The truth about Byron's ads
There will be more ads. More attacks. More money spent trying to tell you who David Jolly is and what he believes.
We could answer all of it with another attack.
We're not going to.
Byron Donalds has a lot to say about politicians who lie to win elections. So we decided to take him at his word.
Don't take our word for it.
Check ours. Check theirs.
Every claim below includes the source material we used to reach the finding.
Read it. Watch it. Follow the links. Make up your own mind.
4 liesMore For It
The claimDavid Jolly wants more taxes on tips, overtime and Social Security.
PolitiFact checked it. They rated it False.
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4 liesDisaster
The claimDavid Jolly wants to impose a $1,000-a-year "hurricane tax" on Florida families.
There's one problem. David never proposed it.
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3 liesFlorida Paid the Price
The claimDavid Jolly pushed to expand offshore drilling after Deepwater Horizon.
The record tells a very different story. In Congress, David wrote the amendment that kept drilling banned off Florida's Gulf coast.
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In his own wordsFlorida MUST remain free
The claimDavid Jolly wants to bring socialism to Florida.
Byron keeps saying it. David keeps answering it. So instead of telling you what David believes, we put his actual words in one place.
Hear it from DavidThe next ad goes here.
Because there will probably be another one. And when it comes, we'll do exactly what we've done with the rest.
Slow it down. Check the claims. Find the sources. Show our work.
What David actually believes
There's an easier way to know what David Jolly believes. Listen to him. Not a narrator in an attack ad. Not a political consultant. Just David. In interviews. At town halls. On the trail. In conversations with people across Florida. So when an ad tells you what David believes, you don't have to wonder. You can hear it from him.
This is bigger than one bad ad.
Politics has gotten very good at telling us what to be afraid of.
Take a complicated issue. Strip out the context. Find the scariest version of it. Put somebody's face next to it. Spend enough money repeating it. Hope people believe it before they have time to check.
We think voters deserve more respect than that.
You deserve the whole story. You deserve the source. You deserve the chance to look at the evidence and decide for yourself.
That's what this page is for.
Losing campaigns lie.
Trust the people. Give people the facts. Show your work. Let them decide.
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The attacks will keep coming.
So will the facts. Every new ad gets the same treatment. Every claim gets checked against the record. Every source stays here for you to see.