“Gov. Ron DeSantis “called China ‘Florida’s most important trading partner.’”
What PolitiFact found
The quote came not from DeSantis but from the website of Enterprise Florida, the state’s former business recruitment agency. DeSantis liquidated the agency in 2023.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
SFA Fund (Super PAC) made this claim around 28 December 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 January 2024, 7 days later. Its rating was “False”.
SFA Fund has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 0 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Two other organisations checked what looks like the same claim. Their ratings are listed below.
Also checked by
- FactCheck.org: False“DeSantis called China ‘Florida’s most important trading partner.”
- Washington Post: Four Pinocchios“DeSantis called China ‘Florida’s most important trading partner.’”
Where the claim appeared
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