The slings and misfires of the fifth GOP debate CNN aired the fifth GOP debate of the 2024 election cycle from Des Moines on Wednesday night — a slugfest between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley. We came up with a list of 18 claims that caught our attention, including: - "When she was governor of South Carolina, she was rated 50th in education, dead last. You know where Florida is under my watch? Number one in the nation." (DeSantis)
- "Instead of 87,000 IRS agents going after middle America, we'll go after the hundreds of billions of dollars of covid fraud, 1 out of every $7." (Haley)
- "Nikki Haley, when she was governor, she promised she would never do the gas tax. Then she tried to raise the gas tax on hard-working South Carolinians."(DeSantis)
- "He spent more money on private planes than he has on commercials trying to get Iowans to vote for him." (Haley)
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