PolitiFact: Fact-Checking Attacks From DeSantis, Crist in Florida's Only Gubernatorial Debate

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : And we have to do what's right to make sure law enforcement exists and it's healthy and it's safe
54% : In an interview with CBS Miami, Crist said he supported the standard set by Roe v. Wade -- which allowed abortion until "viability," or when a fetus can survive outside the womb.
52% :DeSantis: Crist "supports taxpayer funding of abortion all the way up until the moment of birth."
47% : "DeSantis appears to be referring to a plan Crist supported to create a unit of social and mental health workers to respond to nonviolent calls made to the St. Petersburg police department.
45% :Crist, who was a Republican at the time, signed a budget from the Republican-led Legislature that raised taxes and fees by $2.2 billion to offset losses caused by the economic recession and housing crisis.
44% : Oil companies have been reluctant to invest up front in the additional facilities and supplies that could produce more oil, because doing so would be less profitable and more risky.
43% : Crist: DeSantis raised taxes by "$1 billion on every consumer in our state."
42% : The law, SB 50, required sellers with no physical presence in Florida to collect and remit taxes on items delivered to customers in the state.
41% : DeSantis: Crist as governor, "signed off on the largest increase in taxes and fees in the history of the state of Florida."
32% : Crist said he supported abortion past fetal viability "in cases where the life or the health of the mother" is threatened.
31% : Crist also voted to repeal the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits using federal dollars for abortion.
30% : Some of the candidates' attacks on taxes, education, abortion and pandemic management needed a fact-check.

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