NEW: PolitiFact’s review of the only Florida Senate debate turned up several claims from Marco Rubio and Val Demings that were false or not giving voters the full story.
Democrat Val Demings, left, and Republican Marco Rubio squared off in their final debate before the the 2022 midterms on Oct, 18, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla. Republican incumbent Sen. Marco Rubio and his Democratic rival Rep. Val Demings took aggressive swipes at the other's credentials during their sole debate for Florida's U.S. Senate seat.
Rubio, first elected to the Senate in 2010, touted his foreign policy experience and legislative achievements over Demings' time in the lower chamber, quipping, "I was against Vladimir Putin before being against Vladimir Putin was cool.
PolitiFact's review of their comments turned up several claims that were false or not giving voters the full story. Rubio: "My opponent has been in Congress now for half a decade and has never passed a single piece of legislation into law. The only thing she does is vote 100% with Pelosi."that became law — a fact Rubio acknowledged, and dismissed, earlier in the debate. The bills renamed post office buildings, including one after Robert German, a Windermere, Florida, police officer who was shot and killed while working in 2014.
Rubio is right that Demings agreed with 100% of votes taken by Pelosi since the 117th Congress began in 2021 — though it is a
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