The slings and misfires of the fourth GOP debate NewsNation aired the fourth GOP debate of the 2024 election cycle from Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Wednesday night, featuring four candidates. Not every candidate uttered facts that are easily checked, but we came up with a list of 13 claims that caught our attention, including: - "I never said government should go and require anyone's name [who uses social media] … I said we were going to get the millions of bots off." (Former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley)
- "Joe Biden will say they support Israel, and then they do nothing but try to kneecap them every step of the way." (Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis)
- "What I said is all of the 7 or 8 million illegals that have come under Biden's watch [through the southern border] absolutely have to go back." (Haley)
- "I did a bill in Florida to stop the gender mutilation of minors. It's child abuse, and it's wrong. She opposes that bill. She thinks it's fine and the law shouldn't get involved with it." (DeSantis)
- "We now know that 50 percent of adults 18 to 25 think that Hamas was warranted at what they did with Israel." (Haley)
None of these claims are precisely true, though some are more bogus than others. You can read our full report by clicking this link. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. The Ron DeSantis-Gavin Newsom dust-up The 90-minute "red state-blue state" debate hosted by Sean Hannity of Fox News on Nov. 30 featured a blizzard of statistics by DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). We delved into many of the main topics they discussed, under the heavy hand of Hannity — who frequently suggested Florida was doing much better than California. On migration, for instance, Hannity framed this as California losing population to Florida: "In 2021-2022, California's lost 750,000 residents to other states …. Governor DeSantis, during that same two-year period, you gained 454,000 residents from other states." DeSantis eagerly accepted the framing. Newsom pushed back with his own data, claiming that there were "more Floridians coming to California than the other way around the last two years." How is this claim possible given the raw numbers that Hannity displayed, citing the Census Bureau? The missing words here are "per capita," a phrase that Newsom usually slips in. California, of course, has a much higher population than Florida, so raw numbers can be deceiving. In 2022, 1.32 per 1,000 Floridians moved to California, and 1.31 per 1,000 Californians moved to Florida. The difference is not statistically significant. We also examined dueling claims about crime, homelessness, taxes, the pandemic, abortion and education. Click the link below to read the complete article. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. We're also on TikTok. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. About the cats: It's a Friday and sometimes our fact checks deal with heavy subjects. So we hope to bring a smile to your face. Scroll down to read other election-related fact checks |
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