Govs. Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis expended much energy accusing one another of lying at their debate Thursday night.
“A blizzard of lies,” said DeSantis, the Florida Republican and 2024 presidential candidate.
“I can’t wait to get all the PolitiFacts tonight,” said California Democrat Newsom, referring to the popular fact-checking nonprofit.
Well, we have a few of them.
The 90-minute exchange, moderated by Fox News commentator Sean Hannity, covered topics ranging from the economy to abortion to homelessness to the Israel-Hamas War.
Many claims were made. Here are ratings for some of them.
Quotes have been lightly edited to make up for the governors interrupting each other.
U-Hauls and migration
Claim: California at one point ran out of U-Hauls due to residents fleeing the state.
“They actually at one point ran out of U-Hauls in the state of California because so many people were leaving,” said DeSantis
Rating: True
Explanation: U-Haul did run out of trucks in California in 2021. Because demand for outbound moves from California was so high in 2020, it left U-Haul teams in the state with limited one-way inventories at the start of 2021. By 2022, a U-Haul spokesman said, the company was able to meet customer demand.
“We sustained a shortage of available one-way trucks and trailers for outbound moves at times during 2020 and 2021 in California and other West Coast locations due to a substantially greater outflow vs. inflow of equipment,” the spokesman told The Bee in 2022.
New data from the census bureau shows that more people left California for Florida in 2022 than in any year going back to at least 2005. But claims of a massive California-to-Florida migration are largely inflated. Of all the U.S. residents who moved to Florida last year, less than 7% came from California.
An estimated 50,701 people left California for Florida between 2021 and 2022, according to
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