are "circled by gold-embossed tobacco leaves."   Experts say there’s not a fleck tobacco on the ornate ceilings and walls of the chambers. What you see is likely laurel - remember, tobacco doesn’t have berries - and acanthus, leaves used since ancient times to adorn Greek-Roman architecture like the capitol. And there’s no gild in the gold, just Dutch metal paint. Kaine was repeating a myth which, by definition, must be . So that's what we'll rate his statement: .
Statement: The legislature has long maintained that the law never allowed these illegal drop boxes.
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: July 8, 2022
Location: wisconsin
Topics: elections;legal issues
Context: Twitter
Fact-check justification: Vos claimed that the Legislature has "long maintained that the law never allowed these illegal drop boxes." His spokesperson drew a distinction between what was authorized by the court ruling and events like Democracy in the Park. But that seems to miss the point.  At the time that Vos sent a letter suggesting the Madison clerk’s office instead use approved methods like drop boxes, the state Supreme Court ruling was many months in the future. So, we can only assume the letter was referring to the drop box practice in place at the time. More importantly, his own staff noted his concern only arose during the 2020 election, when the boxes – which had been around for many years — gained widespread attention. So, we think that claiming long-standing opposition overstates the case. We rate this  .
Statement: Says the CDC now says that the coronavirus can survive on surfaces for up to 17 days.
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: March 23, 2020
Topics: facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: We previously looked at how long the virus can survive on certain surfaces in a recent fact-check and found research suggesting it can live for up to three hours in the air, four hours on copper, 24 hours on cardboard and three days on plastic and stainless steel. It’s important to note that the study hasn’t been peer-reviewed and more research is needed. The WHO and other health experts recommend that people disinfect surfaces often and wash their hands to avoid contracting or spreading the virus. More research needs to be done, but there is no  that the coronavirus can surive for up to 17 days on various surfaces. We rate this .
Statement: Given how expansive our program already was," expanding Medicaid in New Jersey due to Obamacare "was a relatively small expansion.
Speaker: chris christie
About the speaker: Chris Christie announced June 6, 2023 that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Christie was the governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. As governor, Christie won office in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014. Prior to that, he was U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 2002 to 2008. 
Date: November 10, 2013
Location: national
Topics: corrections and updates;health care;medicaid;state budget
Context: an interview on ABC's "This Week"
Fact-check justification: Christie touted New Jersey’s "expansive" Medicaid program. Because New Jersey was already generous in its Medicaid eligibility guidelines compared to other states, the potential increase in Medicaid enrollments due to Obamacare is relatively small. Only one out of the other nine states for which we found data had a lower percentage increase in the Medicaid-eligible population due to Obamacare. So Christie’s comment appears accurate, though the uncertainty due to the missing data leads us to rate it . Correction, Nov. 18, 2013: This report was corrected to note that New Jersey's current Medicaid coverage is 23 percent, and that would expand under Obamacare in 2014 to up to 138 percent of the poverty level.  The rating is unchanged. Also, this item was updated shortly after publication to make clear that the New Jersey Department of Human Services did respond to our inquiry.
Statement: President Obama and Nancy Pelosi said "Obamacare" would save money because "they factored in 10 years worth of tax revenue and only six and half years worth of expenses.
Speaker: eric hovde
About the speaker: Eric Hovde, a hedge fund manager and businessman from Madison, entered politics by running for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2012. He finished second in the GOP primary.
Date: July 29, 2012
Location: wisconsin
Topics: health care
Context: a television interview
Fact-check justification: It’s  that the tax money began to come in starting in 2010. But it’s  that the benefits don’t kick in until 2014. There are numerous parts of the bill that have already taken effect. Hovde joins the crowd who have made the same . It’s .
Statement: NASA confirms Earth will experience 15 days of darkness In November 2017.
Speaker: bloggers
About the speaker: Blog posting on the Internet
Date: June 2, 2017
Topics: fake news;punditfact
Context: Internet posts
Fact-check justification: Dates and details may change (one version said a solar storm would darken the Earth for six days in December), but none of them were correct. We couldn’t find any  of NASA making such an announcement, of course. We contacted NASA about the possibility an inky fortnight of celestial shenanigans, but didn’t immediately hear back. The  story about Earth going dark has been around for some time, but it’s time we bring this hoax to light. We rate it !
Statement: Says President Joe Biden sparked a migrant caravan from Honduras and questioned the loyalty of U.S. troops at the inauguration.
Speaker: restoration pac
About the speaker: Suburan Chicago-based Restoration PAC is a super PAC that was formed in January 2015.
Date: January 20, 2021
Topics: immigration;military;facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: A Facebook post attacking Biden’s pre-presidential "failures" blamed him for a migrant caravan from Honduras and said he questioned the loyalty of U.S. troops in Washington.  Biden’s proposal to provide a route to citizenship for immigrants is only applicable to people who were already in the U.S. as of Jan. 1, 2021. The caravan that had been headed for the U.S. border disbanded. PolitiFact did not find any  that Biden questioned the loyalty of U.S. troops in Washington. The decision to vet the National Guard members deployed for the inauguration followed the discovery that ex-military members had participated in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. We rate these claims .
Statement: Video shows hidden theater "where elites sacrifice kids.
Speaker: instagram posts
About the speaker: Posters on Instagram, where people share photos and graphics and sometimes add filters.
Date: January 19, 2023
Topics: facebook fact-checks
Context: a post
Fact-check justification: According to its website, the 100-seat theater dates to the early 19th century and is built into the Palazzo Donnafugata, which it calls "one of the most significant buildings in Ragusa." The building’s owners completed a restoration in 2004. Since then, it’s functioned as a theater open to the public, hosting dramatic plays , musical performances , art exhibits and even events for children . We found no , such as news reports or articles about the theater’s history, to support the .   We rate the  that a video shows a hidden theater "where elites sacrifice kids" !
Statement: Johns Hopkins University confirms: You can be vaccinated with a PCR test, even without knowing
Speaker: facebook posts
About the speaker: Posters on Facebook and other social media networks.
 
Date: February 14, 2022
Topics: science;facebook fact-checks;coronavirus
Context: a Facebook post
Fact-check justification: Facebook posts shared the headline: "Johns Hopkins University confirms: You can be vaccinated with a PCR test, even without knowing." Johns Hopkins researchers developed nanotechnology called theragrippers, which could improve gastrointestinal tract extended release drug delivery. The technology has been tested in live rats and has not been approved for use in humans.  Theragrippers are not administered by cotton swabs, and they aren’t being used for vaccine delivery, a spokesperson said. We rate this  .
Statement: Refugee "vetting was very haphazard," under the Obama Administration. "In many cases, we simply accepted the word of applicants.
Speaker: tom mcclintock
About the speaker: a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California
Date: January 31, 2017
Location: california
Topics: immigration;terrorism
Context: an interview
Fact-check justification: California Rep. Tom McClintock recently claimed refugee vetting was very haphazard," under the Obama Administration. "In many cases, we simply accepted the word of applicants." Federal law enforcement told Congress in 2015 that there are gaps in the available data for Syrian refugees, which represented a small but growing share of the refugees admitted to the United States under Obama. All sides in this debate acknowledge no vetting system is foolproof. McClintock’s  about a "haphazard system," however, ignores the facts. The United Nations examines refugee applications and designates a small fraction as eligible. From there, refugees under consideration by the U.S. undergo a strict process that can last up to three years and involves multiple federal intelligence and security agencies. Their names, biographical information and fingerprints are run through databases coordinated by the FBI, the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense. Of the more than 3 million refugees admitted to the country since 1980, none has carried out a fatal terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Advocates for the process say this is  the vetting works and is already robust. Given the challenges with Syrian refugee vetting, there’s an element of  in McClintock’s statement. But his  ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. We rate it .  – The statement contains some element of  but ignores critical facts that would give a different impression. Click here for more on the six PolitiFact ratings and how we select facts to check. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/233732a3-c823-44cc-826f-c09a823214e9