The Dallas Morning News Article RatingFact-checking Newsom-DeSantis debate: Immigration, abortion, book bans and a poop map
Dec 01, 2023 View Original Article
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| "The FBI's crime reporting database shows that 49 of 757 Florida law enforcement agencies participated in the FBI's data collection in 2021." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "NBC News reported Sept. 20 that DeSantis' talking point came from a database with information from law enforcement agencies representing about 57" | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Her claim has been featured by anti-abortion groups and used to support born alive bills in state legislatures, which aim to protect infants who survive abortions, even though there are federal laws for that purpose." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "By contrast, in 2022, 367 Florida law enforcement agencies sent in data." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Defending the law, DeSantis repeated an anecdote from the first GOP presidential debate about a Floridian named Pey Hopper." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "In June 2022, ahead of a plaed Special Olympics event in Orlando, the Florida Department of Health told the organization that its vaccine requirement conflicted with state law barring any business from asking for proof of COVID-19 vaccination." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Newsom is right, based on the voting patterns in the 2020 presidential election and 2020 state-by-state homicide rankings, according to an analysis of federal data by Third Way, a center-left policy group." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Prompted by Haity to say whether the bans were state or local, DeSantis said they were local." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Whether the law takes effect hinges on how the Florida Supreme Court rules in a lawsuit against the current 15-week ban." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Learning loss varied widely by state, with Hawaii and Alabama experiencing four weeks of loss and Delaware experiencing 32 weeks." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "A 2023 poll by the Public Policy Institute of California found that 45" | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "DeSantis and his wife, Casey were honorary co-chairs of the 2022 Special Olympics." | Positive | 30% Conservative |
| "He tweeted: Ron DeSantis' values on full display:" | Positive | 26% Conservative |
| "The first seven on that list all supported Trump in the 2020 election; the final three supported President Joe Biden." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "The first seven on that list all supported Trump in the 2020 election; the final three supported President Joe Biden." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Literacy rates and learning lossDeSantis and Newsom each said their state handled education better during the pandemic." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Literacy rates and learning lossDeSantis and Newsom each said their state handled education better during the pandemic." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "DeSantis' map comes from Open the Books, a nonprofit government watchdog." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| "Newsom's comments focused on DeSantis' actions in the pandemic's first few weeks, when nearly all governors operated in lockstep." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Newsom's comments focused on DeSantis' actions in the pandemic's first few weeks, when nearly all governors operated in lockstep." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Florida's action prompted an emotional response for Newsom, he told the Sacramento Bee." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "But one study that tried to quantify how much students backslid overall during the pandemic supports Newsom's statement." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "Newsom countered that there have been more Floridians coming to California than the other way around in the last two years." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Squabbling over Special OlympicsDeSantis and Newsom sparred over how the other treated the Special Olympics." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "(Newsom became governor in 2019)." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Newsom's office said this is the study he referred to." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "NBC News reported Sept. 20 that DeSantis' talking point came from a database with information from law enforcement agencies representing about 57" | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Newsom headed the leadership committee for the Special Olympics' World Games in Los Angeles in 2015, and his mother helped families adopt children with disabilities, the Bee reported." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "Newsom was San Francisco mayor from 2004 to 2011 and was California's lieutenant governor from 2011 to 2019." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "AdvertisementYou passed an emergency declaration before the state of California did, Newsom said." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "DeSantis issued an executive order on March 17, 2020, directing Floridians to limit their gatherings at beaches to no more than 10 people and to support beach closures at the discretion of local authorities." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "DeSantis ordered all bars and nightclubs closed for 30 days." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Email AddressBy signing up you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy PolicySUBMITI can't wait to get all the PolitiFacts tonight, Newsom said as they feuded over student learning." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "About 700 Americans flew to Florida on four flights from Israel, DeSantis' office said." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "If measuring per capita, Newsom is right that more Floridians have moved to California than the other way around in the last two years, according to U.S. Census Bureau data." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "A parent at a South Florida school challenged Gorman's poem The Hill We Climb, which Gorman performed at Biden's January 2021 inauguration." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "By this metric, Newsom is correct." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "AdvertisementIn response, DeSantis emphasized how lifting the vaccine requirement enabled some participants to participate in the games even though health concerns prevented them from getting vaccinated." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "AdvertisementWell, this is an app where they plot the human feces that are found on the streets of San Francisco, said DeSantis." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Newsom omits that DeSantis reopen earlier than most governors in the spring of 2020." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Newsom omits that DeSantis reopen earlier than most governors in the spring of 2020." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "But the Biden administration also brought Americans home." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Mapping human feces in San FranciscoDuring a conversation about homelessness, DeSantis pulled out a sheet of paper from his suit jacket and revealed a map of San Francisco filled with brown and black pinpoint icons." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "DeSantis issued an order March 1 to establish COVID-19 response protocol and direct a public health emergency." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Defending the law, DeSantis repeated an anecdote from the first GOP presidential debate about a Floridian named Pey Hopper." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "So, I did an executive order in Florida, and we sent planes over Israel right in the aftermath of Oct. 7, and we saved over 700 Americans, mostly Floridians, but not all, because Biden wouldn't do it." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "That map has fewer data points than the visual DeSantis offered." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Newsom is right, based on the voting patterns in the 2020 presidential election and 2020 state-by-state homicide rankings, according to an analysis of federal data by Third Way, a center-left policy group." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "He's the first governor to ever lose population, said DeSantis." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Newsom was telling a lot of whoppers, said DeSantis, whose props included a purported map of feces in San Francisco." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Newsom was telling a lot of whoppers, said DeSantis, whose props included a purported map of feces in San Francisco." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "Prompted by Haity to say whether the bans were state or local, DeSantis said they were local." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "They come to Florida because they pay lower taxes, DeSantis said." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "But Newsom said Florida taxes low-income workers more than we tax millionaires and billionaires in the state of California." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Newsom has a point, although the two states have such different tax systems that it's tricky to compare them." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "DeSantis signed legislation in 2022 that outlawed abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "AdvertisementMigrationDeSantis and Newsom went back and forth discussing their states' population gains and losses." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Seven of the top 10 murder rates in the United States of America are red states, Newsom said." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Newsom, a Democrat, is not ruing for president -- though he could be a future contender -- and defended President Joe Biden's record." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Newsom, a Democrat, is not ruing for president -- though he could be a future contender -- and defended President Joe Biden's record." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Many local governments closed beaches for a limited time, but DeSantis did not close them statewide." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "AdvertisementTax policyThe governors sparred about taxes, with DeSantis asking how many people leave Florida for California because that state has a lower tax burden." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "DeSantis has also said that he doesn't want women prosecuted, only doctors." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "On March 4, Newsom declared a state of emergency to help California prepare for COVID-19." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "DeSantis is among the Republicans ruing behind former President Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "DeSantis is among the Republicans ruing behind former President Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Florida's crime rateAs DeSantis described a conversation with Newsom's father-in-law, who moved to Florida, he claimed Florida was experiencing a 50-year low in the crime rate." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Florida's crime rateAs DeSantis described a conversation with Newsom's father-in-law, who moved to Florida, he claimed Florida was experiencing a 50-year low in the crime rate." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "But what DeSantis pointed to isn't current." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Newsom also said, What's wrong with Amanda Gorman's poetry? suggesting it was baed." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "AdvertisementAmericans in IsraelDeSantis did not tell the full story of how the Biden administration evacuated Americans from Israel after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Biden stranded a lot of American citizens over there who were trying to get home, DeSantis said." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Biden stranded a lot of American citizens over there who were trying to get home, DeSantis said." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "AdvertisementDeSantis fired back that Newsom wanted the athletes marginalized." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Newsom said DeSantis' own law enforcement said the data shouldn't be used." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Newsom said DeSantis' own law enforcement said the data shouldn't be used." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "He signed a bill baing any exceptions for rape and incest, Newsom said of DeSantis." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "He signed a bill baing any exceptions for rape and incest, Newsom said of DeSantis." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "DeSantis replied that it was a false narrative." | Negative | -50% Liberal |
| "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom challenged each other's records on immigration, crime, COVID-19 lockdowns, the economy and social issues in a rowdy Fox News matchup billed as The Great Red versus Blue State Debate." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and California Gov. Gavin Newsom challenged each other's records on immigration, crime, COVID-19 lockdowns, the economy and social issues in a rowdy Fox News matchup billed as The Great Red versus Blue State Debate." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Newsom said it was disgraceful that DeSantis threatened to fine the Special Olympics $27 million." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Newsom said it was disgraceful that DeSantis threatened to fine the Special Olympics $27 million." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Newsom, meanwhile, said, Ron DeSantis had more learning loss during COVID in Florida than he had in California." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Newsom, meanwhile, said, Ron DeSantis had more learning loss during COVID in Florida than he had in California." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "COVID-19 lockdownsNewsom borrowed a page from former President Donald Trump's playbook by misleadingly portraying DeSantis as a lockdown leader." | Positive | 40% Conservative |
| "COVID-19 lockdownsNewsom borrowed a page from former President Donald Trump's playbook by misleadingly portraying DeSantis as a lockdown leader." | Positive | 40% Conservative |
| "COVID-19 lockdownsNewsom borrowed a page from former President Donald Trump's playbook by misleadingly portraying DeSantis as a lockdown leader." | Positive | 40% Conservative |
| "Book bans in FloridaWhen Haity asked DeSantis about the Florida bill criticized as don't say gay, DeSantis held up a page from the graphic memoir Gender Queer, with black markings over private parts." | Negative | -64% Liberal |
| "Book bans in FloridaWhen Haity asked DeSantis about the Florida bill criticized as don't say gay, DeSantis held up a page from the graphic memoir Gender Queer, with black markings over private parts." | Negative | -64% Liberal |
| "AdvertisementNewsom said Florida had been on a book-baing binge under DeSantis: One thousand four hundred and six books have been baed just last year under Ron DeSantis' leadership." | Positive | 32% Conservative |
| "AdvertisementNewsom said Florida had been on a book-baing binge under DeSantis: One thousand four hundred and six books have been baed just last year under Ron DeSantis' leadership." | Positive | 32% Conservative |
| "AdvertisementNewsom said Florida had been on a book-baing binge under DeSantis: One thousand four hundred and six books have been baed just last year under Ron DeSantis' leadership." | Positive | 32% Conservative |
| "AdvertisementFlorida's abortion limits and DeSantis' abortion survivor storyAs Haity pressed Newsom on whether he supported any abortion restrictions, Newsom attacked Florida's abortion laws." | Positive | 40% Conservative |
| "AdvertisementFlorida's abortion limits and DeSantis' abortion survivor storyAs Haity pressed Newsom on whether he supported any abortion restrictions, Newsom attacked Florida's abortion laws." | Positive | 40% Conservative |
| "AdvertisementFlorida's abortion limits and DeSantis' abortion survivor storyAs Haity pressed Newsom on whether he supported any abortion restrictions, Newsom attacked Florida's abortion laws." | Positive | 40% Conservative |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
55% : The FBI's crime reporting database shows that 49 of 757 Florida law enforcement agencies participated in the FBI's data collection in 2021.54% : NBC News reported Sept. 20 that DeSantis' talking point came from a database with information from law enforcement agencies representing about 57% of Florida's population.
53% : Her claim has been featured by anti-abortion groups and used to support "born alive" bills in state legislatures, which aim to protect infants who survive abortions, even though there are federal laws for that purpose.
52% : By contrast, in 2022, 367 Florida law enforcement agencies sent in data.
46% : Defending the law, DeSantis repeated an anecdote from the first GOP presidential debate about a Floridian named Penny Hopper.
46% : In June 2022, ahead of a planned Special Olympics event in Orlando, the Florida Department of Health told the organization that its vaccine requirement conflicted with state law barring any business from asking for proof of COVID-19 vaccination.
45% : Newsom is right, based on the voting patterns in the 2020 presidential election and 2020 state-by-state homicide rankings, according to an analysis of federal data by Third Way, a center-left policy group.
42% : Prompted by Hannity to say whether the bans were state or local, DeSantis said they were "local."
42% : Whether the law takes effect hinges on how the Florida Supreme Court rules in a lawsuit against the current 15-week ban.
39% : Learning loss varied widely by state, with Hawaii and Alabama experiencing four weeks of loss and Delaware experiencing 32 weeks.
36% : A 2023 poll by the Public Policy Institute of California found that 45% of Californians who considered moving to another state cited housing costs as a factor.
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