“Per capita, more Floridians move to California than Californians moving to Florida.”
What PolitiFact found
The Census Bureau’s latest data shows that per capita, more Floridians moved to California than the other way around in 2021. But the difference is tiny and based on estimates.
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In short
Gavin Newsom (Governor of California) made this claim around 12 June 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 June 2023, 8 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Gavin Newsom has 14 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 11 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5HqxV0KqgU&t=1139s
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