Amy Sherman | PolitiFact
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The Trump and Harris campaigns responded to our query about Trump’s rally claim with multiple citations of Harris statements; we found many more through our own research.
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In Trump’s home state of Florida, where he is registered to vote, the Department of State website says that "a felony conviction in another state makes a person ineligible to vote in Florida only if the conviction would make the person ineligible to vote in the state where the person was convicted."
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PolitiFact fact-checks several of the former president's statements and claims about his New York case.
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In a 12-minute address at Hillsborough Community College, Biden warned of "extreme" laws that restrict abortion access, and he blamed Trump, his predecessor and presumptive 2024 rival, for making those policies possible.
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Organizations that collect data on mass shootings each use their own definitions for them — some of which are broad such as incidents in which at least four people are injured or killed. Other databases use a narrower definition that includes at least four deaths.
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The special counsel, Robert Hur, found that President Joe Biden mishandled classified documents but didn’t pursue criminal charges, saying the evidence did not establish Biden’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and that Biden would be sympathetic to a jury.
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PolitiFact Florida debunks a TikTok video falsely claiming that election officials have conspired to prevent passage by kicking Democrats off voter rolls.
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Preliminary 2022 CDC data shows a 2.8% decrease in Florida overdose deaths from 2021 to 2022. The CDC told PolitiFact that Florida had 7,827 overdose deaths in 2021 compared with 7,611 in 2022. The final 2022 mortality data won’t be available until early next year.
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Although the law is clear that physicians can be charged, whether pregnant women will face the same charge is ambiguous.
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A MAGA Inc TV ad in Iowa states that Gov. Ron DeSantis "actually sponsored the bill to make Puerto Rico a state." The claim is mostly true: he backed a bill drafting a path for Puerto Rico statehood, but did not author it.
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Gov. DeSantis said "the Republicans and Trump funded $400 million in March of 2020 for mail ballots." He is partially correct —some of it went toward expanding voting by mail. Officials also used the money to provide safe in-person voting.
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A law signed 67 years ago requires that the federal government seek reimbursement to evacuate U.S. citizens from overseas during war, civil unrest or natural disasters. The law has roots in an earlier World War II policy.